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17 million WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope its not true.

There's nothing on the Spurs or Man Yoo website regarding the transfer.

THE on-off, will-he-won't-he saga of Michael Carrick's move to Manchester United has reached its conclusion, with Spurs finally agreeing a deal with the Old Trafford club.

Carrick, who joined Tottenham from West Ham United for £2.75 million in August 2004, will join United in a deal worth around £15 million, with future incentives pushing the fee closer to £18 million and the Geordie midfielder has played his last game for the club, the Spursweb understands.

The deal will be completed by the beginning of next week at the latest. Carrick made 61 Premiership starts for the club, scoring twice and will become the record transfer in the Tottenham's history.

Boss Martin Jol and director of football Damien Comolli are thought to be happy with their central midfield options and are unlikely to move for a replacement for Carrick during the summer window, with a left-sided midfielder and a right-back the main priorities before the start of the season.

Tottenham have reportedly been in negotiations with Athletico Madrid this week over the pacy left winger Martin Petrov, an international team-mate of Spurs' Bulgarian summer signing Dimitar Berbatov and there are thought to be other left-sided players attracting the attention of Jol and Comolli, who came close to signing Damien Duff from Chelsea and have looked at Middlesbrough's Stewart Downing.

yeh i just googled it and nothing came up

http://tottenhamhotspur.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=897&p=2&stid=8417158

Superb signing by United...


Alot of ££'s yes but will be a great player in this team for years (and he's English.....Lovely!!).

now Fergie get ya ass in gear and sign some more!!

He has definitely gone :'(

Never doubt the Teacake!

I bet you are gutted Nem?

Im having mixed emotions,  Sign a superb player in Carrick but loseing an AWESOME goal scorer in Van Nistelrooy.

Yeah, I'm a bit gutted. TBH, I think there isn't much between the two teams - especially after Van Nist going to Real Madrid.

But then again, it is Manchetser United - who turns them down? If we signed Duff, it wouldn't have bothered me that much; especially after signing Zokora. I just hope we can sign Petrov and Chimbonda before the season starts.

Henrik Larsson

If Carrick had 3/4 or 5 years left on his contract, I don't think that Spurs would have accepted Man Yoo's bid, but he is a free agent in 2 years and £18million is a lot of money for where Spurs are at the moment. Similar to the Arse/ Anelka situation a few years ago.

The more i think about this signing the more excited i get,  the thought of carrick and scholes linking with rooney (may be another top class forward?)..... Bring on the 06/07 season.

15% coming our way :)up

if you get petrov nem you will forget carrick ever existed!

Martin Petrov (Atletico Madrid), not your man. However, I wouldn't mind the Celtic one at Spurs. ;)

Don't worry nem, we'll look artef him.

good signing

£18.6M  :o

I must commend the White Shite Lane's board for their business sense, a truly ridiculous price IMO.

How much would Fabregas be worth using a similar scale, £40M ?

Not alot of differance IMO

£18.6m is great business on tottenhams part.

i konw spurs fans are probably a little sad but £18.6m is too much money for carrick imo

I would agree that Spurs have done really well out this deal, I am not a great fan of Carrick - he's good but not good enogh that I would ever consider spending that sort of cash on him not even in fantasy football.

Your welcome to him mate £6 million and he's all yours.

TBH he's not that great another player who is vastly overrated IMO.  I have some choice words for people like Stan Petrov but way to expletive for a famkily forum like Blonde.

I personally don't think that Fabregas is better than Carrick.

Good business? - yes

Sad? - No. We have a player called Zakora who is different class and if he is injured we have another player called Huddlestone - who in my opinion will become better than Carrick.

If we've signed Duff though, I think that Carrick would've stayed.

Glad to hear that your achey breaky heart is all better now  :-*

 :-*

PS Cesc is 19 and Carrick is 25,that would/should affect any price, or valuation in this case  ;)

Great business for a guy worth no more than 9m. Fergie overspends again.

obviously a gooner  :D

Carrick is english, and there is alway a premium for that on top of the PL to PL transfer. Fabrigas is not worth 40million, half it and your still in a dream world. He has great potential but his high and build will prevent him from reaching 'best player in the world' type status

i agree with most but please explain your height and build quote for me as i dont understand

Fabregas is a dwarf. And he is easily out muscled in midfield.

Believe me, now that Carrick has signed for Man U, he will become the best centre midfielder since Glenn Hoddle and Gazza (two former Spurs an d England greats.)

 rotflmfao

i agree hes a good player but what makes u think he will become as good as the 2 you mentioned now hes left. didnt those 2 become that good while at spurs?

he dont score enough to be compared to those 2 and hes a million years behind gerrard and lampard.

imo of course

Is it just me or does Carrick sound like he got missed with the brains stick at birth?

Just you.

Now that he is at Man U, Lampard will lose his place and it will be Gerrard and Carrick in midfiled, like it was when they were school boys.

Forget about 'Fat Frank' Ballack is here to take his place and I can see him leaving Chelsea.

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i love your predictions nem they are so accurate i only have to think of damien duff and im cracking up  rotflmfao

Hahahahaha......so he did, magic!

similar to my thinking... he is billed as box to box but doesnt have the size for it

The clubs agreed a fee, and it looked like a formality, e.g Duff stays in London, for a big club, playing in Europe etc... but for sentimental reasons he signed for Newcastle >:?

Now that is something to rotflmfao about!

A dwarf !!! he's still a growing boy ffs.

We'll see who makes the bigger impact this season.

PS I hope you are honing your heads-up game  ;)

Not sure what fergie is up to with Carrick, two big gaps to fill left by Ruud VN and Roy K and he spends best part of 18 million on a guy who replaces neither of them.  Saha is ok but I doubt you will ever see him hoist the Champions League.