No to Schneiderlin
Like it or not football is a business and with Financial Fair Play demanding clubs live within their means, buying and selling players is a fact of life.
We live in a world of money mercenaries and we have a few at Spurs who are more interested in their wage packet than the club or who expect the club to pander to them by guaranteeing them they will be first choice.
Christian Benteke recently came out and said he'll only go somewhere where he will be the main striker, which rules out all Champions League clubs and ourselves. Danny Ings won't be coming to Spurs, he wants regular Premier League football as well. Étienne Capoue had his 'foreigner' outburst suggesting the English don't understand foreigners because he wasn't the guaranteed starter he had been all his career.
Emmanuel Adebayor is only interested in his wage packet even demanding Roma give him a wage increase when they spoke to his agents last summer. Heurelho Gomes refused to move and simply collected a wage packet for training.
When buying a player his value and future value are assessed. Morgan Schneiderlin is a target but there is no way he'll be coming to Tottenham, he'd like to by all accounts but as we are nowhere near Southampton's evaluation of him that possibility is all but dead, hence his saying he wants Champions League.
If you can buy a young player and he is going to increase in value then he is an option, if he is already at a high price then he is less likely to increase in value and becomes a poor buy as an asset. Yes he may improve the team and bring in increased revenue by helping us into the Champions League but there is no guarantee of that.
We are not a club who can go and spend £25 million (US$38.39m - AUS$49.87m - €34.23m) on a player and then when he wants to leave lose money on them, like we may have to do with Roberto Soldado. Schneiderlin is not going to increase in value from his current inflated price, a similar player in Europe would cost £10 million (US$15.36m - AUS$19.93m - €13.62m) less, more.
Players move, they don't stay for good any more, why would buy him, European clubs with less money than premier League clubs are not going to pay that money, you'll not there are no stories of big European clubs wanting him. He is a player we would have to make a loss on if we bought him at their price instead of our valuation.
Arsenal are not interested in paying the fee either, this is not a Tottenham thing, it's a consideration we have to bear in mind, unless we want to get stuck with players. We will have a policy or guidelines. Sometimes you break them for a specific player but you can't just break them without good reason.
Schneiderlin is not world class, he is just a good footballer and there are plenty of them out there, paying the right price for a player is just as important and who you buy. If you don't take that into account then sooner or later you will be in a total mess with a team nor performing who you can't sell.
Players can run down contracts and leave for nothing, situations change, managers resign when a bigger club comes calling. As a club you have to guard against all that, you have to have a manager long term, then you can build, until then you are cutting your own throat.
Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you don't. If the fee is right you buy, if it isn't you don't or you'll pay for it later when you simply don't have the money for the player you do want. Then of course the hindsight fans will scream you shouldn't have bought XYZ for so much, he wasn't worth it, Lamela and Soldado are cases in point.
What it doesn't hold is a move to Tottenham for £25 million. The fee isn't right so we don't buy. Spurs income is only 37% of the Man Utd income, we can't just splash the cash like they can, especially with a stadium to build.
We live in a world of money mercenaries and we have a few at Spurs who are more interested in their wage packet than the club or who expect the club to pander to them by guaranteeing them they will be first choice.
Christian Benteke recently came out and said he'll only go somewhere where he will be the main striker, which rules out all Champions League clubs and ourselves. Danny Ings won't be coming to Spurs, he wants regular Premier League football as well. Étienne Capoue had his 'foreigner' outburst suggesting the English don't understand foreigners because he wasn't the guaranteed starter he had been all his career.
Emmanuel Adebayor is only interested in his wage packet even demanding Roma give him a wage increase when they spoke to his agents last summer. Heurelho Gomes refused to move and simply collected a wage packet for training.
When buying a player his value and future value are assessed. Morgan Schneiderlin is a target but there is no way he'll be coming to Tottenham, he'd like to by all accounts but as we are nowhere near Southampton's evaluation of him that possibility is all but dead, hence his saying he wants Champions League.
If you can buy a young player and he is going to increase in value then he is an option, if he is already at a high price then he is less likely to increase in value and becomes a poor buy as an asset. Yes he may improve the team and bring in increased revenue by helping us into the Champions League but there is no guarantee of that.
We are not a club who can go and spend £25 million (US$38.39m - AUS$49.87m - €34.23m) on a player and then when he wants to leave lose money on them, like we may have to do with Roberto Soldado. Schneiderlin is not going to increase in value from his current inflated price, a similar player in Europe would cost £10 million (US$15.36m - AUS$19.93m - €13.62m) less, more.
Players move, they don't stay for good any more, why would buy him, European clubs with less money than premier League clubs are not going to pay that money, you'll not there are no stories of big European clubs wanting him. He is a player we would have to make a loss on if we bought him at their price instead of our valuation.
Arsenal are not interested in paying the fee either, this is not a Tottenham thing, it's a consideration we have to bear in mind, unless we want to get stuck with players. We will have a policy or guidelines. Sometimes you break them for a specific player but you can't just break them without good reason.
Schneiderlin is not world class, he is just a good footballer and there are plenty of them out there, paying the right price for a player is just as important and who you buy. If you don't take that into account then sooner or later you will be in a total mess with a team nor performing who you can't sell.
Players can run down contracts and leave for nothing, situations change, managers resign when a bigger club comes calling. As a club you have to guard against all that, you have to have a manager long term, then you can build, until then you are cutting your own throat.
Sometimes you get what you want, sometimes you don't. If the fee is right you buy, if it isn't you don't or you'll pay for it later when you simply don't have the money for the player you do want. Then of course the hindsight fans will scream you shouldn't have bought XYZ for so much, he wasn't worth it, Lamela and Soldado are cases in point.
Somewhere on Planet Earth ... Thinking about what the future holds ....
What it doesn't hold is a move to Tottenham for £25 million. The fee isn't right so we don't buy. Spurs income is only 37% of the Man Utd income, we can't just splash the cash like they can, especially with a stadium to build.
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