I can't deny that deadline day is all about wheeling and dealing, but how do Spurs hope to buy Jay Rodriguez when there starting price is way too low.

Deadline day is about moving quickly, the time for haggling is over ad its about putting money on the nose and rushing through medicals and paperwork before the 11pm deadline.

With all this being the case you have to question whether Spurs alleged £14 million offer for Jay Rodriguez is serious or just trying to unsettle the player ready for the January transfer window when hopefully the player will be back to full fitness again and has recaptured his form of old.

Indeed it would be a big risk to sign Rodriguez, the player would be unable to pass a medical at the moment and there would be no guarantee he would be the same player he was when he comes back to playing again.

The other issue would be just how much football Spurs would get out of Rodriguez before the next transfer window opens, depending on his his recovery has gone the former Burnley player is unlikely to be back much before the end of October and it could be anytime between then and the start of December before he is firing on all cylinders again.

Also the price is far too low, given what we have received for Adam Lallana and Calum Chambers, £14 million is far too low and this is where I am starting to think this is nothing more than Spurs trying to throw in a few spanners into the works, they know an offer of this level would be turned down flat although co incidentally (or not) its a very similar fee to the one they are looking for, for Andros Townsend.

All of this would tend to suggest that Spurs are not that serious about Rodriguez, at least not until January, they are testing the water in the hope that we are stupid enough to take the bait, perhaps we might do, after all as I have mentioned we will get little out of Rodriguez this side of the transfer window and perhaps our medical staff know something theirs will not.

Either way its still a cheeky bid by Tottenham who after their humiliation at the hands of Liverpool might be starting to worry that with West ham and QPR not looking the strongest teams in the league at present, that their good start might not be as big a guide to the season ahead as they had hoped.

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SanMarco added 09:07 - Sep 1 Anyone watching that game yesterday will laugh at the idea of £14 million for Andros Townsend. Do we even know that Jay is keen to leave? Who knows - come January going to Spurs may be a move DOWN...
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LostBoys added 09:14 - Sep 1 Selling Rodrigues for £14m is even worse than selling Chambers for £16m - there is no way we would accet that is there? - THFC are a real joke
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LostBoys added 09:16 - Sep 1 Rodriguez - I cannot even spell his name this morning. I hope this is not linked to him being pulled from Goals on Sunday.
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SaintNick added 09:18 - Sep 1 I would say that it was as the club did not want him being grilled about the speculation
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Zambucco added 09:26 - Sep 1 I'm sure we're also guilty of this Nick putting in low bids. So we'll sell him for £20m and hope that Shane Long finally lives up to his potential, with Morgan and Jack starting to knock them in, Davis and Clyne always good for a few, Pelle and Tadic have the goal scoring stats and are warming up nicely. Would we miss him?
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SaintNick added 09:29 - Sep 1 I agree clubs, including ourselves put in low bids, just not o transfer deadline day as there is no time for haggling or negotiation
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BoondockSaint added 16:04 - Sep 1 How much do we have to pay Spurs to KEEP Townshend? My concern with J-Rod, besides his lack of confidence in the box, is that he sees us as a stepping stone. Remember how much trouble we had getting the deal done? So much on/off negotiations over (if I remember correctly over two windows?) I always felt he was using us as bait to see if a (pardon the expression) bigger club came calling. None did, so he reluctantly came here to up his Premier profile and see who came calling then. Call me paranoid, but I always worry that many players, particularly ones from overseas, may not have heard that much about us, but their agent says "Look, it's not a very famous club, but it's the Premier League! Prove you can play there, and then the big, super rich clubs will call!" Only consolation is that almost everyone else in the league is in the same boat!

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Jesus_02 added 17:25 - Sep 1 I heard that it was 14m PLUS Townsend. If that was the case I would say it was an even worse deal!
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GeordieSaint added 18:54 - Sep 1 The offer appears to be 14 mill plus Townsend.
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truthfulsaint added 10:27 - Sep 3 Couldn't agree more with another commenter Jay Rod 14 million and they give us an expensive no hoper (Townsend) with his wages is a joke. Jay Rod is worth 20 to 25 million at the moment. But imagine mane on one side and Jay Rod on the other... awesome!
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