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

spurs have been linked with some scottish chap named forrest who i gather is a pacy winger.

a right sided one i hope?

That should allow us to clear out pienaar at least

Plays best on the right. Scored 8 goals this season. Cracking wee player but at 19 is just a prospect thus far. Should not go to a big prem team if he wants to develope imo. Looks about 12.

he'd def only be cover, but then lennon misses a fair few games too and harry's not afraid of youth

McGeady might be worth a gamble for ten million but Spartak value him at about three time that amount. Might have provided better value than the 20m-plus players they did buy, though.

Does anyone know when the Redknapp trial is expected to finish?

right after 'guilty'

It's down for two weeks, so next Friday. It's not uncommon for things to wrap up quite rapidly after the meat of it has been heard, so might be a bit earlier.

Thanks.

It's down for two weeks

at least 6 months, surely?

McGeady might be worth a gamble for ten million but Spartak value him at about three time that amount

Really hoping someone falls for that as it'll fetch Celtic another £3m sell-on fee on top of the £9m we already took them for.

Dalglish owes us a favour or two

Forest can have the odd quiet game but he's been a match winner on many occasions and will continue to improve. I'd rather have him in my team than £30m rated Aiden McGeady.

Danger is he'd be Shaun Maloney Mk. II if he left just now

30m rated gtfo

or a team could just spend 15m on honda or elia and not have to worry about scotching their team

Or irishing their pints

lol

30m rated gtfo

I'm only quoting Spartak's valuation!

I'm hoping if I call him "£30m Spartak star Aiden McGeady" in enough places it'll become true.

ha yeah not aimed at yourself but y'know

spurs have picked up 8 points from 7 matches vs 'top 7' opponents

Defoe scores every 113 mins, adebayor every 189

VDV has scored once in 12.

Can trace everything there, directly or indirectly, back to unwillingness to rotate the squad for the softer games imo.

if Arry's aim is the Champions League rather than winning the title then maybe it makes sense for him to go all out against the weaker opposition and rack points up that way.

i mean clearly it makes sense because there you are.

Don't think we really need to rotate the squad that much, they're only playing once a week if that and have been rested for European and cup games. VDV is the only one really flagging that I can see and Defoe definitely deserves a run in the team now.

spurs have picked up 8 points from 7 matches vs 'top 7' opponents

Blackburn have picked up 7 from 8.

vdv has been flagging since day one, tbf, it's more that lately his free role space is being a little impeded by bale/lennon switching- shifting reliance for goals/assists from two players to five is a good thing in itself, really, to double back on myself completely

isolated, being battered by city sans a midfield and with crouch up front, that's fine, they were rampant at that stage

Utd, we matched under those conditions for an hour, that was ok

We beat lfc and arsenal, drew away to newcastle

Don't know the other result off top of my head?

Not really a disaster, as long as we don't eg draw with wolves at home

Spurs might be the only team we've consistently done well against since we came up

Ahahahaha: The full extent of Manchester City's legal dispute with Carlos Tevez can be revealed after it emerged the club had found him guilty of gross misconduct for going on strike and taken away £9.3m from the Argentinian in fines, lost wages and bonuses since the start of the season

oh yes!

Spurs might be the only team we've consistently done well against since we came up

this has never not been true historically

I wonder if Kia Joorabchian is paying 20% of that?

Just read that a new jury has to be selected at 'arry's trial after a Guardian journalist tweeted a juror's name. It'll be good to get a few fresh faces in and have a proper go.

wtf

wen u look at the bench there's not a lot theah i just fink we need a few changes u no brian

I read about the reselection on twitter so [citation needed] tbh but I found this:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48623&c=1

Use of Twitter has been banned from the tax evasion trial of Harry Redknapp after a journalist named a juror on the social networking site.

The same reporter, who is understood to be a staff journalist with Guardian News and Media, is believed to have also reported the evidence of a witness given under oath when the jury was not present.

Both breaches have resulted in the judge banning the use of Twitter and ‘live text' at the trial and referring the case to the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve.

The Tottenham Hotspur manager had told investigators looking into corruption in the Premier League in 2006 that he was "sick and tired" of suspicion repeatedly falling on him.

A jury heard on Wednesday that he had told Nigel Layton from the firm Quest, which was conducting the investigation into alleged "bungs" associated with Premiership transfers, that a friend had told him: "Harry, I can't believe it's always you. The problem with you is you're named Harry and you have a cockney accent."

"People don't know me," Redknapp had continued, "and I'm getting sick and tired of it … If there's any mud to be thrown I seem to be on the end of it, for some reason."

guardian live blogging anything that moves. tossers.

Oops, maybe a mod better take my last post down as well?

Reporting things happening that the jury can't see is just ... uhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWP-z4O8Ddo&feature=player_embedded

amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

wtf

Paul Kelso @pkelso
Redknapp told police: "I have a big problem, I can't write. I can't even fill in a team sheet. I write like a 2-year old and can't spell."

Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney
Redknapp apparently filled in Assou-Ekotto's name on the Uefa list as 'Benwaar'. That's not a joke.

http://arseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/spursteamsheet1.png

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/58126000/jpg/_58126192_unitedanfie;d.jpg

What's going on in this pic?

kenny's just thrown his boule imo

Cruel of the BBC Football homepage to tease me with - 'Carroll seals move to Olympiakos' headline'. Roy Carroll, Bah!

What on earth is going to happen to him? Next four years of coming on in the 89th minute? I can't think of another case quite like it. Other white elephants have either been old (Shevchenko), proven class (Veron, Torres, Denilson sort of) or crocked (Lentini).

Not that his transition to Premier League life was entirely seamless. At first Evra, his wife, Sandra, who is white, and their son, Lenny, now six, struggled to adapt. The food seemed like rubbish, the weather "a slap in the face" and it took a little time to establish himself in the first team. The sunny, stress-free days back in Monaco when he had startled team-mates by becoming part of Prince Albert's social circle must have appeared a distant mirage.

Would have thought he'd be married to a blind woman.

Love is colourblack

http://www.noporkpies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Premier-League-Transfer-Spending-2011.jpg

everton's little slice is crazy

I had to zoom in to find it.

If it was net spend Arsenal would probably take their place.