Spurs striker set to stay another season in return for transfer fee decrease: Is anyone buying this?
by offsidetrap on July 3rd, 2008
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After brushing away Manchester United’s £23m bid for star striker Dimitar Berbatov earlier this week, Tottenham brass have made it clear to anyone out there dreaming of a move for the Big Bulgarian, that anything less than £30m will be considered a laughable offer.
Well after realizing that nobody in their right mind would splash £30m, Berbatov has decided to sign another tune, and is prepared to come back to White Hart Lane for another season. However, there is one hitch…
Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov may stay at the club for one more season in return for Spurs lowering his £30m price tag. (Daily Mail online)
So the deal is one more season for a lower valuation fee. Does anyone else see how this turns out to be a fair deal for the club? You essentially get the striker for one more good season before being forced into selling him at a lower valuation. You have to wonder if this really is a fair offer.
Should Tottenham take the offer and keep Berby around White Hart Lane? Would supporters be happy if you got £23m for the big striker?
We're giving you £10 FREE so show some bollocks and BET NOW!
Tagged Under: berbatov, rumours, tottenham
Blake - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
How is this unfair? Wont his value drop as he gets older anyways? So they get to keep their play maker for another year and sell him for 23m next season…sounds like a good deal to me. I don’t think 23m is enough for him now especially if Keane leaves.
Carlos - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I think it makes sense. IF we keep him and we achieve CL football I think he maybe convinced to stay and as we are still recruiting better players. I think this makes sense. However, as long as December does not come around and the transfer window opens and unsettles the whole team again. He needs to commit to the WHOLE season.
This makes sense to me.
joe - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
i think if we can hang onto berbatov for another season and make 23million of him it whould be a good thing but if we keep him for 1 more season and he wants to be sold for a lower fee then that i dont think it’s all that great a deal but i just hope we dont sale robbie keane cause personaly i think robbie is a far better striker then berbatov but thats just my opinion..
jimbo yiddo - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Yes will be worth less next year and will be 29 if he has as a good season could be worth 20 mil and his efforts if good, could get us challenging the top 4 which would be worth millions in extra revenue for the club!
bob the gooner - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
i think that spurs scum should get demoted to the 1st divison and even if you keep berby ya want get into the champions league cause ya shiiit!!!!
mbjesq - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
This purported exchange (staying in return for a lower valuation) is a figment of your over-active imaginations. Berbatov has no leverage to make such a demand; and Spurs have no incentive or obligation to agree such terms. Berbatov is under contract to Spurs — and Spurs even hold an option for two extra years. He will stay, if for no other reason than Spurs will not accept another offer.
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Azza does it again - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
How do the papers come up with this stuff?
tattyrich - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
berby is class and can only be a bonus if he stays another year….bob the gooner..you must know shit ya watch it every week n aint won anythin for years!!!!!!
wayne king - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Bob the retard more like it. Learn how to spell you stupid 9 year old! If you were older you’d remember what it’s like supporting a shit team and watching boring, long ball footy every week, but as you’re a child you think the gooners have a history, because for you, 20 years is history!
Tommy - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Of course its worth keeping him for one more season, its not like we loose 30 mil, all over 10,9 mill is good buisness.
Fans saying we must sell because off the money are gready.
Bristol Spur - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Blob the Gurner, you can’t get demoted 2 divisions to the 1st division, which is technically the third, unless the club are involved in some fraudulant activity.
For example, finishing 6th and bribing your way to be ‘elected’ into the diviosion above.
Now what sort of club would do that?
gooner dude - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
i think bob got a point tottenham is shiit
Dave Doggy-Drinkwater - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I was eating Mr Kipling Jam tarts with Dimitar last night at the legion, we finished our first game of dominoes and then dimitar told me that he intends to stay at the club.
Thourgohly nice bloke and a mean hand at dominoes.
He also did comment that he hopes Darren bent leaves as he said he is the biggest pile of shit he has ever had the misfortune of playing alongside
Scorpion - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Of course it’s a good deal and for all the reasons already mentioned. Berba must be licking his lips at the prospect of Modric feeding him with those delicious passes. 40 goals is not beyond reach and I think he knows it and that is why there has been no new news for a month on his departure.
That and Bentley crossing the ball to him; why would he leave? Certainly not to sit on the bench for a CL team?
And the Keane rumors are nothing but newspaper garbage started by an Italian manager of Ireland. Leave it off; he also is going nowhere.
Bent yes, but a new signing and TP will give us 4 deep strong strikers.
Brimley bingpope - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I saw robbie keane at tesco today. he was buying some fish from the fish counter
I asked him if he would be staying at spurs, and he said oh yes for sure, any idea of a good wine to go wit this fish?
i sugested the merlot
giddyyiddy - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Why are you gooners reading spurs articles? You all stink of shit and your manager is a french turd.Hows that for intelligent input?
Berbison - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
It’s because the child line is under construction
There is nothing set in stone on this speculation, however one can only assume that if we make CL, then why would he want to leave ???
I am mortified for the guy, imagine having to face his intended ex team mates this morning ?
ryan - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
look at that a gooner on a spurs page must wish he surpports the yids lol
Mike - July 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
He’ll be more value for us if we make the Champions League though, so its a good deal all round. Our best chance of a top 4 finish is with Keane and Berbatov up front, aswell as Woodgate and King at the back. If we make the Champions League, then theres every chance Berbatov will stay. If he leaves, then we can attract a world class replacement. Besides, i bet we still sell him for the £10.9m we bought him for, so any higher value would be great business after 3 years of football from the Bulgarian. Its all riding on this season for us to progress. Top 4 here we come.
Berbison - July 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 pm
As long as he does’nt go moping around if we have a bit of a spell, that’s when we’ll need him most.
Breezer - July 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
We put Berba up for £30 million and everyone is crying
The Scum put Adebayor up for £30 million and nobody mentions anything!
Im sorry if Adebayor is £30 million then Berba is a BARGAIN at that price!!!
Scorpion - July 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Berba did mope last year. With Steed, Jenas and Lemon being replaced by Dos Santos, Modric and Bentley he has no reason to mope. Plus I still believe we will get DC from Sevilla.
gettingthereslowly - July 3rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
spurs have the option of two years so they would have to sell him next year or he could go for free after that?so i think its a case of if spurs do finish fourth then he could play c.l.with them on a new contract
Del - July 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Berbabtov is staying cos he wants to stay. No player is bigger than the club. However if Spurs want to attract big names and keep the big names they already have, it is essential that Spurs push towards the top 4. Defence is the crucial thing. Spurs let in to many goals. Stop that and they will be a very hard team to beat.
I’d be a bit suprised if Rob Keane leaves, it seems like he likes the club. Surely some players still have loyalty and don’t just chase the money.
dddave - July 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
bob the gooner is a cunt, in fact all gooners with an attitude like that are cunts.
Jim - July 4th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Sell the bugger now.
Andywoodeneye - July 4th, 2008 at 1:51 am
Berbatov doesnt turn up for away games, so next season when he doesnt turn up for home games too, its either coz we sold him for 30 million or didnt sell him at all.
Spurs dont win by keeping a player who wants to go.
Canadianraptor - July 4th, 2008 at 2:55 am
When you see the comments of Bob the Gooner and Gooner Dude you can see how illiterate and moronic Gooner fans are - two numbers for these twats 5-1
Ramon Vega's Mambo No. 5 - July 4th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Brimley, merlot was a terrible suggestion to accompany fish!
Friend of Crouch's bird - July 4th, 2008 at 9:25 am
According to Abbey, Peter Crouch will be unveiled as a Spurs player tomorrow.
Friend of Crouch's bird - July 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Brimley bingpope - You don’t have red wine with fish you freak, white with fish, red with meat, for heavens sake.
southern spur - July 4th, 2008 at 11:05 am
this is crap spurs would have just said no … sorry berba but we have you on contract and dont need to sell you and as no-one has even put in a bid we hold all the cards. if the guy wants to leave then he should put his goal scoring boots on and prove he’s worth the money.
Billy the yid - July 4th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I think Bob the Gooner is a Knob Jockey who likes young boys like that Arsehole Manager, Arsehole Wanker
Dog - July 4th, 2008 at 11:56 am
why is my tail wagging me?
Berbatov is a Spurs player. His playing rights are owned by Spurs. Spurs have the right to keep him or sell him at their own valuation. Why do they need to negotiate with him and agree to a lower price? If he is to leave at the end of the coming season, then Spurs should get whatever they can for him.
Carlos - July 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Some of those gooner comments made me crack up. I cant believe it..
If you read through these comments theres a lot of intelligent things being said and then right in the middle are some 12 year old gooners fans writing “Spurs are Shit”.
Thanks you guys, you made my Friday.
Berba as mentioned is under contract whatever anyone else says. The only problem I have is that he didnt show any work rate in 90% of last seasons matches (still scored shed loads and looked world class I know). Do we really want one more season from a player that doesnt want to be at Spurs??!! - Id rather a new striker that wants to prove himself in the prem.
Berba has more to give and I just dont think he’ll give it to us.
Hodgey - July 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Ok lets try and get to the truth here. The only way we know Berbs wanted to go was from the crappy Journalists who also belived UFos were spotted in Wales, oh and his agent wanting to make a tidy sum on any transfer. Yes Berbs was frustrated last season as most fans were but do you not remember what Berbs said after the CC cup win? Correct me if Im wrong but he said he had no intention of going. There is only one team who I think would poss have a chance and thats Man Ure but again Fergie although an admirere surely wouldnt change Man Ures entire way of play just to accomodate one player? He would slow down their attacking pace considerably. I feel other clubs know this hence why no proper bids have been made and also the fact that his agent hasnt been touting him about must mean one thing and that is Berbs is staying. He can see the team developing we have a strong manager and he will start what other poss reason other than CL would he go for and then Im sure he’d prefer to be thought of as one of the main reasons the team is there.
A Librarian - July 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Let’s face it if the fuss about Ronaldo had not caused Man Utd to sound off about ethics and ‘above board’ dealing on the part of Real Madrid the last month would have been full of planted rumours about how Berbatov wanted to go to Utd, and how his uncle’s milkman knows this for sure, and his sister’s florist knows someone who saw Berbatov at Old Trafford etc., etc. This kind of unsettling tactic, that Utd have effectively used in the past, has come back to haunt them.
Berbatov is truly great, he ranks up there with some of the best natural ball players I have ever seen and Spurs fans have been fortunate to have him. Yes he does not rush around like a lunatic but he has consumate skill and is as cool a finisher as Greaves was. If we are contemplating 15 million for Bentley, who is far from the finished article, Berbatov is easily worth 30 million and if Utd want him then that is the price they should pay. He is under contract and if contracts mean something then that is the way it should be. It is time clubs stop being bullied by the so called big four in cohoots with the media.
number26thekingofwhitehartlane - July 4th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Oh rocky rocky, rocky rocky rocky he’s as stiff as a board. Piss off our blog gooners with no trophy. Going for 4 seasons in a row now are we?
Fiftypeehead - July 4th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Bristol spur you are so right but that thick gooner tw@ wont know what your talking about!!!!!
Even if we do qualify for champs league (and i dont really think we will) i still think berba will want to leave. qualifying for champs league aint the same as competing to win it, and i think thats what berba will want. sorry but its what i reckon
Fiftypeehead - July 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
I hope hodgey is right though, it makes sense
Giles - July 4th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
What optimism, i love being a spud ,anyone fancy banging my brown hoop?
james - July 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
bob the gooner, whatsd the 1sdt division it dont exist anymore you dumb shit.