TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

i'll have a qf cl run over the league cup tbph

otm

would expect a gooner to empathise with that tbph but there you go eh

Just getting them in quick before Gomes has the game of his life against us to make up for it.

nah not gonna happen, we've not much hope of building up a head of steam now.

Tho iirc he made the difference last year after rvp came on.

We'd need to shoot from outside the box, so it's never going to happen. And every keeper has the game of their life against us. Even Paul Robinson.

lock this thread, re-open the old one. there are only three big clubs in england, the ones that score phantom goals and can't ever have their centre halves sent off. everyone else makes up the numbers.

heh

Or change the thread title to 'WE THOUGHT TOTTENHAM WERE A BIG CLUB FOR 11 MONTHS, WE WERE WRONG'.

you'd think with spurs having spent 6000 billion in the last few years they'd have bribed some refs and got more than one cl jaunt out of it.

While the priority will be looking for new arrivals, Redknapp knows he has some big decisions to make in terms of what happens with a number of his squad who have failed to come up to scratch this season.

None of his three strikers - Peter Crouch, Jermain Defoe or Roman Pavlyuchenko - have impressed

fuck this for accepted narrative bullshit

Rafael Van der Vaart    35	14	
Roman Pavlyuchenko	37	12	
Gareth Bale	        40	11	
Peter Crouch	        44	11	
Jermain Defoe	        28	8	

pav's 37 appearances includes 13 sub appearances, as far as i can work out.

You'd have to be very charitable to say that Pavlyuchenko has "impressed" this season really.

scoring rate stands up, this season and throughout his time with us.

and his general play far outshines crouch/defoe imo (though i'd have to acknowledge vdv's handy knack of being in the right place to benefit from crouch's shit headers)

ha just found this. shit so far

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8750_6930324,00.html

i mean, alan hutton 'keep' kyle walker 'season long loan' stfu mate

Jermaine Jenas
Has to be rated as one of the worst players in the Premier League. Every time he plays Spurs lose due to his lack of ability to read the game. He should be playing Championship football next season.
Verdict: Ditch

i forgive u

i mean, alan hutton 'keep' kyle walker 'season long loan' stfu mate

Also Corluka 'ditch'.

well yeah!

corluka, walker as the rb options next season looks more than a good mix to me.

Palacios, troubling. I'd say rid but then there was the spell last year when he was brilliant.

Anyway, I'm thinking:

SELL - Gomes, Bentley, Jenas, Keane, Crouch, Pavlyuchenko, Dos Santos, Hutton, maybe Bassong but knowing our defensive injury record
SIGN - A goalkeeper, at least two big strikers, a left-back to put pressure on BAE and to ensure we never have to play Danny Rose there again
PROMOTE - Walker, maybe Caulker to the squad, dunno what's happened to Bostock but I assume he's not gonna make it

Would keep Kranjcar and play him more often, Palacios as a squad player but behind Sandro in the pecking order.

I'd kinda like a right midfielder with more penetration, Lennon is exciting but inconsistent and come on we're still occasionally playing Jenas there.

How much deadwood can we get away with flogging to QPR I wonder?

SELL- Gomes, Bentley, Keane, Jenas, Crouch, Dos Santos, Hutton
BUY- Everyone you said, and a first team centre-half (I'd keep Bassong, I don't think he's as bad a player as he's looked all season)
PROMOTE- Walker, definitely. You'd know more about the others.

Random- Keep Kranjcar, Palacios, Pienaar as 3/4 of our 2nd midfield- it's not like we don't get injuries or need to refresh things FFS Arry). Agree completely that a new right winger is needed to make up that quartet.

i do think we could be the equivalent of QPR's one stop shop, if you look at that first line.

is there a lower EPL striker you'd bank on to improve us, or would you rather go abroad? Not that our hitrate is inspired with either option.

Rodallega, Demba Ba, Odemwingie, might all be good options i think

wow

this site is the absolute balls

http://www.imscouting.com/reports-generator3/?id=40&t=601&p1=0&p2=100&p3=0&p4=10#rep

anyway ^ spurs players' minutes-per-goal this season

I missed Gio dos Santos's first spell in England but he's been excellent for Santander imo. Is he not a good match for the Prem style-of-play wise or is it that his relationship with Redknapp is beyond repair?

I wouldn't say no to any of them as squad players per se, same with Gyan, but I don't think any of them are exactly The Answer.

it's both at this stage, but for the record i didn't think he was as bad/uninterested as his performances were painted in his first spell

that minutes-per-goal for the league as a whole (minimum 300 mins played)

http://www.imscouting.com/reports-generator3/?id=40&l=5304&p1=0&p2=300&p3=0&p4=10#rep

ie, chelsea have a more effective player than hernandez already sorted

i'm creating another thread for that site, it's awesome

Might as well sell Dos Santos, with the number of wide players we've got he's never going to get near our team long enough to either adapt to the Premiership or for us to say for sure that he's a failure.

would definitely rather keep kranjcar for the vdv/bale/modric cover than dos santos

jesus when you think that niko covers three first team positions to such a high standard (and for players that are injured the whole time) it's fucking criminal he's leaving due to lack of game time.

Rafael Van Der Vaart	Tottenham Hotspur	2154	13	7	107.7
Roman Pavlyuchenko	Tottenham Hotspur	1476	8	4	123.0
Niko Kranjcar	        Tottenham Hotspur	359	2	0	179.5
Peter Crouch	        Tottenham Hotspur	1872	4	6	187.2
Jermain Defoe	        Tottenham Hotspur	1388	4	2	231.3
Steven Pienaar	        Tottenham Hotspur	493	0	2	246.5
Tom Huddlestone	        Tottenham Hotspur	1081	2	2	270.3
Aaron Lennon	        Tottenham Hotspur	2180	3	3	363.3
Gareth Bale	        Tottenham Hotspur	2362	5	1	393.7
Luka Modric	        Tottenham Hotspur	2620	3	2	524.0
Alan Hutton	        Tottenham Hotspur	1677	2	1	559.0

goals/assists per minute for the season

drop-off in effectiveness after crouch (CROUCH FFS) is staggering. Bale I can't slag, he deserves better strikers at the end of his delivery, but Modric def. needs to add some more fional product

Lennon too, tho all three of those last mentioned have got serious roles in the team in moving the ball at pace (tho the lack of intelligent movement from the likes of crouch/defoe tends to see that wasted too)

come on son use your loaf, ur holding up those cod stats like actually they mean something

How much deadwood can we get away with flogging to QPR I wonder?

― Matt DC, Monday, 16 May 2011 18:03 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

i was having this exact convo with a spurs chum and i gotta admit i wasnt comfortable with what i found myself saying

sign: sticklebrick off ajax (quickly), parker (sandro or no sandro this is inevitable so may as well pretend it was your idea. fyi i think he's necessary), and that marin bloke off werder bremen. big striker? who knows, buy a ticket in the llorente, hulk and lukaku lotteries and cross ur fingers i guess.

sell: lennon cos he is a lazy cunt who cant even do the one thing he does any more and liverpool might still pay £15m. (walker can totally do his job fine even if there's no replacement). the usual blokes too. keep charlie.

                              pletikosa
              chimbonda      corluka         archibald-henville
bentley                                                                       hutton
                       vieira                          cattermole
                                   
                                     jenas
   crouch                                                       dos santos
                              kenwyne jones

lol

great english spine to that side

trying for a classic english 3-2-2-1-3

marin lw surely not a priority position, same for parker?

I like nakh's lineup tho i wd swap cattermole for zokora obv

Alain Didier Zokora-Déguy (born on 14 December 1980 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian footballer who plays the position of midfielder. He joined the La Liga team Sevilla FC in the summer of 2009. Zokora plays in a defensive role and is a strong tactical player in the middle of the park. He has not scored an outfield goal in seven and a half years.

he is a strong tactica no fuckit i can't even

ya he is one of the /least/ tactically sound defensive midfielders to have played at that level

maybe he plays in the andalucian u-11 park football league, in which case his strength and tactical insight are probably above average

his one talent was running with the ball

That's not even a relevant talent ffs.

He passed/shot like he had shovels for feet, on the wrong feet

Awful, awful player. Even with a pass completion of 12% palacios is so much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmxm0ArnCLg

can't vyoutubes on phone innit but i've enjoyed our discussion on the lack of merits of dzok, or 'dooks' as you prob refer to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3fxREVLiyo&feature=share

Think the Parker signing is going to happen whatever and I think he'll add balance to our midfield. Sandro/Parker/Modders or Parker/Modders/Thudd depending who we're playing is potentially very tasty in the middle of the park.

i agree, would love to see a 4-3-3 played at some point with one of those midfields.
for strikers, there has been a lot of news about Osvaldo, from Espanyol, don't know much about him, but hope spurs get someone young that can develop with the young midfield. plus maybe a veteran like klose. wonder if lukas podolski is possible. don't know why he has never been able to score for a club since leaving Koln the first time, but his international scoring record is great. maybe put him, klose, and van der vaart in front of that midfield.