Unlikely claim suggests Spurs are back in for Mirallas

Please letÂ’s not do a swap deal for Lennon. If weÂ’re going to let Mirallas go then sell and reinvest in someone who will get goals and assists on a regular basis and has a bit of flair.

Lennon and 6 mill would do.

What a load of bollocks. £7m ha!

Yevhen Konoplyanka to Spurs apparently so canÂ’t see Kevin going there.

Sounds like Spurs bargaining all over.
They get fleeced on the continent for the likes of Lamela and Soldado but seem to think (and have been proved right) they can get our lads at a snip.

DonÂ’t go in for Lennon. We could easily get a better option from abroad like Cheryshev. We should sell Mirallas to a European side, not to a Premier League rival.

Why spend over £6m on Lennon when we know we won’t get a profit on him?

Hoffenheim arenÂ’t in Europe next season but IÂ’d love it if theyÂ’d swap Mirallas for Kevin Volland.

I suspect he (Volland) is biding his time for a CL club to come in for him, though...

Levy likes to screw teams left right and centre, like he did us with Pienaar.. Let’s give him a bit of his own medicine and demand £10m plus Dembele or Vertonghen.

Transfermkt website have him valued at £13m and that’s seems about right to me. Nothing to look at here until they approach anything like that number I wouldn’t think.

I donÂ’t think he really screws people over, Colin. I just think he is a difficult negotiator who refuses to budge on his valuations. Unfortunately, he has an unrealistic valuation of his talent - he seems to think Tottenham players have equal value to Chelsea, Man City, and Man U players. LevyÂ’s attitude is what makes Tottenham so annoying; they walk and talk like theyÂ’re Real Madrid, but with nothing to really show for it.

Personally, I would love to see Lennon back with us, and I would love to see Lewis Holtby in blue, but I know that would be almost impossible because I hate the thought of negotiating with Levy when he has leverage. He will draw it out and will squeeze every last drop he can. You mentioned the Pienaar saga. Pienaar left us when his contract was winding down, signs a deal with Spurs, we want him back, Levy knows this, so he slaps a price on him that reflects the contract they gave him. Unfortunately, Levy did his job. He got rid of a player they didnÂ’t really need, made some extra cash and hurt a financially limited rival who was challenging their European push at the time. Did it suck? Hell yes! But was it good business? Sadly yes.

DoesnÂ’t take away from the fact that I would love to play hardball with him over Mirallas too. 10 million plus Vertonghen AND Levy has to get ass cheeks tattooed on the back of his head. Or a just a straight player swap, but the tattoo has to happen.

Why do people whinge about Levy? He does his job. He gets the biggest price when selling players and negotiates hard when buying them. He also demands success from his managers and neither indulges nor tolerates mediocrity.

While we may wish Kenwright had a similar attitude, he will look at the amounts Levy spends for no tangible results.

I’m not complaining about Levy. He’s a hard-nosed negotiator who gets the best deals for his club. We should take a leaf out of his book and get the best deal possible for Mirallas (if indeed he is leaving) and get a player we really need e.g. Vertonghen or Dembele. I’d accept Vertonghen as a straight swap or Dembele plus £6m.

Colin, Levy is a chairman whoÂ’s job is to his best for his club, just like our chairman.
Everton must be the last club in the world you would want to buy a player from !

Mirallas will probably score at least 10 goals wherever he goes. That makes him very valuable. Every club in Europe needs someone who can put the ball in the net and, if he becomes available, Spurs will have plenty of competition for his signature.

Levy has this reputation as a shrewd negotiator but I donÂ’t think itÂ’s really justified. Tottenham has a glut of midfielders who they pay good money to (and usually a princely transfer fee) and half of them canÂ’t even get a game.

Yes, he plays hardball over players in their final year, but any club worth its salt would just walk away from the likes of Lennon if he had a £7M price tag. Pienaar was an exception because he’s a player we knew we needed and the whole world knew also.

I think one major difference between us and Spurs is the mediaÂ’s valuation of our players. We are expected to release our players for a song whereas Spurs command a premium. Sadly, the media do have a hand in player values in my opinion.

I can just see another Pienaar transfer, with us swapping Mirallas for Lennon, and buying Mirallas back after one season at an inflated price.