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Originally Posted by devilish
If there is no competition then why not? I mean the player wants to leave, he has two years left in the contract and Spurs are already resigned in losing him. Why should we spend 20m on him?
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He has 4 years left on his contract not 2.
I'll also correct one of your earlier cosy notions, namely that it's a buyers market. Actually it isn't:
* 4 years on contract (no pressure to sell now)
* Spurs not short of money (no pressure to sell now)
* Spurs would prefer to keep the player (no desire to sell now)
* Likely to be other interested clubs - Chelsea, Barca etc (competition amongst buyers in the market). And the strength of the Euro against the pound makes it easier for European clubs to enter the fray.
* Huge extra amount of TV money again coming into the coffers of all Prem club (creates continued hyper-inflationary pressures on transfer fees, with more money chasing the same number of potentially available players)