Levy Paid Off By Gangsters

Where does this signing leave us with the "Stand up if you hate Campbell" chant?

Reply to Magoolio:

Where does this signing leave us with the "Stand up if you hate Campbell" chant?

Thats a great point But TBH this guy proberly wont even play or if he does probz bang in 20+ goals and united will say thanks a lot for making our player good we will have him back now. Cun*s

Grim indeed, but thank gooodness its over. I'm glad to see the back of a disruptive influence in the dressing room, and young Campbell comes highly recommended. At least its not bleeding Heskey lining up for us on saturday

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

No doubt fraizer campbell is good.......in the championship.

Right, i have it roughly like this.
IN: Gomes £8m, Corluka £8.5m, Modric £16m, Bentley £15m Giovani £4.7m, Pavlyuchenko £14m = £66.2m. We also signed Sanchez, Ranieri, Bostock and Mpoko meaning Spend of just under £70m.
Out: Berbatov £31m, KEane £20m, Chimbonda+Malbranque+Tainio £15m, Kaboul £6m, Robinson £4m, Lee £1m = £77m.
Profit of around the £10m mark wouldnt be far of the mark. . . and we must have a stronger squad than last year. Better Keeper, better cover at back, more creative midfield and an unknown quantity up front with Bent and Pav. Who knows, they could get 40+ goals between them.

Well well well
daniel levy has done it again, too busy trying to squeeze every penny out of the berbatov deal that he has failed to get the players that the manager wanted. Veloso, garcia, arshavin. The arshavin deal was all about the money and we didn't want to pay, so we end up with frazier campbell instead.
Anyone who thinks levy is good for tottenham dont know what they chatting about

Do we have the option to buy Campbell at the end of the season?

This is standing up to them? f*ck me, what would have happened if they has shafted us!?

im back after a hefty absence... due to work burning down and the birth of my son...

oh me oh my.... i am concerned that we will make this kid a star and united will just take him back next year....

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

Stood up to them but then dropped the complant he should of stoof up to them more and carried through with it

Spurs are a feeder club simple as... it sickens me that they agreed to sell to manure. I agree 100% with your article Harry. After what they did to us with Carrick, Spurs should have refused to sell him to Manure and reported them to the FA for illegally talking to our player without permission, I would imagine they would have had points deducted. It's all about Shareholders and bank balances, in fact I reckon Levy was in on it from the start and he was trying to save face with the fans. He should feic off as well. He's a Loser and while he's our chairman that's all we'll ever be! COYS

So glad to see the back of that bastard. Hopefully he's medically retired after one game for UTD. a gme where he scores a hatrick, plays an absolute blinder, has Fergie and UTD fans creaming their pants at how good he is, then suddenly its all ended following a horror tackle by Jamie Carragher ( i think thats UTD next fixture). How brilliant that would be. Carragher or Gerard finishes him for good

This is an absolute disgrace! Who the hell does fergie think he is driving to the airport to pick up a player when he is on his way to another club! can you imagine the uproar if this happened to ronaldo during euro 2008! I think it is fairly safe to say that we have been well and truely fu*ked in the arse by this whole transfer saga and the prospect of CL football has gone right out of the window. Its sad to say but it was a very dissappointing night to be a spurs fan last night. Where is this DM that we so badly need? where is smoothbum? Instead we just get some young kid that we are going to have to pay top dollar for if at the end of the season we decide we want to keep him. The only thing that im looking forward to is when the traitor returns to the lane, then we can all let him know what a cu*t he has been!

I don't know if there was any truth in the Owen stories, but is it possible we could be waiting til January with him? If he doesn't sign Newcastle will be desperate to cash in.

Is there anything more to the Berba deal that hasn't come to light yet? Option to buy Campbell at the end of the season etc?

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

What are you talking about, Daniel didn't stand up to them. He shouldn't have sold to them simple as...

I would be far happier with this deal if it did not involve a loan. Now it just feels like the final confirmation that we are the feeder club of United, they are even sending their youth team here to get experience.

I hope it is announced that the loan deal is just because we didnt have time to discuss terms, and will be finalised in January. Then we can also get a DM and I will be very happy. Right now though I think we have been stung, and the the toothless FA need to make a stand against United, you cant take a player for a medical before agreeing to buy them.

What squad number has Thirtymillion got? how many goals will he score? ive heard he's out til January?!?!

Harry, any idea as to whether this loan deal is similar to that of Defoe to Portsmouth? This obviously makes a huge difference to the deal!!

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

Thats right. Fergie did not want to pay that kind of money. He pounces about like he's won another battle but Im sure he's not happy about the price. Im sure deep down he feels he's had his pnats pulled down. Notice that its the only time Levy has disclosed a fee.

Gutless spineless Levy, and then give Campbell back to the scum at the end of the season!!!! WTF. I'm sure Ramos is really glad he came to work for a bunch of greedy c**ts

Harry

I enjoy your blogs but you got to stop with the 'Arshavin, Veloso deals done...etc' articles. It's pure fiction with no substance.

In regards to the Campbell deal, for me this will certainly not turn into a permanent deal. If he scores 15+ goals, which I doubt anyway, United will have a better player for season 2009/10. I hate loan deals, I despise it, a club like Tottenham Hotspur should not borrow other clubs' players. I think there is a big chance we might be seeing the end of Comolli soon. Remember I've said this.

What a disgrace. Levy took the money like Rednapp said on SKY we are a selling club. Cheeky sod apparently new about the manu deal a day before and had plenty of time to get further quality reinforcements. With MAn city about to overtake us. I suggest unless we get some rich Arab its all over forget top 4 well forget top 6 quite frankly. Levi is not going to back us to the hilt with money So forget it, its all over we have not got a chance. Even Woodgate emailed the reporter on sky sports about midnight angry that his own chairman had not made any further purchases. What a mess.Further more we get this kid from Man u who was due to be sold to Hull City what the hell does that tell you about him!

Reply to Wunian:

im back after a hefty absence... due to work burning down and the birth of my son...

oh me oh my.... i am concerned that we will make this kid a star and united will just take him back next year....

Congratulations.

And also well done on the birth of your son.

If we're not able to continue a complaint, how about the FA looking into ManUre's conduct, as is their duty? No chance. Stinks.

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Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

What are you talking about, Daniel didn't stand up to them. He shouldn't have sold to them simple as...

Levy dind't have a choice! Berbatov wasn't prepared to speak to Man City and was a disruptive influence. IN the end we got £30m for a player who had become a massive cock. Fuck him, take the money and run. Levy is the only reason we didn't accept the £20m they'd offered us already!

Reply to Valtrane:

I don't know if there was any truth in the Owen stories, but is it possible we could be waiting til January with him? If he doesn't sign Newcastle will be desperate to cash in.

Is there anything more to the Berba deal that hasn't come to light yet? Option to buy Campbell at the end of...

Havent heard anythink about that.
Lasnt season mn my shirt it was berbagod this season might be berbacunt. Also anyone feel that when berba comes back to the leane his reception could be neally as bad as campbell or is that to far?

LEVY and ENIC out ! Business man first businessman second and business man last. To think he conned us over both Keane’s and Barbatov’s sales. Accepting apologies and big sums so as not to report the two clubs. It was all a blindfold for us so that he could line his pockets/shareholders with 30 million and have his excuses ready for the sales. Barbatov and Levy are from the same gene pool. It takes one to know one hence all that discgraceful behaviour from Berbatov. He could read Levy like a book.

Reply to jj:

Well well well
daniel levy has done it again, too busy trying to squeeze every penny out of the berbatov deal that he has failed to get the players that the manager wanted. Veloso, garcia, arshavin. The arshavin deal was all about the money and we didn't want to pay, so we end up with frazier...

JJ - anyone who thinks you know more than Levy of how to run Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is madder than you. No offence here, we're all Spurs fans, but none of us know what went on, who we were trying to sign and who was even remotely close to joining. Man United are a HUGE club. This is business, we got the maximum amount of money for a guy who didn't want to play for us. We have an excellent and healthy squad and in the current climate, an excellent and healthy financial set up. Stay positive. Levy hasn't exactly steered us wrong so far.

Shocking by Tottenham to only leave themselves with one proven premiership striker when we used to have 3 is unbelievable!!! I simply cannot see us breaking into the top four!! Tottenham are like England, loads of hype and then fail to deliver!!

OK, i too watched in horror at what happened at midnight last night.

However.....


i cannot see that this was all done illegally as much as the press are saying it was.

i am a spurs fan and love THFC with all my heart. so i aint sticking up for the scum, but that said Levy would have been straight to the FA had this all of happened.

there was no statement saying he had not been gioven permission (on the official THFC site) just in the press

remember, the press had us linked to a million players and heskey - WHERE ARE THEY?

the press do this to make sure we are wathcing their channel or reading their news, they use us as a way to increase advertising fees!

The Whole saga of the transfer was in my opionion a good business deal, we got the price we wanted, got cover until we can buy using our newly found wealth.

as someone wrote above we have 10 mill in the kitty - add to that the 30 mill we would of had ion the budget and we are going to have a great january.

we will have time to sign players that will be up to match fitness, and have 4 months of playing under their belts to prove how good they are.

we are not dead and buried, WE STILL HAVE A GREAT TEAM! much better than last season.

we have to stand and cheer the Spurs and get behind the Team we have, all you people scoffing, shouting and raving now would be different come January 1st if we are 3rd and 5pts clear of man city with Liverpoop and ars*e in 6th!

we are fickle yes, yes are passionate, but we have had the passion and faith to stand by the team

NOW DO IT WITH THE 2008/2009 SQUAD!

in Levy and Ramos i trust!

COYS

And we didn't evem get Arshavin with all that Berb money..

Congratulations Levy (or whoever's responsible) you have officailly made us a selling club..

we won't be reaching top 4.. not this season... not for a long time..

get used to that fact lads..

agreed adspur... we dont know what was lined up? players also have to say yes to the deals...

it got too late for arshavin apparantly.

we will never know the truth but lets all hope that bent shines through this season.

i bet theres not one of us that doesnt wish that defoe was still at the lane

Where are the Arshavin and Veloso deals that you said were done? I only started reading this blog this summer, now I won't be reading it again. Wasting peoples time with false information just to increase your view count only works in the short term.

Well said JJ. This whole B'tov thing makes me sick because we have lost all focus on the issues. The Board clearly do not have SERIOUS ambition to be top 4. To make a profit on trfr dealings is ridiculous. £50m sales of strikers and less than £20m spent to replace them. No centre back bought so we are left with full backs or midfielders as cover. We have more full backs than any other team in the league. No holding midfield player (which we have all been screaming about all summer) But hey we made a profit! As a shareholder I want my money spent on a well balanced team capable of challenging the top 4 not to support the smallest 1st team squad battling it out for 8th to 11th place. Shame on you Levy

Man, i am gutted. We have lost Berba, Defoe and Keane, only for them to be replaced by a kid and the below average Pav. Last seasons 11th place is more than we can hope for this season. We will be lucky if our front line gets 20 between them. SACK LEVY!!! He is a money grabbing w*nker. Robbie left 3 months ago yet he didnt bother replacing him til 2 days ago with the lame ass ruskie. Then with 10 mins before deadline we sell our last chance of goals this season. But dont panic cuz the striker coming in that Ramos promised us on SSN will ease the pain. Unless its some s*it kid who managed a couplke of goals in the division below..........

Sack The Board!!

i am seriously considering giving up on this club.

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

Do we actually have any fans left or have they all become accountants?

What's the point of getting £30M if it isn't reinvested in the team? We seem to have developed a feeder club mentality. We're actually happy to sell our best players for profit and replace them with inferior ones. It's fine being a feeder club if your Premiership survival depends on it, but why should we pay the highest prices in the Prem (bar Chelsea and Arsenal) to watch it? What's the point when we're now a club that make our profit in the transfer market?

This club has become a pathetic, spineless, gutless shadow of itself. I felt sick when I read the news this morning. I have no respect for Levy and ENIC and feel ashamed of what this club had now become.

We had to retract our complaint as part
of the deal. Fergie has shown once again
he can do whatever he wants without any
comebacks, or punishment. If the Premier
League had any backbone they would look in
to this deal. Will they? Course not...
We got a good price in my opinion, but this
deal leaves a very bad taste.

Lads dont worry only 120 days to go till jan and maby we can sell modric and maby bent then and we can have more cash!!!!!!

I just hope the red nosed tw*t had the decency to give Levy a reach round

Daniel Levy has done an excellent job so far, he just messed up on this transfer the only thing positive is the 20 million profit, however we haven't replaced Berba with real quality as suggested and we cannot even have our day in court!!! How much more can THFC take, we shouldn't allow Man U to have it all there own way! Levy shouldn't make statements like rotting in the reserves and we shall take Man U to court and fail to deliver!!!

so chaps do we welcome the campbell geezer with open arms or is he a spy in the camp for old red nose so he can tap up the next dreamer who is thinking that up norf is better for them ? Personally i dont like his name and we wont keep him and im not happy that he will be in the shop window for manure so hope he gets consigned to the reserves and away from the first team so we dont get further fall out come Jan

Reply to Mike:

Harry

I enjoy your blogs but you got to stop with the 'Arshavin, Veloso deals done...etc' articles. It's pure fiction with no substance.

In regards to the Campbell deal, for me this will certainly not turn into a permanent deal. If he scores 15+ goals, which I doubt...

I never said Veloso was done.

Oh and one other thing i learnt. There is NO SUCH THING as an ITK. They are all full of it (and that includes you Harry my dear).

Reply to graham:

whats all the moaning about.he wanted to leave spat his dummy out.there was no turning back for dimitar.levy did stand up to utd.they said 25 million and not a penny more,we said 30 mil not a penny less.who won not utd plus we got a striker on loan for the season,if he does well thats great,if hes...

Graham,

I understand what your saying, but if Pav or Bent get injured who's going to fire THFC into fourth spot? We have lost three good players and replaced them with three unknown quantity I wonder will people still be pro tottenham when we struggle to achieve top four again!

Reply to Liam:

Where are the Arshavin and Veloso deals that you said were done? I only started reading this blog this summer, now I won't be reading it again. Wasting peoples time with false information just to increase your view count only works in the short term.

Boo hoo. Ta ta.

Reply to shaun:

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

What are you talking about, Daniel didn't stand up to them. He shouldn't have sold to them simple as...

what was the alternative ?

Man U crapped themselves when Man C offer accepted by levy!

Berba would not sign to Man C so a lot of dosh and he had to make a decision in about 4 hours or so.......Levy did stand up to Manu and said 30 Mill early on and Man u payed had to pay at the last minute otherwise
then what !sulk Berbaphobia. till january.pathetic.....,,,,,,spurs overdrawn at the bank! the team feeling at odds etc .....he was gone ages ago!!!!
it was reported to the FA ......but the FA as a regulator were poor in response.....
new players are class and bent has worked hard for us etc so all to sort....why the negative????????

whats all the moaning about.he wanted to leave spat his dummy out.there was no turning back for dimitar.levy did stand up to utd.they said 25 million and not a penny more,we said 30 mil not a penny less.who won not utd plus we got a striker on loan for the season,if he does well thats great,if hes crap he goes back and not cost us anything.dimitar was only worth 20m and then levy sold keane for 20om he was only worth 10m.levy is keepin our club safe and sound or would you lot pefer us do a leeds.some times im embarssed been a tottenham fan when i read u lot slaggin off the club.we are supporters so start supporting not slating the club.coys.

christ some of you lot are blinkered.....

he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on, two years nearer his retirement, for 3 times the amount we paid, and UTD would have paid two years ago.....that's £20m more for a player two years nearer his retirement.....you do the sums


in the last 12 months we have bought:

gomes 27
modric 22
bentley 24
dos santos 19
pavyluchenko 26
corluka 22
bostock 16
bale 19
hutton 23
woodgate 28

all full internationals except bostock (but he only cost £700k), and we STILL balanced the books.........and poached/tapped up whatever you wanna call it (let's not forget that eh? the complaint over feRgie would have gone nowhere), one of the best and most highly respected coaches in european football. Results won't be immediate, but the future looks a little rosier than it did 12 months ago....and we're not in debt...we are one of a very few clubs not operating at a loss


all because of levy.....HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY US NOT VILIFIED

Don't blame Levy, what can he do. i just wish we'd sold him and still reported United

Reply to graham:

whats all the moaning about.he wanted to leave spat his dummy out.there was no turning back for dimitar.levy did stand up to utd.they said 25 million and not a penny more,we said 30 mil not a penny less.who won not utd plus we got a striker on loan for the season,if he does well thats great,if hes...

We are not saying that the deals werent financially good of course they were but they should have been used to produce more quality signings to improve the team!!!!

why is everyone on harrys back?

seriously he makes it clear that he is passing on information that his sources tell him. it isnt fabricated and he gets it right quite a lot of the time.

if you dont like it then FUCK OFF i dont see you putting the same amount of crap on the sun website for example?

i am sure levy is walking tenderly this morning after the shafting he got last night.

The even twisted the knife by getting us to provide some playing time to one of their youth team.

a shambles of a club.

one step forward. two steps back.

Reply to jj:

Well well well
daniel levy has done it again, too busy trying to squeeze every penny out of the berbatov deal that he has failed to get the players that the manager wanted. Veloso, garcia, arshavin. The arshavin deal was all about the money and we didn't want to pay, so we end up with frazier...

When I was in school, there was a fad amongst my fellow students to call one another 'chiefs'. I originally took this to be some form of hierarchial inference of praise. But in the magical world of kid logic, like 'bad' and 'wicked' before it, 'chief', I discovered, actually meant the opposite of its traditional meaning. i.e. idiot. Fool. Retard. Putz. You get what I mean.

But anyway, I digress. So, to the point in hand:

jj: you're a chief.

Campbells quote in the mail makes it sound like he is expecting a permananent move.

We managed to get top dollar for a player who said he doesn't want to play for us any more. That in itself is an achievement. We've greatly strengthened our squad with the signings of Bentley, Gomes, Corluka (who can play DM) and Pavlyuchenko, got rid of most of our dead wood, and even managed to return a profit. So what exactly has Levy done wrong?

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Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

What are you talking about, Daniel didn't stand up to them. He shouldn't have sold to them simple as...

Levy dind't have a choice! Berbatov wasn't prepared to speak to Man City and was a disruptive influence. IN the end we got £30m for a player who had become a massive cock. Fuck him, take the money and run. Levy is the only reason we didn't accept the £20m they'd offered us already!

Spot on. Those of you criticising Levy are out of your minds. And the Arshavin deal only fell through because they refused to accept what are regarded as normal stage payments at the last minute (after previously agreeing to them).

With our midfield capability the trio of Pav, Bent and Campbell should see us through until January. And for all we know we may have already agreed a price to make Campbell permanent if he shows promise this season.

Tottenham Hotspur FC as we knew it is dead. The glory, setting our sights high, it's gone. We're a feeder club who's purpose is to make money for it's owners. I predict our lack of ambition will see us relegated within 5 seasons, because unlike us too many of the also-rans do now have ambition. City, Villa, Everton, even Pompey. There's no room in the Prem for feeder clubs. They belong in the Chumpionship which is where we'll end up with our current strategy - not that any remaining fans will care because we'll probably make a nice profit selling younsters to Man Utd and Arsenal. That's what really matters right?

why are we giving prem experience to a 20year old united prospect and sending our owen 19year old pekheart to the championship

wise words graham, it's little wonder spurs fans get the reputation they do with some of the clueless idiots on here

and for thsoe saying congratulations to levy for making us a selling club- do you know anything about football?....every team in the prem outside the top four is a selling club, it's a fact of modern football

what makes you think we have some god given right to be in the top four- we haven't won the league for 47 years......you carry on bleating the way you are now, and we'll end up with a worse reputation than the geordie fans

GROW UP

I tell you what i'd rather we went for it like leeds did than penny pinched. ENIC lose 300 million over a collapsed bank in USA but will not give a few million more for Arshavin. Typical eccentric rich man's behaviour. Being so rich they are very unlikely to go to the way of Leeds. The premier league has lost all credibility with all this crap financial input. No where near a level playing field. The league champions winners will in my book be remembered as false winners. I would rather we did a leeds and have more fun in the championship if we failed rather than not have a go at all. Mid table is pointless pointless pointless. The premier league has become pointless.

Reply to Wit:

Oh and one other thing i learnt. There is NO SUCH THING as an ITK. They are all full of it (and that includes you Harry my dear).

Never claimed to be one.

Willingness to learn is paramount though.

What more will learn over time is that much information is given in good faith. Free of charge and without agenda.

Which makes the YOU LIED TO ME! brigade all the more looney.

Also that is why say on COYS they have a CCC which prevents witch hunting and public flogging of their ITK's. A policy I totally endorse.

Whilst some will argue that this masks attention seekers and WUM's of this world what it does prevent is their board deteriorating into say... Glory Glory. ITK free and with a nasty sniping teenage element of know it all know nothings.

I get so much 'info' I could post ten articles a day on the strength of it.

Some is in my opinion very good and some, less good.

Circumstances change and that's no one's fault. What can you do?

Meh.

We wanted Berba to fuck off.. he did.
We wanted at least 30m.. we got it.

But dropping our complaint for on loan Frazier f*cking Campbell?? f*cking ON LOAN?!!

No doubt we will make him a better player. but what happen next? Yes you've guessed it. He return to ManUre!

And not even a word from the board to explain what the f*ck is going on? Just unbelievable. This is embarassing.

Who's the cockAroach now? that piece of sh*t Fergie? Berbaf*ckoff? Levymoney? Its the three of them!

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Reply to graham:

whats all the moaning about.he wanted to leave spat his dummy out.there was no turning back for dimitar.levy did stand up to utd.they said 25 million and not a penny more,we said 30 mil not a penny less.who won not utd plus we got a striker on loan for the season,if he does well thats great,if hes...

We are not saying that the deals werent financially good of course they were but they should have been used to produce more quality signings to improve the team!!!!

Spot on!!! People are getting mixed up we are not slagging of Levy for getting a the best deal, it's the lack of quality to replace it!

Berbatov gone - replaced by Bent
Keane gone - replaced by Pavulychenko
Defoe - gone - replaced by GDS or FC

Simply not good enough, we couldn't reach top four with these goals, what are we to do now?

SPURS THE FANS THE MANAGER HAVE ALL BEEN SHAFTED BY THE PUPPET ON A STRING PULLED BY JOE FECKING SUN TAN LEWIS , A FEW PITIFUL SIGNINGS AND A CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYER FROM MUNURE UTD WHO TRULEY SLAPPED THE SO CALLED BUSINESS MAN LEVY STUPID FOR TRYING TO MIX IT WITH THE BIG BOYS , SPURS NEEDS TO BE SOLD AS QUICKLY AS MAN CITY CONDUCTED THEIR BUSINESS AND THE NEW OWNERS WOULD MORE THAN HAVE SPURS AT HEART NOT A FALSE DAWN THAT LEVY THREW AT US WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT , HE IS PROBLY THE MOST HATED MAN AT WHL FOR NOT BRINGING IN THE PLAYERS THAT WAS SO BADLY NEEDED TO CRACK THE TOP 10 NEVER MIND THE TOP 4 , PLEASE SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT THE CLUB COME ON DOWN AND MAKE SPURS THE CLUB THE FAN`S WANT PLEASE LET IT BE RICH ARABS NO MORE BRITISH OWNER CONTROLLED THEY DON`T GIVE A FLYING FECK THEY ARE ONLY TRUE TO THEIR OWN POCKET`S .

Reply to graham:

whats all the moaning about.he wanted to leave spat his dummy out.there was no turning back for dimitar.levy did stand up to utd.they said 25 million and not a penny more,we said 30 mil not a penny less.who won not utd plus we got a striker on loan for the season,if he does well thats great,if hes...

10 mil for Ke*ne? 20m for Dummytar?

Talking sphericals.

As a Spurs supporters or the (Supporters Trust), should take up a civil action with the FA over Mancheaters United . A action needs to be sumited to the PL, there is plenty of evidence that the club had refused ManScum form even talking with the player, SkySports coverage alone should be all thats needed. Fuck the the Club its about time SPURS supporters stood together and where heard.

Reply to bigyid:

wise words graham, it's little wonder spurs fans get the reputation they do with some of the clueless idiots on here

and for thsoe saying congratulations to levy for making us a selling club- do you know anything about football?....every team in the prem outside the top four is a...

OK I accept all that.

Now explain to me why I'm paying some of the most expensive ticket prices in the Prem?

Before answering, remember that we're not even bothering to compete with the best teams.

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

Levy is the gangster it was all planned to goe this way late agreement and the board spend no money. although on paper it looks like we have spent big in fact we just sold our best players for £50m and half the team "we are a feeder club thats official"

I'm pissed off big time. Okay, we bought some cracking players but Levy foremost is more concerned about the business than making Spurs a top team. What club makes a profit in the transfer window? Manure screwed us up royally (again) and we take it like the whores we are! IF we never gave them permission to speak then why aren't we pursuing them through the FA?

I like Levy but he's spineless and money making git!

Reply to QuietAtTheLibrary:

I'm pissed off big time. Okay, we bought some cracking players but Levy foremost is more concerned about the business than making Spurs a top team. What club makes a profit in the transfer window? Manure screwed us up royally (again) and we take it like the whores we are! IF we never gave them...

I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on, two years nearer his retirement, for 3 times the amount we paid, and UTD would have paid two years ago.....that's £20m more for a player two years nearer his retirement.....you do the sums


in the last 12 months we have bought:

gomes 27
modric 22
bentley 24
dos santos 19
pavyluchenko 26
corluka 22
bostock 16
bale 19
hutton 23
woodgate 28

all full internationals except bostock (but he only cost £700k), and we STILL balanced the books.........and poached/tapped up whatever you wanna call it (let's not forget that eh? the complaint over feRgie would have gone nowhere), one of the best and most highly respected coaches in european football. Results won't be immediate, but the future looks a little rosier than it did 12 months ago....and we're not in debt...we are one of a very few clubs not operating at a loss


all because of levy.....HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY US NOT VILIFIED"

bottom line - 30 Mil for a guy that wants to play his football elsewhere and a third striker for the season. 2 days ago I had visions of us playing bent as a loan striker for the rest of the season - not forgetting young pekhart is out on loan !!

Buisiness is booming gentlemen...

why all the doom and gloom?! the fans, players and senior management finally know the squad we have until january! no more of the disruptive influences in the dressing room, and 100% effort given by the players on the field. what would've you guys preferred? berba staying just to prove a point, all the while just taking us to pieces mentally from the inside out? personally i'm waiting for him to throw his first sulk at Manure and Fergie subs him! Just think - none of the fucking drama! At last! COYS

bigyid we are all on the same side here ... dont we all want success for spurs ? its just opinions and emotion my friend personally speaking we should be in a position after all these months to have sorted matters out better than has transpired but hey ho thats life .. any bets that Ramos will get blamed for poor performances and we will be back to sqaure 1 after Xmas ? ohhh by the way check out Hmaburgs league position .. quite impressive start....

Reply to QuietAtTheLibrary:

I'm pissed off big time. Okay, we bought some cracking players but Levy foremost is more concerned about the business than making Spurs a top team. What club makes a profit in the transfer window? Manure screwed us up royally (again) and we take it like the whores we are! IF we never gave them...

I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on, two years nearer his retirement, for 3 times the amount we paid, and UTD would have paid two years ago.....that's £20m more for a player two years nearer his retirement.....you do the sums


in the last 12 months we have bought:

gomes 27
modric 22
bentley 24
dos santos 19
pavyluchenko 26
corluka 22
bostock 16
bale 19
hutton 23
woodgate 28

all full internationals except bostock (but he only cost £700k), and we STILL balanced the books.........and poached/tapped up whatever you wanna call it (let's not forget that eh? the complaint over feRgie would have gone nowhere), one of the best and most highly respected coaches in european football. Results won't be immediate, but the future looks a little rosier than it did 12 months ago....and we're not in debt...we are one of a very few clubs not operating at a loss


all because of levy.....HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY US NOT VILIFIED"

- We are not happy bunnies are we. Thats what happens when you start beliving all the rumours that we are going to bring in all these players. Having cash in your pocket is one thing but being able to spend it is another. Some players just dont want to come to us. Garcia / Milito want to stay in the sun, Capel is holding out for real / barca and Velosue is doing the same. Remember, the Arse were after Veluso as well and did not get him.

I can deal with all that because we got good money for Berby and Keano (£50m for the pair aint bad going) and we have a stronger squad.

The lack of cover up front is worrying but lets just hope we dont get injuries. We have only being playing one up anyway and we could always recall Pekhart (once he has got an eye for goal in the chumpionship)!

What we need is confidence and a run of games where the squad can gel. For me a team of Gomes, Hutton, Woody, Ledders, Bale, Corluka (holding), Dos Santos, Modric, Bentley, Bent and Pavly dont look bad to me and has to be our best starting line up for 15 years.

I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on, two years nearer his retirement, for 3 times the amount we paid, and UTD would have paid two years ago.....that's £20m more for a player two years nearer his retirement.....you do the sums


in the last 12 months we have bought:

gomes 27
modric 22
bentley 24
dos santos 19
pavyluchenko 26
corluka 22
bostock 16
bale 19
hutton 23
woodgate 28

all full internationals except bostock (but he only cost £700k), and we STILL balanced the books.........and poached/tapped up whatever you wanna call it (let's not forget that eh? the complaint over feRgie would have gone nowhere), one of the best and most highly respected coaches in european football. Results won't be immediate, but the future looks a little rosier than it did 12 months ago....and we're not in debt...we are one of a very few clubs not operating at a loss


all because of levy.....HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY US NOT VILIFIED"

Harry

are you of the opinion that Campbell's loan move is exactly that?? I cannot honestly believe that Levy would allow us to improve a ManUre player then just send him back after a year.

I'm hoping its only a loan deal due to time constraints as the window was shutting. Similar to the Defoe to Pompey deal.

I think young Campbell could definitely bring something new to our front line. I was particularly impressed with how he outshone Rooney in the ManUre vs Newcastle game on opening weekend.

To all those whingeing about the club, how its run, and our ambitions, compare this squad to any squad we have had over the last ten years and tell me we aren't better off now! The very fact that we aren't bringing in players like Tremazzani, Berti, Saib, Booth & Acimovic shows that we are in a better position than at any stage in our previous history.

The window is shut now, we have our squad & Ramos has his managerial job to do. Get behind the lads.

Anyone saying they are ready to give up on Spurs is a disgrace & obviously not a real fan. There is nothing in the world that could stop me supporting Spurs.

Bearing in mind it was in the news that Man U were considering selling Campbell to Hull for 7m (depending on the outcome of the Berbatov transfer), is it possible that there is an option to buy at the end of the loan? I would think it is very probable.

On a separate issue, there is an article on Newsnow (perhaps not the most reliable) saying that we may bring up a new case against Man U over Berba. The jist is that Fergie picked him up from the airport and hid him in the back of his car under a blanket before having permission to speak to him. Apparently this was done in an effort to keep him out of reach of Man City (who had offered more money and wanted to speak to him). This article is at least funny, if not to be trusted.
Here is the address:
LINK

Reply to Billispur:

Man U crapped themselves when Man C offer accepted by levy!

Berba would not sign to Man C so a lot of dosh and he had to make a decision in about 4 hours or so.......Levy did stand up to Manu and said 30 Mill early on and Man u payed had to pay at the last minute otherwise
then...

why are we nagative??? are you on crack????????
we had 3 of the best strikers in the league and sold them all which apart from defoe wasn't that prick of a chairmans fault and the fourth choice striker we had is now our number one, also we have let man who take the complete and utter piss out of us and to make matters worse we are even giving one of there reserves a bit of first team action so he is fit and ready for them next season (what the fuck is that one all about) and then we all know the other player we need is a holding midfielder and we didn't get one because the 3 months time we had wasn't enough, so we are we right now?? 10 mil richer with a pile of shit up front yes a pile of shit up front with a manger who is out of his depth and a chairman who has got c*nt writing on his forehead.
HAPPY DAYS
cant wait for the ville game though
come on you spuuuuurs

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Reply to jj:

Well well well
daniel levy has done it again, too busy trying to squeeze every penny out of the berbatov deal that he has failed to get the players that the manager wanted. Veloso, garcia, arshavin. The arshavin deal was all about the money and we didn't want to pay, so we end up with frazier...

JJ - anyone who thinks you know more than Levy of how to run Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is madder than you. No offence here, we're all Spurs fans, but none of us know what went on, who we were trying to sign and who was even remotely close to joining. Man United are a HUGE club. This is...

Yes, we did get rid of a player who didn'twant to play for us (and good ridance to the miserable sulky bulgar) and Levy squeezed ManUre for as much as he could, but he also missed out on Arshavin who actually DID want to come and play at the Lane purely because he didn't wany to pay the amount Zenit were asking.Campbell or Arshavin? who would you rather have up front? Tight or what? If you were to stick a lump of coal up Levys arse i reckon in 2 weeks time he'd shit a diamond...

Reply to bigyid:

wise words graham, it's little wonder spurs fans get the reputation they do with some of the clueless idiots on here

and for thsoe saying congratulations to levy for making us a selling club- do you know anything about football?....every team in the prem outside the top four is a...

spot on bigyid,
we are not a top 4 club, but we are moving in the right direction.
As for all the people saying they are giving up with spursor seriously considering it after last night, I say good, go and support man utd, chelsea arsen*l or whoever, because nothing ever goes wrong at any of those clubs, and even if it does, they will prob win the next couple of matches and all is forgotten.

as for me, I'm Tottenham...come what may

Reply to HarryHotspur:

Reply to Wit:

Oh and one other thing i learnt. There is NO SUCH THING as an ITK. They are all full of it (and that includes you Harry my dear).

Never claimed to be one.

Willingness to learn is paramount though.

What more will learn over time is that much information is given in good faith. Free of charge and without agenda.

Which makes the YOU LIED TO ME! brigade all the more looney.
...

Harry

are you of the opinion that Campbell's loan move is exactly that?? I cannot honestly believe that Levy would allow us to improve a ManUre player then just send him back after a year.

I'm hoping its only a loan deal due to time constraints as the window was shutting. Similar to the Defoe to Pompey deal.

I think young Campbell could definitely bring something new to our front line. I was particularly impressed with how he outshone Rooney in the ManUre vs Newcastle game on opening weekend.

To all those whingeing about the club, how its run, and our ambitions, compare this squad to any squad we have had over the last ten years and tell me we aren't better off now! The very fact that we aren't bringing in players like Tremazzani, Berti, Saib, Booth & Acimovic shows that we are in a better position than at any stage in our previous history.

The window is shut now, we have our squad & Ramos has his managerial job to do. Get behind the lads.

Anyone saying they are ready to give up on Spurs is a disgrace & obviously not a real fan. There is nothing in the world that could stop me supporting Spurs.

All this talk of giving up on the club is b*lls.

Yes, we got shafted last night. But we have known this has been coming for at least a year.

Levy is obviously concerned about protecting the value of an asset. At the same time Berbatov was hardly doing anything positive on the pitch or in the dressing room. If he has stayed he would have sulked for a few months and then most likely upped his game for the Jan shop windown.

Let's get real. 30mil is what Levy wanted and he got that. If anything Ferguson didn't do himself any favours yesterday - by the time the illegal medical had happened, without a fee agreed, Levy's hand was strengthened because 1) Utd were undisputably making an illegal approach and I can't see how this would have been let go without us dropping the complaint 2) Let's not forget they also desperately needed a striker, and no matter how much he wanted to go, they need him badly right now.

So from a few days ago, when it was 24mil take it or leave it, Levy has made the best out of an awful situation for the club by taking them for 30mil and some attacking cover. I refuse to slate Levy over this - yes we are being patronised with the loan deal, and yes our pride hurts because they are goining to sing the feeder club line at the lane. But there aren't many clubs that can bat off Fergie's sordid advances.

It's s***, and I hate that f**ker, agreed, but he won us a cup, and we have just made a tidy 20 mill profit on him. Obv that has to be spent well (by Ramos rather than Comolli), hopefully on the ball winning anchor we so desperately need.

Rant over.

PS Nice work on the Corluka + Pav deals Harry, you can't call all of them, but it's obv. good for us non ITK's when you get the gems in.

OK, i too watched in horror at what happened at midnight last night.

However.....


i cannot see that this was all done illegally as much as the press are saying it was.

i am a spurs fan and love THFC with all my heart. so i aint sticking up for the scum, but that said Levy would have been straight to the FA had this all of happened.

there was no statement saying he had not been gioven permission (on the official THFC site) just in the press

remember, the press had us linked to a million players and heskey - WHERE ARE THEY?

the press do this to make sure we are wathcing their channel or reading their news, they use us as a way to increase advertising fees!

The Whole saga of the transfer was in my opionion a good business deal, we got the price we wanted, got cover until we can buy using our newly found wealth.

as someone wrote above we have 10 mill in the kitty - add to that the 30 mill we would of had ion the budget and we are going to have a great january.

we will have time to sign players that will be up to match fitness, and have 4 months of playing under their belts to prove how good they are.

we are not dead and buried, WE STILL HAVE A GREAT TEAM! much better than last season.

we have to stand and cheer the Spurs and get behind the Team we have, all you people scoffing, shouting and raving now would be different come January 1st if we are 3rd and 5pts clear of man city with Liverpoop and ars*e in 6th!

we are fickle yes, yes are passionate, but we have had the passion and faith to stand by the team

NOW DO IT WITH THE 2008/2009 SQUAD!

in Levy and Ramos i trust!

COYS
wow its onyl a comment board not a gcse m8

anyway january bring a striker in
lol im either really wrong but that zaki that wigan borrowed looks decent 4 goals in 3 games
anyway i duno
a striker a holder and a left winger still?
Huntelaar, Veloso, Moutinho? i mean we get about 40m in jan + 10m left ovr this year is that possibility?

Reply to JuandeOn2DaysOff:

Reply to shaun:

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

What are you talking about, Daniel didn't stand up to them. He shouldn't have sold to them simple as...

Levy dind't have a choice! Berbatov wasn't prepared to speak to Man City and was a disruptive influence. IN the end we got £30m for a player who had become a massive cock. Fuck him, take the money and run. Levy is the only reason we didn't accept the £20m they'd offered us already!

Bingo. Couldn't have put it any better myself, sir.

Levy had little choice in the Berbatov drama. When Berbatov essentially pretty much publicly told us to take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut, it's akin to Levy now having to play poker with a couple of crappy rag cards against the tasty hand held by United. Yet, still he managed to negotiate £31m, when there isn't a single one of you who wanted any more than £28m, and probably expected no more than £25m. The lodging of the complaint with the FA, the waiting until the last day to do business, the categoric turning down of feeler offers various - these are all quality moves from a man holding no more than a joker and the 9 of spades.

And as for the "WHY DIDNT HE SELL TO CITY" mob, there isn't really much more he could have done about that. Berbatov already had his knickers in a bunch for Rooney and Ronaldo.

Objectively speaking, I'm glad he's gone to United. United aren't exactly our direct competition, whereas City are. Or were, at least. I find it irksome selling talent to those who are in the chasing group, which the likes of City are. (Plus, I just want to see Chelsea beaten to the title again.)

When Dos Santos, Bentley, Modric, or Corluka were putting pen to paper this very same window, where was the fork waving you now aim at Levy?

And please, please, please, for the luvvasport, stop saying: I CANT BELIEVE THE ONLY THING STOPPING US FROM SIGNING ARSHAVIN WAS MONEY AND HE DIDNT PAY IT. That is not a legitimate complaint. I would have liked to have sported a third kit with Arshavin emblazoned across the back as much as the next guy.* (*Jamiespurs noted and excepted). But, Arshavin is already in the middle of a long season, is cup tied, and lastly but not leastly, is 27. You can safely assume that he would be a depreciating asset, unless he played out of his socks straight out the blocks.

So, please before you get on here with LEVY OUT, have a word with yourselves, and switch to decaff

agreed... even reading the links to these players sometimes lifts spirits! how boring would it be if all speculation was true!

Reply to Nunchucks:

Reply to jj:

Well well well
daniel levy has done it again, too busy trying to squeeze every penny out of the berbatov deal that he has failed to get the players that the manager wanted. Veloso, garcia, arshavin. The arshavin deal was all about the money and we didn't want to pay, so we end up with frazier...

When I was in school, there was a fad amongst my fellow students to call one another 'chiefs'. I originally took this to be some form of hierarchial inference of praise. But in the magical world of kid logic, like 'bad' and 'wicked' before it, 'chief', I discovered, actually meant the opposite of...

that man is spot on its all about the cash(money money money its a rich mans world)only a fool cant see that or a chief as you put it in fact lets get current a "waste-man" levy was never gonna report anyone all he wanted was more money. well look at it who did we really get? £50m thats what money can't tackle cant score goals all it does is comfort uneducated fools "money the root of all evil" = gangsters = Daniel Levy. Champions League football on the cheap ha ha ha ha not gonna happen until we get a sugar daddy with real money like man city and Chelsea until then its market stalls instead of Harrods

Reply to Nunchucks:

Reply to JuandeOn2DaysOff:

Reply to shaun:

Reply to onedavemackay:

Grim it may be. But at least Daniel stood up to them and given that he was going to leave anyway 30 mil plus ain't too shabby.

What are you talking about, Daniel didn't stand up to them. He shouldn't have sold to them simple as...

Levy dind't have a choice! Berbatov wasn't prepared to speak to Man City and was a disruptive influence. IN the end we got £30m for a player who had become a massive cock. Fuck him, take the money and run. Levy is the only reason we didn't accept the £20m they'd offered us already!

Bingo. Couldn't have put it any better myself, sir.

Levy had little choice in the Berbatov drama. When Berbatov essentially pretty much publicly told us to take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut, it's akin to Levy now having to play poker with a couple of crappy rag cards against...

cant do decaff was up half the friggin nite waitin for us to sign a striker defensive m/f and center back..... also need the caffiene to convince me that Modric and dos santos are not really 12 years old and might be able to play a bit one day ...sorry

It really is full of doom & gloom mongers on here today isn't it???

I never realised what a pessimistic bunch us Spurs fans are! Now if we were Derby I could understand it, but we're not. So everyone, get a grip and move on. The window is shut and no amount of bitching and moaning about Levy is going to change anything. Ok be pissed off, go kick a cat or a dog, small child or anything you can find but until the club goes completely down the swanny a la Leeds Utd I will not be panicking or whining.

Reply to jamiespurs:

Reply to HarryHotspur:

Reply to Wit:

Oh and one other thing i learnt. There is NO SUCH THING as an ITK. They are all full of it (and that includes you Harry my dear).

Never claimed to be one.

Willingness to learn is paramount though.

What more will learn over time is that much information is given in good faith. Free of charge and without agenda.

Which makes the YOU LIED TO ME! brigade all the more looney.
...

Harry

are you of the opinion that Campbell's loan move is exactly that?? I cannot honestly believe that Levy would allow us to improve a ManUre player then just send him back after a year.

I'm hoping its only a loan deal due to time constraints as the window was...

I doubt Campbell will get much of a look-in in the first 11. Especially if we adapt to 5-4-1. Bent and Pavyluchenko will see us to January, and then we can see what's around up front then.

I still can't get over just how spineless Levy is. Didn't we submit a dossier to the FAPL of 1 years worth of evidence? So now we just forget all that and wait for United to make a move for Bale/GDS/Modric next summer I suppose.

I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on, two years nearer his retirement, for 3 times the amount we paid, and UTD would have paid two years ago.....that's £20m more for a player two years nearer his retirement.....you do the sums


in the last 12 months we have bought:

gomes 27
modric 22
bentley 24
dos santos 19
pavyluchenko 26
corluka 22
bostock 16
bale 19
hutton 23
woodgate 28

all full internationals except bostock (but he only cost £700k), and we STILL balanced the books.........and poached/tapped up whatever you wanna call it (let's not forget that eh? the complaint over feRgie would have gone nowhere), one of the best and most highly respected coaches in european football. Results won't be immediate, but the future looks a little rosier than it did 12 months ago....and we're not in debt...we are one of a very few clubs not operating at a loss


all because of levy.....HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED BY US NOT VILIFIED"

Reply to terrabilal:

Reply to Nunchucks:

Reply to jj:

Well well well
daniel levy has done it again, too busy trying to squeeze every penny out of the berbatov deal that he has failed to get the players that the manager wanted. Veloso, garcia, arshavin. The arshavin deal was all about the money and we didn't want to pay, so we end up with frazier...

When I was in school, there was a fad amongst my fellow students to call one another 'chiefs'. I originally took this to be some form of hierarchial inference of praise. But in the magical world of kid logic, like 'bad' and 'wicked' before it, 'chief', I discovered, actually meant the opposite of...

that man is spot on its all about the cash(money money money its a rich mans world)only a fool cant see that or a chief as you put it in fact lets get current a "waste-man" levy was never gonna report anyone all he wanted was more money. well look at it who did we really get? £50m thats what money...

Anyone heard rumours of us being bought out? Some of you could get your wish!

that ain't no cockerel on our badge, it's a f*ckin' chicken. Levy was bent over the table by the red-nosed wino and butt-f*cked until he took the 30 million pieces of silver. I feel like i've eaten lemons for breakfast. time for joe lewis and his pal to ride off into the sunset cheap w*ankers that they are.

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I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on,...

I don't think anyone in their right mind would contest any of that.

Levy is good stuff.

But... and there is no escaping this, we've shed two rats who didn't want to wear the shirt, but all what have we replaced them with?

I'm not suggesting as some that Levy by hung from a lampost outside the stadium over this, but it must be said that unless a number of players overperform this season it is difficult to see where the goals are going to come from.

Keane and Berbatov where rerplacable. Of course they were. But some kid on loan and some 'money' once the shops have all closed may well not be enough.

Arshavin I have always maintained was at best a punt. Unproven in the Prem etc.

But we ought to have just coughed up.

Last night was surreal.

Heskey? Owen? Torres?

We got some kid and the threat of being to buy him for an ADDITIONAL £7 million.

I support Levy, but last night was not his finest hour.

He knows that.

were supposed to be a big club and break top 4 - big clubs dont sell best players and replace them with f*ck all. The clubs chasing Campbell were Bolton, Wigan, Hull...bottom of league teams - so y have we got him. 3 strikers have gone who are world class or near to that...what have we bought - unproven cheap russian and some fuckign C*nt with a shit name...

bottom line is levy is prepared to risk our season by not making a big signing - arshavin was there, Robiniho available...we get a 5th choice championship striker...great another great transfer window

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I still can't get over just how spineless Levy is. Didn't we submit a dossier to the FAPL of 1 years worth of evidence? So now we just forget all that and wait for United to make a move for Bale/GDS/Modric next summer I suppose.

He probably knew the EPL are a gutless load of sh1te and that SPurs would still be the losers in the long run, better to get a few extra quid than less money or sulka staying and Utd getting told 'your a very naughty boy, don't do it again!'

So disgusted with how last night played out.....another transition season on the cards. Was looking for a top striker to come in last night and all we got was a kid, no doubt he has potential but no prem experience. I still believe that Ramos will get the players he wants but that's not going to happen in January. Who's going to come when we are sitting mid-table??? And to think we could be out of all the cups by then??? Maybe it's the tuesday blues but i'm not a happy spur this morning.....

Get over it,we all knew Berba was doing the off,we got top dollar for him,END OF STORY.... Onwards and upwards, YidArmy!!!!

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I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on,...

unproven players in the prem alot of them lets wait and see i seriously have my doubts that what we have is good enough i hope im wrong

Nunchucks

I dont think Spurs would have taken him on if he wasn't going to see some action. I'm still hoping that his loan deal will have an option for a permanent switch.

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I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on,...

All right you. I've notcied every time you've posted it. You're absolutely right.

We have bought well, I feel if we'd sold Berbatov and Keane at the start of the transfer window and bought every single player that we've brought in this summer last night, people would be praising the board.

The board have brought in some phenomenal players, there is simply no questioning that. We don't know how well Pavlova and Campbell will do, they may surprise us. The thing we've been lacking the first two games of the season is two strikers, and some kind of link between midfield and strikers. I think with Pavlova and Bent upfront we have two great strikers with aerial presence as well as precision-finishing.

The future is still bright.

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I'M GONNA KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL SOME OF YOU IDIOTS READ IT AND TAKE IT IN

"he wanted to leave, our players hate him, and we paid £10.75m for him- UTD wouldn't take the risk on that money for him two seasons ago- we got two good seasons and 40 odd goals out of him and sell him on,...

I don't think anyone in their right mind would contest any of that.

Levy is good stuff.

But... and there is no escaping this, we've shed two rats who didn't want to wear the shirt, but all what have we replaced them with?

I'm not suggesting as some that...

Harry spot on how many months have we had to sort this out ..... well we now have 120 days to get our act together and spend wisely come Jan... by the way there was a mention by Zenit that something may be on the cards for a pre contract for Jan any truth in that you may know of .. like you tho i feel it would be a punt... half term report for mr comolli and levy should read can do better....

Sam, you are a c*ck. Get off this board, we don't do jew comments round here.

im not a fan of levy.

silly little man. insists on over egging every pudding.

sometimes you have to pay the asking price, not every deal can result in a bargain.

I have come to the conclusion the top 4 clubs are top 4 clubs because they know when to put down all their chips.

levy wants his cake and to eat it. every time

cant think of anymore cliches.


when in rome...

They've got away with their shabby behaviour
yes but at a very high price and we are not the moral guardians of the english game!

The problem is the system, we shouldn't have to make a complaint for them to be punished, they were breaking the rules in front of everyone's eyes and the PL or FA should act but that's where the mob rules i'm afraid.

At the end of the day we have to look after our own interests and selling a player who risked pulling the club apart, didnt want to be here or play for anyone other than utd for all the cash we wanted plus a loan on top is good business.

All this feeder club rubbish is bollocks as well. There are probably only a dozen clubs in the world who, when they come across a world class player, can hope to keep him for any length of time without their heads being turned and we are not one of them and won't be until we can regularly get in the CL but to say we have no ambition when we have attracted as good a quality player as any uefa team (that isn't run by billionare arabs) can hope to attract like berba in the first place, Gomes, Hutton, Modric and Bentley is idiotic.

What are we saying, we should be throwing away £30m just to prove a point and out buying Robinho's?? Thank f**k you lot arent running the show as you'd very quickly destroy the club i love.

Levy has been brilliant for spurs and has backed Ramos all the way. He's only messed up in not getting an arshavin in but i'm guessing having been £40m down on transfers in 2008 until berba was sold we needed him gone before we could do another big deal and quite rightly we played hard ball and got £10m more than utd were prepared to offer until a few days ago.

That would have been us being screwed over like a feeder club not how it's turned out.

Not a feeder club they have had to work very hard to get Berbatov. Man U said they wouldn't go above 24m which they had to do to get him and also like they did with Carrick so we haven't given him away they have had to pay more than they wanted to.

At any other time this transfer would have seemed great business by us, forcing old swan vesta face to have to actually get behind the wheel of a car himself and go get the slik haired sulker cos he thought he was gonna lose out to the camel shaggers from eastlands!! he then had to lay out nearly 8 mill more than he said was his absolute last offer and give us one of his brightest prospects in the bargain!! we really should be thinking we so got the best possible out of a very bad situation COYS!

you know the difference between us and other so called "BIG" clubs.

the others support the club.... urge it forward with current staff and wish the team well... we as spurs supporters use the first opportunity to over react and blame everything on the current management... its been like this for years and because of it we have not had a settled management/team.

so lets all get off everyones backs and stop crying over spilt milk.

berbatov is gone. we couldnt agree terms with any other players but we WILL come through this.

Going out on a Limb Here........


personally i would not want us to buy the premiership as chelski did, man city may do.

WE ARE A SELLING CLUB YES!

do we want 400 players in our team? no, we have to sell in order to buy, as long as we replace players with better quality/potential to achieve the objective laid out by the club

RAMOS HAS THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVE:

4 yr contract to achieve and retain Champions League Football

to me that last season to evaluate, this season to start building and next season to achieve it with his final years contract being to retain top 4

4 years people! i can wait as i love THFC i want to see us win the league/obtain CL the rpopwer way, the way football was mean to be played FAIR AND SQUARE

to all you doubters i say this:

SUPPORT THE CLUB AND ITS DECISIONS OR F*** OFF TO THE EMIRATES!

COYS

Reply to Fence Sitter:

OK, i too watched in horror at what happened at midnight last night.

However.....


i cannot see that this was all done illegally as much as the press are saying it was.

i am a spurs fan and love THFC with all my heart. so i aint sticking up for...

Spot on Fence Sitter, I thought I was the only one who figured out the most obvious thing- that Levy gave permission to ManU to talk to Berba and once they agreed and he passed a medical Levy squezzed evry penny he could out of them for a player that clearly hated being with Spurs.

Reply to euston yid:

Sam, you are a c*ck. Get off this board, we don't do jew comments round here.

Gone.

What an unfunny reptile.

lets pin the little bald fucker down and carve A-R-S-H-A-V-I-N into his forehead

Sam

You're a fuc*ing disgrace. Its all well and good for slagging Levy but the whole Jewish stuff is way out of line. I'm not jewish and I dont usually give a sh*t about what most people say on here but you have just shown yourself to either be a braindead pleb or a stupid school kid.

Anyways.....

Agree with Harry,

last night was not Levy's finest hour but alot of you need to remember all the good he has done for this club. When he took over our squad was terrible, there was no real quality in it and no players who were anywhere near world class or even top class. Now we have a team that is able to realy grow into a unit and a bunch of players who, in time will definitely come good.

Reply to Liam:

Where are the Arshavin and Veloso deals that you said were done? I only started reading this blog this summer, now I won't be reading it again. Wasting peoples time with false information just to increase your view count only works in the short term.

This blog got off the ground by bombarding other Spurs blogs, YES, other SPURS blogs with spam and negative comments to undermine the other Spurs writers and contibutors,HH has not only done this in the past,but continues to adopt the tactic you suggest and has always done this.
Im supprised its taken you so long to realise it.
Poor blog with an arse of an author.

Reply to bigyid:

wise words graham, it's little wonder spurs fans get the reputation they do with some of the clueless idiots on here

and for thsoe saying congratulations to levy for making us a selling club- do you know anything about football?....every team in the prem outside the top four is a...

My worry is not so much the chelskis and manures of the world - they are light years ahead of us and we cant compete unless we are bought by a sugar daddy/global investor. It is the fact that Citeh and Villa are looking likely to leave us in their wake if we cant be as amitious as them - I think we could have had both Ashley Young and Gareth Barry a season or two ago if we had been prepared to dig deeper - now neither would probably leave Villa to come to Spurs. This means that unless we get the players we need, we are scrapping for the last UEFA place and if we dont get that, how long will Bentley and Modric stay? I agree that Levy did the best he could over Berba but the failure to start the season with an adequate strike force/cover is the big f*up, for which someone (Comolli or Levy?)'s head should roll

According to the programme against Sunderland we had (if i remember rightly) 20 players in our Squad, less Berba + Pav (who i am excited about) + Corluka (non-plussed) + Campbell (non plussed) = 22 players in our 1st Team Squad.

Thats not good or strong, esp when renewing my season ticket at a tasty increase it was justified to me by Mr Levy that this was to support investment in the squad. Not streamlining and profit making.

And if anyone says "yeah but we made some money" i couldnt really care. If you want to support a team that makes money instead of one who wins footie matches go and support Microsoft Athletic or someone. Goes without saying that we shouldnt do a leeds but i dont sit in the south upper every week and drive to dogwank venues away to sing "we're losing again but we made some wedge!"

I'm sometimes a pessimistic person. But we will really be fine. We were pretty ordinary against Middlesborough. But against Sunderland and Chelsea we began to show our potential. That was without Berbatov, but also without our three latest signings.

These three can only add more options and more quality. Also, the mood in the dressing room will lift a lot.

And you forget, we have players we didn't have for the majority of last season.

We have such quality. Don't let yesterday's lack of action spoil it.

Exuse my bitching but i f*cking love tottenham and i hate to see us f*cked around. Again!!!!

Reply to RJ1882:

Right, i have it roughly like this.
IN: Gomes £8m, Corluka £8.5m, Modric £16m, Bentley £15m Giovani £4.7m, Pavlyuchenko £14m = £66.2m. We also signed Sanchez, Ranieri, Bostock and Mpoko meaning Spend of just under £70m.
Out: Berbatov £31m, KEane £20m, Chimbonda+Malbranque+Tainio £15m,...

yes you are right however isn't the club supposed to put its hands in its pockets? why couldn't we have got Robinho or the like make a brave a challenge for the title? Mr Levys like a dog sniffing behind the arsenal, i would prefer to be on top for a change just once. Now man city will leave us behind as well. Money in the bank doen't help the team on the pitch

What a absolute fecking disgrace, Utd's bully boy tactics have won again, and it just shows everyone else that no matter what we say we will still bow down to utd when the money comes in.

Levy should of stood by his guns and let the bastard rot in the reserves and then sued the arse off utd.


After all the excitement of yesterday afternoon when all looked rosey and we were linked with 4 or 5 potential new signings what do we get an unknown quantity on loan and bag of cash fucking pathetic.

Cant imagine that Ramos will be happy with the way that this has turned out.

Robinho is sh*t

He's not worth £32m!! Read these 2 articles>>>

LINK

LINK

Citeh have tried to make this huge statement of intent but have only been