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Fernando Llorente

Gone to Spurs now - pictures all over twitter of him in a Tottenham shirt next to his brother.

 
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Tough break this. Would have been good to lock him down. 

Means Michy is staying and hopefully he can find the level. Mildly disappointed we didn't do another deal with Torino tonight for a certain rooster...

 
Spiller86 said:
Tough break this. Would have been good to lock him down. 

Means Michy is staying and hopefully he can find the level. Mildly disappointed we didn't do another deal with Torino tonight for a certain rooster...
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dont expect such big deals from this board!!

 
Disappointed and annoyed with this, the club had been linked with Llorente so long - since way back in January at the start of the year, then after it being implied practically all summer we would get him and bolster our squad, thought it was a done deal, then on deadline day at the end of August we see spurs grab him instead. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't part of a pattern this summer - the board letting so many players slip through our fingers and go to other big six teams is so frustrating!

Still, Llorente made his choice too, think it is likely to prove the wrong one as the future reveals itself - time will tell!

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Football fans just love finding a reason to moan. I got absolutely hammered left, right and centre on here all summer for saying we should sign Llorente and loan Batshuayi out.

Now some of the same people are up in arms because clearly the board decided to stick rather than twist.

I'm disappointed not to have signed him and I think he'd have gotten more playing time with us than he will at Spurs.

 
This is the transfer equivalent of missing an open goal from two yards out...so makes you wonder whether board really wanted to back conte on this deal...

 
Conte probably did a bit of that himself with some of the players the board were trying to give him.

 
It is not so much on missing out on signing Llorente or even that he went to Spurs that bothers me. Any decent back up striker would have been fine so we could have loaned Batman, preferably to a PL club, so he could develop and Morata would have been covered. 

 
Llorente is old, immobile, and not better than Michy. I don't even know why we were in for him. 

 
Sunday Supplement guys are going on about how Spurs is more attractive for players and that Llorente choosing them over us backs that up. But point is he didn't, we didn't match the Spurs bid. We never had a bid accepted. Honestly the media will spin anything.

 
Did we really make a bid for another Moratta when we already had one? Maybe we were only interested up to the point that Conte got the type of forward he wanted in the bag!

 
Giving Spurs a quality sub is my biggest worry. He is also better than Batshuayi. Could have helped once Morata goes through goal droughts.

 
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I'd try to go for Mario Gomez in January if I were Conte. Same skill set as Llorente but more talented. Though I doubt Wolfsburg would want to let him go.

 
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