Why is selling Luka Modric not in favour of Tottenham
The Talismanic Croat, Luka Modric is the heart and soul of the Tottenham Hotspurs midfields and after making a successful comeback from a horrific injury and helping his team to a Champion’s League spot the inspirational midfielder is attracting interests from all and sundry but why can’t Tottenham afford to sell their midfield maestro?
If the spurs somehow go mentally blind and they decide to sell the superstar off their midfield then they should simply follow it up doing the only decent thing; they should hand the hard fought, hard earned Champions League spot to the nouveau riche Manchester City and spend the next season by resting all their players for all the premier league matches in order to save them for the Carling Cup.
It does not matter how much money is thrown at them from suitors, either it be the blues from London or the reds from Manchester, it simply will never make up for the loss of one of their only 3 genuinely indispensable players, with the other two being the electric paced Aaron Lennon and the marauding left back Gareth Bale. Time and again it has been proved in football that selling your best player for insane amounts of money, as a bunch of deluded Liverpool fans may argue, provides your club with the finances to strengthen your squad in other areas and helps make you a better team than you were with the presence of your star player. Just ask Liverpool how they coped with the sale of Xabi Alonso to Real Madrid last year.
Spurs needn’t look any further than their own club when a couple of seasons ago they thought they had been very clever by selling Micheal Carrick for a staggering 18.6 million pounds to Manchester United and bought Didier Zakora, his supposed replacement, for only half that price. Turned out it was far from clever, Zakora was only half Carrick’s price simply because of the fact that he was only half as good or may be not even close.
They were only stupid fools not to learn from their mistake and repeated the mistake just a year later when they sold their two most potent goal threats Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov for a whopping 60 million pounds so as to ‘strengthen in other areas’ and thereby compile a squad better than before. Was that clever by any standards? h**l no! They bought Roman Pavlyuchenko form Moscow who was totally ineffective (which was understandable given that he’d just played a whole season in Russia) and his profligacy in front of a goal almost got the spurs relegated only for Arry to come and rescue. Admittedly when Harry Redknapp took charge he used the funds generated from precious sales to transform Spurs into a decent team, but decent here means surviving the drop by the skin of their teeth and finishing 8th in the league. Was that an upgrade on the Champions League challengers that Jol had turned spurs into? Not really or by any stretch of imagination.
The biggest challenge in replacing the player that is the spine of your team is the amount of time that they take to settle in. Luka, although on the verge of being world class, looked like Croatia’s answer to Carlton Palmer when Spurs first sealed his signature. Things were so bad that there were rumours in the market of him being shipped to Italy and that too in the January transfer window of his very first season in the English football.
Obviously that would have been very daft of Spurs if they had managed to do so, even more so considering what he has done for them in recent seasons but lets say Spurs sells Modric for some staggering amount of money and somehow against all odds manages to use the money generated by his sale to buy the ‘next Modric’, it is highlu likely that he will spend the first few months of his spell finding his feet in the English game and perhaps by that time it will be too late and the White Hart Lane outfit would have lost too much ground on their new foes, Manchester City, and probably bow out of the champions League at only the group stage.
So, please Harry, don’t be daft and don’t get bedazzled by a terrific offer for the boy. The only reason the offer would be terrific is just down to the mere fact that he is a terrific player.
No matter how much Spurs fans may love Micheal Dawson, but if he is sold, they can buy another equally good and dedicated central defender, If they sold Defoe, they can go and buy another flat track bully, even Gomes, who in my opinion just comes below the indispensable category and in the category of ‘Only sell if the offer is Sky high’, could be replace by another shot stopper of equal quality, who I am sure would exist somewhere out there at Boca Juniors, America, Gualadajara or Young boys or the Newells Old boys or something as bizarre as that.
Replacing a player like Luka, is not the easiest thing to do and given today’s inflated market it would be nothing short of a headache for Harry. So please Harry do not sell lovely Luka, the premiership needs him and more than that your team needs him.
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