David Bentley Sensational Tittle Tattle

bullsh*t is reaching fever pitch levels

Just reported on Talk Sport as of 6pm David Bentley signed for Spurs for £12m

If true,Bentley and Diarra would be a big improvemnt over Lennon and Zokora. Don't know about the horse though, how old is he?

probably just tryin to get attention, Portsmouth have said that Diarra is not going and van Nistelrooys wage demand would be quite high.

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR!! THATS A CRACKER!! LET IT BE,LET IT BE!!,CHEERS HARRY!!

Would be nice but reckon you need to find mates who don't have long-term hallucinatory mental problems.

RVN is 109.

I want to believe Harry. Brilliant if they were to come through, although i can only see us siging Ruud if Berba were flying the other way.COYS

leso, what a post. Benny Hill, Frank Carson and the Beatles in less than 12 words... ;)

Thought Capel was signed sealed and delivered?? Any news Harry??

Sorry to pour water on this one, but my pub team, The Dog and Scrotum, have just secured the services of Nistel Van Rudeboy for next season. Does anyone have any news on the injury progress of young Gareth B? Pretty difficult to get any reliable news on the Belize grapevine.

"Would be nice but reckon you need to find mates who don't have long-term hallucinatory mental problems."

Did somebody call?, oh wait a minute I haven't got any mates..... never mind

So if as you say these are done deals when can we expect an announcement from the club then?

Erik. Other than it was his ankle and it's nearly better, no. Only kidding, no mate, and I think an announcement soon from the Club must be on the cards.

I heard talksport at 17.30 and they said then that the rumour was that Bentley was to close to signing for Spurs.

One of the sports readers on Talksport is Pete Abbott who is the stadium announcer at WHL (he wasn't the one who did the sports bulletin at 17.30 though). He would be well in the know I would imagine, but probably not worth his job(s) feeding that sort of info to the station. Just co-incidence?

Let's hope the signing comes to fruition!

Cheers Fatfish...

Ruud? Really? I say yes please. Diarra? watch the temperament, but no doubting his ability. Bentley? Im a fan. I have tingly toes, but I shall harden my heart until I hear hard signatures being etched

As unquantifiable as all this stuff is, the gulable chump in me cannot resist the temptation to imagine this to be true. Hope obscures all reason - pathetic isn't it? England's non particpation at the Euros is prompting unprecedented levels of white noise amongst us all. No doubt we're interested in Diarra & Bentley, just can't see Pompey releasing Diarra. Why should they, he's under contract, just joined, and their best player. Bentley isn't beyond the realm of possibility, as he favours London - and I doubt he'll be Scolari's priority in that position, so it's between us and the Scum, and whether Hleb does a runner. Regardless, I would have thought our finances must be getting a bit tight for all this, unless Levy's tied up a few sales. RVN I can't for the life of me see this happening?! I tired to imagine - maybe if we agreed a deal for Berbs to Los Blancos...?...who knows it's all hot air to fill the void left by no England at said Euros, and pretending to like cricket. Actually had a dream last night where Berba was being caned by Levy, Ramos, Keane, and Ledders to sign a new deal - and it worked. Bizare - I'm thristing for pre-seasons before I turn perculiar.

Excellent stuff Diamond Lights. Thank you.

Praise from the Master,thanks m8!! Maybe because harry wants Kapoul,a deal can be done never give up on good players,IF they come we will be stronger.

Well, Kaboul wants Harry alright...

My trigger finger is getting itchy.

Aint these same ITK from within Tottenham Deperatments saying that we have already signed villa and waiting for them to get knocked out with spain and that it hasnt been released so that if he gets injured we'll have a get out clause not to buy him? Do you recon the spurs bored is doing the old cold war mis-information and see's what gets leaked so they can fire the ones doing it?

Stoney, get a new girlfriend.

wouldn't be surprised if Bentley joins,he's a london boy,all his mates are yids and he wants to play in europe,also he will be a first team starter so all good.our midfield is starting to look very tasty(if he signs) if we could find a good def mid(frings,poulsen)to sit in behind Modric,Dos Santos and bentley then wow is all i can say.It would be a case of see ya then moaning bulgarian even i'd score a load of goals with that lot behind me,damn it even Benty would get a few.Not sure about Diarra but as others have said if they wanted kaboul then maybe.Ruud still cuts the mustard and if we could get him as part of a deal for berba then fairplay.Hope some of this comes to fruition esp Bentley.
bioyc

The only deal that is supposedly done as I understand it is is Veluso. And by done, it's said terms and fees are agreed. Which isn't done. And.....If it is 'done' then why such an enormous and to me irrelevant (the EUROS) delay?

MY SWEET LORD,I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW,WOOHOO!!

Someone asked about Diego Capel? A few weeks ago it was on Skysports that he was joining??? Let it be true...

would love bentley. Any news on berba?

Anyone?

Bentley would be superb, a definite step up from Lennon, better end product, more guile and would chip in with goals too! PLEASE let this happen, stop scrimping, stump up what is being asked (or at least close to it) and get him signed

bently is in marbella right now... close source tells me we spurs are interested but wages may be a problem

LINK
hope they are in his ear now getting him to sign up.

Would much prefer Capel and Veloso to Bent-ly and Diarra as both clearly have gandiose egos. I heard that the Capel deal was done but for a tax issue, where Spurs wanted Seville to stump up half, seems a bit cheeky, and we should just cough up as this kid is pure world-class. Didnt hear the bit on sky sports regarding him though. With regards to Veloso, this could be the best signing of the summer, better than Modric, Jonnie two Saints and keeping Berba altogether. Only Danielle de Rossi is currently better in that position that Veloso. But Harry, where did you get your info regarding this being a done deal and what sort of figures. The last I heard was a statement released by the Veloso camp that he would announce his future and the Euros, but the Chelsea were in the driving seat. Surely we must be looking around the £20m mark, and what could attract him to spurs???

Saying that, Capel on the left wing, Giovanni on the right wing, Modric and Veloso in the centre could possibly convince Berba to stay. I think Veloso would be the key. I dont think we need to worry to much about defence, despite last year. Woodgate seems to have gotten over his injury blight and IF the King gets better, we potentially have on of the best centre back pairings in Europe. Dawson and Kaboul make excellent cover, plus the Hudd and Dorian Dervitte. WE DONT NEED ANY DEFENDERS DESPITE WHAT EVERYONE THINKS!!!

Written by BarCodeCustis who... ran the original quoteless front page piece in the Sun saying Berba was going to Utd....curiously only two days after I c&p a similar load of cobblers... from a Bulgarian online paper running the same story....

There seems to be a lot of my fello spurscommunity members on here. Hope you havent come on here for any insider info from harry. I was looking for porn and stumbled on here.(thats my excuse and i am sticking to it!)

i hope the deals do come off due to lennon being off the boil last season it will be good to see someone who can cross a ball i belive him to be as good as becks on crossing so lets hope we keep berbs or get a good target man to get on the end of the crosses as for diarra i think we are better looking for a better midfield winner rvn would be perfect replacemant for berbs if he goes

Its just been confirmed as a load of rubbish

I would welcome RVN to The Lane. He may be vintage, but he knows where the bloody net is.

mark-who by mate?

Any word on a keeper ?

Mark.. who has confirmed what is rubbish?

Someone on spurscommunity who has a 100% track record. He says we definatly arent after diarra and arent looking for a striker at the moment. Bentley might be a goer but it is not a done deal!

well people with all this itk stuff he's word against others will we can all dram that it is true but you know what the press are like they link spurs will so many players

Veloso and capel.. are these supposed to be done deals?

We have agreed a fee with sporting for veloso but havent agreed terms with the player. Capel is not happening apparently.

Mark that is as you know a sweeping statement. Simply another source is saying that Diarra (to the best of his knowledge) is not rated by anyone at WHL which frankly I would say is either scary

if true or absolute cobblers. Especially when you compare Diarra to DZ.



Also, I appreciate that this came from SC, which is why I credited them.



A board which
incidentally would more than likely suspend or ban you for arbitrarily slating the tale as 'a load of rubbish.'

well veloso is done thaats the word on the streets capel not sure but i belive him to be of our top targets

would rather veloso to diarra ,i think even logically Bentley could be a goer,he wants to leave and we would tick a lot of boxes for him+he's a secret Yid

100% Record? Mmmn. No. Not yet. Far from 100% in any respects yet....

Spurs Sign Bentley

I just received a text message from a very reliable source.

Text message reads as follows;

"We've just signed Bentley re! About 9.5 mill rising to 12 mill on apps. Still to take medical".

Well, there you have it. If we're right, then it's great news. If wrong. We do apologise. I am pretty sure that we're right though.


Regards

THBN
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of other blog site

Let's hope that's true...

If true, its another good young english player, we will need them when we are playing champions league next year !

If these rumours are true it makes me think berbs will leave to produce the money pehaps

What drivel. Until they announce it on the OS, I will not yet "jump for joy".

5 Live have said that fee agreed with Blackburn, around £12m. Just medical & personal terms.

when on five live did they say about fee agreed? fatfish

Naushad there is a specific comment that get's my goat. And you just made it.

We the undersigned KNOW it ain't REALLY done until it's on the official site.

We the undersigned also grasp the concept that transfer 'information/gossip' may not pan out to be ENTIRELY accurate. Yet we read it in the spirit of curiosity, hope, suspended disbelief and blind stupidity.

Signed

Most Of The Known World.



So please, on here at least, quit with the 'What drivel' spiel. The blog was not entitled Copper Bottomed Transfer Facts Here!

*breathes heavily in and out brown paper bag*

I cant wait for the end sept I hate all this

Fatfish Strikes Again!

Cheers fella.

a lot of rumours floating here and there and hope your ones are true but more importantly i just hope we dont play rubbish old 442 next year 4 2 3 1 is the way forward coys ramos i trust

In the words of the mighty Morrisey:

Good times for a change
See, the luck Ive had
Can make a good man
Turn bad

So please, please, please,
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time

IF we get Bentley and Diarra it would just be ridiculous. I would actually have trouble believing it if I saw them in the shirt tommorow on the Spurs site.

We'll have to wait and see though...

Just found this on Bentleys Wikipedia page, It can be taken with a pinch of salt as Wiki is known to be a bit random with the facts but it proves this story is spreading like wild fire.

'On the 18th of June 2008 David Bentley signed a 5 year deal with London club Tottenham Hotspur. He was reported to have cost the London club a fee in the region of £13.7 million.'

Just to say that 'some people' doctor those Wiki things... Archibald on Spurs Odious is saying,

"Lennon doesnt want to go to Blackburn as part of the deal

Hudd may be offered.

Apparently 9.5m been offered straight now but no nothin of medical

fingers crossed."

lol Harry i did think wtf

Well Harry, it looks like we were both right about the authenticity of Wikipedia as the 'Bentley Signs for Spurs' piece has been removed from his page!

I can't seem to find that particular paragraph on wiki. Although it does have his current club as Spurs.

Reminds me of when we put one of my mates on there as a professional footballer and he got called by some agent to do a trial for Palace.

Classic.

Oliverio re The Wiki thing, I only had it pointed out to me recently that you can edit them... I would OFFICIALLY be amazed if we haven't signed him though!

There seems to be talk that people have heard stories on TalkSport and 5 live of a deal done but no news on skysports or on bbc website. Do people know if it was a news story or just a rumour on 5 live?

Talksport are happy enough to run their own headline as per Dos Santos. But you're right. Where are the 'big boys?'

In Simple Haiku
As Yids united as one
We dare to believe

Any follow up on radio 5 live or was it just mentioned once - did anyone actually hear it?

This cant happen we dont need any more midfielders we need a good keeper and we are getting side tracked with attackers. we finished in the top 5 teams for scoring and finished 11th and we scored over 100hundred goals it was just robbofound ways of conceding every time we plugged the gap like corners he would let them in from 30 yard or more and when we stopped that he let free kicks in plus the odd robbo blunder and there is the answer spurs fans are looking at our finishing position not wat should have been look what happenned to check he dropped the ball and out is team went doesent matter how well the checks played clangers lose games he like petre check went on record saying he couldent catch the lighter ball as did robbo in the world cup said in training he was having difficulty catching the lighter ball he proved is point all season.lennon when is knee heals 100 percent will make bentley look static i will be proved write

WE NEED MORE MIDFIELDERS SCARP 442 ITS PANTS BRING ON 4 2 3 1 PLEASE

agree on lennon if bentley coming means him going then no thank u saying that MR BENTLEY wont settle for rotation so stick it AZZA 2 FIRE NEXT YEAR

If Bentley signs surely that is enough 'attacking' midfielders for one summer. We still need to sort out who will be in goal next season, who will wear our number 9 shirt, and if cover for Ledley needs to be bought.

get capel

yes vic yes get capel CLASS

Hmm,is all this linking of players a ploy by the papers to make us waste our hard earned cash on buying 2&3 papers a day!!! We have been linked with enough players to field 3 teams next season (and still not finish in the top 4!!)
Bentley, not really sure about him to be honest nice nasty streak though. Diarra, unless Kaboul is being swapped proberly unlikely & Ruud, NEVER WILL HAPPEN! why would he come to us?? im sure others offering more money will step in(unless as above Berba is off the other way?) on Kaboul, i feel that we are being to harsh on him, his first season, young player and perhaps im missing a trick here but why not try him as a defending/holding midfielder? He is very mobile,can tackle/pass/shoot perhaps this would be a better position for him, any takers?? Same as Zokora, i like him, always gives hundred percent, every time(unlike some others)yet i fill he is used in the wrong position, surely he is an attacking midfielder not defensive? Think it would be a shame to see either go when perhaps they are not being used to there possible full potentional.

I would'nt want to see lennon go either!! Its good to see all these quality players all in the frame, thats what was needed.Ramos is the man,looks like he's intent on increasing our stock and Driving us forward!! I can't wait to see what he has in mind,hehe. COYS...

This'll be the quiet before the storm. nobody wants to say he's out and out signed bc it's largely coming from itks on the net. my guess is that sky will break it first since they have a good relationship with spurs. then the floodgates will open.

why is anyone excited over the prospect of signnig can nistelrooy.. if anyone actually watched us last season they would realise our serious lack of speed upfront so why would spurs invest a massive sum of money (which it easily would be given ruud's form in spain) to create the slowest strike partnership the premiership has ever seen. if berba goes that would leave ruud and keano.. they cudnt beat a player between them.. stupid fuckin suggestion, no chance the spurs board are that dumb

HH ITK.



In The kitchen. You can't whack the WiFi...

JACK, i think its Capel,Veloso,Bentley,ETC,ETC "thats" what most are excited about!!

a mate of mine knows a guy that works at spurs lodge and he said the rumour is that levy and ramos are getting berba involved in all the transfers this summer(getting his approval etc). this is the biggest sign yet that he will stay as this source has come up trumps for me quite a lot. lets just hope its true!!!

Harry Redknapp was meant to do tonights Russia v Sweden game as a pundit for ITV but pulled out at the last minute. Assuming there are some transfer antics afoot for him. Plus Pleaty revealed Spurs had Hiddink in for talks about the hot seat but he took South Korea job instead.

Sorry, nothing to add to will we/won't we sign...Bentley, Diarra, Veluso, Capel, RVN or other.

Bentley and Diarra would be class not fussed about Van though. If we get them 2 all we'll need is a quality goalie like Boruc and a top notch CB and we'd be set maybe Capel also too give us afew more options on the left wing.

Lennon would make a quality impact sub as he could come on in the last 20 or 30 minutes and be very affective. Ramos also likes rotating when he has the players to do it sort of like Benitez at pool but not as bad.

We need to face it, Berba is off. Rumours on the 606 boards from a 100% reliable ITK (I Talk Kaka?) have mentioned a meeting having taken place wherein Levy told Berbz to name his price and Berbz told Levy he wants out, unfortunately for us. Whether these prospective deals are done or not, i believe them to definately be targets for us. As peeps have already stated, i think the sale of Berba (hopefully to Barca and not Utd) will be the money maker for us to negotiate with.

Bentley would be a great addition to the squad, Lennon is clearly fading and a quality cross into the box was sorely missed last season.

Zokora needs replacing quick sharp, simple as. Diarra would indeed be the seasoned prem player that would slot in quickly and do a great job at holding and breaking up play, another thing we lacked last season.

We need to replace Berba, Villa wont come, Podolski is a possibility, but i'd still prefere the Van Ruudboy. Wages may be an issue, but regular European football kinda smooths that one over. Worth the money and would fire off immediately, no breaking in.

I love all the rumours.

Bring em on.......

UAE Consortium buyout rumour, true or not, makes me think of Levy in a new light. Never thought I'd say it, but I hope he holds on.

The horse RVN is only 31!!

Scored 41 goals in 80 games for real. Hed be good back up for bent and keane.

and elvis is joining the boardE

I know its boring but some simple words of fact....Spurs rock, whoever comes or goes our Spurs march on,on,on. COYS

12m ? for that sort of money we could probably signed Arshavin.

Bentley....though not bad at all. In my opinion.

I cant see us signing both Diarra AND Veloso. So someone ITK is clearly not.

Old Horse Face would certainly plug a sulky Bulgarian shaped gap in our frontline for the next season or so.

Whats that i smell is it sheep, no wait i think its cows, no no its bullshit

JGM aside from our name being noticable by it's absence on SSN this morning in relation to SmoothBum...grrrrr word is these Rooskies are on even more lolly than your average ex Charlton Striker
2.0....
£90,ooo pwk not inc. Deed Poll forms...

Signed Bentley? Would love it if it was true. Awaiting confirmation...

I also like the fact we've apparently turned down offers for Bent. Though I am only too aware others will disagree with me regarding that.

i disagree..

rAMOS SAID SPURS NEED TWEEKING JUST A COUPLE OF PLACES.WE SEEM TO BE LINKED WITH EVERY BODY YOU CANNOT BUY YOUR WAY TO THE TOP EVERY TEAM HAS ITS WORLD CLASS STARS THE PROBLEM WITH OURS IS SINCE WE MISSED OUT ON A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPOT HE HAS ONLY PLAYED FOR A MOVE TO UTD OR A CHAMPS CLUB EVERY TIME HE SCORED JOL THEN RAMOS WOULD UP IS PRICE THEN BERBY WOULD PLAY SHITE WE WERE NEVER GOING TO GET IN THE CHUMPS LEAGUE WITH ROBBO AND NO KING AND WE ARE DOING THE SAME THING BUYING ATTACKERS ARSENAL STARTED BAD AND DROPPED THERE INTERNATIONAL KEEPER IN A FLASH WE TRIED TO PLAY OURS BACK INTO FORM IT NEVER HAPPENED ALONG CAME RAMOS AND I NEW SPURS WOULD PLAY THE SAME NERVOUS WAY BECAUSE IF YOUR GOA DAWSONS FORM WENT KABOUL THE SAME AND IT GOT THAT BAD WE WERE INFRONT ON A STAGGERING 60 PERCENT OF THE TIME ONLY TO CONCEDE AND THE MANAGMENT BLAMED THE ATTACK THE HARDEST THING TO DO IS SCORE WE FOUND IT EASY SO WHY WOULD WE START BUILDING FROM THE MIDDLE TO THE FRONT LEENONS CROSSES WERE NOT THE PROBLEM IT WAS TWO THING ROBBOS TERRIBLE FORM AND BUGAROVS TERRIBLE SULKS LEAVE OUR ATTACK DOS SANTOS KEANE BENT HUDDS MODERIC LENNON BALE HUTTON KING OR DAWS. WOODGATE GOMES SUBS JENAS PERHART MALBRANQUE OHARA ZAKORA ROSE FORTUNE

Me too.

Quite fearful that if crying Cristiano goes to Madrid, ManUSA will up the ante on Berb (last place I want him to go etc.)Milan apparently don't have the cash, but they do have a hard-on for Adebayor(Please God!)Maureen wants Fat Frank & Drogba at Inter, hopefully this is true, I'm sick of those 2 cunts.

No sign of Bentley's signature yet..Harry I think we'll sign one from Diarra & Veloso, are they both DM no? Capel's a no go, Sevilla still suffering from an acute case of sour grapes given to them by Mr J.Ramos. Van Horseface would be ok I think for a season or two?

My "source" IN THE KNOW (his initials are DL) tells me that:

Bentley turns down Spurs for a £50 move to Team Bath, Berbatov sold in swap deal for Diego Forlan, and David Ginola resigns for Spurs from French Club L'Oreal FC (fee yet to be disclosed, but expected to be 3 or 4 bottles of shampoo).

By the way, DL doesn't stand for Daniel Levy.
It stands for Des Lynam :D

What have you got against punctuation, fella?

I know our beloved press aren't known for their editorial accuracy in such matters, but for none of them to have had a sniff of (any aspect of) the Bentley/Diarra/RVN multi-mega-swap-transfer-bombshell stretches my 'suspension of disbelief' to the max; When mysterious 'ITKs' *laughs* have unearthed the biggest of Spurs' scoops.

Dream of a midfield containing Diarra and Bentley I am happy to do, but to harbour serious hopes of the same coming to fruition… nah.

What we do KNOW is that both Diarra and Redschnapps, and their club, have said Diarra is not for sale and will be a Portsmouth player next season; Bentley reportadely held a childhood fascination for Spurs, so much so that he joined Arsenal's junior ranks.

So did O'Hara......

Wise words Chirpster..

It's actually not uncommon for Levy to get transfers to cross the finish line without the press being all over it like stink on a monkey.

You haven't got to cast your memory too far back to the stealthy manner in which Luka was bagged and tagged.

*wondering how long it'll be before HH will have to change that image of Keane friending up angry gopher in the banner*

*What time is now?*

Dearest Nunchuks,

Sorry fella, not sure where this mythical 'Levy smuggled Modric into WHL under cover of darkness' stuff comes from. the deal was reported in The Times weeks before, it just wasn't picked up by the red-tops.