TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

He was yesterday yeah.

adebayor and naughton are doubts for sunday. might see vertonghen at left back.

without ferdinand, mbia, traore, and fabio hughes could be stupid enough to play clint hill and ryan nelsen together so it might not matter who you put out tbh

no johnson, taarabt, diakite either

:/

knew we should have tried to sign some players this summer

bale's a bigger goal threat on the left.

Hughes said: ‘Maybe Michael’s situation had happened too quickly for him to understand what his future is at Spurs. He would have been a good buy but it wasn’t to be."

Hughes revealed he played a part in ensuring Fulham placed a £15m minimum release clause in Dembélé’s contract, with the Welshman confident the forward will thrill Spurs fans following the departures of Luka Modrić and Rafael van der Vaart.

“I was the one who stipulated to place a bigger figure on him. I made sure it was at a decent figure,” he added.

milan badelj getting rave reviews since his move to hamburg. considering he was zagreb's replacement for modric, i hope spurs were at least aware of him.

watching hamburg, they're being completely outplayed but badelj hasn't done anything except rattle the crossbar with a 30 yard thunderbolt. think spurs should sign stuttgart's martin harnik, though.

ryan smith looking v useful for eng u21s

yeah but so did jordan henderson

ryan henderson, they're all called ryan

Today is a big test of big clubness imo

for both clubs tbh

Think it very unlikely Spurs will win today, even though the quality of our play has been improving if anything, beating Arsenal, Inter and Liverpool in the space of eight days just feels far-fetched to the point of soft-headedness. Also the players are probably knackered.

Spurs are bigger than us if we go on 3 year cycles which is a fair enough criteria I think. Win this and I'll start to believe we can win say 7 of our last 9.

Both clubs included, yes xp

Oh there was a Spurs thread all along

In the interests of openness, fp

didnt even know about this match today, kewl

i hereby propose anyone even mentioning the united chelsea game before evening immediately recieves a months ban, let's make this happen ppl

can't wait for Nani to totally redeem himself today

Gtfo spurs thread

redeem from what anyway arbeloa fouled him

No harm done anyway, they won the CL remember

Once we get rose jenas and townsend back we'll be some outfit hey

No harm done anyway, they won the CL remember

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 10 March 2013 14:36 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya that 5 goal salvo in the last 15 minutes was breathtaking

even Mourinho said so

Three cron og's was a bit obv

Modric back plus 20m is the lol madrid offer according to whispers, idk what to say about that rly.

they love rose up there no joke, poty if it wasnt for mignolet. we'd probably have him too once we finally lose our rag with traore

reckon andros will get a look in eventually what with poss recruitments for champs league? needs a bit of polish (another season long loan with us should do nicely) but i can already think of a couple games where he'd have been a better option than siggy or dempsey

xp can't imagine modders ever putting in a shift if that happens, not even in this new happy clappy era

Rose can't be worse than naughton at lb, and townsend would be #2 on rw by default, imma say bring em home

modric put in manys the shift last year despite summer disappointment in 2011 tbfttl

Modders would not strengthen this team as much as losing Bale would weaken it. Can't see it happening.

            Striker
B           A           L           E
Holtby or whoever zzzzz   Dembele              Lennon
            Sandro
Ekotto                        Walker
    Vertonghen   Dawson/Caulker
            Lloris

guts of it are there. not sure that the bale synergy or whatever isnt costing us in other ways, but obv the payoff is huge the past few months. please can we have a striker sir.

Can have benteke off us for 20 mil if you like

...........

im considering it

We'll swap ya for 12 mil and j.d. actually, now I think on

fuckin a i'll take that as of 6pm today

All good clean fun when we're speaking hypothetically, but it makes me miserable to think that it's the sorta thing that is 100% likely to happen. I just fucking know we're gonna get bent over in the transfer market for the guy. Tbf I'm hoping and praying that Mancini follows through on his desire to bring in a new striker and goes after him. If James Milner was worth £28 mil of Bobby M's pocket change then Benteke's gotta be hitting the 30s for him.

if

well yeah just banking on citeh not learning their lessons tbh. experience would suggest that this isn't an especially long shot.

These are the moments when i wish that Lerner was a bit less affable-American-who-gets-the-culture and a bit more Daniel "FACK OFF you're only offering how much?" Levy.

D.L. would be drawing in 30 mil-plus for this guy easy peasy, we'll probably let him go for £13 plus a decent squaddie, as per earlier post

We never sold anyone for 30m after one decent season, behave

sorry, drinking.

And defoe is a first xi and england international

Ah dont get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Jermain Defoe. Was hugely enjoyable seeing him taking the Oscar for best supporting actor at Spurs this season prior to his injury. But Benteke is very much up on the pedestal right now. I mean where the fuck will we be without him, even if we do stay up? I want £25 mil and not a penny less, but I suspect we'll settle for not much more than half that in the event

i knocked 5m off you in two posts, levy gon eat u rite up imo

Ohhhhh and there was me thinking that my sales pitch had got you interested in a £15 million RRP striker at £25 million. Any mug could take a starring role in our shower of shite, yknow. I look forward to seeing the boy at the Lane winning every header and putting 95% of them wide next season.

Deciding he doesnt wanna sell, pooh-poohs the goods. Kids knows he's in deep imo.

Just fancied a go at being disingenuous to try and fit in round here and see whether it stuck tbh, For reals, from my perspective right now the guy looks like a goalscoring demi-god who'll win every header, is good with both feet and has surprising tekkers for a big lad. Having said that, wouldn't be especially surprised if he moved to a big club and spent a year or two being caught offside, scoring 15 in all comps and giving away free-kicks on most of the high balls. Still misses enough clear-cut chances for there to be a lingering element of doubt over whether he might let the side down when he's up against the wall in a big game.

But if he does move onwards and upwards I hope it's to Spurs. If he moves abroad I'm no longer interested, City and Chelsea would be tawdry and dull. If he goes to Arsenal or the Pool I might just end it all alone in my room on a winter's night. Have gone from hating Spurs as a side I saw as direct competitors about 5 years ago to living vicariously through them. Spurs breaking the glass ceiling with Bale still in the squad and Benteke firing on all cylinders would be a joy to see.

I am on record as having felt that way about berbatov and the villa of young and laursen iirc

we're all exceedingly genuous btw

stfabl has promise