Daniel Levy may have got his numbers wrong on this one...
After seemingly going quiet over the last day or two, the Telegraph are now reporting that in the battle of the penny-pinching chairmen Daniel Levy attempted to trade Gylfi Sigurdsson for both Ben Davies AND Michel Vorm. Pull the other one, mate.
Gylfi has been in and out of the Spurs team, and we'd already agreed a deal with him two summers ago before he decided to let Spurs gazump us, so I can't imagine he's a player we're absolutely desperate to sign. Sure, we'd be interested, but he's hardly going to replace Ben Davies or Michel Vorm - and the fact that we already have tailor-made replacements shouldn't come into it.
Luke Shaw's recent transfer to Man Utd shows how laughable this offer was. How Levy thinks he can get a promising young British left-back and a goalkeeper who's still at the World Cup for a player they're clearly looking to move on is beyond me, and it appears it's beyond Huw Jenkins too. If the offer is right, we sell. If it's wrong, or mental, then we don't.
I'd be very surprised if at this point the Swans haven't sent a message of "get real or don't bother getting in touch again". Davies would surely command a fee of £10million plus, while Vorm - as mentioned a "World Cup keeper" despite his lack of appearances - would surely be £5million if he's a day. £15million for Gylfi, who we've then got to pay big wages even if he did take a pay cut to come here? Not a chance in hell.
I do quite like the idea of The Gylf coming in, even if it's mostly since I figured out we'd have The Gylf passing to Wilf (see today's earlier blog for more on why this would need to be a careful reintroduction), but if that's the kind of deal Spurs want then I'll be amazed if we reach an agreement any time soon.
This one seems set to drag on, and on, and on...