‘You sign a five-year contract, don’t you?’ Pundit lets rip on Spurs transfer shennigans

The transfer that never happened

Our summer transfer activity already has fans losing their minds, and as if to test our patience further, Thomas Frank in Hong Kong was sat there giving us the old ‘still looking‘ line, which, quite frankly, isn’t good enough for a club that claimed to have ambitions to win the Premier League as well as the Champions League.

Unless Spurs pull a Gareth Bale-type deal out of the hat, the biggest transfer story surrounding this club, which really ought to ditch the pejorative ‘Spursy’ tag, is the story of the one that got away, Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White.

Whilst most responses to the saga involved the rolling of eyes, one man has stepped out and certainly said what I was thinking.

The enhanced deal that never was

The player was rolled out in Portugal, where Evangelos Marinakis cooed over the boy, telling us he was a legend and needed to be treated appropriately, by the club. It all felt rather underwhelming for a player who had a medical booked at Tottenham, a player whose owner had previously seething that an asset was about to be lost to a rival. talkSPORT’s Gabby Agbonlahor simply isn’t matching up the sentiments expressed by the Greek and the actions.

“It was bizarre. I think it just seems a bit, the reason behind it, the release clause was leaked. I don’t understand it. If there is a release clause in a contract and then the player wants to go, I’m just baffled by it. I’m not being funny, but if you want to stay at a football club, you don’t sign a three-year contract, do you? You sign a five-year contract, don’t you? More. So that says to me that this time next year, he will probably be gone. I don’t see him there for the long term.”