Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

that's the key.

I was all for this stance with berbatov, and i've more faith in modric than i did him.

Once the window closes, it's down to the player.

If Modric sulks and underperforms for a year that's potentially a massive problem for his career, so if he knows what's good for him he won't do that.

In the back of every Spurs fan's mind throughout the Modric saga has been that if/when Levy cracks and sells then that opens the door to losing Bale sooner rather than later.

i'm more worried about us getting 30m and spending it on an AM we don't need.

If Modric goes, let it be today, let the money go on a CB and a physically proficient CF

Cheeky 20m bid for Carroll imo, or test Wolves for Doyle.

Or is Levy just going to wait till the last day of the window to get another £5m out of Chelsea?

Would you really want Doyle? Is he even as good as the forwards you've got, let alone better?

i) i hope not, that he'll have learned from berbatov

ii) 'better' at occupying centre halves, creating space for midfielders, heading, hold up play- things we badly need and have badly needed since berbatov left.

Not great at actually scoring goals though.

Would a cheeky bid for Berbatov be feasible?

PSG were told he's not for sale. Would be good to have him back though.

I'm thinking Utd trump Chelsea with a Berba + £10m offer for Modric maybe. They surely will sell him. You probably couldn't pay his wages though.

70 goals in 216 league games (202 starts). PL is 15 in 62 for Wolves (60 starts).

not on his wages

doyle's goalscoring probably more reliable than crouch's, tbh. And does all that other stuff that peetah peetah doesnt bother to

berbatov and 10m can fuck right off, wages or otherwise

Bet Doyle gets goals at a big team

i think so, yeah. He'd get on the end of crosses, and he'd work centre halves a bit. We're missing that.

Well, jermaine, gawd bless im, he's avin a go at working the centre alves, but for sam reeson it's not workin aaaht for the little fella

Might be interesting to see how well Kane gets on tonight, even if it is against a weakened Hearts team. How highly rated is he?

"He's less rubbish than Crouch" isn't really going to sell any striker to me right now. I can see why someone like Doyle would get goals with better service and he had that one really good season with Reading but I dunno, what's his conversion rate like with the chances he does get?

Premiership has quite a long history of prolific strikers in otherwise limited teams, not sure I'm really buying this "he'd score more at a big club!" line.

It'll be interesting to see how many players I know in the Hearts/Spurs game tonight. Both teams seem to be scrabbling around to find their least important players just to get the tie out of the way. Can still see 2nd/3rd/4th string Hearts taking a tanking from 5th string Spurs though. Dunno what the record defeat is for a Scottish club in Europe over two legs (Juve 8-1 Rangers maybe?) but there's a good chance it'll be broken tonight.

bentley hat-trick

Matt, that's a logical point yeah. I'll just rep for doyle as one of the guys that would do the job, given the chance. I'll say the same for Pav, but 'the chance' in his case is one start in a row before arry decides he don't fancy it.

Fergie talking to BBC again. See ya, Mike. It's been fun.

Rangers famously lost 12-1 to Eintracht Frankfurt back in the early days (when British football was still the envy of the world, etc)

ari sez e moight ploy looka tnite if eeze fit

Ah no, it was 12-4. Bloody hell, that was in the 1960 semis before Eintracht took a beating in the final.

I'm browsing through a Wee Red Book (1999-2000 edition) looking at Scots in Europe results. Just discovered Aberdeen beat Sion (Celtic's opponents tonight) 11-1 on their way to winning the Cup Winners Cup in '83.

(this isn't the thread for this, sorry)

Patrick said City is the place to be because they are the club of the future and they want to win everything.

Patrick said City is the place to be because they are the club of the future and they want to win everything.

Patrick said City is the place to be because they are the club of the future and they want to win everything.

Patrick said City is the place to be because they are the club of the future and they want to win everything.

Yes, I don't look forward to seeing Fergie interviews, but I do look forward to not seeing Phelan interviews.

Quite looking forward to him laying the smackdown on Man City a few times.

going to WHL tonight to eat prawn sandwiches and watch footie.

he will be more than a phelan in some respects, though conceivably less noble and implable than his erstwhile deputy

If Modric plays tonight, he's staying at Spurs; if he doesn't, he's going to Chelsea. Isn't it that simple?

It's not quite that simple - he's apparently got an injury as well (maybe fictional) and we have a 5-0 headstart and don't really need to bother with him.

fuck that noise. Sub him after a minute, let him kiss my arse on the way off.

Thought 'Arry was insisting he would play. Still not sure how this will work out, but if he doesn't play it surely goes down to DEADLINE DAY. Clear the decks for it, there's no other business outstanding.

Might Coulibaly play at forward tonight? Would like to see him.

yeah there's no argument whatsoever not to play him if even reasonably fit

Arsenal have reportedly expressed an interest in Kaka’s services, but Wenger was hoping to take him on loan. Real have refused the offer, and want to sell Kaka to the Gunners for no less than £17.5 million.

I know he got fat and all but this is a fucking bargain non? How could you not try and buy KAKA for that? If you could get him fit and playing regularly at any of the top 6, you'd win the league imo.

Coulibaly is not on spurs uefa squad list. not sure if it has to do with him impending italian citizenship, or if he's just too young.
xxp

Wages... xpost

hmmm would have expected coulibaly to have been in that squad tbh

£17.5m for a fat overpaid 29-year old who is about 2yrs past his best at least does not strike me as a bargain.

Rather him than Joe Cole, if you're in the market for a fat, overpaid 29 year-old at least two years past his best, though.

this is kaka not jenas ffs. He'll be back in shape with games

He may be past his best but I really don't think he's fat.

modric out kaka in doyle in cl spot nailed imo

This is him in a friendly yesterday: http://www.kakafans.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/galatasaray6.jpg

that photo was just an unflattering angle anyway

svelte

i'd hit it

He's about as svelte as Lampard.

what's your point