{"id":24119,"date":"2012-08-16T15:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2012-08-16T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T12:07:15","slug":"luka-modric-27-5m-transfer-to-real-madrid-premier-league-transfer-news-24119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/luka-modric-27-5m-transfer-to-real-madrid-premier-league-transfer-news-24119\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Modric  \u00a327.5m transfer to Real Madrid \/ Premier League Transfer News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/luka-modric.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24138\" title=\"luka modric\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/luka-modric-e1345118771232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric set to finalise his dream.Modric play fro Real Madrid from now on.<\/h1>\n<p>Luka Modric is set to fly to Spain today to finalise his \u00a327.5m move from Tottenham to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It will end a difficult period for the player after four years at Spurs. The Croatia international was linked with a move to Chelsea last summer, but Spurs&#8217; chairman, Daniel Levy, kept him at the club despite the player&#8217;s apparent discontent.<\/p>\n<p>Modric, 26, who has never hidden his desire to join Jose Mourinho&#8217;s side, has recently been forced to train away from the rest of the squad after the new Tottenham manager, Andre Villas-Boas, criticised the player for not travelling to the United States for the club&#8217;s pre-season summer tour.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for the behind-the-scenes tensions was touched on by the Croatia coach, Igor Stimac, who told the Spanish newspaper AS: &#8220;Daniel Levy promised a year ago that if an offer from Madrid arrived he would let him go. And when the offer arrived he changed his opinion. I think that this guy tries to make himself famous in the world of football, but this isn&#8217;t the way to do it. When you promise something you always need to fulfil it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Luka Modri\u0107 will complete his transfer to Real Madrid in the next coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The fee for the Croatian varies, according to reports, but Madrid are believed to have struck a deal for around \u00a326m, with add-ons included.<\/p>\n<h2>Luka Modric To Complete Real Madrid Transfer From Tottenham Hotspur<\/h2>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Mourinho is yet to strengthen the Primera Liga champions this summer but Modri\u0107&#8217;s value has risen after it transpired Xabi Alonso would not extend his contract with the club beyond next summer.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago Spurs rejected several offers from Chelsea &#8211; then managed by current Tottenham manager Andr\u00e9 Villas-Boas &#8211; to buy Modri\u0107. However this year the 26-year-old refused to travel to the squad&#8217;s pre-season camp in the United States after European Championship duty, drawing wrath from the notoriously brusque Villas-Boas.<\/p>\n<p>Modri\u0107 has since been forced to train away from the first-team after his manager admitted publicly it was inevitable the Croatia international would leave White Hart Lane this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Although \u00a326m seems a low fee for Modri\u0107, it perhaps signals how Lilywhites chairman Daniel Levy, renowned for charging inflated fees for Spurs players, has put strengthening the squad ahead of financial gain. Tottenham&#8217;s efforts to reap as much as possible from the eventual \u00a330.75m transfer deadline day sale of Dimitar Berbatov in 2008 left them short in attack, and they endured a miserable first half of the season.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric set to finalise his dream.Modric play fro Real Madrid from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[77175,31670,31676,31667,31677,26124,1887,31668,3028,31669,31517,2707],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-football","tag-football-transfer-talk","tag-jose-mourinho-wants-luka-modric","tag-luka-modric","tag-luka-modric-jose-mourinho","tag-luka-modric-transfer","tag-premier-league","tag-primera-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-spanish-football","tag-sport","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}