Mr Agile - Luka Modric

hrealmadrid wrote:He's not actually in Madrid.

Crimson wrote:Hope it does not happen

Madrid sport newspaper Marca said its reporters had spotted the 26-year-old near the city’s Croatian embassy, accompanied by his girlfriend, but he was in fact being put through his paces in London.
Modric has been training on his own since making it clear to Spurs boss Andre Villas Boas that he no longer saw his future at White Hart Lane.
Chairman Daniel Levy has been haggling with Real over a fee in a bid to get an offer close to £40million, which is what Chelsea offered last season without success.
With ten days of the transfer window left, negotiations are getting tense and the Liga side are said to be getting exasperated with Levy’s hardball tactics.
The Spurs head honcho is even encouraging another bid from Chelsea, although the player himself has his heart set on Madrid.
Oscar Campillo, Marca's director, said: 'We apologise, we have been deceived.
'Minutes after putting it [a picture of Modric] up, we discovered it was fake and took it down.'


Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/909229-luka-modric-still-training-with-spurs-amidst-rumours-of-spotting-in-madrid#ixzz24DTNXKHl

Villas-Boas says Modric should join Real soon

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

LONDON — Tottenham Hotspur manager Andre Villas-Boas believes Croatia midfielder Luka Modric should finally complete his move to Real Madrid in the next few days.

Modric has been keen to leave White Hart Lane since the end of last season, but Real's attempts to sign the star have been frustrated by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy's demands for a fee of around £40 million ($63.5m).

Villas-Boas is keen for the deal to be completed so he can reinvest the money in new signings, while also eliminating the distraction of the long-running transfer saga, and he could get his wish by next week.

Asked on Thursday if there was any progress in negotiations between the clubs, Villas-Boas said: "The chairman has told me the talks are ongoing.

"They are making some progress and the situation can be solved within the next couple days."

While Villas-Boas is likely to lose a key midfielder in Modric, he has been focused on bolstering his attacking options and completed the signing of Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor from Manchester City this week.

Villas-Boas had also been linked with a bid for Internacional's Brazil striker Leandro Damiao, but the former Chelsea coach played down talk of a potential deal.

"I don't think so. With Adebayor, (Jermain) Defoe and (Harry) Kane coming through, I think I have enough options," he said.
"Damiao is obviously a fantastic player but he is not our prospect at the moment because we are closed with what we are trying to do on the striker situation."

Villas-Boas had also surprisingly allowed captain Michael Dawson to speak to QPR after the west London club had a bid accepted for the England defender.

But Dawson's move to Loftus Road now appears to be in doubt and Villas-Boas has not ruled out the possibility of the former Nottingham Forest man remaining at White Hart Lane.

"We have allowed the player to speak to QPR, but the player hasn't reached an agreement," Villas-Boas said.

"If at the end of the transfer window we ended up with Michael staying, we would be extremely happy."

Nameless wrote:Luka Modric is almost part of our squad now. I can feel it

And so, with great sadness, it appears to be time to say farewell to one of this summer’s old friends: the Luka Modric transfer saga. After weeks of “is he going to Real Madrid or isn’t he” speculation, it appears that, finally, he is.

The Croatia international playmaker’s move to the Bernabeu is set to be completed in the next 48 hours after Spurs chairman Daniel Levy ratified the deal.

Modric is preparing to fly to the Spanish capital to complete his medical and finalise a move that was mistakenly flagged up on the official Real Madrid website in an embarassing error earlier this week. Bernabeu officials quickly removed the post, which suggested Modric was already part of their first-team squad - but they should be able to re-publish the article in the next couple of days.