Bentley Is A Yid!

No worries Harry

I am all over my missus like white on rice about other players having medicals.

For some reason it only struck her to tell me thaat Tottenham have used that hospital for the past 5 years now!!!

Women

Anyways any hot news you will get it first Harry.

BigYid Out

Great News!!! Any Confirmation on figures Harry? or If Mr Tottenham really wants out?

Great news Harry! Any news regarding the deal? Lennon going the other way? Also whats all this Keano talk!!?

I'll reserve judgement on this, not Bentleys biggest fans, think hes overrated for the figures mentioned. Lets hope im wrong!!

Delighted to hear if indeed this is true... Is there any idea HH, as to when there will be an announcement from Spurs???

any news on how much and if any one went the other way hope we keep lennon good competition for the wing

excellent news, almost makes me smile but then i think of Robbie and i am fuckin miserable again

personally i am clinging onto the fact that scousers dont have much cash as the yanks are tighter than wengers little lads chuffers and Keano is a yid for life....if only he read this blog he would realise how much we want him to play alongside the likes of Bentley and Modric

hope bentley does come cus lennon just aint performing keano is staying modric centre midfield dos santos attacking mid diego capel on left and bentley on right top 4 easy bye bye liverpool or arsenal

Big THANKS again Sir H, for keeping us up to date
with news!! at least i can get excited for now

cheers for the update harry but i know plenty of players who have done a medical at one club and ended up at another so i suggest we remain calm as all is not at end. i believe it will happen though but as to when gets everyone confused and if it does THANK YOU for telling us in advance.

Another thing sorry to upset everyone but im too fond off keane for the good of the team although im pleased with the goals he gets i think he upsets the balance of the side and if we replace with a pacey striker i will be more than pleased as long as berba stays and crouch dosnt come

Did anyone see Setanta's take on the summer signings thus far in the PL? They rate Spurs as the No 1 club in England! With a score of 9/10 for our signings so far, and this is without the Bentley deal which i hope true/imminent? Harry???

I think this is excellent news. I would loved Lennon to have progressed enough to be first choice, but we all know that his final ball is just not good enough. Bentley's delivery from wide is much better than Lennon and, whilst he doesn't possess the blistering pace, his movement is good.

I desperately hope we keep Keano. I am sure that Liverpool want him, but I dont think they have the money to get him, if they have to spend the rumoured amount on Barry. I don't think Crouch is Juande's type of player at all.

Have you any whispers on the Paraguayan centre back Nelso Cabrera, Harry? The team he plays for are managed by Ossie, which may give it a bit of substance. Or is it just media lies again?

The lose of Keane would be gutting, it upsets me just thinking about it and i dont care how gay that sounds. He is Mr Tottenham

when will it be tied up then and is lennon going our is this just more rubish u made up...................rubish!!!!!!!

Fatfish someone made a very good point on here earlier, the last thing we want to be doing is buying defenders from a team managed by Ossie Ardiles!!! As much as we loved/love him.

Excellent news my dear Harry.

Astute reporting as ever. Fuck the c*nts at Spurs Oddysey.

BIOYCS!

Ike come back when the dyspraxia calms down.

Any idea Harry as to when we can expect an announcement then?

For what it's worth lads, the BBC reports "Spurs have not received a transfer request from Keane, despite reports claiming he had demanded to leave White Hart Lane." - source: LINK - hope that steadies a few nerves til he gets back off holiday at least

mr tottenham my a*** i dont care if he goes im more worried about berba can everyone get over it keane aint great he will flop at liverpool and be at sunderland by next season

and i hope this new aint just on the back of what bigyid said no offence but how do we know he aint a mr billy bull shi**er who wants to look the man

LLTK26 Sorry mate, ...none.

Bentley, Gomes, dos Santos and Modric.WOWwee. Surely next season is going to be a lot of fun! Yet what a huge mistake it would be to let Keane go. I feel terrible just thinking about it.

Also with all these big money signings does that mean Berbatov is good as gone, or is Joe Lewis starting to seriously pump money into the club?

id rather lose berba than keane anyday. over 40goals in the last 2seasons and many assists is hardly poor is it angryyid

Cheers anyway Harry, no doubt as when... we will hear it here first! I am just mega impatient with all this transfer activity at the minute, i just hope and pray it (Bentley) comes to fruition.

TAKEN FROM RAMOS'S PAL GUILLEM BALAGUE'S PERSONAL WEBSITE

Spurs will return to work on the 3rd of July and plan to spend part of their pre-season in Spain, but there is one thing that is bothering everybody at the club: by that time, Juande Ramos and his staff had wanted to be able work with the final squad, but now that is not going to happen.


The slowness of the transfer market – in part due to this summer's tournament - means that Spurs have, up to now, only been able to add a couple of big names to the squad (Gio Dos Santos and Modric), while they have been unable to sell any of the players that Juande Ramos has identified as surplus to requirements.

Spurs want to sell Aaron Lennon and Berbatov and use that money to get a striker, a right winger and a defensive central midfield player. Depending on the money coming in, Ramos will choose from one of the goalkeepers targeted by the

capt10 keane upsets the balance he slows counter attacks down he spends half his time moaning to refs we need a striker with pace berbs has as many goals and for defo more assists keane cant s*** on berbs and i for 1 would rather keane left anyday of the week he will do shite at liverpool anyway

capt10 they have both been good...

As a partnership in the last two seasons they have been as good as any in the league. Berba has scored 46 goals in 101 games - where as Keane has 45 goals in 98 games - That's over 90 goals in just under 200 games (in all competitions) which is a phenomenal feat in itself. No one argue as strikers are judged on how many goals to games they score & Keane deserves as much credit as Berba... Added to his goals his assist and work rate along with overall team play are second to none... credit to both of them i say!

hes not done shit anywhere hes played so why would he at liverpool?? and im aware berbs scores and assists but his attitude stinks. Keane has passion for the club and will fight till the end

Why are people questioning Robbie Keane? I'm Stunned!!! I'd take Keanes Ability and LOVE (remember 5-1 night?) over Any other and I mean any other striker in the world....Villa Included!!! Theres only one Keano...

Capt10 i'am Keano's biggest fan and if i had to choose between him and Berba, i would choose the former. In my last post i was just pointing out what a devastating partnership they are, and that we should do everything we can to keep them both at the club. If any of our strikers should leave it should only be Darren Bent.

If only we was the BOSS!!!

fight till the end but he wants to f*** off as soon as someone comes calling teams have wanted berbs for ages but hes still here as soon as he gets a whiff of another club c ya i believe his head is turned and i say good riddance loyalty my a*** it dont exist

jason, Basho and all the others supporting keano

totally agree, cant believe there are doubters, fucking incredible

I realize that Keano is a legend, but if we are truly going to break into the top 4 then Keano is not the man to help us do it. He has too many off days, is short of a yard of pace, and misses too many one on ones to be a truly world class striker. In cricket they would call him a flat track bully.

Keano deserves a medal for his services and for getting us so close to the top 4, but he is never going to push us over the top. Lets take the money, and give some of it to Berbs to persuade him to stay.

LLTK26, I agree, the two of them have made the best strike partnership in the world at the moment and with the new supply they will have next year they will be unreal. Dont get me wrong from past posts, i dont want berbs to leave but id keep keane ahead of him if it came to it. I hope to keep all three tbh

Apparently we're in talks with a Paraguayan club over the transfer of a midfielder called Cabrera... don't know if there is any substance to this, and don't know about Cabrera myself... but hopefully he's the kind that breaks legs in the middle of the park to complement Bentley as well as our other new signings.

angryyid are you indeed a YID? If so how can you say loyalty doesn't exist what about King? And how do you know this isn't just lies about Keane! Don't be so quick to make a judgment? Thats all i am saying.

Teddy never hate pace, didnt stop him winning countless winners medals

Othello as stated on here somewhere earlier he is a defender, coached by none other than our very own Ossie Ardiles! Personally the thought of taking any defender coached by our former great, doesn't seem appealing

had not hate lol

Lets not forget that Keano was the guy that scored the most premiership goals in 2007, sure his goal tally may have slowed a little towards the end of the season but it's not as if he can't find the net. I have full confidence that he will stay, but can't believe how some people here are saying we don't need him! He's been pretty much our best player for the past 2 years!

Anywho, get in bentley! The only worry I have is that we may be fielding a completely new midfield next season that have no idea how to play with each other...

Good news re, Bentley but losing Keane would be unthinkable. For those who write "it's ok to let Keane go and we can keep Berba?" Is it still not CLEAR Berba wants out!!! Let's hope this is paper talk.
Looking forward to Bentley

didnt Ozzie used to play nethercott haha, says it all

Please tell me angryid is taking the pi**! I know everyone has a right to an opinion, but he should be banned for sheer stupidity. Keane hasnt said anything yet, and you have the gall to call him disloyal. He's been the club's most dedicated servant since he's come. You kow, the more I think about the absolute ridiculouseness of your posts, you must be on a wind-up. nevermind

well sorry to upset you but ive never been a fan of keane always used to prefer defoe keanes a winger hes lost his pace we aint getting villa i know that but if keane goes and we bring in a good pacey striker im happy thats what we miss on counter attacks bents quick but has no confidence KEEP BERBS AT SPURS

mark my words we will never get champions league with keane

the shelfer totally agree with you

angry@angryyid haha, 'banned for sheer stupidity' love it!! no offence angryyid!
And Keane is not a winger!! are you talking about the same Keane as us

i know teddy never had pace im not questioning keane just because his pace im saying we need pace and berbs aint got it so i want someone with it to play with him not keane

Wait, when was Keane ever winger? And when did he ever have pace? He's always relied on craft and guile to deliver the goods.

Your words have been marked and you will be eating them by next season... Mark my words, and while your at it have a little faith!

cant stop laughing at angry@angryyid haha, youve made my night mind you the smallest things have always got me(no comments on that thanks)

angryyid why are you called that anyway? i was just curious?

Back to the question at hand, you talk about pace but without a football brain what good is it??? Just look at Aaron Lennon for fuck sake!

Come off, it Berbatov has no pace? Have a looky look at any of his youtube compilations for a refresher...

*tuts, rolls eyes etc*

sorry my bad keane is a whinger and im called that because thats what reading some of comments about keane makes me please please dont go robbie come on he aint great simple hes good

Added to that as pointed out Berba & Keane are doing pretty damn good together, with nearly a 100 GOALS in 2 seasons!!! If ain't broke, don't fix it!

Berbs has pace only when he can be arsed to provide it, which is 'some of the time' at best

angryyid, do you watch football?

Cheers, LLTK26. My net is slow so I missed the original post... As he's a defender, and an international one at that, it should be a good signing if it happens, seeing how well Paraguay are doing in World Cup qualifying from a defensive perspective.

simply talking about pace because we lack it up front not that pace makes you great but we lack it upfront and harry although berbs can drift past defenders like hes flash thats skill not pace he aint the slowest but i would love a right pacey striker up with him

Oh dear god, angryyid please use some punctuation. My head hurts...

the lack of pace hasnt stopped us been one of the highest scoring teams in the prem for the last two seasons

i dont think its true, but i love to be proved wrong, and keane is a idiot if he goes, if he doesn't, i didn't mean that!

capt10 why do you ask simply beacuse i have a different opinion to you on one player you stopp as low as asking if i watch football?? why is that??

I just HAVE to chuck my 2p's worth on the "Keane has no pace" issue.

There was an interview with Martin Jol a short while ago where he said that Robbie is one of the quickest players at Spurs. I seem to recall him burning (possibly) Gallas to score in the 5-1 drubbing and I can't understand why anyone would think he is not fast! Ok, he's not Torres, but very few are both that quick and that good an all-round striker. Robbie is no slouch whatsoever, and has other great aspects to his game.

To let him go would be an unmitigated DISASTER.

(Great news on Bentley)

All those in favour of Keano

just watch the doubters backtrack when keano gets back from his well deserved break to re-iterate his loyalty to Spurs

If those red tops have achieved one thing it is to truly test the real spurs fans

I also think the only thing keeping Berbs at our club is Keano, we might think as loyal and vociferous fans he might stay because of that, truth is he wants to score goals and Keane makes that happen

because you dont seem to have any knowledge of the keane/berbs partnership or the fact that teams dont have to just have pace to win things. ok it was a bit childish i take it back :O)

Defoe would still be at the club, if pace was that important & Keane wouldn't, it's as simple as that!

I wouldn't say that remark was "stooping low" exactly. Given your remarks, it's a question of some merit.

Do you?

hahaha nunchcks you really did just make me lol

i dont doubt the partnership but to go to that next level we have got to punish teams. we may well score goals but its when the s*** hits the fan we struggle its the defining moments when we dont take our chances and we just aint dangerous enough on the counter attack for some reason keane slows us down i dont like it

LLTK26

Defoe is NOT quicker than Keane!! Maybe ever so slightly better accel. and better change of direction but not top speed.

i feel a race coming on!

angryyid it's nothing to do with the strike force as to why we don't win enough football matches, it's to do with the fact we cannot hold on to the lead, and we have to consistently out score our opponents because of this.

One thing is for sure Berba and Keane are as good as any in the Premiership, and that includes the top four - There record proves this 100%

nunchucks its opinion im not a keane fan, you may not be a fan of someone i am a fan of or we may both be a fan of one player at the club its opinion

LLTK26

excellent point, Spain proved the only rela way to defend a lead is to try and make it bigger............isnt Ramos Spanish?

toddspur we will have agree to disagree, imo Defoe is definitely quicker.

Anyone else got an opinion on this?

someone agree to disagree here.

I would have thought Defoe was quicker but you dont tend to see them making the same kind of runs, Defoe plays off the shoulder and exploits areas of space whereas Keane drops deeper and feeds players, runs at players(which tends to be short runs and slower).

If we really really want to get into top 4, come one lets be serious, lets lose Keane, Bent, Berba, Lennon, Zokora, Tainio, Jenas, Dawson, Chimbonda, Lee, Robbo, Gardener, KPB, Taarabt, basically everyone leaving king, woodgate, bale, gunter, hutton, hudd, ohara, steed, modric, dos santos, gomez, and let Juande Ramos, a man who knows shite players when he sees em, replace all of those, then we can truly not just dream about, but actually kick all the top 4;s a$$es. Isnt it time for a change?

toddspur Ramos is Spanish 100% lol, and no i am not taking the piss ;-)

longlivetheking26 do you think this is because most top sides play 1 up top maybe?? like i said im not doubting the partnership i just want a different style of play and ramos will implement that in his way.

LLTK26

i wasnt arguing that point, for all i care red rum could have been quicker than Keano (and four feet to score with), defoe didnt score alongside Berbs hence why he was shipped out

I agreed with our weakness on holding out on fickle leads

Angryyid you have a point in a sense about not being able to finish off teams, but I think an overall emphasis on defense, starting from the strikers through to the midfield and cutting out the preschool errors in the back four, would help us better reach our target of a top six finish. Ramos I'm sure, will see to remedying that, working with the team shape and what not. And where were the crucial goals from midfield last season? They were non-existent. The likes of Bentley and certainly Modric will help us keep the ball when we do score first and be able to provide creative attacking options when level or down. In Ramos, we trust...

LLTK26, you're right: Defoe is quicker.

AngryYid, I don't mind people having differing opinions, but when those opinions are bandied about the place with little rhyme or reason, you must expect some rebuttals.

Berbatov contributed 15 goals and 9 assists to our EPL campaign: a remarkable feat. So much so, that news of his imminent departure has spawned much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

But what was the boy wonder doing in this time? Chipping in with 15 goals and 5 assists. Not so far off Golden Boy, is it?

So, I take umbrage at: statements like: He'll be shit at Liverpool! Why? What is this based on?

All things considered, I think "do you watch football" is as polite a riposte as is deserved, and isn't stooping low by any stretch of the imagination. Now, had he said" "Your parents, they aren't brother and sister by any chance, are they", then you would have had a point.

This story is absolute BS!! Although I must admit i love reading the articles on this site. But lets be honest lads any1 could say that their missus works at the hospital where spurs players take they're medicals.

angryid

i agree on different styles of play and keeping keano will help us do this;

Without him we cannot play Berbs on his todd (excuse the pun) as only Modric can really claim to be an offensive midfielder (he has bad ahir, whether thats offensive is debatable).

We must keep Keano to play different styles, this is why defoe went to the navy barracks

Is there a moral to this tale? If the signing of Bentley is a fact (and thanks to BigYid, Mrs BigYid and HH for the info), then is there a message in all of this?

I mean, why wouldn't Bentley, Dos Santos, Modric and (potentially) Capel go to a (current) top four club? Is it because some players (intelligent, maybe?) are beginning to feel a sense of revulsion at the Molochs swallowing up talented players? Is it because they recognise that life exists outside Man Yoo, C2e1sea, Ar5ena1 and Pool? Why not? Maybe a spirit of adventure and ambition still exists in a few intelligent players - qualities which they believe can be expressed and realised at Spurs.

I'm not unaware that there will be financial and material inducements to obtain the services of new players. Nor that, for some, the decision to sign may be based on convenience. But maybe there are some professionals who still desire to rise to a real challenge, rather than catch a lift on the easy, tried-and-tested ride of a big four juggernaut. Maybe they want to be part of Juande's 'project'.

No matter if Keane is going to Pool. If he is, it would be, for him, a decision based on emotion. Why else would he turn his back on what appear to be an exciting turn of events at the Lane?

Everyone in the Premier League bar the top four wants to see the the vice-like grip the top four have on their position broken. Spurs are deploying their troops for an assault on the citadel. Come on you Spurs!

Lennon's the fastest player at Spurs (apologies if someone already said that).
Anyway - I don't want Keane to go but I wouldn't begrudge him wanting to leave if LFC are really in for him. He's 27 and he wants a good few years shooting for the Champions League. He might get that with us but he will deffo get it with LFC - who he supported as a lad. Problem is LFC can't afford him. They can't afford Barry at the moment without selling Alonso. So how the F* can they afford the 20 mill it would take to shift Keano as well?

PS I reckon Berbs is off to Barca. Which means our entire midfield and attack and 2 of our defenders (King and Bale) will be different to last season - That is a nightmare scenario. Hello mid-table mediocrity - goodbye season ticket.

angryyid fair point about the other top 4 playing one up, but i still think they are as good as any partnership in the league, and that was the original point i was making.

toddspur hopefully we will have a settled back line next season, players like Woodgate, Hutton & Bale are still fairly new, and if we can keep them fit along with King - our problems at the back could be solved once and for all!

angry@angryyid good name by the way. it simply is my opinion that we dont kill teams of and i just feel with a bit more pace up top especially late in games when can do so. its always us conceding late goals how about scoring a few for a change. i simply want a striker who can get one on one with the last defender and roast him not hold it up and wait for someone else. we are never gonna be a great defensive unit its not our style but we have good defenders maybe the midfield doesnt help at either end at vital stages. i agree where the crucial goals from the middle there wasnt many and like you said the signings will improve this but my point is simply to have a different outlet. SORRY to who ive affended but its just the way i feel but saying so i am 1000% confident with ramos

LLTK26

Think you are right but the secret lies with with Ramos, if he made us go for the juggular then imagine the fun we'd have!

does anyone think we have gone of the subject slightly?

Capt10

damn right, the keano issue is bigger than Bentley.

THIS IS CONFIRMED ON THE SKY SPORTS WEBSITE:

Bentley is not a Yid. That may not surprise you much. However, what will surprise you is that neither are Modric, dos Santos or Gomes.

Yes, Sky Sports has unveiled the shocking transfer hoax that Messrs Levy and Ramos have pulled off. I decided to look at skysports.com's "completed transfers by league" section and found that none of the aforementioned players have been signed.

On a lighter note, the good news is that we have signed a player called Gilberto from Hertha for £2 (yes, that's TWO POUNDS!) and his namesake Gilberto da Silva for an undisclosed fee.

They really don't pay those poor blokes at skysports.com enough...

Going Back to the original subject. I for one would be delighted to have David Bentley at The Lane next season. Let it happen Juande....let it happen!!

I agree Toddspur, and the thought of him going makes me an angryyid too

I honestly don't understand the disgruntled barrage of mutterings aimed at the strikeforce. It represents the cream of the Premiership in terms of results - and you can take that to the bank at 7% interest.

The fact that our defence doesn't turn up against weaker opposition is the reason we have relegation defensive stats, combined with Manchester United-esque attacking stats.

This article sums up perfectly what is wrong at Spurs: LINK

It's true that the top four and even the top continental sides prefer the 4-2-3-1 or 4-5-1 and they do thrive with it, but from what I've read about Ramos, he's a strict 4-4-2 man. And angryyid, I know what you mean about having pace on a counter when up by a goal, but Benty's proven that that doesn't always work as well as planned. It's not like you can pick up a pacy, dribbling, deadly finishing striker at the corner store. They're a little harder to come by. But what we do know with Ramos' former team is that he likes to play with the ball at pace, not necessarily with players with pace. I mean, he did have Kanoute up front, not exactly bags of pace there. Oh, and I've considered changing the name to notasangry@angryyidanymore, but it doesn't quite roll off the tongue does it?

yes cap10 but going back to it just because bigyid misses said so doesnt mean its done lol but i think bentley will i was abit iffy at first but he will improve us but i am a fan off lennon dont wanna see him go but looks likely

supersub

appatrently they gave hertha 58p back in change

lol @ angry@angryyid agreed i do feel we should change to a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 sometimes saying that its a reason ramos will want to keep keane as it can interchange during games i suppose

and we prob. still tryed to pay in installments

bigyids missus is a real gem, can you imagine her waxing onto her fellow suffering wives about how her fella is a fuckin pain in the arse Yiddo and all the time she knew more about our club than him. if she wasnt so well connected id bin her!

quality, no offence bigun, but i,m still chucklin at this

CAPT10
lets hope not is Euros mate, it would break us financially

toddspur, dont you think this just sums women up haha

forgetting everything im more worried about a DM im not sure we are going to sign one which is very worrying and we do we get all this cash lol its crazy but fun

angryyid ur still bitter about defoe leaving, i have a friend like you who loved defoe he is now big enough to admit that keano is a better all round player. keane has scored more goals in every season from when he joined the club apart from one season! i would love as much as u for berba 2 stay but would berba score as many goals if keane wasnt doing the running for himself and berba???!! Keane might moan at the ref but that shows passion! if im wrong please correct me but i think keane won player of the year last season!!? what we GOT 2 learn is selling your best players wont get you champions league football like selling carrick!

KEANE HAS NOT HANDED IN A TRANSFER REQUEST STOP READING THE SUN AND SHIT WEBSITES LIKE FANSFC AND TRIBAL FOOTBALL!!

yep, you cant live with em and you cant live with em......never a truer word said

Todd, we could have used that 58p to sign Sergei Rebrov before the end of the current season (1999-2000). Sky Sports claim that would have saved us approximately £10,999,999.42

tottenham2idie just one thing defoe scored more when they played together but you could argue jermaine was greedy the other years jermaine played a lot less games mate but this was not the point by the way.

shit yeh, good maths mate, did you use a calc?!?!?

No offence to bigyids mrs,but why do we take her word that Bentley is coming? There has been no word from us,LFC or Robbie Keane and yet we're up in arms that he's potentially leaving. Is this not a red top attempt to upset the squad as they finally see us as the closest we've come to breaking up the SKY4?

i can picture it now, BigYid comes home from work happy, Mrs Bigyid asks why he's so happy, he says its due to Spurs signing this new player and she tells him she had seen some guy by that name in the hospital doing the medical a week ago,and prob finishes with 'you only had to ask me i could have told you that'

No, calculators haven't been invented on skysports yet

Yidagend

you aint met bigyids missus obviously.........look out!!

Fair point but the bigun has put his balls on the line to be shot down so give credit where its ude mate

CAPT10

She probably thought some bloke who played footy parked his Bentley in the hospital car park.....when bigyid asked about the car he drove she said it was a black one with lots of shiny bits

Without trying to sound negative etc, I dont believe a transfer story until the player is there, holding the spurs shirt.

Mainly because of how embaressed i was a few years ago when it was announced on sky sports news that we had signed duff. I started to put duff in the spurs team like wed signed him, whilst comparing him to my m8s everton player on the left etc.

then we didnt sign him, n he went to the barcodes.

well done on a great career move btw damien, no trophies, no european footy, n 3/4 of the season out injured.

hope bentley is true tho, ramos obviously thinks our midfield is s**t tho lol.

COYS

Come to think of it, I saw a tree that looked like David Bentley driving a Bentley in Bentley Wood yesterday, and the way it was waving its branches suggested that it had signed for Spurs, but didn't have a driving licence.

I used to work with a bent lee.

lol, gotta go chaps, when i wake up and see Robbie slating the red tops and pledging his undivided love for Spurs i will be a happy man

The Prince has lost his crown. LINKfacets/football/sport-space/great-britain-locale/

toddspur - didn't mean to berate him (or her), just amazed at how we get so wound up about potentially losing RK (which I personally think would be terrible) when nobody has any iota of fact behind it. Beyond he is a childhood Pool fan. Roy Keane was a childhood Spurs fan but he chose ManUsa over us!

Right, im off, lets look forward to a brighter day, more top draw signings and keeping what we have

so is this revelation still based on Big Yid's
tale of the medical??

I'll believe it when i see it..

Harry??

Hands up if you believe Big Yids Missus?

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(formerly Jason Bartley) although im still called that...i think. at home at least!

Something concerning... According to the Spurs official site, Dos Santos is listed as a striker. He has mentioned that he joined for first team footy? Do any of you chaps know if the web-site profiles represent the internal squad role, of if there is a more tenuous link? I had felt that Dos Santos's role would have been AM/Wing but if his squad role is Forward/Striker then I don't envisage him starting too many matches alongside Keano.

Keano has been my favourite player virtually since he signed (I was gutted when he signed for Leeds as I thought we'd missed the boat), so I really hope that he stays! The man is world class - ask the president of Inter!

Big Yid is a highly esteemed geezer and consequently I'll put the rent on this.



Er...if my landlord is reading this...

harry - surely a medical does not constitute a done deal though...what else makes you so sure?

I would be very sad to see keane leave as he has been a great servant to the club and seeing him lift the cup last year was a high point in my life...however, i can see where angryyid is coming from. When we get infront in games which we do on a very regular basis we find it tough to hang on to the lead and kill teams off. This is imo down to several reasons, as we are all well aware we dont have a ball winner in midfield and the defensive (bar woodgate and king when he played) looked shaky and goals were frequently conceeded. But also because when we are hanging on in a game berba and keane are players who drop too deep and almost invite pressure onto us as teams know we dont have the ability to hit the ball over the top.
Last season spurs were far, far too one dimensional, we need options. If we hang on to our best players and continue to purchase players of the calibre we have done already in the positions we need, i think we'll suprise a few other sides next season and could do very well. Also, i am going to be in America for most of next season so i think we'll have our best season in recent memory because of that commonly known, sods law.

Anyways, good news on Bentley COYS!

keano aint goin nowhere!! dont think dos santos will play up top...always played on the wings for barca!! good news about bentley he is a big improvement but hope lennon stays aswell!!!

I don't like your headline. "Bentley is a yid" Bentley is a Spur would be more appropriate. Before I go any further I must point out that I am not a racist, but am fed up to the back teeth of reading about the Spurs yids.
I know about 30 Spurs fans and none are Jewish. Spurs are a great north London team supported by many different races and cultures and are not controlled or supported by just one race!!!!

also ive heard before that robbie keane was a celtic fan not liverpool??!!!!

A medical is absolutely not a done deal. You're right, but given the all the infromation before the court... I find it increasingly difficult to believe he won't be Lilywhite next season. Let's wait and see.

i hope you are right too

I had this thought:

villa let us have bentley (i.e. no bidding war), in exchange for lennon.
we also take lifelong spurs fan, gareth barry off of their hands for the money we get from liverpool for robbie keane (and they also lay off barry!)

pie in the sky maybe, but it would solve a lot of problems and rumours!!

also, a guy on glory-glory claims to be mates with bentley and he was on holiday with him a couple of weeks ago. He says that bentley has not left NW england since his return from holiday...

Ian.

It is well documented that opinion on the use of the word Yid is divided. I noticed when I posted on Football Fancast the word was 'doctored' into 'spurs fan.' They have a cracking operation over there and obviously feel like you do.


Unfortunately, for you, I use the word often enough, so you made need to look away.

Angryyid, I'm with you to certain extent, I don't want Keane to go, but I want to see a striker with pace who is more clinical on goal. A lot has been said about the Berbatov being a miserable whinging cunt, but at least he has the other player's ineptitude to fall back on. You have to admire Keane's work rate and passion, but on a lot of occasions the little fella looks down right clumsy. OK, he's scored 100 goals in 5 years, but that's what he's paid to do. Most half decent strikers should be scoring 20 goals a season in all competitions. I also haven't see Keane (or Berbatov for that matter) scoring many goals against the better teams, especially away from home. As I said, I don't want him to leave, but I'm not going to allow sentiment to get in the way of the truth that there are better strikers than Keane out there.

TMWNN, Keane this season alone scored once against Chelsea, once at the Emirates, twice at Anfield and also one at Old Trafford in the FA cup I believe. Maybe you didn't watch those games?

What a load of pish, not one paper have seen anything. Neither have Sky Sports, so we are meet to believe that this is a real story. Bentley might come to the lane. But for him to have a medical already is laughable. I think everyone should just wait til something is said on our offical website, or evens Blackburns. Not here.

dawaxman, the bad news is that THIS season there are an abundance of shit sources... and good ones... ...that have gone shit.

So far this window I have NOT published nore often than I have. Look at Archibald. Great snout. But he announced medicals for Dunne & Ferdinand. Absolute cobblers. Tough times.

correction, he scored at whl against the scum, not the emirates, sorry.

Reven, I for one will take your fantastic advice. I'll knock this shite on the head and will log on to the OS and spend the rest of my life hitting F5 with that metal prong on a headband the doctor gave me. Cheers.

I think too many people are being short sighted when it comes to what Bentley has to offer. Maybe it is the scum connection but remember he jumped ship and I hold my hat off to him for that and it highlights the shitty system they got down the road at the imigrants. Bentley a welcome addition in my eyes...gonna give us soo much more defensivly than Lennon ever did or could - in terms of presence and physical strenghth......oh and he can also deliver a Beckhamesq kind of ball

As for the comments Keano can go cos we need to take it to that "next leve"..........what a crock of shit....Mr Tottenham.....Mr Passionate....you've seen him fight for every decision, every foul, every single deflection....he is such a talent, so clever and I would like to lower myself and give anyone who pays their money week in and week out like I do a naughty right hander for stating utter rubbish. Whatver the weather Keano is there for us earning the right to wear our shirt. Who else do we have a song about having 11 same players in the team?

lol Revan see my post above about skysports.com, you definitelty won't find any current news (or accurate news) there, according to them we haven't signed Modric or dos Santos yet, and we bought Gilberto twice for just £2!

supersub - i don't think we have signed modric...

he needs a work permit (as does gomes!)

Get your binoculars over this....

LINK

harry - thats an old article...check out the last sentence!

Mate, it's dated the 25th. And that was my point......

The medical was on the..... 24th. Inconclusive, but bloodt interesting coincidence,no?

dawaxman - It's dated 25th June, which fits in with the story in the headline about BigYid's 24th June medical sighting.

that should be bloody with a 'y'. That'll learn me for swearing...

i get it - sorry

Harry - I think it's strange how you have suddenly "stumbled upon" this article now, which just happens to totally back up BigYid's wife's info.

Maybe it's just a conspiracy/hoax between you and BigYid... or maybe you are BigYid in disguise ;-)

Robbie Keane has been one of the most consistent strikers our club has had in years. He creates chances for others. He's unselfish and an all round team player. He never gives up and is a real fighter. He shows massive love and respect for Tottenham.

All those of you suggesting otherwise are talking absolute bollocks which suggests to me that you don't see many matches or you're gooners in disguise.

To say it would make any sense whatsover to let him leave is utter shite I can't believe any of you are true Tottenham supporters.


Harold pass me the Port.

Sicknote, you were right the first time, Keano scored at the immigrants against the gooners, it was bale who scored at the lane

I Like Pie.

This IS Relevant.

Your Comments please?

Glad to hear the news. I have two theories as to why there is no announcement, one is that bentley hasn't signed official documents (tho we seem to have announced enough this summer without work permits let alone medicals and personal terms) so that brings me to the 2nd theory and that is that Lennon is going the other way and hasn't agreed terms,etc. or it could be a combination of both if both teams want to make sure there aren't complications.

Any other thoughts on this?

go on then aaron - i am game, what you on about?

sicknote, especially for you. In the League, which is where we should be looking, top fucking four and all that, Keane totalled 13 goals (two were pens). He scored 6 against the top 10 teams home and away, 3 and 3. Although far from a disaster, especially as he was playing in front of a bunch of cunts, it's hardly prolific. Once more, I like Keane, but all the jumping up and down, finger wagging, badge kissing, Tottenham loving, potato growing in the world cannot dispute the fact that he's good, but not great.

supersubadam_g: I think it may be you who has just stumbled on this article. Part of my job is to hoover up every piece of information and decide what's good and what's not so good.

This on it's own is at best okay. Then I get eyewitness reports. Two. Then today's news.

I've got loads more where this came from but if I ran 90% of it today, you and the rest of the world would say, 'So what?'

Also Harry, do u know how the Gomes deal is going?
I kno we agreed a fee (anyone know how much???), but any news on his medical and personal terms?

Think its someone fucking about because if that was true why is it not on ssn and is only only this blog and not on other websites???

James: No and no. Sorry.

Not sure how I feel on this one TBH, I like his get up and go but still not sure - the way I always try to see light is to ask myself, would he get into the chavs team, manure? I would like to think we are making some headway into the top four, I just dunno

Well you see, pie is the key to all transfers.
If the agents didnt eat their pies, then no transfers would ever go through because the agents would die of a lack of pie.

Thats my theory, its a good one though.

Anybody got a better theory?

Well done yet again Harry...The drooling thing about Bentley is just watch every time he gets the ball his eye is on the delivery into the box.

sicknote, especially for you. In the League, which is where we should be looking, top fucking four and all that, Keane totalled 13 goals (two were pens). He scored 6 against the top 10 teams home and away, 3 and 3. Although far from a disaster, especially as he was playing in front of a bunch of cunts, it's hardly prolific. Once more, I like Keane, but all the jumping up and down, finger wagging, badge kissing, Tottenham loving, gun-toting, potato growing in the world cannot dispute the fact that he's good, but not great.

Harry,I like the Sexy Beast quote, part of that trailor could be Juande asking Jenas to make the DM position his own-

Jenas- I'd be useless.
Ramos- Useless?
Jenas- I would be.
Ramos- In what way?
Jenas- In every fucking way.

I think it's mental that you have got 170 posts this quickly. No wonder all the other sites hate you so much Harry... Bentley, Modric, Hudd and GDS across the park with Hutton and Bale bombing on... I have just come. I almost don't care who we end up with up front; with that sort of service, I could see Bent and Crouch ending up with 20 each! That said, if we can hold on to both RK and Berba, we should be fucking rolling next season! BIOYC!

Bloody hell, if your going to believe tosh like that, you might as well use one of those premium rate lines, you know the ones i mean £3.50 a minute to find out about some Liverpool, Chelsea or Manu supporters wetdream! You know 0800TALKINGBOLLOCKS

Honestly, if you believe Bentley has had a medical at Spurs 5 days before he is due back at Rovers, then your obviously, well... erm... a Spurs fan i suppose! lol

I know for a fact, he has NOT had any medical.

We have not received ANY bid from Spurs or Aston Villa or Liverpool...

somebody lock me up, throw away the key.....

and let me out when the transfer window closes.

its driving me mad!!!

COYS

oh...and by the way tombo............fuck off

tombo= Ince?Ramos? no? then how the 'uck do you know? Theres a good few on here who beleive what hh says not as gospil but as work in progress.The only credible sourse i trust that comes up on newsnow. Have a bit of respect when you post Negative comments...or its open house on u!! you sound like a goonie,tosser!!

lesoo: Work in progress is very fair. I'll have that...

TMWNN: Nice one, Cyril

On the Keane situation - I personally love the bloke and would hate to see him go. But as food for thought... what if JonRam's looking to go 4-3-3 next term, much the way the Germans played in Euro (Podolski and Bastian S. behind Klose up front)? If so, Berb (assuming he stays) or Bent could opperate alone up front with GDS and Bentley on the wings. No need for Keane then. Middle 3 would be Mod, JJ, Thudd (or Zok/Steed), with Hutton & Bale as WB's. Just a thought.

Good morning H. Just telling the world the truth,was just thinking I bet you got one of the broadest smiles around when a Rumor becomes fact,must be allmost as sweet as the signing itself? And thanks for the NEWS!!

That THBN site said that Bentley was going to have his medical on 24.06.2008 a few days before that date and they got slated for it.

If what yo say is right, then it seems as though they were right after all.

Keep up the good work Harry!

BTW, Have you completely disowned the blogger site??

FUCKING, EH!!!

To be fair THBN ran a story regarding the signing of Bentley 3 or 4 days before the 24th, including the proposed date of the medical. At first glance it looks like the article Harry linked was written by some hack who had read it and decided to run with it. Anyone who read that article on THBN could have claimed to have seen Bentley on the 24th.

if we was to sell keano, crouch is NOT the answer, crouch is pathetic and tottenham would be making a big mistake to bring him in. hes shit!

I hope we havent paid more then 10 mill for bentley. After Chelsea we the biggest mugs when it comes to paying over the odds for average, unproven players

Calm down everyone. We are not going to get in the top 4 this year. Top 6 is our objective - and win a cup. We were in the bottom half last season remember. It will take 2 or 3 years to get where we want to be and that is only if we have a bit of stability. Things seem to be moving in the right direction so let's sit back enjoy the football. At least we won something last year - unlike Chelsea and Arsenal.

AranSpurs, nice theory, however is flawed.
Its a well known fact that "agents" dont have the ability to swallow, leaving said pies uneaton, however their wifes on the other hand swallow regular. This means it leaves the agents "Happy" and lots of other men.
So the key is Happy, not Pie.

God bless tombo.... he's getting all angry about one of his clubs players wanting to leave the pits of Blackburn for the bright lights of the big smoke!! I mean doesnt he know the streets are paved with gold in london town???

Or the fact could be that bored with playing for a team that has been punching above its weight due to a very shrewd, clever manager in Mark Hughes, Bentley has now seen that Blackburn could be the next club to hit the slippery slope of the relegation zone. Eager to not get stuck with another Norwich situation Bentley has decided to join a club thats hitting the gas and determined to push for a top 4 finish. OH..... AND WE HAVE EURPOPEAN FOOTBALL!!

In all seriousness we have seen it happen before. A club has a great manager who does fantastic with the resources he is given. The manager leaves, the best players see that the manager was the one making them the team they were, they leave. The club replaces the manager and players with second rate individuals. The club gets sucked into the relagation zone and in the worst case scenario, gets relegated.

As much as i like Ince i think the Blackburn job may be too much too soon for him and if Blackburn lose Bentley, Santa Cruz and a few other players then i fully expect to see them struggle this year!

Glad to see someone from the club has come out to rubbish the story about keano. I think some of these journalists should be prosecuted sometimes for making these rumours up.

KEEP KEANE
KEEP STEED

HARRY

Any news on any imminent departures from spurs? is Big Tony off to stoke / Boateng leaving to join toni & guy UTD?

HoxtonBoy, less of the pragmatism, please. A good start is the key, and if Ramos can get the team gelling quickly, who knows? The way we're going,nearly half the team will have had no Premier League experience, so depending on how quickly they can adapt will also be a factor.

Pleased about Bentley and I think this squad is already better than the one that missed out on CL footy on the last day of the season.

Seems very quiet on the DM front, perhaps Modric might be earmarked for the role?

TMWNN

I cant see Modric being the CDM. He is very much the playmaker and will be used to orchestrate the attacks.

I agree about the squad. Wwith the addition of Bentley, Modric, GDS and maybe Bostock aswell as Hudd & JJ our midfield has alot of options that we haven't had for a very long time. I also think Ramos will get Capel before the window shuts.

After watchin Modric in the Euro's and what we know of Bentley and GDS AND Bale & Hutton the delivery from wide positions and the incisive passing from midfield that Modric will give us will create many more chances for Keano, Berba (i think he'll stay). We know that if u give players like that good service then they will put the chances away.

CANT WAIT FOR THE PRE-SEASONS TO START!!

lol There's no talk of "top 6 and a cup" and "we're not gonna get top four this year" if you're a Spurs fan, HoxtonBoy. It should be "we're gonna win the title by the weekend and the Champions League a week later".

I'm as pragmatic as you, mate. But I think the die has been cast among many fans already without a ball being kicked.

HOPE WE HAVE NOT SPENT MORE THAN £5,000,000 FOR THIS INCONSISTENT OVERRATED PLAYER !!! WOULD RATHER GET IN WORLD CLASS THAN A GUY WHO CAN`T DISLODGE OLD AGE PENSIONER "BECKHAM" GO AND BUY "RONALDHINO" IF WE ARE A BIG CLUB NISTLEROOY AND HUNTELAAR AND ROBBIN AND SCHWEINSTEIGER THESE GUYS WILL GURANTEE US TOP "TWO" AND WHO KNOW`S IN EUROPE .

quick grab JD his bottle of realism! make it a strong dose too!

JS, I'd prefer to see Modric playing a more forward role too, it just seems that we haven't been linked with hardly any DM players (although the Modric signing came from nowhere) and he did play DM for Croatia.

Capel and Bentley attacking from the wings and cutting in with Bale and Hutton backing them up, Modric pulling the strings behind the front 2 and a DM behind him. How do you like that?

JD has named himself after the drink he has just consumed 5 pints of.

I think the bottle in question is JD and he's been on it at this early hour, shame on you, tut,tut.

Why do you read this prats site? Of course Bentley hasn't signed for the club and he hasn't undergone a medical. C'mon people surely you all have more intelligence than this... This is why Stock Markets go mad... Conjecture & Heresay... Dopes... Plus when they oust Harry from Spurs Odyssey where will he get his sources from...

I like it very much so! Do you think that with THUDD signing his new contract extension that Ramos will ask him to do the CDM role?? We all know he is a big unit, great passer of the ball. Could be that Hudd has listened to Ramos when told to sort his weight out. Maybe Ramos is pleased with Hudds progression and could ask him to fill the CDM role.

Only problem i see is that Hudd isnt very mobile and have never seen much of his tackling. If Hudd was told to just concentrate on doing that ONE posiiton then he could grow into it.

The worst case scenario could be that Zokora is CDM. Lots of energy and closing down but not as good as a passer of the ball as Hudd and not such an immovable object as Hudd either.

I very much object to someone taking my name!! Even if u have added a 1 onto the end! lol

We read this "prats" site because we want to. If you like Spurs odyssey so much then why dont u go on there and post crap that no-one wants to read?? Or is that their job??

Jamiespurs1: Why don't you take that stick out of your bottom and read what's actually written here, petal?

Spurs Odious haved nothing on Bentley. If they do and it's accurate, I'll let you know.

Still not sure about Zokora, in some games he looked the part, in other games he looked like the game was passing him by (playing with Jenas didn't help). Modric would obviously drop back when not on the attack and he looked like he can get stuck in when necessary.

In short, I don't think Zokora is good enough nor Huddlestone experienced enough to play CDM, would prefer yet another new face.

HH well done! i reiterate your sentiments!!

TMWNN.. agree on the CDM issue. Hudd is still young and Zokora just doesnt cut it for me.

I read that Pompey have slapped a £15m price tag on Lasanna Diarra's head to scare of Man City. Surely we can stick our necks out and use money from the imminent clear out to buy him. Even if we offer Kaboul in a player plus cash deal to 'ARRY! We all know how much he loves signing our rejects!

In short - Zokora is good for a 47 year old

Oi Harry, the mob at Spurscommunity are running this in there ITK section mate. Looking good,son. "

We've had this passed on to us. Not our usual source, just someone wanting to keep their anonymity.


Just got a phone call! my mate claims to of met a Blackburn player* at the aura bar in london tonight. He said that word is going round Blackburn players that Bentley will be gone before their pre season resumes on the 7th.


*Name removed to protect the player."

Diarra would be an excellent signing, like you say, must be able to work something out with Kaboul and a big bundle of boodle.

Enough Football manager for me, the daily grind awaits.

Well as Kaboul has been nothing short of inept since he joined us i can see the big bundle being a whole lot bigger!!!

anon,

I bet the play was Stuart Ripley

TMWNN! I feel i have to do the same!

ive lost count of the amount of players we been linked with! If we signed Bentley and (fingers crossed) capel we are looking at virtually a complete new midfield! Add to this the talk of all our strikers leaving- we could be starting next year with 6 new players in first team (Gk, 3 midfielders and 2 strikers) + return of bale who will be like new signing!
Some will say this is to much change but to be honest we have long needed a major re-shuffle- if the likes of Jenas and zorkora etc are left on the bench next season i will be well chuffed!
Would luv to see a defensive midfielder brought in to complete our new midfield four, maybe asking to much but you never know....
Oh and some more defensive cover please!
Something to ponder- can you imagine woodgate and king staying injury free and playing together with bale and hutton?! we can only dream....COYS

IN RAMOS WE TRUST!!! COYS

Harry helo... Just joined and love your site... How likely is it Bently will join this week? And any ideas why it is not on the big pages like sky sports news or bbc? Thanks

YOU CAN FORGET BENTLEY FOR NOW!
a proper ITK has said the following -

"As for Bentley...I find it impossible to believe he would go for a medical and risk being seen - that would be an illegal approach. Spurs are obviously trying to do something here, but they don't have the cash to buy him. It would HAVE to be a swap. In fact he will probably have to take less wages there than he could have got at Rovers"

Hes a journo for the big papers. Blackburn fan. He posts on BRFCS.com.
even has his own thread

LINK

he also says hes spoken to Lennons agent (arron, not john) a few times and theres no swap deal on the horizon.
spurs have little cash left! The only way you could afford him is a cash/player deal!

I have been trying to imagine KING staying fit for about 3-4 years now!! always turns into another injury nightmare though!! lol

I think Hutton and Bale are going to have a huge part to play this season! Keano and Berba are going nowhere!!

Kaboul is not inept. He was dropped in at the deep end at the beginning of last season and we were forced to field him alongside the relatively inexperienced Dawson, an makeshift out-of-position left back and behind an inadequate defensive midfield/er. Too many are too quick to judge some of our younger players.

Diarra has, again, publically affirmed his intention to stay at Portsmouth.

I would expect Rocha to leave WHL ahead of Kaboul.

Jamie - you said: 'Glad to see someone from the club has come out to rubbish the story about keano.'

Where did you get this from? Obliged if you could supply a link.

Muchas gracias por favor

Re the Keane story, just noticed this from The Mail :

"The Reds boss is willing to offer Peter Crouch as a makeweight in any deal plus £5million cash. Spurs manager Juande Ramos, like Benitez, is strapped for cash this summer, and Liverpool hope his interest in Crouch could clinch the deal. "

Juande strapped for cash ? Liverpool hope his interest in Crouch will encourage him to sell his top scorer?

What a load of bollocks !

BigSOCCERFanME: Morning!

Alan Nixon is the man you have strangely put on a medium sized pedestal there, yet not named.

Is that in case the fact that he writes for The People in someway steals from your Hoo Haa?

There is a probably a bloke on an Sandcastle making site with 'own thread' too somewhere outhere in Lollypop Land.

Big shakes.


Next...............

BigSOCCERFanME

How can he expect to drop his wages?? I read an article in the guardian last week stating that Blackburn were in the red financially speaking. Jack Walker's holding company have withdrawn their funding for the first time since he bought the club. Blackburn do not sell out week in week out and combined with their relatively low income area, they cannot put their prices up, this does not spell good financial news for Blackburn. The likelihood is that Blackburn will have to take offers for their better players in order to keep the club funded. I expect players like Santa Cruz and Bentley to be on their way out before the start of the season.

And as for Spurs having little cash left, I find this very hard to believe. The board is backing Ramos big time and if they hae just had a bid for £12.5m turned down for Capel i do not see this as Spurs running out of money.

The imminent clearout will raise more funds and Ramos will be given whats raised from those sales to reinforce his squad. If you look at the funds we can raise by selling unwanted players and the fact that we obviously have £12.5m to spend already it shows that we have enough money to buy Bentley if needed to.

Bentley has let the board know he wants to leave. Spurs are obviously in the market for him, Blackburn are selling and Spurs are buying, is it not conceivable that Blackburn have let him take the medical as a transfer is imminent??

Oh yeah, on the money front Nixon is clueless and to add, without a fucking clue. We are in an incredibly strong position financially and have been for some time.

Our revenue streams not including horse trading with players leaves us able to compete with and exceed the competition of virtually any club in Europe. What hold us back is that we're Tottenham!

Chirpy

I kind of agree with u on the Kaboul front but i just think that he is another player who is shellshocked by our early season form. Robbo obviosuly suffered more than most and wil need to leave to resurrect his career and get his head back on track.

I feel the same can be said for Kaboul. He looked stunned in some games and whilst still having potential his comments about Ramos have obvioulsy not helped his cause. Ramos doesn't like the look of him and unfortunately for Kaboul what Ramos says seems to be the gospel at the moment.

Its a shame that he cannot fulfil his potential at Spurs but i think in this stage of the Tottenham 'project' we cannot be found waiting for players to come good. We need players who are going to make an instant impact and players who Ramos wants at the club

Kaboul isnt one of them.

HARRY HOTSPUR.....

TAKE A BOW SON!!

Blackburn fans are obviously and understandably worried about losing their best players, I mean look at us with the Keano story!

Unfortunately for them they are little old mining town Blackburn!

WE are the mighty, forward thinking, money is no object giants of the underachieving world Tottenham Hotspur!!

Nunchucks

Forgot where i read it. May of been the telegraph sports site. I'll have a look and stick a link up.

any chance big yid's missus can photocopy the medical report and scan it in so we can all see it and shut the doubters up!?

Nunchucks

LINK

The key part is - 'Robbie Keane’s future at White Hart Lane looks to be more secure tonight, with Tottenham discrediting reports which claim that the striker has filed a transfer requested to leave the club.

Suggestions that Keane has asked for permission to move to Liverpool are believed to have been wide of the mark, yet Spurs remain keen to nip in the bud any speculation surrounding the player, making it clear that they will obstruct any move made to tempt the player away.'

Nicely done, sir.

no problem mate

good to know the club responds to unfounded rumours

I knew he would come to spurs, Liverpool cannot afford anyone or otherwise they would have bought Barry by now, they are also trying to buy Keane and can only pay out a meager £5 mil and Crouch!

Harry, the OleOle comment counter is a mysterious beast sometimes; I logged on recently and it said, to my surprise, that there were only three posts on this topic. Does it have the reliability of a second hand TVR or is it simply not including jamiespurs in its calculations

Chirpy

U must understand that when it comes down to work or talking about Spurs.... Spurs wins handsdown everytime!

I live in Glasgow and everyone up here is obsessed with Rangers & Celtic! I cannot get a half decent foootball conversation out of anybody!

Thats why i'm on here! lol

Lets take the conversation away from dire discussions about finance - I get enough of that at work. Lets talk more like the football fans we are. Saying we have got Bentley (and Harry I will be heart broken if its not true as I am going to take it as a given) what will the team be next season? What else do we need? What is the difference between us and the top four? Apart from - as you say Harry - the fact we are Tottenham (Super Tottenham from the Lane). The obvious aim of all this money spending is to get us into the top four. But lets be honest with ourrselves, are we going to have enough to compete with Gerrard, Rooney, Torres, Fabregas, Adebayor, Essien, Lampard, Deco, Scholes, Park, Ronaldo (!?), Rosicky, Mascherano, Obi Mikel, Van Persie, Ballack... You may well laugh at some of the players I have included there (Obi Mikel, Park, Mascherano..) but they are great players. I think you would be naive to say that Tottenham would not take anyone of them. Personally I would bite Kenyon or Gill arm off for either one of those players - and they are not even really the big timers.

Can we compete? What else do we need? Or a we just going to end up a very good cup team?

Paul Ince expects David Bentley to stay at Blackburn this summer after holding crunch talks with the England man.

Ince made it clear from his very first day in charge of Rovers that he would seek out both Bentley and Roque Santa Cruz in order to outline his vision for the future.

Bentley has made no secret of his desire to leave Ewood Park, claiming he wants to play at the highest level, and he has been linked with Liverpool, Tottenham and Aston Villa.

However, Ince has now spoken with his talisman, and he is hopeful Bentley will report for the new season.

“We are obviously going to have to deal with a lot of speculation,” Ince told the Lancashire Telegraph.

“But as far as I’m concerned, I want David here next season and I’m looking forward to seeing him on July 7 for pre-season training.”

Meanwhile, Ince admitted he is working round the clock in order to introduce ‘one or two’ new faces to Blackburn, with Heerenveen midfielder Michael Bradley, Turkish wideman Ugur Boral, Sweden international Fredrik Stoor and Tottenham’s Aaron Lennon all linked.

“Obviously I’d like to bring in one or two new acquisitions because that would help to freshen things up, which I feel is important,” said Ince.

“I’ve been making plenty of phonecalls and following up various leads but, at this moment in time, there’s nothing concrete to report.”

report from senatanta this morning i hope bentley is still on his way

Did "Big Yid" read the THBN story and state that his wife saw Bentley on the exact day that THBN predicted he would be having a medical?

Seems to me that there is a bit of a coincidence developing here.

Harry, maybe you shouldn't post all that you hear or read.

THBN did the same thing and they looked like mugs when they announced it. Now, they look like Mystic Meg, as they announced that Bentley had his medical a few days before the 24th.

Mystery that one!

COYS!!!!

Tottenhamhalls

I think Ince is being very optimistic! Blackburn are going to need the cash raised by the sales of players like Bentley and Santa Cruz

hekko.
Assuming Bentley will be/is on board, I really do believe we are only a quality DM away from being able to challenge for a top 4 spot.

It amazes me where some teams money goes. Take Blackburn for example, they get a lot of dough from Sky every year, yet, they always seem to need to sell in order to buy.

Why is that so?

I know that they only get about 72 people in a Ewood Park, but that still doesn't make sense to me.

They need a new commercial director. I'm interested Mr. Williams!!

ramos needs to work hard on our defence. he is clearly trying to help by adding players in midfield who can tackle (unlike lennon, jenas who are both good at going forward only).

we scored a lot of goals and this will hopefully continue. if we can stop conceding so many we should have a very good chance.

villa and blacburn should be a weaker prospect next season and everton will stay very much the same (lack of funds). west ham will not compete.

so in theory, we still need to push off efforts from everton and city and hope that liverpool and arsenal lose points (more so than last year).

if the above happens then we will finish in top 4.

I say let Berbatov and Keane go if they wanna go. Let Bent go to if he aint rated! I trust Ramos to find us a new strikeforce trio to do the business but that aint gonna happen overnight so let em go as and when it suits us ie when we have replacements lined up. Hold man u and liverpool to ransom i say and get silly money for em! New season new Tottenham!! It feels good to have a manager we can actaully trust to re-shape this club and thats why i dont really care who leaves this summer cause in ramsos we trust!!

Thats the guy harry. a genuine source close to Blackburn Rovers I believe. He doesnt have a cheap blog and an agenda to get cash through hits on his banners!

This is so made up its hilarious. I just feel sorry for the spurs fans who fall for your crud week in week out.

The medical was a week ago yet only YOU and BIGYID know, yet the BBC, SKY dont have a clue?!?! hahaa ok mate, ok!

Enjoy the £2.50 in ad revenue you got from making up this junk!

BigSOCCERFanME

"a genuine source close to Blackburn Rovers I believe."

YOU BELIEVE..... So if you believe then we have to believe?!?!

Its understandable that Rovers fans dont want tto see him go. But by believing some half arsed hack who writes for the bastion of truth that is the PEOPLE???

When was the last time they actually broke any news story??

And as for him being a genuine source close to Blackburn rovers.... How does that give him the inide track on Tottenhams finances??

Get back down your pit mate!

I do believe that both Harry and THBN have made a booboo on this article, or both are one and the same person?

Shaney T. I know what you mean. Looking at our team sheet at the moment its hard not to feel optimistic. However, it just seems for every exciting player we have all the other teams (at the top) seem to have a couple more. Do rememeber that Chelsea FA cup game when we were leading (I can only remember Hossam Ghaly's goal) and then Jose just chucked on about 60 million pounds worth of players. We didn't stand a chance. We have a large and decent squad but say a couple of injuries hit us or a player doesn't prove to be quite as useful as we thought (Boateng, Zokora, Kaboul, Gilberto, Bent, Lennon, Murphy...). Could I be adding Gomes, Capel, Dos Santos to that list? I was so optimistic about Zokora and Boateng but my enthusiasm was cruched after a while.

I agree on the DM part. I think we also need a CB - then we really would have a quality 'first' 11.

Gomes

Hutton CB Woody Bale

Bentley Modric DM Dos Santos

Keane Berbatov

Have to wonder how that team would fair against Wigan, Bolton, Chelsea and all the other dirters. It looks like a great team, but you need some subs there becasue it is a young team and I'll bet quite a few of those players will go missing regularly. I personally think we need two more 26-30 year olds. People with a bit experience. We benefited greatly when E Davids first came - added a bit of a winners mentality.

Can't think of anyone though? Then again I'm not the manager. Frings? Senna? Tiago? Alonso? Gattuso? Ambrosini?

I trust the boss to not fall on the sword offered by rafa da fafa. The project we have going here as gio say's is very exciting and TOO important to be sold away,just like that!!

jamiespurs. how tight is harrys hole?

shit, I honestly dont know how much cash you have left, youve spent alot so far. All i know is id rather believe an ACTUAL JOURNALIST than some wideboy with a blog!

Bentley will probably end up at spurs at some point. He thinks hes better than he is, so do you lot. peas in a pod!

as for the journo, hes broke quite a few stories that turned out to be true. they didnt get printed at the time.

I know you dont like the logic of what im saying, but dont be a big baby over it my chubby little friend!

BigSOCCERFanME

hes broke quite a few stories that turned out to be true. they didnt get printed at the time!!

Great line!! So what stories were these?? "Man shuts door, hurts finger whilst doing it""?? "Grandma loses 10p down the back of the sofa"

Those kind of stories was it???

I got breaking news for you...."man called BigSOCCERFanME found to be way out of his depth!"

Now be a good boy, go get your beef drippings and get back down that f*cking mine

I have two observations of considerable gravitas which, I feel, must come to light:

(a) Chirpy: I have had four second hand TVRs, and they are extremely mint driving machines.

(b) Thomas Harrison: Your avatar receives a standing ovation (!) from me. I feel a rusk coming on.

That will be all.

ding , ding !!

Oh dear. I have already said I welcome the signing of Bentley. Though not sure if we should proclaim it a done deal! I'm scared it'll go wrong now... I already said I don't want Keane to go, but think he could be tempted. I already said I don't give a monkeys if Berbatov goes. Now I hear on Skysports News that Darren Bent is up in Sunderland and could be on his way for 10 mill, and no-one has mentioned it! Shame IMO. Though I daresay some of you people who never gave him a chance last year will be pleased.

IAN. Calling ourselves "YIDS" is not a racial slur, nor is it meant to cause offence. It is simply the only ammunition rival teams had against our great club beacause Jewish people found it...so what did we do, embraced it and use it against the same rival fans. Being a Yid to me symbolises being a part of the Tottenham family, I am proud to call myslef it as it shows that nobody can even attempt to put me down calling me. I am a yid, always be a yid and completely proud to be one. YID ARMY

jamiespurs - HAHA out of my depth!? who the hell are you? HILARIOUS! big time mate, you are BIG TIME!

Seriously though, Id doubt an article that state BENTLEY IS A YID only for the author to say later on "A medical is absolutely not a done deal".

Im not from Blackburn either, you wide twit.

MS-thats sad news if thats true,i never like to see a player sold, well not unless his name is Vega!!

bigSOCK any one got a bigSOCK?

Very well said Sir H!! i applause you!!

BigSoccerFan. The essence of this sight is not purely to provide news and fact. This site is a blog - to discuss issues surrounding Tottenham.

The people who come on hear enjoy deliberating over a lot of trash about spurs - I am included in that. We know full well a lot of what we're talking is rubbish and hypothetical, but are you telling me you don't enjoy talking and reading a bit of trash every so often? I have a fairly intense job - not at the moment mind you - so talking spurs is somewhat of a break and a hobby. This site - of what I've found - is generally the best blog (and occasionally a reliable source of news).

You've come on here giving it the whole high and mighty I know best bollocks. You're absolutely no better though. No better informed. No more knowledgable. Your just being a bit of twat. SOmebody has (possibly) had a primary source which implies Bentley could be moving to Tottenham. You have a mate who is a Journo. Whats better? Really not worth discussing.

I guess the gist of what I'm trying to say is: sod of SoccerPerson.

You should all let the opposition sing it, LET IT FIRE THE PLAYERS!!

Bentley didn't have his medical on the Tuesday! He wasn't even in London on the Tuesday! I know he's done in London now for a few days but he has NOT had a medical yet!

yiddo4ever

i think you should know that the comment above regarding the term yid is by the same harryhotspurs and not harryhotspur, the author of this blog

I think we all know the 'poster' harryhotspurS is not the custodian of this site, one harryhotspur. yiddo4ever, you and the aforementioned imposter are cocks of the first order.

PS: the Yids are not a race; Judaism is a religion

JONNNYTWOSAINTS if you are correct i am a fool and i apologise to harryhotspur (author of the blog) and i re-direct my comments to that prick who wrote them a Mr 'harryhotspurs!!

ya i wouldn't be sorry to see him go MS.. you know what i think of him.. but at the same time i've no problem with him staying so long as the other two lads stay..

hekko
Agree, another defender is required. Dunne, Diaz or Cuellar would be my guess.

I've heard that there is a list of DM's were looking at with Veloso being at the top along with Palombo and Ernst. Im quite confident that we have made an offer for Veloso, but so have Milan. Lets hope beauty is subjecive in this instance.

Not winning that particular Chelsea game was more down to tactical deficiency than personnel.

Not so sure Dos Santos was bought to play on the left, I believe he will be our 4th striker. If we do sign Capel this will only confirm this in my mind.

I was intrigued to see how much mileage you were going to get before the penny dropped, Yiddo4Ever. A most amusing tirade.

BigSOCCERFanMe,

Read what you posted:

"As for Bentley...I find it impossible to believe he would go for a medical and risk being seen - that would be an illegal approach. Spurs are obviously trying to do something here, but they don't have the cash to buy him. It would HAVE to be a swap. In fact he will probably have to take less wages there than he could have got at Rovers"

Firstly, what BigYid said was that his bird, who works in the hospital that the medical may or may not have been conducted, checked the records and confirmed that they had a David Bentley have a medical on Tuesday. Not last week or at WHL (as was mentioned on the thread that you posted).

Secondly, your ITK discusses HIS OPINION, NOT an inside source. Therefore, how can you say you believe him anymore than any old person on the street saying “I find it hard to believe Man Utd will not sell Ronaldo”. That’s bullshit it’s no more reliable.

Thirdly, he goes on to suggest that we do not have the finances to either buy or meet his wage demands. Whilst it’s true we have a strict wage structure in place, I imagine he’ll match the top wage earners and I sincerely doubt that Blackburn could exceed that. Now that’s my opinion as I haven’t a clue how much Blackburn pay. I just doubt they could match a club that is in the top 15 richest in the world, which played in Europe last season, won a cup and has the second richest owner in the premiership. We have spent less than we did last season and as Jamiespurs mentioned we just had a 12.5 million bid for Capel rejected so we hardly skint!

Whilst you’re right your ITK doesn’t have advertising or even his paper to sell, he is only giving his opinion and I take that as I do any story or info from an ITK and that with a pinch of salt till I see the player holding the shirt.

I suggest you leave these nice people and their hopes and aspirations alone and you go back to discussions about signing a right back on that incredibly boring link you posted…

yiddo4ever

I agree with your assessment of harryhotspurs.

Hello fello Yids!My first post...but liked arry's work !BENTLEY in for a good price is good news as i think he would work hard to prove the goons wrong with good supply.BUT worried about the rumours about Super Crouch (crutch... spurs reject)dont want bentey lumping crosses just to him all day...ow no.Keane should stay as a supersub cos if he stays how many of DB crosses would he nod in?is CAPEL a no go?can they say only a spanish buy out clause and does he want to come?
p.s to join do i go onto ole ole AND does ramos run the site???

The bentley thing was mentioned on tottenham world as well, there is definetly a strong rumour goin round on this one. I dont understand why people are saying he has had medical, it wouldnt make sense would it when there would appears to be no fee agreed between the clubs and Ince has been quoted as saying he is hoping bentley will stay. Even if Bently had told Ince he still wanted to leave, there is still a process ot go through before a medical can take place yeah? Fee agreed, terms agreed etc etc? To be honest i wouldnt be that sad if this signing doesnt happen, i dont like the players attitude, i mean will he wanna dump us after a year or so? For the first time ever i dont really care who Tottenham sells and brings in, i have complete confidence in the job Ramos is gonna do with us and if he decided to replace all our current strikers so be it. I personally dont rate Gomes that much but if Ramos thinks he is the answer then thats fine by me.

harrynotmesirs is gone.

"Wide boy with a blog" Are you suggesting I get my trousers made especially? Either way you're an imbecile who's waiting for the day he's promoted to Village Idiot.

Chirpy, i thought i had come across the biggest prick on this site with Harryhotspurs but you take the biscuit!! What grounds do you have to attack me then by saying im a cock of the first order? this coming from someone who goes by the name 'chirpy'? Yeah i messed up but have apologised for it accordingly so shut it Chirpy!

Looking at the team for next year, with Bent probably on his way I reckon Dos Santos will be used as cover for the pointy bloke and Crouch may well come in as cover for the sulky bloke. Providing, of course, that neither leave.

ST

Dunne was what I was hoping for. He's a leader, he is strong, excellent positioning, brings a bit of experiennce, and I think he would complement the class of Woody. Not sure if it is going to happen with Hughes in charge - he strikes me as a fairly convincing character.

I'm not surprised about Veloso. And even though its only a list at the moment, at least it shows we're looking. I see it as a problem are for us at the moment.

I thought Dos Santos was primarily a striker. But when I heard he came to Tottenham to play a lot of first team games I assumed they would find a different position to accomodate him. Thinking that he wouldn't be able to dislodge Keane or Berba. He can't be the replacement for either of those to, surely.

I've also heard he plays AMR - and likes to cut in a lot. But then why would we be going for bentley?

I know what you mean about the Chelsea game - I just think we stil haven't got fantastic depth. I reckon we should get a couple of old but experienced farts on the cheap. Gilberto wasn't a terrible call for cover me thinks.

I dont care if Bentley signs, overrated, anyway where does this thing about Spurs being jewish club come from?

History...

HARRY HOTSPUR, i hope you accept my sincere apology for wrongly assuming the stuff written by Harryhotspurs was you. I messed up mate, soz!
I never normally react to comments in the way i did but he wound me up. Nuff said. Keep up the good work with the gossip!

History?, complete crap, West Ham are in middle of Muslim area does not make them a Muslim club

yiddo4ever, what grounds do I have? None now as the offending posts have been removed. You have been big enough to apologise and for that I salute you and withdraw my earlier assessment...

... you are a second class cock at best... ;-) only joking fella. Apologies, sincerely.

Please don't confuse the word HISTORY with the word LOCATION.

If the provider of this information is the BigYid that I know, then I wouldn't trust it for a second. The guy is an attention seeking idiot.

If it'd not the Big Yid I now, then my apologies and GET IN!! Great signing

Johnnytwosaints, like the new avatar, you up on your reggea? Because every time I see your name I think of The Slickers song "Johnny too bad".

Sorry for the interrupton, you may now all resume slagging each other off.

Keep going on about history, tell me where in history Spurs suddently became a Jewish club?, was the club founded by a Jewish person?

So are you 'fans' saying we are not the 'Yid Army' then?
I cannot believe what im reading from some people really, and to compare with West Ham and the muslim community is ludicrus and completley irrelevant!! Will some one come on here and put the record straight on this 'yid' thing, i hav elost the will to live and cant be bothered to type any more!!

I think Dos Santos confirmed recently that he will be playing as a 'number 10'. Yeah he can play on the right too. His flexibility and ability to play in numerous attacking positions has made him a savvy investment IMO.

Bentley will most certainly be bought in to start on the right, with Lennon providing cover and an impact option from the bench.

Providing we get Bentley, another CB and a DM I think we will have a very good squad too. Jenas, Malbranque, Zokora and Huddlestone providing midfield cover.

Is looking good to me.

DeWolf1974, you are old enough and wise enough to know the answer to your own question, I assume your here to vent some kind of anger in the form of a rhetoric, following up with an argument. If you really want to know (and I assume you don't) Take a look here LINK or alternatively here LINK

Harry

Know the song, but not the slickers version.

Only version I can think of is UB40 but not sure if I should admit that

Thanx Chirpy, much appreciated. And soz for my rant at you mate.
COYS!

I am not Jewish but a Spursfan however I do not like being referred as a yid. I am just trying to find out why everybody thinks Spurs is a Jewish club?

Dewolf

Have you ever been to The Lane?

Yes I have been to the lane, whats your point, let me get something straight I agree there are lots of Spurs who are Jewish but not all of them. Jewish fans are a minority I wouldnt say they majority, what I get fed up with is being told constantly Spurs fans are all Jewish which we are not

Dewolf

It has nothing to do with the amount of jewish supporters or directors the club has, after all it was started by the arse who probably have as many as us, but because of the close proximity of a large Hassidic Jewish community.

After all, in most cases, how would you tell a Jewish Spurs supporter from any other.

I have no problems being called a yid, I'm not Jewish I'm a Spurs supporter. If I was Jewish I might find the term offensive outside of football.

in the 1980's rival fans chanted anti semetic abuse at the Spurs fans because of their Jewish support in the Haringey/Stamford Hill area. Spurs fans then adopted the derogatory terms 'yids'or 'yiddos' as unoffical nicknames in defiance at these chants to deflect the racist attacks of other clubs. For your further information we have also had Jewish owners in the past and in fact Arsenal presently have a Jewish connection in the boardroom and actually have many Jewish supporters (they are afterall our neighbours whether we like it or not!).
I took this information from MEHSTG by the way.
COYS!

It's a tiresome debate; The club has a name and its a proud one, Tottenham Hotspur, let;s use that. Supporters of the club are Spurs/Tottenham fans. If some describe themselves individually or collectively as a 'Yid', or 'Yid Army', then that is up to them, but not all Spurs fans do by any means. Having said that, why take offence when someone does refer to you as one; It's not a derogatory term.

OK lets leave it, agree end of the day we are all Spurs fans and proud to be assocaiated with one of the greatest clubs in Britain.

Different subject, according to the Bild(German newspaper) Poldoski is going to Colonge for 15m Euro's was liked to us only last week

Agreed DEWOLF1974, im sposed to be working and instead im getting paid to write sh@te on this site! LOL
Back to the Bentley subject, i do think we have chance of getting him if Blackburn accept a bid but i think all this talk of medicals having taken place etc are rubbish.
Im my opinion Blackburn should charge us a fortune for him (if we are indeed in for him) as we should Liverpool and Man U for our players (Keane and Berbatov). Every club and its fans think they have a right to other clubs players dont you think?! The clubs who lose thier best players (against their wishes) should be compensated with large transfer fees accordinly. ANyone agreed?

angryyid - problems with your argument viz. Keane:
1 - The problem with the team is a general one regarding lack of creativity from midfield. Ramos mentioned this many times last year. Keaen and Berbs. both link well with midfield. in a more creative midfield only one linking player would be needed. So, if one goes, one should stay. Simple.
2 - Berbatov, or Mr Dantchev, has been very vocal about wanting to leave, meaning most Spurs fans expect it. The possibility of Keane leaving is a huge shock. I have always been surprised that fewer clubs have come sniffing. But he has been at the club far longer than Berbs, vocalised how settled he feels, and that he would be happy to spend his career here. This means that if one were to go, and the other should stay it is logical to expect it to be Keane. The possibility of losing both, and Bent, meaning the forward line has to be reconstructed, as well as the midfield, which is ongoing is a bridge too far for some. As a Spurs fan you should be concerned by this, whatever your personal feelings about Keane. Personally, if next year, Ramos decided it was necessary to sell Keane in order to purchase a forward who conforms to his vision more, i would accept it. Just not now. As it is, Ramos has stated that Keane is an untouchable. How will the club look if he says this and then Keane is sold? Don't you care about that?

In regard to Bent: I have said all along, keep Lennon as competition. The problem is, however, that Bentley has performed against the best in the land - both in crossing and in goals he has delivered. Lennon, while he has pace and a bit of trickery, as yet has failed to add final product. Bentley has done this performing for 'functional' teams. He is at the age where we say, traditionally, there is still room to improve. How anyone can imagine this would be a bad signing is beyond my ken!