Gareth Bale

thought ivanovic coped pretty well

ya, he's a good player imo

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"I don’t think that I’m as good a player as people say I am," Bale said, according to The Mirror.

"That’s what keeps me working hard - because I want to be the player that others say I am."

ha, nice

Good attitude, hope it keeps him at Spurs.

that's the attitude that makes him the best young player in the universe imo

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wot no naughton?

every time you say naughton, do you mean walker?

nah i'm subtly mocking gooners tbh but u spoiled it

sorry

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so subtle i dun even get it?

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even

it was because gooners like to throw in mentions of youth team nobodies, innit

so, if we sold bale, modric and defoe for a combined 85m in jan, what next for spurs?

who the fuck wants to buy defoe?

They could try Arsenal perhaps?

they might have to accept just modric and bale for £90m

defoe to qpr tbs tbs

They could try Arsenal perhaps?

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 15:23 (7 minutes ago)

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would be a success imo

at this stage i'd be half interested in a mass auction of bale vdv modric et al just to see krancjar pienaar and thudd again

Yeah i know they're injured

i always forget pienaar is one of yours now

ya, tho i can't decide is he cover on left, right or for parker tbh.

Second string, in my head, reads l-r

krancjar, thudd, pienaar, nobody

Would quite like a backup rm obv

Sandro fit should be 1st xi but not for parker in current form so i dunno

is bentley still technically yours or did you get rid? re back up RM, or should that be back up to the back up RM?
Maybe Harry will do a Bale with Walker and shunt him forward?

true for walker, tho tbfttl he's actually doing ok at the df side of his job this past while. Still love corluka though.

Yeah bentley i suppose. Pity about that twat, worse than losing a talent through injury.

wait shouldn't pienaar be where nobody is and that would mean the space in the middle is sandro? normal back-up w/ potential to push dudes in the first xi imo.

Think everyone big will stay in the transfer window but by the summer it's Champions League or the break-up of this team.

modric will probably go whatever happens, maybe bale too

We totally should try and Sol Modders, whatever the price.

ya i think so, but this summer was good, chelsea will bid big and early and hopefully the other big boys took note too.

I don't think pienaar, vdv nor krancjar are up to scratch on the right tbh, not as first choice cover, certainly

I keep thinking I've accidentally clicked the same thread twice with this and the Bale thread.

walker surely xp

this will have been the bale thread surely

lolimo

bale to barca could work

guardiola is difficult to predict tho, last yr's third choice left back adriano was playing in some sort of roving attacking midfield role the other day

still uncertain why they havent made replacing puyol the #1 priority but whatever

I think Guardiola's position there is something like "it doesn't matter if we've got the ball."

they wanted to buy thiago silva but weren't prepared to pay what you have to pay to buy probably the best central defender in the world from silvio berlusconi

Is Thiago Silva really the best in the world right now? Doesn't seem right.

i'd think so

it's not a crowded field atm now the lúcio/nesta/ferdinand/samuel generation are on the way out

he hardly ever gets booked, so he's either really really good, or he just doesn't tackle anyone.

Mertesacker hardly ever gets booked ...

he is the third category of player who is too slow to get near enough to opponents to actually foul them

motherfuckers be bitchin bout bale talk in other threads just sayin

Pique/Silva would be a beast. Vidic a bit too old to invest in maybe. Pepe plays for the other guys. So... yeah, Thiago Silva I guess. Sahko? Hummels? One of these young upandcomers mayb be worth looking at. Either way, 'we have the ball a lot' and hoping puyol never retires is a tactic that will eventually get found out imo.