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Everyone accepts its sporting moving the goalposts. What we’re saying is they should never been in a position to do this. We had the power, he had a perfectly acceptable release clause, if they were unwilling to negotiate or hash out a deal before the release clause expired then it’s on us to act.
He’s our number 1 target in a vital position, we’ve left ourselves open to get fucked when it could of been sorted at the start of the window.
It was probably worth testing options on different forms of payment, mix of players plus money, something with the rights to Edwards contract etc. for a few days.
Why we didn't do the deal after a week when those ideas didn't go anywhere is anyone's guess though.
See there it is again such immaturity.
I've literally said Levy has fucked up previous deals. I can point out Levy's flaws. You seem to just be looking for any excuse to make everything his fault.
I like you as a poster. I've nothing more to say here. Just gonna leave it.
Will be delighted when this month is over.
When he ends up at City I guess the good news will be that it wasnt the Chavs! 
Ye but seems the club and Conte wanted the player, why mess about, just pay the money and get on with it. We are top 10 club in the world and business mentality of Del Boy, honestly it is pathetic.
Some say clause expired.
Some say clauses don't expire.
Some say Levy has been fucking them around all along
Some say that an agency has been handling the negotiations.
Some blame Sporting cos ALL the media are.
Some can't see past anti-ENIC bias and think the media are being fed by Levy.
Let's be honest...... No-one here knows what the fuck's been going on, so peeps ought to quit pretending otherwise.
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The only thing that’s known is that he has a release clause and we are still meant to have enough left from the summer 150m to cover it if we wanted.
Especially when the plan was to find another attacker on loan (Zaniolo offer was loan too) so no other budget needed.
It didn’t need to be this fucked. Sporting are in it as well. It’s a giant dick waving competition from Chairmen who think the ordinary fan gives half a fuck if they “won” the negotiations
What we do know for certain is that there was a release clause that wasn’t unreasonable and we should of paid it at the start of the window so we could have him for the month of January, avoid all this end of window bollocks and cut sporting from being able to fuck us.
37 million + a loan deal shouldn’t be too much for us to afford this window, do you not agree ?
Possibly yes.
Yes this specific hiccup could well be Sporting.
But the wider problem is that Spurs should've either got it over the line MUCH quicker, or moved on weeks ago to find an alternative and got that one over the line. It's real weakness to be this vulnerable to the selling club's pisstaking on the day before the window closes.
Everyone calm down, its a done deal, Look what i can buy from the club shop! 
Seems that its Sporting changing their mind at the last second. If I were Porro I'd refuse to play