Wenger: Tottenham ‘tricked’ Manchester United (and Liverpool)
I’m not an Arsenal fan. I’m not French. I’m not even a former Arsene Wenger pupil.
But dammit, he’s spot on when he talks about negotiation tricks and the lack of any genuine complaint from Tottenham’s end on their players being tapped up.
The Arsenal manager (referring to the Chelsea-Ashley Cole-Arsenal saga):
“We faced that problem once and we took it all the way to the end – we complained and we kept it going until the story was judged.
It looks to me that these complaints are used as a trick for negotiations and to get better prices rather than because there is a genuine complaint.
Berbatov went to Manchester United but Tottenham ended up not complaining, so for me it has to be legal.”
If anyone needs their memory jogged, Robbie Keane went to Liverpool the same way - highway robbery for 20m, a small donation to charity and the dropping of charges from Tottenham’s end.
Initially I had the ‘complaints’ pegged as a face-saving exercise but Wenger’s reasoning makes more sense, no?
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Absolute rubbish - the reason Spurs got more for Berbatov was Manchester City. The reason that Liverpool paid over the odds for Keane was their own stupidity - because they were in exactly the same position with Barry and this time did not pay it.
Big clubs are bullies and it seems also so are there fans . . .
Well Duh…..
Of course its true!!
Why would Spurs not look to benefit from the obvious tapping up of our players? What use is it to us if ManUre get a paltry fine? Will it buy a replacement?
Daniel Levy used every lever possible to get as much compensation for the actual injured party - US!
Hardly underhand is it - Grow up!
Wengy is always poking into other peoples business. Just concentrate on the foreign legion and try to stay out of what doesnt concern you.
Given Asenal’s position in the coveted top 4, what would you expect!! Did anyone out there think for a moment that he would come out in support of Ramos and Co., after having the true fragility of the current squad was exposed for the world to see last season? After the drubbing he experienced at the hand of that Spurs squad, and the size of his war chest, he can’t do any thing else. But look out Arsene, Man City has more cash available now than the rest of you poor blokes put together (this applies to you to Fergy) The face of the Prem is about to change!?!?