TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

purple lack-of-heart

Antonio Pedroza Whitham set for Spurs switch

... didn't this guy set up the Independent or something?

http://w3.yorksj.ac.uk/images/portrait_andreas_smith.jpg

creepy

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Spurs-have-successfully-cloned-Gareth-Bale?urn=sow-wp3734

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just another trophy for hutton

He's clearly the Bale brand extension for indie fans. Tottenham Hotspur, always the first when it comes to commercial innovation.

gotta love pre-season, apparently crouch scored a belter from 30 yards today. krancjar also score, which i believe is his 25th goal of the pre-season. shame he won't play in the league.

I hate it when we have a good pre-season, every time it happens we then start the season with like 8 points from 24.

Uh-oh: http://thestory.ie/2011/08/03/harry-redknapp-tax-evasion-and-mandarics-offshore-account/

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When staff arrived at work this morning, 27 season tickets had already been chucked back in.

At the moment I'll be surprised if the Everton game goes ahead on Saturday.

whats goin on?

Also included in a list given by the CPS was one payment by “Rosie 47″ of $207,433.73 on February 12, 2008 to Redknapp. This payment was two months after he was arrested in November 2007. The source of another lodgment in June 2002, for $145,000, is unclear.

broadway danny spending his commemorative dvd profits on a fake left-back licence?

lol at "operation apprentice" btw

http://shop.tottenhamhotspur.com/product/spurs-home-kit-sleepsuit/sb08aw11

Nice to see 'arry's dad took him to Arsenal away games:

When I first started going to football with my dad there was no segregation.

You simply turned up and paid at the turnstile to stand in the North Bank, Chicken Run, East Stand, wherever.

7: Games into the season before Tottenham's Roman Pavlyuchenko started to eye the transfer window. "I want regular football, so I must start now to consider moving in the winter."

Previous highlights:

• Nov 2009: "I want to leave! It is impossible to remain here. I insist on leaving: Redknapp does not talk to me. It is obvious we should part." • Dec 09: "It would be funny if it was not so painful. Redknapp mocks me." • Jan 10: "Nothing will stop me leaving." • Feb 10: "Redknapp jeers at me. I think only about leaving." • Apr 10: "I have dropped all my previous ideas about leaving. The manager trusts me, and I will not let him down." • Oct 10: "I have fallen in love with Tottenham fans. I have no thoughts about leaving!" • Feb 11: "I must leave. I will never extend my contract. Redknapp does not trust me." • May 11: "I want to stay at Spurs. We will discuss a new contract after the holidays."

he's an emotional guy

Roman Pavlyuchenko’s agent is unaware of rumours linking QPR with the out-of-favour Tottenham striker. Pav’s agent was even quoted as suggesting that the rumours could be coming from inside the Spurs boardroom.

“This is the first time I’ve heard about the interest of QPR,” commented Artemov to Sport Express. “We haven’t talked to this team and neither with those teams which are called ‘potential buyers’ in the press.

“Maybe these rumours are spread by Tottenham president (Daniel) Levy. Will he (Pavlyuchenko) leave the team in January? We shouldn’t say anymore at the moment.”

PAAAAAAV

i will buy a shirt with his name on if this happens yo

15 league goals a season at qpr imo

yeah i'm sorry to see the tide seeming to turn against pavlyuchenko recently, though i havent seen enough of him to comment. i am guessing he does bugger all but has a goalgetting knack, whereas bent doesnt but supposedly "stretches defences" with his hopeless running? (ie pav is a rich man's dexter blackstock rip)

― r|t|c, Saturday, 4 April 2009 14:37 (2 years ago) Bookmark

loool

his laziness is overstated tbh, he covers ground laterally up front but doesn't track back to concede free kicks like rooney i suppose

yeah i always felt i had a special cosmic relationship with roman pavlyuchenko after i discovered he was born same day same year as me, and is also a lazy bastard.

― r|t|c, Friday, 18 June 2010 11:45 (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats what i was looking for though

pav in a rangers shirt = destiny imo

I was born exactly same day as Scott Parker but have none of his industry. Cosmic bond is impossible.

synester gates? You gotta be fuckin kiddin me

will forget in a few days, so: hb in advance sharivari!

Thanks!

well then

spurs will not win the league, nor be in contention particularly late in the season (after mid feb, prob)

but it's a good chance we'll finish well clear of chelsea in fourth.

big club?

didn't you reject the big club label quite recently?

yes but only as premature

City still aren't a big club funnily enough

Definitely a record-breaking club.

lol
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6773355639_10cd542dc8.jpg

haha

? News?

no, just laffs

OH here's your news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4pSfaGzMpyc

kinda glad i can't view that, you're tone is gleefully sinister

grammar imo

no you would like it

*cackle*

Congratulations to Heart of Midlothian FC on being the only away team to keep a clean sheet at White Hart Lane all season.

only cause young harry kane missed a penalty, iirc

i'm finding it hard to make sense of that season, tbh.

Finishing fourth would have been a perfectly good achievement in August, but not particularly outstanding given the squad.

Chelsea took themselves out of the running, I'd had them pencilled in an easy third spot.

Arsenal didn't really have a great season.

So, fourth will do, but in context and given what our expected rivals for fourth did with their season, I think it's fair to say it was the minimum requirement by the time January rolled round.

Take how far ahead we were in third at that stage, and the relatively comfortable fixtures we had in the run-in, fourth's a bit of a damp squib.

Taking into account the misuse of squad resources (imo only City have a better squad), Redknapp should account himself lucky that he'll be sitting down to talk next season's targets with Levy rather than his 'mutual agreement'.

It can be taken for granted that he won't see it that way.

I'd be happy enough for him to stay, 4th, 5th, 4th is not to be sniffed at. But there are manager out there that would look at our squad and the resources we can spend this year and would think title challenge.

Also- signing Adebayor on 60k pw with a fee of 15m or so would be fine. Anything more and we should be exercising our alternatives.

Cover at left back, right wing, big striker, big defender, we'll win it next year.

agree that redknapp's record is good enough for him to keep the job, hope that if (if!) spurs are playing CL football he plans for it by using a lot more players.

biggest problem now is adebayor. still can't see him taking a paycut to stay and hard to see what available striker would come to spurs and equal or better his output this year.
xp

i think there are many strikers could come to spurs within those terms and get on the end of more crosses and aerial balls than adebayor- i think they could also be convinced to stay front and centre and leave the wings to the wingers. They might also score the vital goals a little more frequently than adebayor, who has tended, imo, to pad his record with the third and fourth goals in routs.

I don't dislike adebayor- he runs all day, holds it up and interplays well, has pace and a trick or two- but i'm not gonna beg him to stay for 200 grand a week, and i mistrust his record once he gets settled at a club.

I'd be happy enough for him to stay, 4th, 5th, 4th is not to be sniffed at. But there are manager out there that would look at our squad and the resources we can spend this year and would think title challenge.

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, May 14, 2012 3:07 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also- signing Adebayor on 60k pw with a fee of 15m or so would be fine. Anything more and we should be exercising our alternatives.

Cover at left back, right wing, big striker, big defender, we'll win it next year.

― pet tommy & the barkhaters (darraghmac), Monday, May 14, 2012 3:10 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah you can't afford adebayor or anyone at his level

big defender....kaboul, dawson, nelsen, king (maybe)

big striker....idk about this

the best epl forwards like rvp, aguero, twp aren't really like this any more, and you don't play like chelsea anyway

I'll sort out Spurs for you:

1x right-winger, although the prospect of still playing Jenas there next season is rearing its terrifying head once more
1x central defender with pace and a clear head, let two out of King, Gallas and Nelsen go
1x central defensive beast
And yeah the striker conundrum is worrying, Saha probably won't do much, Defoe is great but too short, we need two strikers who can lead the line really.

crosses and aerial balls are for wastemen like carroll, no proper side plays like that any more, even the antediluvian 442 at utd requires the wingers to play edge of the area cutbacks or scudding bale style daisycutters rather than lofted 25 yard crosses