The Luka Modric saga seems to have become a twisted battle between the player and the chairman with the little Croatian claiming foul play today. Apparently he was promised a move if a big club came calling. I don't quite know how Chelsea fits into this category, after all we won the same as they did and lasted one day longer than them in the Champions League.
I hate to say it but I think he means a club with more cash to pay his wages. This is the life we live in today with the football mercenary claiming they want to win things but in essence its the big pay day. To us mere mortals who struggle away on 20-25k a year, the difference between getting paid 2 million a year and 4 million a year is irrelevant. As Forest Gump's mother always said, man only needs so much to live on and the rest is for show.
The question now for Levy is what does he do, keep an unhappy player who probably wont perform for us and certainly wont commit again, or sell him on and possibly risk losing several other players in the process.
The real problem as I see it is that we are only just a couple of players away from making a real challenge this season, however the morale in the squad must be affected by all of this and signing Rossi and the like may not cure. Think back to 2008 and a sulking Berbatov which put us back a long way.
I don't envy Levy right now, he needs to make a statement in the transfer market, make that one big signing that will make the others sit up and take notice. Off the pitch it has been a bad twelve months for Spurs, we still have no concrete plans for a new stadium which should have begun work by now, we don't know if we will have a manager beyond the coming season and we have failed to sign the striker we all crave for. Something will give very soon I feel one way or the other and a number of people may have their necks on the line.
