TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

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.
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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

sort of strikers u might get are like gomis or maybe remy or doumbia

There's a lot of speculation around Remy right now btw. I haven't seen enough of him to know if that's a good thing.

I would take Berbatov back in a heartbeat btw. I wonder if he'd consider it if we were back in the CL.

rw at spurs requires a lightning touchline winger in the lennon mould rather than a 4-2-3-1 inside forward, you aren't going to get anyone better than like jarvis to play 15 games a season as lennon's substitute so you're better retaining corluka or another decent defender who can play rb and shift walker to rw

nobody in this league has wide players like us nakh- walker, lennon, bae, bale start every game and as a four man unit the skin fullbacks on the outside like noboy i can think of- maybe utd when yon brazilian lad plays rb, maybe.

And rooney, wellbeck and chicarito all get on the end of a cross more reliably than anyone we've had since.......i dunno who...

berbatov isn't ideally suited to a lone forward, he can play a sort of false #9 dropping deep but then with vdv you don't have any velocity in the centre of attack to keep up with bale & lennon

remy is a good player, very quick and big enough without being a big, he's kind of like a 22 year old torres without showing any indications he will grow into a finisher like torres

wonder if Corluka will come back. Naughton should deputy right back next year, imo. Supposedly Vertonghen was at WHL yesterday, he could provide cover for left back and play in the center.

Giroud could do well, put is still a risk especially for the price, and someone else will offer him more money.

yeah deems but as i said they aren't lofted crosses to a big centre forward, twp and hernandez are both like 5'9

also 1x central defensive beast should be Caulker who has played very well for Swansea this season

Lewandowski's agent is trying to talk up interest from other clubs cos the current contract extension offer from Spurs is "not sufficient". He's got 2 years left on his current deal tho.

central aerial/big linchpin needn't have the pace of bale/lennon to lay it off and get into the box, and a lot of our wingspace comes from overlapping fullbacks anyway- not like vdv and modric don't provide the 'edge of the box' littoral trickery/threat you describe as the utd winger method anyway...

Contract offer from Dortmund that should read
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i don't think tottenham are going to significantly outpay dortmund for wages, and ceteris paribus he is better off there

'lay it off and get into the box' is crude shit, tottenham in early season form were faster than that cuz they could use bale as an outlet ball without having to triangulate it via a lump #9

agree about walker/naughton/corluka providing the rb/rw cover adequately, absolutely

Caulker has been good, agreed. With he, dawson, kaboul, we'd still want a top-classer- king i spose could be valuable around the place with these guys.

Vertonghen sounds a v likely solution to lb/cb, yeah

Nakh- ok, a striker to get on the end of crosses needn't be a 'big', i'd like a player who could do the holdup job too. Pavlyuchenko, maybe?

I'd forgotten about Caulker, yeah he should definitely be in the mix for next year as he's had a really good first season in the Prem with Swansea. Are there any younger players who might come through, Walker-style?

Bostock joined Swindon Town on loan on 22 March 2012 for the remainder of the 2011-12 season. He joined Swindon after Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp said it would be good if he played under Paolo Di Canio.[20] Initially he struggled to make an impact at the League Two side, remaining on the bench for the first four league games of his loan-spell. However, he did make an appearance from the bench in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final at Wembley where Swindon were beaten 2-0 by Chesterfield.

'lay it off and get into the box' is great, as an option!

If drogba could be tempted, and trusted to stay fit, i'd love to see him leading an attack pointed by lennon/bale with vdv, modric given real free rein to exploit gaps

drogba is a total anomaly, there isn't another player like that and he is going to be 35 next season

he hasn't tended to play predominantly off crosses either, in his prime he played in a narrow 433 with anelka and malouda

Are there any younger players who might come through, Walker-style?

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Monday, May 14, 2012 10:37 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naughton and caulker the only ones likely to get anywhere with redknapp since they have pl experience. townsend didn't do much at birmingham, kane did well at milwall but is still a couple of years away probably. wonder if falque or ceballos will get more chances than dos santos, both are potential options on the wings.

although credit to harry for bringing in livermore this season, he has looked good every time he's played.

how old's coulibaly? 17? Is he too young/raw to loan out next season do you think?

tbh were i minded to allow 'arry 'is positives, livermore, bale, lennon, walker, ekotto- if we can add caulker and naughton to that list next year, there's clear evidence that he knows how to develop potential into consistent performance. BAE and Lennon were utter heartbreakers up until Redknapp arrived, and imo the others wouldn't have made it into anything other than jenas-type wastes under other managers we've had.

still dream of llorente