TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

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.

154 (35) - combined league matches and goals for Klose and Podolski the past three seasons.

beats crouch defoe imo, podolski can at least play in the likes of modric

Sticklebrick managed to drop the Dutch Cup off the victory bus so I feel like he's spiritually a Spurs goalie already.

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.

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i agree, would love to see a 4-3-3 played at some point with one of those midfields.

well ok i could get behind that i suppose, but only if we get rid of jenas cos rly

Sebastien Bassong 'offered to Stoke in Tottenham bid for Ryan Shawcross'

would be a great signing, really untypical

http://i.imgur.com/BfnQH.jpg

hard to argue w/it

What does a Premier League footballer do when a stranger admires his £36,000 watch? Trades him for his cheap watch, apparently.

A lucky nightclub waiter had the chance encounter with Tottenham’s Vedran Corluka, who must have been well on it at the time, and after admiring the defender’s diamond-encrusted Hublot watch, the star handed it over.

Corluka didn’t walk away completely empty-handed from the Whisky Mist in Mayfair, central London, however, as the waiter handed over his £150 Seiko in exchange.

A source close to The Sun newspaper said: "Charlie (Corluka’s club nickname) took it off and handed it to him. Then he spotted the waiter's watch and said he liked it. He said, 'Let's swap'.

“The waiter thought he was joking. Charlie's a lovely bloke and always polite."

:/

Get the feeling they had to change that quote from "Charlie's a triffic bloke" just to keep the source anonymous.

is £150 a 'cheap watch' to readers of the super soaraway?

'arry's now favourite with the bookies to take over at Chelsea. 'iddink is still second favourite but everyone else is falling away.

think you'll find that some of is pals of been playin the bettin exchanges

That would ludicrous on Abramovich's part. Does he really want a manager with one season in the Champions League and only one FA Cup under his belt?

Maybe he just wants Chelsea playing attractive football but I doubt it. Sounds like bullshit to me.

thuddz tom huddlestone
watched hangover 2 last night! Very good film, hard to live up to the first one but very good none the less

xp, I can't see it happening either, to be honest. As much as i value his contribution to Spurs, you don't get rid of a manager of Ancelotti's calibre without being fairly sure of replacing him with someone better. Harry doesn't have the track record of Hiddink or the obvious potential for future greatness of Villas-Boas.

I'd be surprised if Chelsea haven't already got someone lined up. It's interesting that, from the betting at least, nobody outside the club has a firm idea of who it is.

interesting article on harry's view of pav
http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/tottenham-hotspur/tottenham-hotspur/spurs_striker_is_frustrating_but_harry_can_t_find_anyone_better_1_903858

Pavlyuchenko started on the bench against Birmingham on Sunday but came on to score two second-half strikes, taking his final tally to 14 in all competitions, ahead of Peter Crouch (11), Gareth Bale (11) and Jermain Defoe (nine).

Is Defoe's total spelled out so it doesn't look like a single digit?

Spelling out single-figure numbers is a pretty common house style thing.

Re: Robbie Keane, can see him, and a load of other players, just going out on season-long loans and not coming back.

Spelling out single-figure numbers is a pretty common house style thing.

I think it looks odd in the context of a list where all the other numbers are expressed in numeric characters and I would break with the house style in this instance.

I think Spurs will sell Keane to anyone coming up with £4-5m - there must be a couple of lower half or newly promoted teams willing to take a punt.

finally some stories linking spurs with Leandro Damiao, looks a real prospect. love that his agent's name is Vinicius Prates.

Vinicius Prates

Sounds like an 'arry Potter villain.

Do we have any kind of first-refusal arrangement with Internacional?

that was the announcement at the time, but it doesn't seem to get mentioned now. also i think it was only for players who came through inter's youth system, which leandro didn't. he apparently owns some of his rights himself, too. two other big prospects, walter and giuliano, have left inter since spurs signed sandro, so not sure.

hmm, looking them up it seems that giuliano didn't come through inter's youth system and walter had a third party involved.

also the official statement on tottenham's website doesn't specifically say the club has first refusal

What would be in that deal for Inter?

ready market for their players, makes young talent more likely to go with them

we're probably paying them too i guess

These third-party owners, I don't get it.

Hulk (he of the supposed 100m release clause) was up until a week ago primarily owned by a Uruguayan club for whom he'd never played a game. Porto had paid 6m initially to bring him over from a Japanese side, I think, but had to raise their total investment to 18-19m in order to get ~85 percent of his total rights. Whether they did that in anticipation of his eventual big sale, or just to keep him from being sold against their will before their Champions League run, I don't know.

just to maintain control of the decision, i guess.

Allows Porto to hedge their bets if he's a bit shit, and allows the Uruguayan club to ramp the price up if he's great. But yeah, dodgy as hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Duzp1XLt0

because why not

proof if needed that Crouch scored zero non-easy headers all season (unless you were generous towards the one around 4:15)

Fits into five minutes, how sad.

think his headers against bremen and stoke were good, tbf

He missed plenty of easy ones though

And the real criticism against him is his general play, the stuff that doesn't show on highlight reels