Levy is as Levy does. If he wasn't going free there's no way we would have even signed him.
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🗣 Shakhtar Donetsk CEO Sergei Palkin on Manor Solomon's transfer to Tottenham:
"Since October, we have been diligently engaged in negotiations with Tottenham. But finally Tottenham has not acted in a manner that reflects the principles of fairness and equity. In this situation, we feel a sense of disrespect from Tottenham. If you go deeply in my feelings during these months we have negotiated. Actually, we would like to appeal to Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to act in good faith and uphold the shared values of the European football family to find a fair way to compensate us in this transfer, what we are talking about."
"They offered something but it is not even serious what they offered. It is something like peanuts to show they are ready to give something but this is not comparable with what they received. A club like Tottenham cannot behave like this. It is a top, well-known worldwide club and to behave like they are doing is very strange. We negotiated with them for many months, we respected them and we didn't ask to be honest for some kind of huge amount. We didn't even ask for money. We said 'OK, give us a sell-on fee for the future'. When you receive a player free and this player is worth €20m - the transfer market always undervalues players - it means something."
"It means we developed and invested in this player. You should respect our work. If we all say we are one football family and after that you receive a player for free and don't pay attention to our side, it is not fair."
"For me, 20%, 30% would be fair value. In this situation that would be fair value. We are going to bring legal action against Spurs if needed. But in any case, why I am appealing to the chairman of Spurs is because I believe he will give his hand and support us."
"We have war in the country and they should pay attention to this. When the war started in our country, the whole democratic world supported us. I am appealing to this kind of moral, to help us. But in any case, in our arguments with FIFA, yes we lost in CAS and it is difficult to fight against the system. But in any case, we believe if clubs receive something for free it is unjust enrichment. We will go to court and do our best to get some kind of compensation because we invest a lot of money into players and it is not possible to have this kind of situation. We need to share our problems and get help from clubs. If FIFA and the ECA say we are one football family, we should be a family and not like this."
🗣 A Tottenham spokesman said:
"We made a donation to Shakhtar's foundation following the friendly last summer and we continue to discuss this situation with them but not via the press."
#COYS #THFC #Tottenham #spurs
"Since October, we have been diligently engaged in negotiations with Tottenham. But finally Tottenham has not acted in a manner that reflects the principles of fairness and equity. In this situation, we feel a sense of disrespect from Tottenham. If you go deeply in my feelings during these months we have negotiated. Actually, we would like to appeal to Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to act in good faith and uphold the shared values of the European football family to find a fair way to compensate us in this transfer, what we are talking about."
"They offered something but it is not even serious what they offered. It is something like peanuts to show they are ready to give something but this is not comparable with what they received. A club like Tottenham cannot behave like this. It is a top, well-known worldwide club and to behave like they are doing is very strange. We negotiated with them for many months, we respected them and we didn't ask to be honest for some kind of huge amount. We didn't even ask for money. We said 'OK, give us a sell-on fee for the future'. When you receive a player free and this player is worth €20m - the transfer market always undervalues players - it means something."
"It means we developed and invested in this player. You should respect our work. If we all say we are one football family and after that you receive a player for free and don't pay attention to our side, it is not fair."
"For me, 20%, 30% would be fair value. In this situation that would be fair value. We are going to bring legal action against Spurs if needed. But in any case, why I am appealing to the chairman of Spurs is because I believe he will give his hand and support us."
"We have war in the country and they should pay attention to this. When the war started in our country, the whole democratic world supported us. I am appealing to this kind of moral, to help us. But in any case, in our arguments with FIFA, yes we lost in CAS and it is difficult to fight against the system. But in any case, we believe if clubs receive something for free it is unjust enrichment. We will go to court and do our best to get some kind of compensation because we invest a lot of money into players and it is not possible to have this kind of situation. We need to share our problems and get help from clubs. If FIFA and the ECA say we are one football family, we should be a family and not like this."
🗣 A Tottenham spokesman said:
"We made a donation to Shakhtar's foundation following the friendly last summer and we continue to discuss this situation with them but not via the press."
#COYS #THFC #Tottenham #spurs
You ask people how much they want for an article and they say £5 or £10.
What fool offers them £10?
Would not want this guy negotiating on my behalf.
Shakhtar bought Solomon for $ 6m , they didn't develop him,
He had 18 months left on his contract when he joined Fulham, which is when Fifa declared that any players contracted to a russian or ukrainan club could suspend their contracts until June 2024. FIFA extends and adapts temporary employment rules to address issues relating to war in Ukraine
Solomon had 6 months left on his (suspended) contract when he signed for Spurs and that contract would have terminated on 31 December 2023, before the 30 June when under the fifa rules the contract suspension was due to end. So when Spurs signed him he was in effect a free agent due to fifa rules - so Shakhtar's beef is with fifa not Spurs.
Even disregarding the fifa rules he had 6 months to run on his contract and with his injury record was not worth much - certainly not the 6m Shakhtar claim.
Spurs have played Shakhtar in a preseason friendly giving them the proceeds.
Given fifa's rules were ratified by CAS I doubt if they have a legal case against anyone at all.
I doubt if Spurs are that interested in retaining Solomon due to his injury record, and I doubt if anyone else will pay much, if anything, for Solomon in June.
Update :
Shakhtar took fifa to CAS - lost on all grounds and had to pay 100% of all costs - with the CAS decision being published in May 2023 (before Spurs signed Solomon).
So I doubt if Shakhtar have anywhere else to go legally.
And that's probably the reason why they are not happy.
Shakhtar took fifa to CAS - lost on all grounds and had to pay 100% of all costs - with the CAS decision being published in May 2023 (before Spurs signed Solomon).
So I doubt if Shakhtar have anywhere else to go legally.
And that's probably the reason why they are not happy.
Sounds like the same injury he said surgery on in October and I think he had knee surgery at Fulham last season too.
Solomon undergoes surgery | Tottenham Hotspur
We can confirm that Manor Solomon suffered a meniscus injury to his right knee in training this week.
www.tottenhamhotspur.com
This signing was a total waste of time. He’ll never do anything here.
Despite people clinging onto the usual he will come good faith. It’s not happening.
Despite people clinging onto the usual he will come good faith. It’s not happening.
Sounds like the same injury he said surgery on in October and I think he had knee surgery at Fulham last season too.
Solomon undergoes surgery | Tottenham Hotspur
We can confirm that Manor Solomon suffered a meniscus injury to his right knee in training this week.www.tottenhamhotspur.com
Bro this brother aint injured, he's been banned for his genocide post, he's done at Spurs man.
He was free, so it doesn’t really matter.
The real pain this season was that both him AND Perisic crocked themselves early on. They could both have been really useful.
His injury record is dodgy. We took a punt on his five minutes of form at Fulham hoping the injury record was behind him. It wasn’t. And he’s nowhere near good enough to justify having him on the payroll to be mostly unavailable.
Unfortunately I think you may be right. It's a shame though, as he looked quite promising in the one game he did participate in. At worst, think he wasn't a bad bench option to bring on when the opposition tired. But we can't keep people on the books who are permanently crocked, just not sustainable.
what an absolute farce.
Or we can get rid of all 3 and actually sign quality players. That’s possible.
This business of replacing average with more average never works.
Think Werner has been perfectly fine as depth tbh. Experienced and productive. Doubt we'd find someone better for the price quoted.
He's been out for longer than Peresic who done his ACL
The guy just sounds like a giant fucking baby.