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 ripped off by Madrid.

We now have to look at the positives. Berbatov hasnt played the last two games and we managed to get a draw at stamford bridge. The lads finally started to play well and we signed a new striker and a solid defender we all raved on about. What shits me off is the way people have rubbished pav before we have even seen him play. Isnt that what happened when we signed Bent? we need to give him a warm reception and support him to make him feel at home and help him perform. You never know he might be one of the signings of the season. I dont think they would have signed any old geezer just cause we havent heard much about him doesnt mean he is shit. No one could have heard much about berbatov before we signed him and he turned out to be quality COM ON LADS LETS GET BEHIND THE TEAM AND GIVE PAVCHENKO THE SUPPORT TO MAKE HIM SETTLE QUICKER

Yahoo the window's closed

I can concentrate on the rest of my life and my business can recover.

We have a much better squad than last year.

We went to the wire with manure and got the right price for sulky, with citeh's help - more stress for red nose - well done Levy. Plus my Manc contacts really rate Fraizer.

We got plenty of dough to spend in January, and we get a few months to monitor Arsh, many not convinced.

Plus Keegan is leaving the Toon HAHAHA what a thespian.

O happy day.

With whats gone on over the last couple of weeks and the amount of players we were linked with and the players we should have brought I'm really disappointed. With Man City now seemingly having unlimited cash I think it could be a battle to finish 5, as if that wasnt going to hard enough anyhow. Agree with whats been said about Campbell not being a great signing for us, but it seems we were left with very little else, personally, I would have liked to see Pekhart given his chance along with some of the youths in the reserve set up, that would have been of more benefit

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.

Couldn't agree more fella...lot of emotions running high. But at the end of the day we can accept bids all we want but if the player doesn't agree then he won't go. So the City bid although cheeky was never going anywhere. And what's the point in keeping him, we got 31 mil and who cares about being a feeder club. Players that want to stay are what we want...50 mil plus for berba and keano. You can't knock levy, do we really think Berba would have stayed and played his heart out. And do we really think Manure would be docked points...not a chance.

As we all know no player is bigger than the club.

Platini has the right idea...if your in debt you can't splash the cash

This is good and may have been lost in the volumous last blog...

435. Finn Wrote: | 07.32BST | Sep 2, 2008
For all the players bought and sold there is a simple truth, we still do not have a DM (other than Zokora) and we still do not have a left winger.

I am not unhappy with the players we have brought in, though some seem to have a bit to do to convince all and sundry of their readiness for the rigours of the EPL, its probably also fair to say that the striker situation also became a major issue and may remain so. But for all the hoo-ha, Comolli and Levy have delivered to Ramos what they delivered to Jol, the cast of Ben Hur to fill the number 10 shirt and no number 6 and no number 11. Zokora may have had a blinder Sunday, but no-one has ever denied his quality on the day, his problem is getting it on days that are consequetive.

That we did not get a Huntlaar is disappointing especially as we pretty much knew that Berbatov had parked his suitcase in the departure lounge; a move for him early may have proved smart especially as Ajax's gripe yesterday was that suitors had left it too late, not that they would not have sold him. But the big issue is that we did not get Veloso or anyone like him and apart from him and a thin nonsense rumour about Diarra, we didn't appear to have looked. The media would have linked us to everyone once they had a sniff despite the Berbatov saga, but there was next to nothing in the way of rumour or possibilities.

So we now rely on Zokora to play like that every week and instead of having an admittedly committed and versatile utility defender supporting the what should have been the real star signing of the summer, we have our utility man swapping and switching with Hudd Jenas and whoever else fancies a game in the middle of the park.

Mr. Comolli, thank you for the cats, they are lovely and will be good company during the long, lonely, winter evenings. But where are the dogs we asked for?

Ah bless, there are a lot of simple souls here today. Whats the matter? Did someone cancel your day trip to the zoo today so to make it up to you, you were allowed to turn on the 'compwuta'?

Awww diddums, you poor thing. Nasty Mr. Levy didn't give you the toys you wanted? You wanted that expensive Russian toy - we'll that Russian shop owner wanted too much and we just couldn't spend that much now. You'll learn when you're older, that if you spend all your money on toys, how are you going to pay for food, and clothes and a house to live in?

What's that? He took away your favourite toys as well? I heard they were a bit broken and one even had a nasty stain on it after that Alex boy you played with stuck it up his bottom. Now you must make sure you look after your toys next time ok. That was a good toy that was, so don't let bad boys near them otherwise you 'll lose them. Anyway Alex's guardian has paid us enough money so that we can buy you a better toy next time ok? Its only a few months till Christmas and I'll tell you what, if you're good - we'll ask Santa for an extra special surprise. You might guess, but you won't know what it is until Santa delivers it.

Till then, do you think you can play with your nice friends for a bit? Most of them don't have toys as good as you. Look at that Alan Curbishley boy - poor thing he's having to sell his toys just to make ends meet. Or that boy from Newcastle, he's got a couple of new toys and although it says on the box that they're supposed to take your breath away, they look second hand to me. Now now, wipe your little eyes and stop crying, you're a very lucky boy and Mr. Levy is a very nice man who's doing all he can top make us happy.

The moral of the story is: we're doing ok, are growing and improving overall so grow up you sad little moaning twats.

And this....

0418. Steve Smith Wrote: | 01.41BST | Sep 2, 2008
After a day of excitement and one that started with high hopes, why is it that many of us feel like the "do" has ended and everyone else has gone off happy with a chick on their arms except us? Well maybe because we were hoping to have some good news and instead just got some that we already knew ie Pav an Cors who incidentally to all those that are saying just wait-are Euefa cup tied. We all knew that Berba was going but I think that we have reason to be pissed when the board knowing it too failed to replace. There are strikers out there so what happened? Did we run out of time? Surely not. Did we refuse to meet asking prices? Possibly though in the case of some like Huntelaar we should have just done what it takes. Yes we MIGHT have funds to spend in Jan but we might also be out of all competitions by then and sitting poorley in the league. At least we had Euefa to tempt the best now, we might not then and might find it harder. remember that saying a bird in the hand....... Our bad start has already seen us languishing near the bottom and playing catch up and where is the illusive DM? Veloso was clearly up for grabs reading their board comments and it is a little pleasing to see that he did not become a gooner. What however does piss me off is that though we did get the money that we wanted, for compensation we take their player on a loan, pay his wages then hand him back on a plate a better player? That sucks and surely it would have been better to tell old red nose to stick it where the sun doesnt shine and give that experience to Peckhart?
I feel robbed, totally disgusted,and even more so let down by the very people that are charged with making me happy by progressing our beloved Spurs. Worse I feel that Spurs have been made a laughing stock again by that red nosed twat.

What must Peckhart be thinking now ..? He seemed to be the potential we should try... where is Tarabbt anybody know ?

we'll? well! boff

PMSL @ you Harry for removing my reply to Liam.
The truth hurts you doesnt it Harry ol son.

Reply to Grazza:

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...

don't want your season ticket? sell up then...loads more do.

Reply to HarryHotspur:

And this....

0418. Steve Smith Wrote: | 01.41BST | Sep 2, 2008
After a day of excitement and one that started with high hopes, why is it that many of us feel like the "do" has ended and everyone else has gone off happy with a chick on their arms except us? Well maybe because...

Totally agree and the question is what does the season hold for us. With such great hopes only a few weeks ago i find myself wondering wheres it all gone wrong, before its really begun.

Anyway, i've now taken my happy pills, the skys are blue and the birds are singing and i'm having visions of champions league night in WHL.......damn these pills are good

Reply to spur4life:

PMSL @ you Harry for removing my reply to Liam.
The truth hurts you doesnt it Harry ol son.

Sorry, try posting whatever gem that was again.

I didn't delete anything.

The Times is reporting that we made bids for Heskey and Carlton Cole.

We, like the supporters of most other PL clubs, are in denial if we think that players, directors or managers are ever going to care as much for the club as the supporters. Last night's events just prove the point again.
If we want to get back the same love and committment that we put in, we should lower our sights and take up watching Leyton Orient or Luton. Berbatov (and all the others) have done exactly what we would all do privately with our careers; gone to a bigger better employer for more money. It is ridiculous to expect him to accept less just because we are Spurs. Never going to happen unless the leagues and Euro competitions are controlled in the manner that Platini wants. So good luck to them all, Berba, Keane, Man City and even Sky Sports. They all richly deserve one another.

what a bunch of idiots most of you are. Berba made it clear he wanted to leave and play for man utd a year ago. The bid man u tabled for most of the summer was £21m. Levy stood up to them and kept it running to the last minute to ensure we got what he was worth - maybe even more! The whole thing about not selling him to Man Utd? and sell him to who exactly? He wouldnt have gone to City and no one else put in a bid for him. So what? let him sit in reserves for a season, disrupting the team and then he can buy out his contract next summer for 2.5m? We dont need Arshavin, yeah he would have been nice but not for 20m+ for what is an unproven player. He's looked great in games and disappeared from games - and we weren;t going to let Zenit bully us into paying over the odds for him. What he needed was a 3rd choice striker and thats what we got in Campbell and anyone who payed attention to football over the summer as opposed to rumours (veloso etc... all speculation) would have seen that campbell was very impressive. as back up for Pav and Bent he'll be fine. if not, we buy someone in January.

What i gather form most of the posts here is that you'd have ratehr us not sold berbatov for £31m, let him sit in reserves for a year disrupting the team and then got 2.5m off of him while he moved to man u for free. and then bought who? Heskey? Carlton Cole? Just because the daily mail says we were looking at veloso and otehrs doesnt actually mean we were.

Stop your bitching and look athe the situation as it really was. We got a good deal for a player who didnt want to be at spurs. Levy did good, again.

Reply to NovaYid:

The Times is reporting that we made bids for Heskey and Carlton Cole.

I may need to retire to the study and self harm...

Reply to jolsgonemental:

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...

one in the hand?

I think they also reported we were signing Veloso, Arshavin, Garcia, Milito.... so i wouldnt take it seriously...

Reply to HarryHotspur:

Reply to NovaYid:

The Times is reporting that we made bids for Heskey and Carlton Cole.

I may need to retire to the study and self harm...

Yeah, thank F*ck for that Carlton Cole! that would have left me depressed!

I think some credit should go to Levy for the work they have done in terms of clearing some of the dead wood, responding to a difficult situation where two of your star players express a strong desire to jump ship and setting about bringing in players who are needed to fill gaps in the squad.

In respect of these three parts, the only failure has been to provide adequate cover up front. Missing out on Arshavin could be a mistake, but who knows, having a forward line where everyone is happy (Bent and Pavly starting and Campbell on the bench) might actually deliver benefits because of having an extended run in the side. For me having four top strikers is always too much as I hate the rotation system for forwards.

The only other gap was a holding midefielder but then again Corluka can play there and Zakora played well this last weekend. I also have a feeling that we might still pick up David Albeda if he buys out his contract at Valencia (I assume that makes him a free transfer) or maybe nick stephen appiah from the spammers grasp.

A little dissapointed by the fact we didn't bring in a quality replacement but Spurs know what there doing and I'm trying to not be negative although it's hard to be too optimistic at the moment.

Go on you Spurs!

Reply to BIGYID:

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,...

bloody hell, a bit of sense today?
how many here wants the heart and soul ripped out of the club with fast track, aggresive approaches, how many here want tottenham to suceed the tottenham way, LEVY IS MORE SPURS THAN 3/4 OF YOU SAD SACKS ON HERE - spurs will be where they should be in a couple of seasons - with no one arguing that it is not deserved. In five years time people will be talking about how to run a football club and use us as the model. Chelsea will be bankrupt, city will b souless and arsenal will be a bunch of pikey scumbags. Man Utd ae reaping the rewards of running there club correctly 10-15 years ago - there will be a new force in football - in Levy we trust.

Reply to MikeF:

what a bunch of idiots most of you are. Berba made it clear he wanted to leave and play for man utd a year ago. The bid man u tabled for most of the summer was £21m. Levy stood up to them and kept it running to the last minute to ensure we got what he was worth - maybe even more! The whole thing...

Do you think that Big Sam called it right on the telly when he said Berbatov should've been sold sooner?

And would the blow have been softened had we not shipped in an obvious/credible replacement?

Not having a dig - but I think a lot of anger stems from the whole last minuteness of this mess.

Hey on a lighter note, SWP has gone from Chelski to Chelski mark two, he must be well pissed!!! ha ha ha

Are you taking the michael there, H?

support the club or do one!

Levy, Ramos and possibly Comolli know what they are doing in the long term interest of THFC.

Rome wasn't built in a day, we don't have Chelski/Citeh's Billions, but we are going the right way

Have Faith And Support The Squad

Support - Definition:
give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to;

Stop Slagging off the team and get behind them

or F*** to the Emirates#

COYS

Reply to calebray:

Reply to BIGYID:

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,...

bloody hell, a bit of sense today?
how many here wants the heart and soul ripped out of the club with fast track, aggresive approaches, how many here want tottenham to suceed the tottenham way, LEVY IS MORE SPURS THAN 3/4 OF YOU SAD SACKS ON HERE - spurs will be where they should be in a...

Loud and clear Calebray. Loud and clear.

Sing it loud. I'm a Yiddo and I'm proud

Just watching SSN, they estimate we actually
made £7.6million profit during the window!

Reply to slim:

Just watching SSN, they estimate we actually
made £7.6million profit during the window!

good to see the money and effort the fan sink into the club has not been wasted.

you know what this means dont you.. big dividends.

yipee

proof that you dont have to be successful to be profitable.

what have we been worrying about eh.

well done levy. you the man.

Reply to jamiespurs:

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.

He's cover at best. Cup cover at that.

I wonder if anybody at the club reads this blog ? If so I wonder what they are thinking right now......?

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.

Sorry Dave mate but principals were sh/t on last night .. we may have got 30 million or so but the shops are closed and we have nowhere to spend it ... we got no DM or decent cover CB .. we have an unproven strikeforce .. Pekhart would have done a better job that Cambell ffs.

Its been disatrous .. we was raped we was!

Its days like today that make me feel somewhat ashamed to be associated with Tottenham Hotspur. NOT because of the annoyance of Berbatov leaving, I'm actually chuffed we got the pricks at Man U to pay up the asking price, but because of the utter mindless drivel some people have spouted on about it.

To say that the spine and backbone of our glorious club has been lost this fateful day of 01/09/08 is the same as saying that by breaking someones tooth you have crippled them.

Get a f*cking grip here people. Top 4 dreams out the window? Where have I heard that before?

Every season we build ourselves up to be mightily knocked down. How about some realistice expectations - you didn't see Man U fans throwing themselves out of high storey windows when they didn't score for the first few games of last year.

The only thing that winds me up slightly more than the trash talk of some of you on here is the fact that (again) Man U fans have nicked another clubs chant.

What utter cnuts.

Reply to HarryHotspur:

Reply to MikeF:

what a bunch of idiots most of you are. Berba made it clear he wanted to leave and play for man utd a year ago. The bid man u tabled for most of the summer was £21m. Levy stood up to them and kept it running to the last minute to ensure we got what he was worth - maybe even more! The whole thing...

Do you think that Big Sam called it right on the telly when he said Berbatov should've been sold sooner?

And would the blow have been softened had we not shipped in an obvious/credible replacement?

Not having a dig - but I think a lot of anger stems from the whole last...

Any sooner Harry and he'd have gone for under £25m and then this blog really would have been on fire!

Rightly or wrongly levy decided not to let manure screw us over and played the long game.

It's not ideal to only have 2 experienced strikers for the next 4 months but Pav looked class at the euros (we've got our teddy back!) and playing every week i have no doubt that bent will get his 20+ goals this season like he did when charlton went down.

Fuck it, Campbell might even be a star!

Reply to jamiespurs:

Robinho is sh*t

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

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So, Robinho is sh*t because some articles told you he is?

He might not be worth £33.6M, but he's still better than Man City. Name one premiership outfit he couldn't walk into.

I think many people are being too tough with Levy on the Berba issue. Ultimately he got the 30 million that ManUtd refused to pay. Berba was also a really disruptive influence and I can imagine what the next few months would have been like with him - either in the reservers or not. He was a rotten apple he had to go. The team we have now is decent and hopefully we will not get much injuries. Very glad to see Corluka. Also, I hope we have some first option on Campbell with the price already stipulated - that way if he turns out to be great we might end up laughing

Reply to fatfish:

I too sat up till the early hours waiting for news of the expected signings. I also got up extra early today so I could see if there was any news that had broken after I went to bed. Nothing, just confirmation of the Campbell deal.

Yes I am disappointed that we didnt get the DM we...

The asterisk is a bit moot if you stick in all the letters of c u next tuesday, isn't it?

Reply to Bimmi:

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..

think its time to change your alias mate ..

Reply to OneDayRamos:

Reply to Bimmi:

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..

think its time to change your alias mate ..

maybe call yourself Crazier Fampbell or something!

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Reply to MikeF:

what a bunch of idiots most of you are. Berba made it clear he wanted to leave and play for man utd a year ago. The bid man u tabled for most of the summer was £21m. Levy stood up to them and kept it running to the last minute to ensure we got what he was worth - maybe even more! The whole thing...

Do you think that Big Sam called it right on the telly when he said Berbatov should've been sold sooner?

And would the blow have been softened had we not shipped in an obvious/credible replacement?

Not having a dig - but I think a lot of anger stems from the whole last...

I honestly believe the only reason we have £31M in our mitts is precisely because of the draggedoutedness of the deal. I expect City's fortuitous intervention at the 11th hour impacted the validity of the United offer.

Given the circumstances I don't think the Club can be blamed for selling Keane and Berbatov - but what is astonishing is how they honestly believe that they have replace like with like..Pav looked very average at the Euros and has no credentials compared to RK and DB, and as mentioned above - why take FC on loan when we have no shortage of young strikers at the club..doesnt make any sense..And whether there is any truth to the rumours or not, but the other touted candidates werent up to much either..Milito ended up at Genoa, Heskey??

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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.

Sorry Dave mate but principals were sh/t on last night .. we may have got 30 million or so but the shops are closed and we have nowhere to spend it ... we got no DM or decent cover CB .. we have an unproven strikeforce .. Pekhart would have done a better job that Cambell ffs.

Its...

We have 2 DM actually - Zokora and Hudd - you may not rate them but Ramos clearly does. Plus Ramos feels Corluka can play here.

The aforementioned Corluka is also the decent cover CB we are after so not sure what you're talking about there as hutton is nailed on for right back.

On what basis do you say that about pekhart? He's had a season of reserve football and zero first team experience and you know nothing about campbell

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Reply to Grazza:

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...

don't want your season ticket? sell up then...loads more do.

Im not Daniel Levy Trembly. I dont sell my prized possessions.........

Thats not the point i was making and i think you know that.

i personally think robinho is a bit shite too. not bent/campbell shite.

but nowhere near world class.

however i predict City will finish top 4 within a couple of seasons. and there total spend will not be as much as we have thrown at it.

making a mockery of those who think it is unrealistic of us to habour the same ambitions (prior to this window naturally)

I too sat up till the early hours waiting for news of the expected signings. I also got up extra early today so I could see if there was any news that had broken after I went to bed. Nothing, just confirmation of the Campbell deal.

Yes I am disappointed that we didnt get the DM we have all been craving and I feel we are one striker short. However I am not angry at Daniel Levy or Comolli or any others that have undoubtedly been working their nuts off to make deals happen.

No comparison I know, but I have been heavily involved at a non-league club playing at step 4 in the national pyramid. I know how hard it is too get players to join your club at that level, God knows how hard it must be in the PL, competing with numerous other clubs across europe, all chasing the same 2 or 3 players.

My anger is aimed in 5 different directions.

1) - Red nose and his bunch of Manc c*unts.
2) - Berbatov & his agent for the way they have treated our club over the last few months.
3) - Spanish waiter and his bunch of scouse c*unts.
4) - Pointy Bob for "following his dream".
5) - The media for linking us with every player in the world and leading us to believe that some of these links just might happen.

I'm still here this morning with the same love and passion for our club that I have no doubt the rest of you share.

The disappointment is a bit like the stunning blonde your took home last night doesn't look quite so good in the morning, but she was still a good shag!

Come on you Spurs. Bring on the Villa.

To top everthing off, Everton signed Mouthino for £15m, no wonder we didnt get Veloso, what a shite day.

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Reply to Grazza:

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...

don't want your season ticket? sell up then...loads more do.

if i was id sell and Get one at Bishops Stortford - at least that way i could satisfy the bank manager and say i made a profit.

Great.

Why didn't we buy Kevin Nolan for a laugh? Stevie Coppell is having a rant because noone even enquired about him.

I mean we are the place for average strikers it appears and at least he could make up the numbers...

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.

couldnt agree more mate, i think we had no option. My only question is about our finances; could we not have bought another striker of Milito's ilk out of our "non-berbacunt" funds, that way we would be winners all round?my only hope is Levy & Co have an out of contract striker from somewhere around the world to play in Uefa

Reckon it's time the club might want to take Berbatov, Keane and Chimbonda's pictures off the top of the tottenhamhotspurs.com homepage, not great to remind the fans how badly the club has shafted us in this transfer window. Was it really worth baulking at the Arshavin fee, and where's the so obviously needed defensive midfield cover? What happened to the ambition to crack the top 4? Campbell on loan to replace Keane and Berbatov? Even if the child is any good, manure will just take him back. Comolli has to go, and Levy too- for fans, it's not all about profit. I doubt they even realise or care how pissed off the supporters are.

Reply to JD:

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...

maybe time will tell JD .. what happens when the Arabs, Americans and Russians decide they are bored with their new hobbys and f/ck off out of it? these "top teams" will be left with wage bills they cannot afford .. it is simply not sustainable and cannot last forever .. look what happened to Leeds .. Tottenham still have their soul .. and I think that lowering the hype a few decibells will do us better in the long run

Nunchucks

Wasn't saying that Robinho is shi* becuase I read it somewhere I was saying that students of the game and respected joutrnalists offer there opinions we should take heed and listen to them.

On another note...... i'm getting sick of all this negative sh*t that people are spewing on here. And we wonder why other fans call us fickle???

Lads

It could be worse we could be Newcastle!! They signed one kid yesterday and then loaned another one in. Now Keegan's bubble has burst and he's getting the tin tack, the spanish archer, his tenure appears to be over. Rumours are he's leaving this time not by helicopter but by a replica of the hindenberg!!!

Were I to travel to Spurs Lodge today I feel I should be barred from approaching the building by a line of tape surrounding it bearing the words ‘Police Line – Do Not Cross’.

Watching Sky Sports News last night, I had the distinct impression that an accident was taking place somewhere in Chigwell, and I suppose forensics experts to be already feverishly picking over the evidence for clues to establish what went wrong.

Can it be that a talented group of professional businessmen really failed in a three month window of opportunity to secure the playing services of individuals appropriate for the cause of Tottenham Hotspur? Or can it be that all of our targets were actually met, and that we actually got a little bit extra (in the shape of Fraizer Campbell), due to some rather clever sleight of the negotiating hand? Or did we witness the drama of a man staring down the barrel of a gun, who not only got away with having his head blown off but actually filched the pockets of his would-be assassin in the process? The best out of a bad job still doesn’t disguise the bad job.

Perhaps the disappointment I feel this morning is largely due to a fatal, personal flaw that allowed me to get carried away in the speculative transfer frenzy. In this regard, I hold my hand up and confess my guilt. My excuse is that, when I saw names such as Veloso, Arshavin and Villa being mooted in connection to my club, I really believed that (taking into account the lofty ambitions of the board) there might be more than a little chance of my fantasies being realised. Coupling that to the astute mind of our head coach and his (apparently) inevitable connections to La Liga and European football generally, I genuinely believed that Spurs were ready to begin scaling Mount Olympus.

Reply to bigyid:

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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to welcome Frazier into our family (but ask him to change his surname), if he doesnt feel wanted he will lose his confidence then we are right and proper f*cked

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Reply to bigyid:

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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to...

he is a utd player.

we are fucking mugs giving him experience.

Time to close it down for the day Harry - it's getting a bit out of hand with some of these comments. I sat looking at this last night til about 12.30, with snn and the radio on - joke time I know.

Tell me what people actually expected? Last Jan was exactly the same - no xmas pressies for me.

The people having a go at pav though are totally out of order. What were all your thoughts on desulker buggeroff when we signed him? I tell you what, I can't wait for the Villa game already and wish it wasn't Int weekend - now that really is crap!

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Reply to bigyid:

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...

good, another positive fan joins us, keep em coming

Reply to jamiespurs:

Nunchucks

Wasn't saying that Robinho is shi* becuase I read it somewhere I was saying that students of the game and respected joutrnalists offer there opinions we should take heed and listen to them.

On another note...... i'm getting sick of all this negative sh*t that...

"students of the game and respected joutrnalists offer there opinions we should take heed and listen to them."

Hahaha. Some advice I might take with a pinch of salt given the continuous bum steers these 'respected journalists' have been feeding me for the past 30 days, if that's alright.

First time poster, secret long-time reader. Mr HH I love your work.

All of this negativity is shite and is what gives Spurs fans a bad name. Of course I am gutted that we have lost what was the best strike partnership in the league, but the 2 players wanted to go and we have got good money for them. I am disgusted with Berbatov's attitude and Ferguson's all-round bastard-ness, but its over.

As others have said the investment in the team has been superb and we now have a young, hungry, balanced strong squad, with a great coaching team.

Yes we would all have liked another top striker, but I think it will work out ok. I have thought since Modric's signing was announced that Ramos would be playing one-up-front mostly this season, and we now have 2 strikers with the capability and experience to play that role.

I can't understand why there isn't more excitement about Pavlyuchenko. In the Euros he led the line in a classy side that played 4-5-1. He has an eye for goal, holds the ball up, is good in the air, and will be hungry for success.

Campbell is very much in the promising back-up category, but he has great pace and could be a good impact player.

Also, Corluka is a great signing. He adds depth to the squad in 3 positions and will help get the best out of Modric - who is one of the most talented players in European football...as England will find out once more next week.

Chin up lads.

Reply to neilrjones:

We now have to look at the positives. Berbatov hasnt played the last two games and we managed to get a draw at stamford bridge. The lads finally started to play well and we signed a new striker and a solid defender we all raved on about. What shits me off is the way people have rubbished pav before...

nice dog mate, and agree with your positivity, me and Dave Mac trying to convince others we are still a top side with the summer additions

Reply to Belfast_Spur:

First time poster, secret long-time reader. Mr HH I love your work.

All of this negativity is shite and is what gives Spurs fans a bad name. Of course I am gutted that we have lost what was the best strike partnership in the league, but the 2 players wanted to go and we have got good...

Welcome Belfast Spur.

A better baptismal post I am yet to read.

The truth is that none of us is privy to the ins-and-outs of what has gone on at boardroom level, and it is reasonable to assume that all we see is the intended or unintended end product of long and sometimes arduous evolutionary processes. It’s fair to say that we’re also apt to misinterpret those end products, and occasionally draw wrong conclusions about them. Despite this, the summit of Mount Olympus doesn’t look any closer this morning, the clouds appear to be gathering, and I am preparing for another winter in the foothills.

Apologies for the negativity. It will pass in time. And I will still support Spurs, whatever high mountains or modest hills they attempt to climb. But the addition of another club with absurd wealth leaves me pessimistic for the future. Not just for Spurs, but for the Premier League and for the game. Where there is fabulous wealth there is no value, because everything is affordable and nothing is precious. Which is at least means that - if Spurs have not recruited as many players as we desired, because there are limits to what we will pay – we still have a sense of proportion, of value and, ultimately, what is precious.

Reply to Nunchucks:

Reply to jamiespurs:

Nunchucks

Wasn't saying that Robinho is shi* becuase I read it somewhere I was saying that students of the game and respected joutrnalists offer there opinions we should take heed and listen to them.

On another note...... i'm getting sick of all this negative sh*t that...

"students of the game and respected joutrnalists offer there opinions we should take heed and listen to them."

Hahaha. Some advice I might take with a pinch of salt given the continuous bum steers these 'respected journalists' have been feeding me for the past 30 days, if that's...

Those guys aren't the "rumour mongers" Vickery and Ball are top notch journo's who comment on South American & Spanish football respectively. I understand the word Journalist is a sore point so close ater the window shuts but as I said Vickery & Ball aren't your typical journo's.

Anyways...... We need a bit of positivity!!

Lads, you're squad for the villa game??

Perhaps we are looking at this all wrong. Lets look optimistically at our new signings:

Gomes - The new Pat Jennings
Corluka - The new Steve Perryman
Modric - The new Ossie
Dos Santos - The new Ginola
Bentley - The new Darren Anderton
Pavlychenko - The new Mark Falco
Campbell - The new Chris Armstrong (ha ha)

All the players brought in are qood quality (maybe not top class yet but good) and patch up the holes in our squad.

The future is bright if we believe...

Reply to jolsgonemental:

Reply to toddspur:

Reply to bigyid:

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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to...

he is a utd player.

we are fucking mugs giving him experience.

Spot on JGM. Mugs we are. And, to boot, we have probably pissed (the talent that is) Pekhart off in the process. Genius.

sending a player out on loan benefits the loaning side. it means that a youngster or reserve can get experience and a decent blooding and returned a better and more rounded player.

ergo not only did levy get a shafting he also had his armed twisted to the degree he was forced to assist the development of Utds next generation.

he should cry rape. because thats what it was.

genius levy, fucking genius.

Reply to Nunchucks:

Reply to Belfast_Spur:

First time poster, secret long-time reader. Mr HH I love your work.

All of this negativity is shite and is what gives Spurs fans a bad name. Of course I am gutted that we have lost what was the best strike partnership in the league, but the 2 players wanted to go and we have got good...

Welcome Belfast Spur.

A better baptismal post I am yet to read.

Here here!!

Positive posts only please!!

This negativity is depressing, really you're making it sound like we're in a very bad state.

I just can't wait until we face Villa and we see our two-three newest signings in action along with the rest of team!

Reply to JD:

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...

Mate go to the khazi and bang one out....your obviously in need of some major stress relief

Reply to stuirvine:

Perhaps we are looking at this all wrong. Lets look optimistically at our new signings:

Gomes - The new Pat Jennings
Corluka - The new Steve Perryman
Modric - The new Ossie
Dos Santos - The new Ginola
Bentley - The new Darren Anderton
Pavlychenko -...

Please please please not another sicknote, why jinx Bentley.

I believe we have a core of 15 players that on their day can beat anyone. It all hangs on the fact that we have no major injuries.

COYS

Reply to jolsgonemental:

Reply to toddspur:

Reply to bigyid:

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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to...

he is a utd player.

we are fucking mugs giving him experience.

Rubbish, if he's good enough for the european champions then he'll make it there anyway and so, as we couldnt do a deal and desperately needed someone, all the better for us if we benefit from him this season rather than anyone else.

Whereas if he's no good it's all irrelevant...

OH ok ill stop moaning now!! because newcastle are in an even bigger mess than they usually are!!! LOVE IT!

Reply to stuirvine:

Perhaps we are looking at this all wrong. Lets look optimistically at our new signings:

Gomes - The new Pat Jennings
Corluka - The new Steve Perryman
Modric - The new Ossie
Dos Santos - The new Ginola
Bentley - The new Darren Anderton
Pavlychenko -...

We've got a stronger squad (bar the strike-force) than this time last year.

We've got a very young talented side that needs a little bit of time to gel but lets not forget that we held chelsea (in my opinion the strongest squad in european football) to a draw AT the bridge; without pav, corluka or cambell for that matter.

The negativity doesn't help anyone, we have enough depth to go till january (it is on their heads, ramos and players as to where we stand in all competitions at that point) And there will definately be a few more players arriving at the lane at that point.

So, my point is, lets be true spurs fans and show the optimism and belief that this club is going forward. Yes, we're not in the perfect position all us dreamers had in mind, but lets get on wioth the football and stop jumping the gun with dooming analysis of a season that's only 3 games in. COYS

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Reply to jolsgonemental:

Reply to toddspur:

Reply to bigyid:

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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to...

he is a utd player.

we are fucking mugs giving him experience.

Rubbish, if he's good enough for the european champions then he'll make it there anyway and so, as we couldnt do a deal and desperately needed someone, all the better for us if we benefit from him this season rather than anyone else.

Whereas if he's no good it's all irrelevant......

shut up you nobber.

they are laughing at us.

Reply to YT_The_YID:

i propose a vote

all those behind the team say AYE

those against can goto

www.dontknowaboutfootballandjustwattorant.co.cks

AYE

Cave-in Keegan. How apt.

Things I did not know before the transfer window but do now:

1) Man Utd are total hypocrits - Would Fregie have smiled if he had seen Ronaldo having a medical at Real on Sky Sports!!

2) Mark Hughes has landed well and truly on his feet (until he is sacked next year and replaced by Mourinho)

3) Berbatov is a shady eastern european and not the messiah

4) Keano is a liverpool fan?!

5) There is a limit to how much money Abramovich has.

6) Arsenal have less money to spend or Arsene is tighten than a ducks bum (depending on who you believe)

7) Levy is a top businessman but is a closet entertainer who always leaves us wanting more

Buying a player from Russia is about as easy as getting a discount from a porsche salesman

Ho hum - Roll on January where we will start by being linked to Villa, Etoo and Arshavin only to be told at the end of January that the window is a difficuly time to buy and no one wants to sell.

How can you say he's good enough for the European Champions when they've loaned him to us, quite clearly that says he's NOT good enough to get in their team.

Come on lads, I cannot believe the negativity that is being touted here today. We all are guilty of getting carried away with the transfer hype - Thats why I stayed up till the end of window and thought, bugger!

If you look at our team we are better prepared for the style that Ramos wants to play, trust him and Levy, they will steer us right.

All this said my only frustration is that we didn't stand up to the arrogance of Manyoo in there behaviour - It only sets a precident for Chelski, Citeh and Manyoo again if they want another player.

We will be laughing when the rich owners bugger off and Chelski and Citeh do a Leeds!

Lets get behind them and start by duffing Villa.

COYS

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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...

bent not good enough.now correct me if im wrong the two seasons at charlton wasnt he highest scoring englishman in the prem league.and was this the same darren bent that didnt get a fair crack last season.the same darren bent wen given a run in the side pre season scored goals for fun.give him a chance before u judge him.strikers need games to get into a rythm.pavulychenko cud end up betta than keane have u seen him play in the prem league yet????campbell did alrite against newcastle.once again give the kid a chance.proves my point to be busy moaning and bitching to sit and think.some of us fans are just a joke.stand up and cheer and get behind the team the manager and mr levy.lets see where we are come may

i propose a vote

all those behind the team say AYE

those against can goto

www.dontknowaboutfootballandjustwattorant.co.cks

Reply to jolsgonemental:

Reply to North17:

Reply to jolsgonemental:

Reply to toddspur:

Reply to bigyid:

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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to...

he is a utd player.

we are fucking mugs giving him experience.

Rubbish, if he's good enough for the european champions then he'll make it there anyway and so, as we couldnt do a deal and desperately needed someone, all the better for us if we benefit from him this season rather than anyone else.

Whereas if he's no good it's all irrelevant......

shut up you nobber.

they are laughing at us.

Do shut up! It's not some machavelian scheme!

The campbell loan suits both clubs, end of.

Reply to jolsgonemental:

sending a player out on loan benefits the loaning side. it means that a youngster or reserve can get experience and a decent blooding and returned a better and more rounded player.

ergo not only did levy get a shafting he also had his armed twisted to the degree he was forced to...

We don't know the details of the loan. But what we do know is that arsehole was supposed to be in Manchester talking to Hughes.

So there was no reason to call Frazier down for a medical. The loan might have only been included in the 11th hour of an 11th hour deal.

Signing him on any more of a permanent basis without him stepping foot in London would be tantamount to a Frankspencerism.

Ahh. It's over. Last night I felt like we got fucked over by that red nosed twat and the incredible sulk. And today I feel no different. I am disappointed because we made great strides in the window and we bought some real quality. But the badge at the top puts it quite well IMHO. I am also disappointed that we failed to replace Berbatov immediately, and I mean replace him, not borrow some young kid from the scum to fill the gaps upfront only to give him back later (Jamiespurs - fancy a bet? It's a loan deal. Simple as).

The reason for the urgency, to put it quite simply, is because there is a massive power shift happening before our very eyes on the other side of Manchester, which will directly affect our own lofty ambitions.

The stark reality is, we have to break into the Top 6 now. Cos Citeh WILL be gatecrashing the "party of four". Ultimately we could have done with getting a head start on them re: our own Champions League ambitions, cos in a year or two Citeh will be in it. Whatever the future brings, we need to get rolling quick. So BIOYFMUCLAAMCCs!

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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!!

Funny ive always thought that Totts were the England of the PL as well! Promise so much but deliver so little!!

I think the real issues here are why we never bought the players that we so badley needed? Surely Levy would realise that there would be uproar from the fans?? cant believe he would leave him self so open to attack. I agree that Manure need to be tackled on this issue but with 30 mil and and a very unhappy worthless lazy git sitting at home till january, there really was no choice that i see? But where were the reinforcements?? very strange indeed.

Reply to YT_The_YID:

i propose a vote

all those behind the team say AYE

those against can goto

www.dontknowaboutfootballandjustwattorant.co.cks

YT, there seems to be a problem with your link, it ain't working!!!!!

Maybe there's no such thing as the touted Ramos Revolution. Maybe it's all bollocks. Complete and utter.

Maybe it's something better: the Ramos Evolution. Change by degrees. Change by increments.

Evolution is the way forward. Darwin was a Spur.

First time I've ever felt the desire to write summat on here but felt I needed to after reading some of the dross and bile submitted earlier.... Been a north manchester based spud for 30 years which has gotten me a lifetimes worth of abuse coupled with an insight that spurs are a lot of fans 'second team' which is actually a damn good feeling innit?

But what the hell is going on in some of your minds? Do you remember the days of stuart nethercott, steve sedgeley, andy sinton, pat van den hauwe and spurs as a club being as poor as a church mouse after a poll tax bill. We still supported every last one of the players cos they really wanted to play for spurs and we couldn't wait for the next game with baited breath. Why not now? Woodgate is pretty good in comparison to Nethercott, Modric/Jenas/Huddlestone/Zokora compared to Sedgeley? Gareth Bale versus Van Den Hauwe (or edinburgh) and Lennon/Bentley/Dos Santos versus Andy Sinton? All seem far better and want to wear the shirt plus we aint poor church mice now we are extremely well off.

So we have lost an arrogant bulgarian striker (albeit a talent I'll admit!) and Mr pointy shouty bloke (borrowed from other posters and again a talent!) But we got £50 million quid for em both - bought em for approx £18 million quid didn't we? and they have certainly scored some goals between being bought and subsequently sold - appears win/win to me. Profit and useful while we had em!

Bent will score - he mis controlled it on sunday and still finished well (Steve Bull did alright with similar poor control).... Pavluwhatsisface is a monster of a player and will be bouncing the John Terry's and Rio Ferdinands of this division all over the pitch (Picture John Terry motionless face down in a puddle with a Pavlo sized forehead impression deep into the back of his head - made you smile right?) Frazier could become permanent if he wants it and why wouldnt he - he will get some goals and games.

So Stop moaning

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Ahh. It's over. Last night I felt like we got fucked over by that red nosed twat and the incredible sulk. And today I feel no different. I am disappointed because we made great strides in the window and we bought some real quality. But the badge at the top puts it quite well IMHO. I am also...

Bring It On You F*cking Man U C*nts Something And Also Man City C*nts?

Is there a prize for figuring the L out?

I've never before read such heated debate on this message board regarding Levy's intentions towards the club.
IMO, yes, we are essentially a business for ENIC- just as Man Utd are for the Glazers, and Chelsea is for Abramovich. So of course if we choose to sell our players, it'll be at top whack and if teams other than ourselves agree to buy on those lines, then we, having made a profit, then reinvest that money to buy more players with promise who in turn will yield a profit on the football field or the balance sheet. This is the way Spurs have done business for a number of years; its only now we have players of undoubted quality that it is a sucker punch to see the best of them leave. In the cases of both Keane and Berbatov, Levy fought to keep the players at the club and priced each of them beyond what we might realistically expect for players of their calibre; that Liverpool and Man Utd paid those prices is indicative of their desire to keep Spurs out of the top four and their reluctance to try players from outside of the Premiership as we have for a number of years.
Levy has, in several seasons, secured three consecutive outgoing transfer records; Carrick at £18m, Keane at £21m and Berbatov for £30m. Those that feel we do not reinvest that money into the team should perhaps bear in mind that for a number of years, our record outgoing signing was Gazza, at £5m, to Lazio. The money Levy has bought into the club (some £49m profit on those players alone) has funded the arrivals of many of the players we're looking at to take us to the next level this season. Despite my disappointment in loosing Berbatov, it had become impossible to keep him and the players we have represent our best chance of finishing in the top half of the table since we were unlucky to suffer food poisoning at WHU and lucky that the teams around us the following season lost to allow a second 5th place finish. Last seasons cup win aside, this is the new look Spurs. Lets get right behind them.

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First time I've ever felt the desire to write summat on here but felt I needed to after reading some of the dross and bile submitted earlier.... Been a north manchester based spud for 30 years which has gotten me a lifetimes worth of abuse coupled with an insight that spurs are a lot of...

I'd pay good money to see Pavlyuchenko put Terry on his ass, especially after that clothes line tackle he did on Modric at the weekend

The futures bright, the futures lillywhite...

Major transfers in the English Premier League after the close of the transfer window yesterday
(reported figures in millions of pounds):

£32.5m - Robinho, Real Madrid to Manchester City
£30.75m - Dimitar Berbatov, Tottenham Hotspur to Manchester United
£20.3m - Robbie Keane, Tottenham Hotspur to Liverpool
£18m - Jo, CSKA Moscow to Manchester City
£16.2m - Jose Bosingwa, Porto to Chelsea
£15.8m - Luka Modric, Dinamo Zagreb to Tottenham Hotspur
£15m - David Bentley, Blackburn Rovers to Tottenham Hotspur
£13.8m - Roman Pavlyuchenko, Spartak Moscow to Tottenham Hotspur
£12.5m - Samir Nasri, Olympique Marseille to Arsenal
£12m - James Milner, Newcastle United to Aston Villa
£11m - Peter Crouch, Liverpool to Portsmouth
£10.3m - Fabricio Coloccini, Deportivo La Coruna to Newcastle United
£10m - Johan Elmander, Toulouse to Bolton Wanderers
£8.5m - Vedran Corluka, Manchester City to Tottenham Hotspur
£8m - Albert Riera, Espanyol to Liverpool
£8m - Deco, Barcelona to Chelsea

MysteriousStranger, you're right. The situation up in Manchester changes everything. Everything. It's the footballing equivalent of the scramble for Africa. And this takeover surely won't be the last of its kind.

There are other ramifications: expect City to be playing pre-season tournaments in Abu Dhabi; the 39th game; Premier League showcase matches overseas; investment; oil.

The power-shift is real, too. Rednose is edging toward the door, inch by inch. His tenure is coming to an end; departure of Quieroz; American owners; property slump; credit crunch.

All aboard the train now departing for the Promised Land. Final calls.

JuandeOn2DaysOff

Good stuff mate. I think we need some realism and some optimism in equal measure. It really dumbfounds me that the same people that praised Levy when we signed Modric, J2S and Bentley are the same people who are now calling for his head to roll!

We need to get behind the team and stop all the panicking, and bitching. All that does is give Spurs fans a bad name!

I must admit i am amazed at the criticism, that DL is getting - people who say he has not spent money and just wants to make profit are talking rubbish!!! In the last year alone we have spent close to £130m, and we haven't made as much back! Mark my words in January we will sign more players, we just weren't able to get the quality of players, that we wanted in time! I'd rather wait... then end up with players like Heskey, what about you?

I'm actually surprisingly blase about Manchester City and their sudden sugar daddy's arrival.

Most of you are concerned because in a couple of seasons Manchester City might be breaking into the Top 4. But if this were to be true, this would be too late, by their own inference.

“Our goal is very simple - to make Manchester City the biggest clup in the Premier League, and to begin with, to finish in the top four this season.”

This season. Now, we all know running out and submitting 300 euros worth of offers on the final day of the window for Berbatov, Villa, Robinho and Gomes is not how you achieve this. Adding Wright Phillips and Robinho does not magically equal admission to the Top 4 party. Which leads me to believe that there may be some kind of head rollery, or boredom and subsequent cashing in of chips in a season or twos time.

Also, why did Abou Diaby choose to buy City instead of any one of the other teams that were touted. I'll tell you why, because at £150M, they are the cheapest, and represent the best return on investment. He's in it for the cash money at the end. It's a business transaction, and their motivation is unrealistic.

I expect tears before bedtime. Pass the Pimms someone.

Interesting comments all - as a number of you have pointed out we don't know what was going on or not before 12 last night. Any Spurs fan who really believed Berbat-Off was going anywhere but ManUre is delusional. This is a good deal - he always was going to be a talisman for us for a max of two years - 30 million is good business and good for the club. I truly believe we were due to sign A.N Other - probably Smooth Bum but hey its not to be. I know its mainly a bitching forum here but lets just get behind Levy, Ramos, Poyet and everyone of those lads that pull the shirt on that - THEY WANT TO WEAR.
We can still crash the Top 4 - Bent is proven plus Jonny TwoSaints, Bentley, JJ, Modric, Woody, Ledders, Lennon, Zokora (has to score sometime!)
Window's shut for 3 months - lets show the EPL what Spurs can do and back our club 100%

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sending a player out on loan benefits the loaning side. it means that a youngster or reserve can get experience and a decent blooding and returned a better and more rounded player.

ergo not only did levy get a shafting he also had his armed twisted to the degree he was forced to...

We don't know the details of the loan. But what we do know is that arsehole was supposed to be in Manchester talking to Hughes.

So there was no reason to call Frazier down for a medical. The loan might have only been included in the 11th hour of an 11th hour deal.
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rubbish. either way he was going and we were scratching around in the last minutes trying to find a replacement. unforgivable.

berba going wasnt unexpected was it, how could we not have a replacement?

the fact is utd sent levy back to london with his tail between his legs, and now have him on a leash and are making him dance for their amusement. like the little monkey boy he is.

his 'hardline' stance ended up with him begging them to LEND us a player ( a youth team player no less).

they are laughing at us, them along with every other football fan this morning and no amount of positive thinking will wash that fact away.


dance little monkey boy and dont even bother thinking about darkening the door of the top 4 again. now be off and take little campbers with you to get some experience. bring him back by 9.30 fed and watered.

Reply to Longlivetheking26:

I must admit i am amazed at the criticism, that DL is getting - people who say he has not spent money and just wants to make profit are talking rubbish!!! In the last year alone we have spent close to £130m, and we haven't made as much back! Mark my words in January we will sign more players, we...

completely agree with you.....

liken it to a car

would you rather a Ford KA today or an Aston Martin in 3 months time?

roll on January, i have heard we've been linked with.......

Been reading the comments and agree with some, disagree with much more.

Firstly, Levy is a good man and I believe he has the club's best intentions when he sells/buy players. But the fundamental failure of this transfer window, once again, is the inability to purchase necessary players. And as long as this continues, we will always be in midtable mediocraty with the occasional 'good season'. These necessary players are the left footed left winger, the holding midfielder, and a proven quality goalscorer.

Don't get me wrong, I'm over the moon we have attracted players such as Modric, Gomes, Woodgate and Pav. As these are necessary players that top teams would appreciate. But when you start buying 'luxury' players without addressing age-old problems, you have a average team.

Zidane said it best when Madrid bought Beckham and sold Makelele, he said, "Why add another layer of gold paint when you've lost the engine?" This to me applies to many of Spurs' transfers, not all of them, but certainly the majority.

Bit long I know but just felt I had to get it off my chest.

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Were I to travel to Spurs Lodge today I feel I should be barred from approaching the building by a line of tape surrounding it bearing the words ‘Police Line – Do Not Cross’.

Watching Sky Sports News last night, I had the distinct impression that an accident was taking place somewhere...

I think we're all guilty of that 9_37. That's why I chastised myself good and proper this morning when reading the news. Another hours kip later - I decided to read the positives of the whole pot noodle saga. It was so easy to get caught up in the maelstrom of expectation, rumour and excitement, thats it was inevitable I would lose my bearings. And just when you think you're 'high' enough to reach the highest echelons, the wind (read hot air) dies away and you land with an unpleasant bump. The moral is to always ensure you are suitably tethered to the truth and have faith that the rope (read club) that hold you there guides a steady course through the ravines and slippery slopes of ambition.

Far from being a grey day, in my mind the calm has settled and the sun is starting to peak.

Oh and before i forget if you don't wanna get behind the Club, and support it? Then you can jog on as far as I am concerned! Look at the squad we have assembled over the summer, we have improved in almost every department except Attack - Granted. However the other day without Pav and Corluka, we drew at the Bridge with may peoples favorites! JR is proving we can give the big boys tough games, all we need now is consistency! C'mon Tottenham fans get behind the Club, and remember where were we before ENIC took over???

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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...

agree, we are where we are comrads

I would love to know the truth but would wager it aint how most of you see it; Levy is about as happy as we lot are with the outcome. IF we had another striker then he would be happy, it didnt happen so lets move on.

We also need to...

he is a utd player.

we are fucking mugs giving him experience.

Rubbish, if he's good enough for the european champions then he'll make it there anyway and so, as we couldnt do a deal and desperately needed someone, all the better for us if we benefit from him this season rather than anyone else.

Whereas if he's no good it's all irrelevant......

shut up you nobber.

they are laughing at us.

just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you personally

jolsgonemental, where do you sit at the lane? I'm asking because I've just got a season ticket and I'll be devastated if I end up sitting anywhere near someone like you

Reply to 9__37:

MysteriousStranger, you're right. The situation up in Manchester changes everything. Everything. It's the footballing equivalent of the scramble for Africa. And this takeover surely won't be the last of its kind.

There are other ramifications: expect City to be playing pre-season...

Anyone want to sponsor my novel?

here here jolsgonemental. We are a laughing stock and no amount of positive thinking can cloud the fact that we knew Berbatwat would leave - eventually - yet we lost Keane AND him and STILL no reinforcements?

Nunchucks

I'm of the same opinion on Man Citeh's new found wealth. It reeks of sh*t to me. The fact that Citeh were available to be bought was the only reason it was Citeh. It wasn't that the investors had the clubs best interests at heart its all about buying and selling. Citeh won't achieve anything. Robinho alone is not going to win them trophies. If anyone bothered to read those two articles I linked earlier, the common consensus is that Robinho will struggle big time in the PL. Who will lose out??? Citeh

Tears before bedtime indeed!!!

Reply to Stuirvine:

Things I did not know before the transfer window but do now:

1) Man Utd are total hypocrits - Would Fregie have smiled if he had seen Ronaldo having a medical at Real on Sky Sports!!

2) Mark Hughes has landed well and truly on his feet (until he is sacked next year and...

tasty little summary there sir stu

Reply to Chris the yid:

jolsgonemental, where do you sit at the lane? I'm asking because I've just got a season ticket and I'll be devastated if I end up sitting anywhere near someone like you

Oh, I don't know. He sounds handy in a ruck.

Reply to 9__37:

Reply to 9__37:

MysteriousStranger, you're right. The situation up in Manchester changes everything. Everything. It's the footballing equivalent of the scramble for Africa. And this takeover surely won't be the last of its kind.

There are other ramifications: expect City to be playing pre-season...

Anyone want to sponsor my novel?

You're delightful. I want to book you for a party. Do you do barmitzvahs?

What nonsense are you talking. Stop naming all these so-called internationals, and just look at the current state of our club going into the season. At the end of the day we have lost our 2 STAR strikers and replaced them Pav and Campbell. Yes we have spent alot of money but we have also gained alot of money, we shouldnt be making a profit in this transfer window. We're in trouble, another season where hopes of our team challenging for the top 4 is slowly vanishing away. Please tell me you are serious when you say we have a better team than last season. We dont!! Corluka will be no better than chimbonda, Modric will take time to be how Carrick was, Gomes is better than Robinson but when King is crocked and Woodgate is removing his hair from his eyes we are still going to concede goals no matter who's in goal !! The fact that we have sold WORLD CLASS players(Keane,Berba) that can win us games out of nothing and replaced them with a lanky Russian and Man U reserve, gives the fans every right to get on Levys back, because its quite obvious the club has digressed through all of these dealings instead of progressing like we were meant to. mistake, still dont have a natural left winger, and are resorting to puttig dos santos on the right wing is stupid, Bentley's not ready to grab a game by the scruff of the neck and is inconsistant as he has always been,No Midfeld enforcer we.
So as far as Im concerned Levy has messed up!! We had a really bad season last year in the league and Levy had a the whole summer to make sure we get back nearer to the form that enabled us to reach two top five posistions. Levy's done well so far, but im affraid football is a fast moving game and the state of our current squad suggests that we will struggle to make the top 10. Im not fooled by the chelsea result, this team better start winning and quick. Levy go and find us an arab with money because we have just moved back in the pecking order. Another top 4 season out the window.

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First time poster, secret long-time reader. Mr HH I love your work.

All of this negativity is shite and is what gives Spurs fans a bad name. Of course I am gutted that we have lost what was the best strike partnership in the league, but the 2 players wanted to go and we have got good...

Welcome Belfast Spur.

A better baptismal post I am yet to read.

Here here!!

Positive posts only please!!

thats like Ar5ena1 fans asking Wenger to buy a player that they've heard of and not just little boys! heh heh

Yet agait wasted tome on here writing a long post only to have it freeze and then disappear.



bet this goes through though....

fcuk me told ya. grrrrr

so man utd TAKE our player and half of you are ok with that? (strange)
man utd mug us off and half of you are happy with that? (strange)
man utd make us drop our complaint for doing that by offering us a player who we will give first team action and get him ready just to go back to them and your happy with that? (strange)
6 months ago we had Defoe, Keane and that p*ick and now we have got Bent, Pav and the man u reject and your happy with that? (strange)
2 years ago we had carrick and we still haven't replaced him and your happy with that? (strange)
all clubs now know that you can tap up our players or staff and all you have to do is pay what ever you think there worth and levy won't do anything i:e chelsea, liverpool, man utd have done this to us!
all levy had to do is say you can have berb for £31 mil take it or leave it and we will still carry on with our complaint to the FA and believe me they would have took the deal because if they said no we still go to the FA anyway, so in other words they have mugged us off and half of my fellow yids are happy with that. (very strange)

The polarised opinions on here remind me of a story.

Two farmers were locked in dispute, and decided to ask the Rabbi to declare which of them was right.

The first farmer presented his case.

'Ah, so you are right!' said the Rabbi.

Then the second farmer presented his case.

'Ah, so YOU are right!' said the Rabbi.

The wife's Rabbi, looking confused, said: 'My husband - blessings be upon your head, but how can they both be right?'

'Ah,' said the Rabbi, 'So YOU are right, TOO!'