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

But I don't believe it and reckon he'll probably end up at City/United.

Yes but also with the odd feeling that so many of the players are limited and can be bettered, i.e. if you are a left back you can beat out bae and make the team better, if you are an attacking playmaker, you can put vdv on the bench etc.

utd don't buy exciting attacking midfielders, come on matt.

BAE - I can't remember where, but I saw a stat that had him something like lowest in the league for tackles while highest in the league for interceptions, i.e. his positional sense is exceptional

United are pretty damn good at buying wingers though. What's Hazard's main position for Lille?

lol at some amc just sauntering in and hurling vdv to the bench

Rly?

amc?

scholes role

lol at some amc just sauntering in and hurling vdv to the bench

Rly?

― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 10:52 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hazard not exactly 'some amc'

he is fine on the left or in the middle. when i've seen lille it is 70l/30m but considering bale is there, imma guess he'll play more in the middle. (unless bale has been sold.)

vdv is as effective & important a player as we have imo- more weighted towards effective, tbf

Let's not forget that Hazard's just hawking himself around, probably at the request of his agent.

Spurs haven't even wrapped up the league title yet, let alone made a bid.

ur slings and arrows can't reach from way down there fyi

Hazard probably thinks Bale and Modric are on £180k a week or something.

or it'll be a lol tax arshavin thing

http://www.footballtransfertavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mick-hazard-260.jpg

xp well tbh hazrd earns smth around 200k to 250k€ a month in lille, so 70k£/wk at tottenham would be more than what he currently gets. taking into account the fact that taxes are probably lower in england means that 70k/wk is a lot more than current wages in france.

Starts with Keane and Vieira arguing in tunnel. From 1:06 onwards: Keane, Carroll and Scholes refuse to shake Vieira's hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkYRXlwQxA

Also Gary Neville attempts a hand squeeze with growl.

ha, the Neville bit is hilarious. Especially after Keane had to step in for him

Love that. Keane always reminds me of a drunk trying to convince a nightclub bouncer that he's sober enough to be let in.

http://www.whoscored.com/Players/13812
http://www.whoscored.com/Players/33404

The similarity in playing position has to be something of a concern if Hazard to Spurs is actually a thing. I haven't seen Lille that much this year but every time I have seen Hazard play well for them or Belgium it's been on the left.

OTOH Bale looks pretty lethal in the center of the pitch lately.

Roy Carroll made his debut for Olympiakos this afternoon, coming off the bench to save a penalty against Rubin Kazan with his first touch. Olympiakos won 1-0 in the first leg of their Big Vase tie.

Twice in six posts, how about that. Most coverage he's had in years.

Love that. Keane always reminds me of a drunk trying to convince a nightclub bouncer that he's sober enough to be let in.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 16:16 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha this is brilliant

fuckin youtube is for shit lately, can't get a clean playback on anything

keano in the zone there tho

hm now a reversed version of the MLS -> EPL short-term loan trend?

http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/02/13/spurs-man-bentley-said-be-seeking-mls-loan-move

that fuckin guy

was trying to gauge the level of hate that'd be directed towards him

disgust, tbh.

André Villas-Boas undermined by José Mourinho texts, says Porto president

vll-bs: u r nt spcl 1, i m spcl 1 jsxx

lol jt <3's me h8's u m8 lol!

ayo jibe what's taxes like in france, in uk they're considered high by most footballers comin from abroad iirc

Spurs have abandoned commitments to build 100 affordable homes and spend £1.2million on school improvements as they signed a new planning agreement for their new stadium.

Amended planning proposals for the £400m Northumberland Development Project were unanimously approved by Haringey councillors at a meeting last night, after months of negotiations between the club, council, and Mayor of London’s office.

The original deal, signed with Haringey Council in 2010, included a £1.2m pledge to increase pupil capacity in Haringey and neighbouring Enfield, as well as a commitment that 50 per cent of homes built under the scheme would be affordable.

But those requirements have been deleted from the new document – officially called a section 106 agreement – with the remaining £15.5m cost of infrastructure and transport improvements passed to the council and the Mayor of London under an agreement reached last week.

Haringey Council will spend £9m on the regeneration scheme, while Boris Johnson has committed £18m – leaving Spurs with just £477,000 of planning commitments.

Club chairman Daniel Levy said he was “delighted” that the project had been approved and said he was grateful for the council’s support.

terrible that we didn't become a property developer alright

how's that been working out for ye btw

Arsenal made hundreds of millions in profit from it.

Arsenal only had two bricks from eight acres when Arsene joined the club iirc.

going well for ye then

Spurs only have ... half a million pounds of planning commitments?

You could almost get one of the Snodins for that in 1987. Or a Wayne Clarke / Stuart Storer double.

They're getting a new stadium for half a million pounds?

Levy really is good at this.

'goin down the emirates thursday night mate? I hear it's a fabulous social amenity that made huge profits for the shareholders?'

'nah mate, won't be going, i find the uefa cup strangely unexciting after many consecutive years of champion's league qualification and i am strangely uninterested in our new forward line of bendtner/chamakh, although i am heartily cheered by the thought that the profits from the sale of van persie has funded meals on wheels for local pensioners for the next decade. lol tottenham, eh?'

'lol tottenham'

i think, pf, that the half-mik refers to contribution spurs must make towards regeneration as part of planning

Would just like to know how the fuck Levy managed to get away without having to make section 106 payments when every single other development in the country has to pay them regardless of profit margins?

Also, lol tottenham.

serious q for darragh et al: do you think there has been a sea change in the top four, that harry/levy have ushered in a generation of champions league football at the naming rights and feeling (lol) sorry for arsenal's inferior status?

or are you just trolling sam?

answer from Tottenham fan: no

no, i don't

I don't believe any club not operated as an oligarch's plaything should feel sure of frequent cl seasons. Man u are an exception due to history and an impressive and long-proven ability to generate commercial income, but any of their fans would tell you that there's questions over financing even there.

If FFP ever comes in to any real effect then spurs could be realistic long-term challengers for the top spots, i guess. Same holds true for a couple of clubs, including arsenal- who i'm a known admirer of wrt financial and strategic planning.

But clubs don't operate wholly in the long-term, i don't see any merit in exhibitions of moral disgust for our board because they're making decisions based on the best possible use of the resources available, the immediate future looks bright for us, footballing-wise we're as good as i've known and you can only beat the team put out in front of you, trevor.

Basically, as a spurs fan since 93 odd i'd be a fuckin moron to proclaim that our current position is somehow natural to us when all of my personal experience suggests that, regardless of expenditure and competition, we average about halfway down the league table.

Chelsea will improve again
Arsenal will improve again
they will return to top 4 sooner or later
and return us to top 5-6
esp as new stadium won't be for a while.

the odd one is Liverpool - I thought they would be above us this year but really haven't capitalized on ... anything much. Have stayed still or it feels like it. So we are still better than them in medium term, I think or hope.

'goin down the emirates thursday night mate? I hear it's a fabulous social amenity that made huge profits for the shareholders?'

'nah mate, won't be going, i find the uefa cup strangely unexciting after many consecutive years of champion's league qualification and i am strangely uninterested in our new forward line of bendtner/chamakh, although i am heartily cheered by the thought that the profits from the sale of van persie has funded meals on wheels for local pensioners for the next decade. lol tottenham, eh?'

'lol tottenham'

― beware of greek bearer bonds (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 11:35 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol you know this is the exact formula that spurs are about to go through and also bendtner/chamakh wont be at the club next season, tis cool maine

Arsenal will improve again
they will return to top 4 sooner or later

1 Man City
2 Man Utd
3 Tottenham Hotspur
4 Arsenal

holy cow we did that quick pinefox!

If we're still there by April 22 it'll be a fucking miracle.

there you go - Arsenal are top 4 team, so no sea change

Fuck it, I'm predicting Arsenal for 3rd!