TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

or harry can go mental, notice his shit defense is going to concede no matter the situation and just think fuck it, we'll go back to the ozzie days and play 4 creative midfielders and two strikers...

tbh three and two or four and one respectively aint far off that, with attacking full backs to boot

Pav's league goals 2008/09: 1 vs Bolton, 1 vs Liverpool, 1 vs Blackburn, 1 vs Boro, 1 vs West Ham
Pav's league goals 2009/10: 2 vs Wigan, 1 vs Everton, 2 vs Blackburn
Pav's league goals 2010/11: 1 vs Wolves, 1 vs Fulham, 1 vs Bolton, 1 vs Blackburn

I don't think goals per minute tells the full story (otherwise, iirc, Mark Burchill > Henrik Larsson) - you have to look at the opposition.

when a player never seems to get a fair run, i dont know if it still isnt a good stat to look at.

Pav's never scored more than five?!

remember when carlton cole had the best gpg record in the world? good times.

not in the league - a few against better teams elsewhere of course - vs Man U in the league cup, vs Inter in the CL.

All of his 2008/09 league goals were at home.

Not calling him out as a flat track bully or anything - to score against the top teams you need to play them and Harry's ignored him for a few big games.

not like our other strikers were filling their boots away from home or against yr chelsea in the same period.

No club going for cl spot can do without a flat track bully, if that's even what he is

^^^i call bullshit but all the examples that come to mind have a midfield that scores a lot more than spurs's.

Spurs now have a midfield(er) that scores.

g bale and vdv both

Oh aye, keep forgetting Bale is no longer classed as a defender. VDV looks like deal of the season so far.

chamakh up there too before sam hops in

nah vdv is a lock for signing of the season (along w/ zlatan + ozil)

I almost consider him a second striker but I can't remember the last time Spurs had a midfielder who had a serious change of getting 20 goals a season.

But yes, a big physical striker much needed at the moment. I'm a little disappointed that Sunderland got Asamoah Gyan, who'd be ideal.

srs, a cheeky bid for lou ferrigno and porto would let him torture english defenses instead.

lennon/modric need to contribute more goals, there's no doubt. Pav/defoe are always lookin to shoot early and occupy centre halves in a way crouch/keane dont/wont. You'd be sacrificing a certain amount of participation in buildup play playing the former as a partnership, but giving modric/vdv room in the centre. Worth trying over a period of time imo.

"Harry is a very special man, that's why I already feel at home at Spurs. It feels like I'm back on the street.

"There are no long and boring speeches about tactics, like I was used to at Real Madrid.

"There is a clipboard in our dressing room, but Harry doesn't write anything on it. It's not that we do nothing - but it's close to that."

Starting to think that it's Lennon who's going to make way in a 4-4-2. If you've got Bale firing on all cylinders you can sacrifice Lennon and play Rafa on the right, drifting in with Hutton overlapping.

lennon off form, sure. But straighter swap for modric, who by the same token can play naturally cutting in from the left.

Vdv may well turn out to be a striking option in 442 anyway

Niko Kranjcar made it five goals in three games for his country as Croatia defeated Malta 3-0 in a Euro 2012 qualifier on Wednesday.

The midfielder struck twice before Blackburn's Niko Kalinic rounded off the scoring in a comfortable win on a rain-soaked night in Zagreb.

I'm still not certain Niko shouldn't be considered an inside forward like we've been playin VdV in the 451. He's not good on the right nor centre, hit-and-miss on the left until he's in sight of goal. Better finisher than Robbie (this past two years, anyway), and I think we should've seen more of him while Defoe was out in a more advanced role.

Judging by quotes he'l be gone in Jan anyway- hopefully not to another CL/UEFA chasing prem club.

If I'm honest he'd stand a good chance of getting more games at utd/chelsea than at us this weather.

ok

what's a fair price for 30-yr old proven premier league & international goalscorer robbie keane?

i'd take 5m, but then i want rid. if we were looking at buying a player of his career stats/profile/talent i'd prob be happy for us to spend twice that.

dunno who can afford to spend 5m on a player that has sucked for the past 2 years - brum maybe?

personal hunch is some sort of p/ex with west ham for c.cole - gold & sullivan might be the only ones stupid/desperate enough to try and match keano's lol colossal wages come january

but yeah the whole thing would depend on whether dude's willing to take a pay cut and for how much. be surprised if you got more than 2.5m for him tbh

villa £5.5m

he's still yr best forward if he's not dead

tho he may be dead

yeah, given and keane are both gonna have to make a call on pay-cut vs games in january, they were talking bout it on rte last night. richie sadlier- 'tbh, i don't think robbie's that good anymore, maybe sunderland'. he's a good pundit.

can see everton, sunderland, villa all paying ~5m for him, but definitely he'll be taking a 30k paycut to move, cos we'll not be paying him.

he'd be our best fwd if he'd never played for rafa. but now he's shite and we pay him 80k

he's bound for the celtic glue factory surely

it's like the highest-stakes pass-the-parcel ever

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9258302.stm

"Harry Redknapp is a great manager," added Horne.

"Tottenham are playing great football and to qualify well for the Champions League knockout stage from a position of being fourth favourites in the group is huge testimony to that." ]

what? fourth favourites my ass. good to know you've got someone who knows football picking the next england manager.

'arry will 'ave to go back, meet up with the FA for a couple of days and have a chat and say, "You should be voting for me really. I'm a sexy bird, I'll get my gear off for you".

do u reckon arry like a tart or two

not talkin baht david bentley neever

Might as well go to Engerland, he's got nothing left to achieve in club football.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/incoming/article303941.ece/ALTERNATES/gallery-large/redknapp.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nsXBhkK4bWE/TQdV9RmUAyI/AAAAAAAABBc/3o9SZt3hMfY/s1600/Mins+per+team+goals.jpg

Spurs daring to dream - haven't seen this linked anywhere, it's a top explanation of their finances

TL;DR - The loss of Champions' League revenue next season will be offset by the huge fee from the sale of Gareth Bale to Citeh.

only Manchester City, fuelled by the Sheikh’s billions, have spent more than Tottenham in the last five years. With a net £91 million, Spurs have spent twice as much as Liverpool, four times as much as Chelsea, nine times as much as United, while Arsenal have actually generated a surplus from their transfer activities.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jLlqDrcSYeQ/TPZjU5e-usI/AAAAAAAACmo/Muaw20kC9Qs/s400/15%

top top

all in order, tbh.

always wondered where exactly amortisation of transfer fees gets recolved after an outgoing transfer. stadium questions are big ones.

wonder where we are in the table of transfer fees brought in? near the top i'd guess.

According to that chart it's

Man Utd
Liverpool
Tottenham
Arsenal

(xp to self) City, of course, have spent four times as much as Spurs during that period (or 35 times as much as United), and about 90% of that spending has come in the last three seasons.

xps I had a long, unwanted train journey tonight and read that consecutively with this takedown of redknapp. Can't really recommend it as such, but was a fun way to pass an hour.

reading Why England Lose has confirmed what I already knew, clubs that spend anything at market price are suckaz. Or p much anything on transfers tbh. or: loooool that harry article.

"I've never deemed us to be a selling club if you look at the big transfers which have taken place since I've been chairman. Gareth has got a long contract and I can assure you he will not be sold."

no doubt we've been a selling club wrt our top players since sol campbell. Not sure if thats changed since cl qualification, but prob not much. We get value from most forced sales tbf.

i'm not rly big into 'north london rivalry' tbh, but tbph not sure how far an arsenal fan can go on this subjet.