TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

I wouldn't say no to any of them as squad players per se, same with Gyan, but I don't think any of them are exactly The Answer.

it's both at this stage, but for the record i didn't think he was as bad/uninterested as his performances were painted in his first spell

that minutes-per-goal for the league as a whole (minimum 300 mins played)

http://www.imscouting.com/reports-generator3/?id=40&l=5304&p1=0&p2=300&p3=0&p4=10#rep

ie, chelsea have a more effective player than hernandez already sorted

i'm creating another thread for that site, it's awesome

Might as well sell Dos Santos, with the number of wide players we've got he's never going to get near our team long enough to either adapt to the Premiership or for us to say for sure that he's a failure.

would definitely rather keep kranjcar for the vdv/bale/modric cover than dos santos

jesus when you think that niko covers three first team positions to such a high standard (and for players that are injured the whole time) it's fucking criminal he's leaving due to lack of game time.

Rafael Van Der Vaart	Tottenham Hotspur	2154	13	7	107.7
Roman Pavlyuchenko	Tottenham Hotspur	1476	8	4	123.0
Niko Kranjcar	        Tottenham Hotspur	359	2	0	179.5
Peter Crouch	        Tottenham Hotspur	1872	4	6	187.2
Jermain Defoe	        Tottenham Hotspur	1388	4	2	231.3
Steven Pienaar	        Tottenham Hotspur	493	0	2	246.5
Tom Huddlestone	        Tottenham Hotspur	1081	2	2	270.3
Aaron Lennon	        Tottenham Hotspur	2180	3	3	363.3
Gareth Bale	        Tottenham Hotspur	2362	5	1	393.7
Luka Modric	        Tottenham Hotspur	2620	3	2	524.0
Alan Hutton	        Tottenham Hotspur	1677	2	1	559.0

goals/assists per minute for the season

drop-off in effectiveness after crouch (CROUCH FFS) is staggering. Bale I can't slag, he deserves better strikers at the end of his delivery, but Modric def. needs to add some more fional product

Lennon too, tho all three of those last mentioned have got serious roles in the team in moving the ball at pace (tho the lack of intelligent movement from the likes of crouch/defoe tends to see that wasted too)

come on son use your loaf, ur holding up those cod stats like actually they mean something

How much deadwood can we get away with flogging to QPR I wonder?

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 May 2011 18:03 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i was having this exact convo with a spurs chum and i gotta admit i wasnt comfortable with what i found myself saying

sign: sticklebrick off ajax (quickly), parker (sandro or no sandro this is inevitable so may as well pretend it was your idea. fyi i think he's necessary), and that marin bloke off werder bremen. big striker? who knows, buy a ticket in the llorente, hulk and lukaku lotteries and cross ur fingers i guess.

sell: lennon cos he is a lazy cunt who cant even do the one thing he does any more and liverpool might still pay £15m. (walker can totally do his job fine even if there's no replacement). the usual blokes too. keep charlie.

                              pletikosa
              chimbonda      corluka         archibald-henville
bentley                                                                       hutton
                       vieira                          cattermole
                                   
                                     jenas
   crouch                                                       dos santos
                              kenwyne jones

lol

great english spine to that side

trying for a classic english 3-2-2-1-3

marin lw surely not a priority position, same for parker?

I like nakh's lineup tho i wd swap cattermole for zokora obv

Alain Didier Zokora-Déguy (born on 14 December 1980 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian footballer who plays the position of midfielder. He joined the La Liga team Sevilla FC in the summer of 2009. Zokora plays in a defensive role and is a strong tactical player in the middle of the park. He has not scored an outfield goal in seven and a half years.

he is a strong tactica no fuckit i can't even

ya he is one of the /least/ tactically sound defensive midfielders to have played at that level

maybe he plays in the andalucian u-11 park football league, in which case his strength and tactical insight are probably above average

his one talent was running with the ball

That's not even a relevant talent ffs.

He passed/shot like he had shovels for feet, on the wrong feet

Awful, awful player. Even with a pass completion of 12% palacios is so much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmxm0ArnCLg

can't vyoutubes on phone innit but i've enjoyed our discussion on the lack of merits of dzok, or 'dooks' as you prob refer to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3fxREVLiyo&feature=share

Think the Parker signing is going to happen whatever and I think he'll add balance to our midfield. Sandro/Parker/Modders or Parker/Modders/Thudd depending who we're playing is potentially very tasty in the middle of the park.

i agree, would love to see a 4-3-3 played at some point with one of those midfields.
for strikers, there has been a lot of news about Osvaldo, from Espanyol, don't know much about him, but hope spurs get someone young that can develop with the young midfield. plus maybe a veteran like klose. wonder if lukas podolski is possible. don't know why he has never been able to score for a club since leaving Koln the first time, but his international scoring record is great. maybe put him, klose, and van der vaart in front of that midfield.

154 (35) - combined league matches and goals for Klose and Podolski the past three seasons.

beats crouch defoe imo, podolski can at least play in the likes of modric

Sticklebrick managed to drop the Dutch Cup off the victory bus so I feel like he's spiritually a Spurs goalie already.

Think the Parker signing is going to happen whatever and I think he'll add balance to our midfield. Sandro/Parker/Modders or Parker/Modders/Thudd depending who we're playing is potentially very tasty in the middle of the park.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 15:04 (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i agree, would love to see a 4-3-3 played at some point with one of those midfields.

well ok i could get behind that i suppose, but only if we get rid of jenas cos rly

Sebastien Bassong 'offered to Stoke in Tottenham bid for Ryan Shawcross'

would be a great signing, really untypical

http://i.imgur.com/BfnQH.jpg

hard to argue w/it

What does a Premier League footballer do when a stranger admires his £36,000 watch? Trades him for his cheap watch, apparently.

A lucky nightclub waiter had the chance encounter with Tottenham’s Vedran Corluka, who must have been well on it at the time, and after admiring the defender’s diamond-encrusted Hublot watch, the star handed it over.

Corluka didn’t walk away completely empty-handed from the Whisky Mist in Mayfair, central London, however, as the waiter handed over his £150 Seiko in exchange.

A source close to The Sun newspaper said: "Charlie (Corluka’s club nickname) took it off and handed it to him. Then he spotted the waiter's watch and said he liked it. He said, 'Let's swap'.

“The waiter thought he was joking. Charlie's a lovely bloke and always polite."

:/

Get the feeling they had to change that quote from "Charlie's a triffic bloke" just to keep the source anonymous.

is £150 a 'cheap watch' to readers of the super soaraway?

'arry's now favourite with the bookies to take over at Chelsea. 'iddink is still second favourite but everyone else is falling away.

think you'll find that some of is pals of been playin the bettin exchanges

That would ludicrous on Abramovich's part. Does he really want a manager with one season in the Champions League and only one FA Cup under his belt?

Maybe he just wants Chelsea playing attractive football but I doubt it. Sounds like bullshit to me.

thuddz tom huddlestone
watched hangover 2 last night! Very good film, hard to live up to the first one but very good none the less

xp, I can't see it happening either, to be honest. As much as i value his contribution to Spurs, you don't get rid of a manager of Ancelotti's calibre without being fairly sure of replacing him with someone better. Harry doesn't have the track record of Hiddink or the obvious potential for future greatness of Villas-Boas.

I'd be surprised if Chelsea haven't already got someone lined up. It's interesting that, from the betting at least, nobody outside the club has a firm idea of who it is.

interesting article on harry's view of pav
http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/tottenham-hotspur/tottenham-hotspur/spurs_striker_is_frustrating_but_harry_can_t_find_anyone_better_1_903858

Pavlyuchenko started on the bench against Birmingham on Sunday but came on to score two second-half strikes, taking his final tally to 14 in all competitions, ahead of Peter Crouch (11), Gareth Bale (11) and Jermain Defoe (nine).

Is Defoe's total spelled out so it doesn't look like a single digit?

Spelling out single-figure numbers is a pretty common house style thing.

Re: Robbie Keane, can see him, and a load of other players, just going out on season-long loans and not coming back.

Spelling out single-figure numbers is a pretty common house style thing.

I think it looks odd in the context of a list where all the other numbers are expressed in numeric characters and I would break with the house style in this instance.

I think Spurs will sell Keane to anyone coming up with £4-5m - there must be a couple of lower half or newly promoted teams willing to take a punt.

finally some stories linking spurs with Leandro Damiao, looks a real prospect. love that his agent's name is Vinicius Prates.

Vinicius Prates

Sounds like an 'arry Potter villain.