TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

like think about it with that routledge story, that is 12 whole hours to go up by 200k

Nothing impresses me more about the Swansea project than apparently making Wayne Routledge resemble a competent Premiership-quality player.

This was the same summer we got Aaron Lennon for £1m. Good times.

routledge has always been a decent mid epl level player tbh, just an old fashioned winger that went out of fashion

Nah he never really established himself even at PL clubs who still played wingers. I think dropping back down to the Championship for a few years probably helped him.

too old fashioned as wingers go but technique good enough to excel as nippy inside forward guy, perfect for swansea in other words

hard chap to love but really impressed for qpr in championship and would have done so again in the prem imo, ending up with swp instead was p much a tragedy in the end

lennon's still only 25, fucking hell

Bar that brief few months under Ramos he's been a fixture in the first team since he was 18. It's only injury that keeps him out.

think it's fair to say a large part of my surprise there is down to feeling like he still hasnt matured as a player yet

but then again i've been lennon-sceptic for years

i'm pretty excited about avb and the midfield, but lennon defoe bale won't be a very effective front 3. bale and lennon maninly looking to get down the line and defoe not being able to get on the end of crosses enough. everyone seems to hate it, but i think bale should play on the right so he can cut in and shoot, and maybe have dempsey on the left. or play adebayor.

villas boas is just trying to keep defoe interested and adebayor motivated

defoe is unlikely to start 10 more pl games unless ade is injured

Please god not Bale on the right ever again. Just play Adebayor really. Or have Dempsey at the tip of a midfield triangle.

Suspect Defoe gets way more goals assisted by Lennon, who is better cutting in and passing than he is at crossing, than he does from Bale.

i think nakh is right about defoe, but not sure. matt certainly right about lennon/bale assists
bale is a good finisher though, so i think he can improve on the right and score a lot more.

is adebayor injured?

He was yesterday yeah.

adebayor and naughton are doubts for sunday. might see vertonghen at left back.

without ferdinand, mbia, traore, and fabio hughes could be stupid enough to play clint hill and ryan nelsen together so it might not matter who you put out tbh

no johnson, taarabt, diakite either

:/

knew we should have tried to sign some players this summer

bale's a bigger goal threat on the left.

Hughes said: ‘Maybe Michael’s situation had happened too quickly for him to understand what his future is at Spurs. He would have been a good buy but it wasn’t to be."

Hughes revealed he played a part in ensuring Fulham placed a £15m minimum release clause in Dembélé’s contract, with the Welshman confident the forward will thrill Spurs fans following the departures of Luka Modrić and Rafael van der Vaart.

“I was the one who stipulated to place a bigger figure on him. I made sure it was at a decent figure,” he added.

milan badelj getting rave reviews since his move to hamburg. considering he was zagreb's replacement for modric, i hope spurs were at least aware of him.

watching hamburg, they're being completely outplayed but badelj hasn't done anything except rattle the crossbar with a 30 yard thunderbolt. think spurs should sign stuttgart's martin harnik, though.

ryan smith looking v useful for eng u21s

yeah but so did jordan henderson

ryan henderson, they're all called ryan

Today is a big test of big clubness imo

for both clubs tbh

Think it very unlikely Spurs will win today, even though the quality of our play has been improving if anything, beating Arsenal, Inter and Liverpool in the space of eight days just feels far-fetched to the point of soft-headedness. Also the players are probably knackered.

Spurs are bigger than us if we go on 3 year cycles which is a fair enough criteria I think. Win this and I'll start to believe we can win say 7 of our last 9.

Both clubs included, yes xp

Oh there was a Spurs thread all along

In the interests of openness, fp

didnt even know about this match today, kewl

i hereby propose anyone even mentioning the united chelsea game before evening immediately recieves a months ban, let's make this happen ppl

can't wait for Nani to totally redeem himself today

Gtfo spurs thread

redeem from what anyway arbeloa fouled him

No harm done anyway, they won the CL remember

Once we get rose jenas and townsend back we'll be some outfit hey

No harm done anyway, they won the CL remember

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 10 March 2013 14:36 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya that 5 goal salvo in the last 15 minutes was breathtaking

even Mourinho said so

Three cron og's was a bit obv

Modric back plus 20m is the lol madrid offer according to whispers, idk what to say about that rly.

they love rose up there no joke, poty if it wasnt for mignolet. we'd probably have him too once we finally lose our rag with traore

reckon andros will get a look in eventually what with poss recruitments for champs league? needs a bit of polish (another season long loan with us should do nicely) but i can already think of a couple games where he'd have been a better option than siggy or dempsey

xp can't imagine modders ever putting in a shift if that happens, not even in this new happy clappy era

Rose can't be worse than naughton at lb, and townsend would be #2 on rw by default, imma say bring em home

modric put in manys the shift last year despite summer disappointment in 2011 tbfttl

Modders would not strengthen this team as much as losing Bale would weaken it. Can't see it happening.

            Striker
B           A           L           E
Holtby or whoever zzzzz   Dembele              Lennon
            Sandro
Ekotto                        Walker
    Vertonghen   Dawson/Caulker
            Lloris

guts of it are there. not sure that the bale synergy or whatever isnt costing us in other ways, but obv the payoff is huge the past few months. please can we have a striker sir.

Can have benteke off us for 20 mil if you like

...........

im considering it