OPINION
Tottenham fans need to realise that negotiating transfers in the real world is not like how it’s done in FIFA or Football Manager. Spurs have reportedly offered just £35.7million as their opening bid to sign Real Betis midfielder Giovani Lo Celso, with ABC Sevilla claiming that the offer has been rejected as it fails to come anywhere near to the 23-year-old’s release clause of £89.2million. Daniel Levy has been blasted by many Tottenham fans on Twitter for this low offer, but that is just how it goes with the Spurs chairman. Why should he bid high straight away and get ripped off by Betis? Start low and work your way up, that’s the best strategy. It can unsettle the player and maybe make it possible to get a bargain deal done because while Lo Celso is a good player, he’s hardly worth what Betis are demanding for him. Spurs fans should remain patient. It is frustrating to see bids rejected, but it happens all the time.
This is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/Beasley1811Alex/status/1138051067244089349
Levy's tactic of unsettling a player so they want a move, only for someone else to jump in and take him for 60m ..
— ???? (@Myke_88) June 10, 2019
And there you have it ladies and gentlemen… Daniel levy
But he tried lol https://t.co/pwfWg2FPx8
— Bryce plain old Bryce (@TruBluSpurs) June 10, 2019
https://twitter.com/19Bill84/status/1138056692887932928
There’s no way he ever expected that to be accepted so why waste the time submitting it. New stadium, training facilities… great yay woohoo. Levy in the transfer market is an absolute embarrassment and it is there where he has failed this club. No ambition at all. So depressing
— M?llers (@dickmillers) June 10, 2019
https://twitter.com/daveyh84/status/1138042460809154560
Disgrace
— Electric Forest (@electricForest6) June 10, 2019
People thinks that this idiot will change ??. The player has said Come and get me. They know the clubs value. But Nooooo ????
— Bek “ENIC OUT”Stefario (@SimplyStefario) June 10, 2019