TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

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.

Do we have any kind of first-refusal arrangement with Internacional?

that was the announcement at the time, but it doesn't seem to get mentioned now. also i think it was only for players who came through inter's youth system, which leandro didn't. he apparently owns some of his rights himself, too. two other big prospects, walter and giuliano, have left inter since spurs signed sandro, so not sure.

hmm, looking them up it seems that giuliano didn't come through inter's youth system and walter had a third party involved.

also the official statement on tottenham's website doesn't specifically say the club has first refusal

What would be in that deal for Inter?

ready market for their players, makes young talent more likely to go with them

we're probably paying them too i guess

These third-party owners, I don't get it.

Hulk (he of the supposed 100m release clause) was up until a week ago primarily owned by a Uruguayan club for whom he'd never played a game. Porto had paid 6m initially to bring him over from a Japanese side, I think, but had to raise their total investment to 18-19m in order to get ~85 percent of his total rights. Whether they did that in anticipation of his eventual big sale, or just to keep him from being sold against their will before their Champions League run, I don't know.

just to maintain control of the decision, i guess.

Allows Porto to hedge their bets if he's a bit shit, and allows the Uruguayan club to ramp the price up if he's great. But yeah, dodgy as hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Duzp1XLt0

because why not

proof if needed that Crouch scored zero non-easy headers all season (unless you were generous towards the one around 4:15)

Fits into five minutes, how sad.

think his headers against bremen and stoke were good, tbf

He missed plenty of easy ones though

And the real criticism against him is his general play, the stuff that doesn't show on highlight reels

Sort of think that much of Crouch's poor performance this season has been him being asked to play as a lone striker, for which he's manifestly unsuited despite his height. If we were playing him behind a peak form Defoe, or someone better, I'd have fewer complaints. But that's where VDV sits, and he's usually better at that role even on an off-day.

if his positioning, touch, passing and holdup play were to the standard shown all year, where he plays is irrelevant.

Especially positioning. All season long he's failed spectacularly at getting near crosses.

a five-minute reel of his 2010-11 attempts to knock down headers near the box could serve as Clockwork Orange-style mental torture

Reckon we're not putting Kraaxi on the market to encourage a bigger bid?

crouch to sunderland for 10M. yes please

Sort of think that much of Crouch's poor performance this season has been him being asked to play as a lone striker, for which he's manifestly unsuited despite his height. If we were playing him behind a peak form Defoe, or someone better, I'd have fewer complaints. But that's where VDV sits, and he's usually better at that role even on an off-day.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 May 2011 17:05 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

member of tottenham fanbase who gets it shocker

modric for berbatov & £22m

berbatov only has a year left on his contract

just saying

berbatov will go for no more than 10/12m at his age/wages/contract length

Think United should just go all out to sign Wesley Sneijder really. They need a goal-threat from midfield as much as they need the creativity.

drop rooney back to midfield tbh

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will begin a summer of significant rebuilding at Old Trafford with a £20million bid for Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric.

Ferguson will join his players in an open-top bus tour of Manchester to celebrate capturing a record 19th league title recently but United thoughts will still be on Saturday night’s dismantling in the Champions League final at the hands of Barcelona.

yeah after proving himself as one of the best midfielders in the league and helping drag a side containing kraatxi n dfaux to the champions league quarter finals, his value has increased by £3.5m

levy should play with as straight a face, quote him 70m plus vidic

bale and modric created over 130 chances between them last season according to opta pl stats

Those chances resulted in 6 assists.

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp has confirmed he was in the race to sign Blackburn defender Phil Jones, who is now on the brink of a move to Manchester United.

"I was in for the boy," Redknapp told talkSPORT. "We were interested in him, but he has gone to Manchester United apparently.

lock the shit out of this thread

I'm going to get drunk

delicious

can't blame him for wanting a move to a big club

i blame ur face

Kinda bemused by Sandro, 10 good games and he wants to go and be a sub at Real Madrid...get £25 million and let me him go then.

players like that who want to go to madrid are usually so stupid that they ought to be allowed to go there imo

10 good games in a row tbf.