CONFIRMED Will Lankshear --> Spurs

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JackSUFC said:
We picked him up for nothing and are making a potential £2m a year later. Hopefully we have a sell on clause too for IF he ever makes it in the mens game which is far from guaranteed. We can’t grumble too much.
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On paper £2m for a kid who isn’t close to the first team is fine, I have no issue with the club selling as I don’t feel they even have an option just disappointing to see obvious talent leave, and especially a goal scorer
 
Frank the tank said:
Bit gutted about this ,one of the things I hate the most about the modern game how top teams just hoover up everyone else's talent
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Released by Arsenal and Tottenham come in.
No idea if this was part of his thinking but it’s a nice fuck you if he makes it, plus moving back home. I wouldn’t blame him if he really wanted this deal to go through.
 
Seems quite a low price for someone who the expectations were high. I was expecting him and Peck to be in and around the first team squad the end of the season/start of next season
 
Flatulent_Bob said:
Was Jebbo on an academy contract at the time?
We’re also not Cat A so it’s easier for those who are to pick up players.
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I don’t know. I was just replying to the idea that Lankshear should be ahead of Jebbo because he was worth £2m by pointing out Jebbo’s worth a lot more than that.
 
JackSUFC said:
I’d agree if he was in and around the first team but he’s only ever played youth football. Kid might be playing in non-league in five years time.
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It’s an OK fee for his age but my point was it’s not a huge benefit to us financially.
 
mancunianblade said:
On paper £2m for a kid who isn’t close to the first team is fine, I have no issue with the club selling as I don’t feel they even have an option just disappointing to see obvious talent leave, and especially a goal scorer
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Yeah, I’m not blaming anyone, it’s just football but it’s disappointing we couldn’t have kept him a bit longer.
 
Deadbat said:
Ramsdale?
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For some reason I thought it but didn't write it.

I suppose I could qualify it by saying I wasn't counting players who went on strike!

Just seems a long time since we've sold anyone of any significance apart from Ramsdale.

Wilder generated virtually nothing when he was offloading players in the Premier League.

BushBlade said:
Yeah, I’m not blaming anyone, it’s just football but it’s disappointing we couldn’t have kept him a bit longer.
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I suppose there is some irony in a young player being sold and the figure probably offsets quite well with the cost of the improved pitches....that we can use to help develop young players!
 
Scargill said:
This is why I don't go anymore, Selling decent players all the time. And you wonder why we've won Fuck all since 1925. See ya
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Huh?

Always been transfers in the game (even since 1925).

There's nothing to relate selling this youngster at a very tidy profit, to SUFC not winning trophies for a long time. I'd suggest there are bigger factors at play.
 
It's the way of the football world unfortunately
Hopefully this will help us move towards Cat A, then we can do this to other clubs, like Brentford, who lost loads as a B, but now are one of the worst for taking other clubs players (2 lads from Wed just gone)
Think the Lankshear deal is good business all round
 

Something to bear in mind in all this – you can still be a top academy, and lose promising talent to other top academies, and Spurs is a case in point here. Two of their brightest prospects, Sam Amo-Ameyaw and Jayden Meghoma, moved to Southampton’s academy from the Spurs academy in the summer. Both 16, both recognised already by the England set-ups, and both players Spurs were looking to develop. The players, probably understandably, feel their chance at first team football will be more likely/soon than if they stayed at Spurs. The reported fee: €1m, for the pair. If we’ve got £1m plus potentially £1m more to come that sounds like a decent fee for someone we’ve had a year.
 
Sad news, was really hoping that Lankshear would make an appearance in the first team, sometime this season, just like Jebbo did in the Premier League.

Things can change, and as has been said, there is a chance that he can't step up to men's football, but I don't see it, myself. The kid is a big unit and every time I saw him play, he scored for fun, a natural finisher.

But, if he wants to move, he wants to move.

Good luck to the lad.
 
Mouth of the South said:
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Just don't get this.

Why would you turn down £10 million for Coubailly and £5 million for Jebbison and then do this with a lad who as far as I know is on a long term contract - 'and we don't need to sell anybody'?

Saw one tweet about this last night and could not find it again after that.

Had the same gut wrenching feeling as when DCL left although I had seen him play not just videos and the stats of this lad.

The same moron's who said it was a 'good fee' for Adams. DCL. Harry Maguire and the rest will be saying the same here, no doubt quoting failures like Mellon? and Slew.

This fee, if correct, will pay for Brewster's wages for just over a year! ie it's F ALL.

It won't pay for Berge or Egan or whoever is on £45K per week for even a year.

I'm NOT interested in 10% or 10% of 25% of sell on profit.

I want 10 years service, a place in the top division and the full £50 million and £75 million.

So should any fan.

I am sick and tired of saying the truth, that all our best players have been home developed or cheap un heard off's.

And I'll say again. We have wasted £100 million trying to replace DCL, Brooks and Adams and we have not a player to touch them. Except possibly from our own resources, again. And even Iliman does not get a game ahead of the **** head that is McBurnie, let alone Jebbison who has only played a few minutes more than me or thee since his recall from Burton.

Yes I know he's from London (or a London club) but although lightening only strikes #sufc more than once Arsenal to Spurs is the same route as Harry Kane. They could have got 10 years of goals then a £100 million plus fee for him - or could have at least last year.

#MUGA - Make United Great Again - 'lock him up, lock him up'.
Come on down Steve Bruce. We love you really you fat slimy treachorous ****.
 
MiserableBlader said:
Just don't get this.

Why would you turn down £10 million for Coubailly and £5 million for Jebbison and then do this with a lad who as far as I know is on a long term contract - 'and we don't need to sell anybody'?

Saw one tweet about this last night and could not find it again after that.

Had the same gut wrenching feeling as when DCL left although I had seen him play not just videos and the stats of this lad.

The same moron's who said it was a 'good fee' for Adams. DCL. Harry Maguire and the rest will be saying the same here, no doubt quoting failures like Mellon? and Slew.

This fee, if correct, will pay for Brewster's wages for just over a year! ie it's F ALL.

It won't pay for Berge or Egan or whoever is on £45K per week for even a year.

I'm NOT interested in 10% or 10% of 25% of sell on profit.

I want 10 years service, a place in the top division and the full £50 million and £75 million.

So should any fan.

I am sick and tired of saying the truth, that all our best players have been home developed or cheap un heard off's.

And I'll say again. We have wasted £100 million trying to replace DCL, Brooks and Adams and we have not a player to touch them. Except possibly from our own resources, again. And even Iliman does not get a game ahead of the **** head that is McBurnie, let alone Jebbison who has only played a few minutes more than me or thee since his recall from Burton.

Yes I know he's from London (or a London club) but although lightening only strikes #sufc more than once Arsenal to Spurs is the same route as Harry Kane. They could have got 10 years of goals then a £100 million plus fee for him - or could have at least last year.

#MUGA - Make United Great Again - 'lock him up, lock him up'.
Come on down Steve Bruce. We love you really you fat slimy treachorous ****.
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He's not on a pro deal. Very little we can do.
 
MiserableBlader said:
Just don't get this.

Why would you turn down £10 million for Coubailly and £5 million for Jebbison and then do this with a lad who as far as I know is on a long term contract - 'and we don't need to sell anybody'?
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Who told you he was on a long term contract?
 
Silent Blade said:
We will find out in a few years time if we were right to take the money
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Problem at Spurs is, there's no pathway to first team as a striker.... They've spent 10s of millions on the likes of Janssen, Soldado who are basically bought to play when Kane isn't available.

It took 4 years for Sessegnon to start playing.
 
Tarqs said:
Problem at Spurs is, there's no pathway to first team as a striker.... They've spent 10s of millions on the likes of Janssen, Soldado who are basically bought to play when Kane isn't available.

It took 4 years for Sessegnon to start playing.
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It looks like Lankshear wanted to go back to London 🤷‍♂️
 
Silent Blade said:
It looks like Lankshear wanted to go back to London 🤷‍♂️
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Spurs’ facilities are as good as any in the country and better than most and they’ll be paying him far more than we could offer.
 
mattbianco1 said:
This will sound really negative and I don't mean it to do so, but here goes...

If this 17yo is worth £2m, why hasn't he been near the first team ahead of Jebbo and Osula, even in the League Cup ?
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Maybe he isn’t as good as them yet.
There is a reason why Arsenal released him.
 
Champagneblade said:
It's a pity. The romantic in us saw him taking the mantle from Billy Sharp.

But the simple truth is that if we are to be a self sustaining club then you can't make an omelette without breaking any eggs.

You lose someone who is quite a way off the first team or you lose someone in the first team or around the first team.

Certainly while you aren't a PL club, this is going to be the nature of things to a degree and as Deadbat mentioned, if we hadn't yet had the chance to get him on pro terms and also he had an opportunity to go back down south at 17, maybe it's just what he wanted and the chance was there for him. Not as if we've pushed one of our own out the door against their will here.

Jebbison, Osula, N'Diaye, Lankshear, were we ever going to keep them all?

Maybe selling him for 2m keeps one of the others for an extra year, giving them time to develop further and double their value or more.

As daft as it sounds, the last time we sold anyone for a deal approaching 2m or above was David Brooks in 18/19.

Leonard and Evans were probably around a million and the only other sale is perhaps Robinson and he was offset by Burke bad maybe 1-1.5m and then we couldn't offload him quick enough.

Shame we won't see him. But there is no long term in football like yesteryear. It's all about the here and now.

Anyway, as John Maynard Keynes, the famous Economist once said "in the long term, we're all dead!"
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Didn’t we recently sell a keeper ?!!!!!!!
 
MiserableBlader said:
Just don't get this.

Why would you turn down £10 million for Coubailly and £5 million for Jebbison and then do this with a lad who as far as I know is on a long term contract - 'and we don't need to sell anybody'?

Saw one tweet about this last night and could not find it again after that.

Had the same gut wrenching feeling as when DCL left although I had seen him play not just videos and the stats of this lad.

The same moron's who said it was a 'good fee' for Adams. DCL. Harry Maguire and the rest will be saying the same here, no doubt quoting failures like Mellon? and Slew.

This fee, if correct, will pay for Brewster's wages for just over a year! ie it's F ALL.

It won't pay for Berge or Egan or whoever is on £45K per week for even a year.

I'm NOT interested in 10% or 10% of 25% of sell on profit.

I want 10 years service, a place in the top division and the full £50 million and £75 million.

So should any fan.

I am sick and tired of saying the truth, that all our best players have been home developed or cheap un heard off's.

And I'll say again. We have wasted £100 million trying to replace DCL, Brooks and Adams and we have not a player to touch them. Except possibly from our own resources, again. And even Iliman does not get a game ahead of the **** head that is McBurnie, let alone Jebbison who has only played a few minutes more than me or thee since his recall from Burton.

Yes I know he's from London (or a London club) but although lightening only strikes #sufc more than once Arsenal to Spurs is the same route as Harry Kane. They could have got 10 years of goals then a £100 million plus fee for him - or could have at least last year.

#MUGA - Make United Great Again - 'lock him up, lock him up'.
Come on down Steve Bruce. We love you really you fat slimy treachorous ****.
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Long term contract ? At 17 !
 
MiserableBlader said:
Just don't get this.

Why would you turn down £10 million for Coubailly and £5 million for Jebbison and then do this with a lad who as far as I know is on a long term contract - 'and we don't need to sell anybody'?

Saw one tweet about this last night and could not find it again after that.

Had the same gut wrenching feeling as when DCL left although I had seen him play not just videos and the stats of this lad.

The same moron's who said it was a 'good fee' for Adams. DCL. Harry Maguire and the rest will be saying the same here, no doubt quoting failures like Mellon? and Slew.

This fee, if correct, will pay for Brewster's wages for just over a year! ie it's F ALL.

It won't pay for Berge or Egan or whoever is on £45K per week for even a year.

I'm NOT interested in 10% or 10% of 25% of sell on profit.

I want 10 years service, a place in the top division and the full £50 million and £75 million.

So should any fan.

I am sick and tired of saying the truth, that all our best players have been home developed or cheap un heard off's.

And I'll say again. We have wasted £100 million trying to replace DCL, Brooks and Adams and we have not a player to touch them. Except possibly from our own resources, again. And even Iliman does not get a game ahead of the **** head that is McBurnie, let alone Jebbison who has only played a few minutes more than me or thee since his recall from Burton.

Yes I know he's from London (or a London club) but although lightening only strikes #sufc more than once Arsenal to Spurs is the same route as Harry Kane. They could have got 10 years of goals then a £100 million plus fee for him - or could have at least last year.

#MUGA - Make United Great Again - 'lock him up, lock him up'.
Come on down Steve Bruce. We love you really you fat slimy treachorous ****.
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He isn't on a ft pro contract. We can't stand in his way. Well we could but then it would go to a tribunal. He's from London so probably sees the chance to be back near family.
This is one of those occasions were we can't do anything but maximise the fee. And at £1million + add ons it seems like we have. Wish him luck for the future but let's move on.
 

We'd be happy getting £2m for some of our 1st team players, so £2m for a lad who is nowhere near the 1st team looks like good business to me.

It might come back to bite us on the arse, but Spurs have got a lot of work to do to make that the case.
 
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