TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

ah Iago Falque, played once for Saints iirc. He's what, like, 22 now. He needs to go play somewhere.

― pandemic, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:36 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

started once, was taken off at half-time. although he was trying to force his way into a first place team that didn't rotate much.

i remember him playing really well for b'burn vs man u once, i think.

xp re bentley

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Comolli also spunked a load of money on Jordan Henderson and Andy Carroll so he's got form here.

Pretty sure if you banned him from signing Englishmen he'd have a pretty incredible hit ratio though, especially taking into account people like Kevin Prince Boateng who Spurs never worked out how to use.

yeah i can only think he was leaned on to buy oi mates british bloody old talent because levy saw how it attracted a premium at resale with carrick

remember how desperate they were to buy hutton that they gave him £1m or something to induce him to move when his pregnant fiancée/wife/gf wanted to stay in scotland

Would love to know what's been going on between Levy and Redknapp behind the scenes though because I'd expect Levy will be fucking furious at allowing that lead over Arsenal to evaporate and I'm not sure Redknapp even now had twigged what he did wrong.

"I’ve been discussing things with the Club and my contract expires this summer. The Club has been fantastic in supporting me and given me several options to stay involved with Tottenham. I shall take a view with them pre-season on my future.

"Tottenham has been the only Club for me and if I can’t play here then I shall look to be involved in another capacity."

Ledley likely to hang up his knees?

sit him up on kaboul's shoulders to steer imo

Let him coach the defence IMO.

don't know what competition this is but coulibaly is psyched! wonder where his teammates are
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Villas Boas is throwing his toys out of the pram because he's not the only manager we're talking to. Happy to let the cunt take his ball and go home if this is the way he's going to be.

he wants the manager`s job before he gets it? strange approach.

I think he thinks he's in a stronger negotiating position than he actually is, he's not yet of the stature where any sensible club would talk to him and no-one else, and he thinks he is.

this is all so crazy. stupidest decision ever. not only did he sack a coach who finished 4th twice (not long ago a holy grail) but he had no plan in place whatsoever about who he wants.

be a miracle if spurs finish with more points next season.

i don't particulary believe this story. there are no quotes, and i think it came from the guardian who the day before wrote a story claiming levy was about to offer avb the job. really baffled by the "journalism" that occurs in football (this kind of stuff rarely happens in the states)

i dunno. leagues are tricky things to predict in june. arry and me and levy and matt would not have credited that fourth would be a bad season last year if you`d asked a twelvemonth ago. but it was. sackable bad? maybe not so, but then arry wasnt sacked for finishing fourth. he wasn`t even sacked for failing to qualify for the cl. he himself made it difficult for levy to agree an extension. he himself went public with the matter- levy`s form here is zero tolerance. he himself has refused to acknowledge his own input into a catastrophic five months for the club.

i don`t think levy had a manager in waiting because i don`t think levy planned this.

i don`t think avb is entitled to the preference he`s seeking, and i still think he`ll be spurs manager this weekend.

yeah i tend to believe the theory levy had a long game succession planned for next summer but arry must have provoked him to snap during that meeting. arry would have been a nightmare all season without the new contract anyway and most likely it wouldve affected the team

this summer rather than next to begin the rebuilding job seems a good call to me, it's already on the cusp; backline needs reshaping, modders possibly off, decision out on adebayor. could have had another season of same again but overhaul would after that would be more traumatic probably

avb is a neurotic basket case but if he really is anything more than a nothing manager, a clown for all to see, then this is the right job for the lad

I don't care if he's arrogant and thinks he should be a clear first choice, he's probably right, but if he or his agent are behind a media-led power-play to force Levy's hand that's nagl.

Still hope he gets it.

Tottenham's squad is probably much better suited to an AVB overhaul than Chelsea's anyway, if you overlook the obvious problems in central defence. By and large he didn't have the personnel to match his tactics at Chelsea, especially in midfield, although it's worrying he didn't seem to realise that.

avb is long past the point of any gl, wasnt he turning his nose up at valencia earlier this summer

he is a big big gamble for spurs but then the risk of going down in flames with him has to be better than solid 6ths with moyesy

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"I won't stop here"

is that a Northern way of saying he's leaving?

Previous contenders for Tottenham's Greatest Right-Back include Steve Perryman playing out of position so it's an easy position to make your own.

What about the Scottish Cafu?!

can a moderator please fix the title

blanchflower decent iirc

JONNY’S DELIGHT AS SPURS AND COLDPLAY HIT NEW YORK!

Jonny Buckland would love to spend a few more afternoons at White Hart Lane.

His problem is that work tends to get in the way – one of the no doubt few downsides of being guitarist in the biggest pop band in the world.

Jonny plays lead guitar for Coldplay, who have now sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.

The band really needs no further introduction and it was a happy coincidence for Jonny that they are playing sold-out gigs in New York as part of their worldwide tour just as his beloved Spurs rolled into the Big Apple.

“I’ve been a Spurs fan all my life,” he said ahead of the Barclays New York Cup win against New York Red Bulls.

“I was born in London and the first match I ever watched on TV was the FA Cup Final (against QPR) in 1982. It all started there, and never stopped.

“I don’t get to White Hart Lane as often as I’d like.

“We tend to be away quite a lot, so I haven’t been for about a year.

“This is the second time I’ve seen the team in the USA, I actually came to this stadium (Red Bull Arena) two years ago.

“The season before last I got to a few Champions League matches, managed to get to see the game against Inter, and that was probably the best game I’ve ever seen.”

Exciting news from White Hart Lane there. Glad they emailed me about it.

Looks like Spurs might only be getting one new striker before the end of the transfer window. Kane's being promoted to the first team. Haven't seen a great deal of him but he hasn't been enormously impressive on the occasions i've watched him.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/aug/17/tottenham-hotspur-harry-kane?newsfeed=true

like that from AVB and I like Kane, good first touch and always knows where the goal is. problem with Kane, like so many Spurs players is his best position doesn't seem to fit in to a 4-3-3. he's better playing off a striker in the hole. i hope Andros Townsend gets minutes this year too, he could be great on the left of a front 3, pacy direct with a good right footed shot.

Modric deal has been formally agreed. Spurs will now have some kind of cooperative partnership with Real although the details are vague.

Might be able to start buying people now.

Willen looks more likely to go ahead than Damiao I think? In that Willen is being left out of the Shaktar squad and they appear willing to sell whereas I'm seeing no evidence that either Internacional or Damiao have much interest in Spurs right now.

I think that's true but i can't imagine Levy has endeared himself to them by offering £11.8m for a player they value at north of £20m. Will be interesting to see how his negotiating skills fare with Rinat Akhmetov.

There's talk of a keeper, another midfielder (possibly Moutinho) and a striker (possibly Remy) being brought in but i'm not sure how realistic it is to expect £60m - £70m worth of players to be signed in the next four days.

Rennes have confirmed a bid for M'Vila.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19367435

can't see moutinho being possible if the price quoted is anywhere near accurate. willian isn't what spurs need the most. dembele seems the best option to me, if he likes playing in central midfield as he did last season.

some stats on dembele
http://news.5minstokickoff.com/index.php/moussa-dembele-still-totes-awesome/

dembele would be great at spurs yes.

modric deal includes a partnership with real, which will probably be even more useless than the partnership with internacional, considering it couldn't even lead to getting sahin on loan.

Sahin's loan fees were pretty high, i think. Liverpool are meant to be paying something like £5m for the season, plus 100% of his salary. Might have made sense to just get someone in permanently.

yeah but if a partnership with the club can't get us a better deal in that case, what is it gonna do in the future?

£13m bid for Lloris supposedly accepted. Not sure if he wants to come. I find it impossible to get excited about signing a goalkeeper, and that seems like a lot of money.

more keepers than strikers at spurs these days

mean old avb is going to ruin friedel's consecutive appearances run.

Friedel's been great but you get the feeling his form could suddenly go at any moment and never come back, and Lloris has years in him.

Did Fulham start off basically playing Dembele upfront? This was possibly pre-Jol.

yeah he was more of a second striker attacking mid until January or so when he started playing in the central midfield

bit of talk about esteban granero now. could be good...

what the fuck are you cunts going to do with dempsey

this is just another bit of spousal abuse between alpha levy and beta boas