£130 million or Modric & Bale?

I think reinvesting that £130 million makes Spurs stronger. I will miss Modric, no doubt, but I will grieve for Bale. He is probably the biggest reason I have fallen in love with Spurs these last few years. For reasons all to obvious (being a Cardinals fan), he’s surpassed Albert Pujols as my favorite athlete. I’d be devastated all over again.

But £130 million is A LOT of money. And while Spurs lose 2 world class players, there are 9 other positions on the field to be considered, plus a bench. For that money Spurs could bring in Ganso to replace Modric, Marko Marin to replace Bale, Damiao or Llorente to replace Adebayor, Vertonghen to strengthen the back line, Tim Krul or Michel Vorm in goal, and Podolski or Remy to strengthen our wings/forward line and STILL have money left to help offset the increase in our wage bill.

So two positions definitely take a hit, but find worthy replacements. Four other positions are strengthened for the foreseeable future.

Do players have the power to reject a move? I’m living within your hypothetical that we sell both and they both go, not that they refuse.

Where I’m going with this (if this is wrong, please let me know) is that if we sell our “superstars” how would this team appeal to others out there? I don’t know if those high-quality stars would consider a move here because they’d probably view those sales of Mod and Bale as gutting the team to make room for younger guys. Who’d want to play with a team that’s posturing that they’re re-tooling for the future instead of trying to win now besides bench guys wanting first team starts? You don’t have the allure of an immediate run for a CL spot, and the chance for a league title diminishes significantly.

I’d honestly think that if this did happen in the summer that Spurs would be looking to rebuild from the ground up. That’s just how I’d interpret it. Bring in some younger guys that have a very high ceiling to play some (presumably) CL football next season and see what you really have. It’s all conjecture, and I’m sure I’m off.

How the hell is this even a debate? Of course you take the 130. You take 100 if you can get that in a HEARTBEAT but there’s hardly a chance of that.

Isn’t 130 bigger than the two largest transfers ever, or pretty close?

Who voted Modric and Bale? Explanation, please.

I think he is the difference between us being the second best team, imo but I’ll accept third or fourth, in the league, and us being seventhpool quality. I think our squad can compete with every single team in the world save Barca because let’s face it if Real Madrid can’t do it we can’t. I think Modric is worth more to this team than any transfer fee we could realistically get, yes even the 50 million pound mark that is being thrown around this week.

Haaaaving said all that take the money and run. 130 million pounds for both players is crazy money. We could buy easily buy 3 world class players and a class keeper for that money, and that’s without touching the budget we should have anyway. The team can be rebuilt around a different set of players, something I don’t think is realistic with just selling Modric for 50 million pounds. This team is built around a certain style that Modric, and Bale to a lesser degree, are essential to. 50 million doesn’t build a new team. 130 does. Of course, back to reality, we would be lucky to get half that for both of the players.

Then NO. I would not sell. Not if I was running a club with BIG ambitions, i.e. annual CL and challenging for the title. Otherwise, you have to name for me players who can do better than Modric and Bale, who will come to tottenham, and will be paid <100K.