Maybe £30m rising with add ons. From the bits I've seen and read, I think he's an excellent choice for our first choice keeper.
If Brentford are really going to stick to the 40M valuation I'd rather just go try to get Maignan or Onana.
Inter want 80m euros for Onana. And Milan will be well in their rights to demand a similar amount for Maignan. As much as I rate both I can't see us paying that money out for a goal keeper.
They aren't home grown, they don't have EPL experience, and may well need time to settle and adjust to moving here.
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Perhaps if we turned the list upside down before giving it to Daniel...?
I think the way goalkeepers are valued by top clubs is changing though so going forwards we’ll see them valued as a premium position, similar to CBs and attacking players. On that basis, the benchmark for how much a good goalkeeper should cost is going to increase significantly - historical benchmarks like “4th most expensive in history” are largely irrelevant, as I suspect those records will be broken over and over again in the next few years. Better to get ahead of it by securing the guy we think can be our starting goalkeeper for the next decade before the going rate increases further.
This has got classic Levy written all over it. We could buy him for 35m now, or haggle all summer and end up paying 34.5m on deadline day and lose the chance to integrate him into the squad in preseason. I hope I’m wrong
Right I get all that, it's just a personal preference thing for me. Raya's big positive for me is his HG status. Him already being used to the Prem is a plus but we've seen players move within the league from small clubs to bigger clubs and fail to settle so that's a risk anyway (yes I understand it's probably a smaller risk but it's still an unknown). I personally like Onana much better (he's bigger and as I mentioned before small keepers make me itchy) than both of them, and Maignon a little better than Raya (again, size).
£40M does seem a fair price for his ability, but £40m doesn't seem a fair price when the selling club have zero bargaining power, it would be stupid to pay it. Raya is putting pressure on Brentford by stating he'll see out his contract and move for free if they don't sell at resonable price and more recently, agreeing personal terms with us. Brentford have his replacement. Now we have 'leaks' that Spurs could move on to other targets !! It'll be done, and it'll be done more in our favour, although they do have a little leverage over us as we'd obviously be keen to get him in quickly for the new coach.
You say that but what if this protracted transfer drags out till late August, subsequently play a couple of matches and then get gazumped by a rival (Chelsea or Utd) leaving us scratching around last minute for a replacement who will almost certainly be sub-standard to Raya?
Thing is those 2 are probably worth 60m or something stupid. Tbh I doubt either of them would leave their clubs to come to Spurs right now - think we missed the boat on them sadly. Either would've been ideal.
But just think of all the extra £££ we’d be saving in wages by getting him in at the end of the window
