Sweet Dreams

What's available in the January transfer window that isn't available now? Woodgates aren't ten a penny.

Are Spurs keeping their cards so close to their chest because thwy have a weak hand? Does it contain jokers?

If, with sales balanced against purchases, our actual current outlay is approximately £1 mil, then there should be a hefty kitty to dip into still.

But two weeks is not much time to inititate and complete big-name signings. It's approaching bargain-basement time, when you buy something because it's cheap - even though it's not really what you're looking for, it doesn't quite fit and you'll probably never like it very much.

Can you confirm if Anton Ferdinand and Veloso deals are just paper talk Harry?

Nice one HH, I too am getting a little sceptical as to just what the hell is going on.

Smoothbum is, now isn't. Was he the answer anyway? I'm not so sure. Time is running out, and as Rednose said, Man Utd have time on their side.

Who is Jeannie?

frankly i'm not so concerned. we have started on the road for the last four seasons and haven't really done that well in any of the first matches. two of those seasons we were 5th and i really don't think ramos would let his squad come unstuck after such hard work in the summer.

berbatov should go, it'd be a relief for everyone. i wish he'd stay and be the one to score 25 for us but i think we all know that's just not going to happen. at least they saw the need for defensive reinforcements though, we're gonna face a lot better this season than middlesbrough's frontline.

Harry.....These two Russians, are they coming, I need an answer or atleast an update. Please

Please stop asking him what he knows...!!! He gets his information from other spurs message boards and portals. Sign up to on of them and you can have your own little blog just like Harry. Stop with the pseudo intellectual shit mate it dosen't suit a pretty little girl like you...

The whole berba thing has become nauseating,In truth I don't think anyone truly cares whether he gets his wish to fulfil his dream or stays with us. We just want it resolved!!

Also anton 'rude bwoy' ferdinand is not the answer JR !! we do need to draft in a CB sharpish but lets not make any hasty descions.
corluka is by far the ideal signing but other than that what happened to jarque ??

The season has started, we're up to 3 players short and the window is soon to slam shut on grubby little fingers....nice to know we've got things in order. HH, how about a quick run down on who we are gonna get in the next 2 weeks....

I am beginning to get the feeling that Levy hasn't got the money that we all think he has. If he did surely he would just pay the extra £2m and get on with the other signings (if there are to be any). It almost looks like he has to sell berba to fund the other deals.

Also with regards to the Arshavin transfer surely Levy can understand Zenits position with not lowering there price as that is exactly what we are doing with Berba and Man U.

Is there any truth in the Veloso story as we are in deperate need of a holding midfielder.

Thanks HH.

I'm going on Saturday and am a little worried. We always seem to concede goals from ex-spurs players. Harry you like to see Berba play from the start? (If he is still here)

Berbatov must start v Sunderland.

Without him we have no link up play in the middle as we saw on Saturday.

While he is a Spurs player he gets my support and he should stay unless Manure match our valuation.

Would prefer we buy a DM but OHara has at least some of the bite we missed at Boro and all last season too.

Playing him provides cover to the defence and gives Gio/Modric more freedom to play creatively.

COYS!

The weekend fixtures saw:
70% home wins
20% away wins
10% draw

Who's to say that, had we been at home, we wouldn't have been among the 70%? Worth bearing in mind, before we allow doubt to take a hold.

Gentlemen .. its a great day in history. The 19th of August. It also means that we have a good bit of time left until the end of the transfer window .. this team is too good on paper not to make something happen .. optimism, as ever, as only us yids know ..

Although i'm enjoying holding off Man U for Berba (it's about time someone stood up to their transfer bullying), it would surely be best for everyone if we just got rid of him now. It must be taking it's toll in the dressing room.

I'm very worried about Saturday. Mido scores against us at the weekend and we have Steed, Pascal and Teemo all coming back to WHL with a point to make to JR!!!

Jeannie - magic!

A fox, not in a box, but in a bottle. Well to start off with at least - or was she always in the lamp thing. Either way, I would what was wrong with Capt. Hagman anyway - is it because it was PG rated? I mean she was gagging!

What I'd like is a bit of magic, not Paul Daniels style, a bit of proper Jeanie blinking, or Samantha Stevens nose twitching. HH can you magic up all the ITK's in one room and make them tell us WTF is going in. No news is supposed to be good news, but no news is just driving me nuts.

Without harping on about the bloody Boro game, I think Hansen sumed it up best, he said a lot of very talented players, but a definate lack of balance and steel, I think the midfield looked very small and hardly combative, jesus, whats happened to us, Ramos must know what areas need attention, why have we not signed the players we need. Surley they can't flog Keane and Berbatov and be happy with Bent and a 19 year old mexican lad.

To give us a decent chance of getting into the top four, I believe we need a decent centre back (Dawson, lovely guy, but turning into the ginger pele) a strong experienced defensive midfielder and two top quality strikers (assuming Berb has gone)

Will it happen, who knows, but everyday, I, like many Spurs fans scour the net for info, in the hope than one day, we will be greated with "Spurs clinch sensational double signing of Arshavin and Pavlyuchenko in 35 million pound deal" Indeed Harry, sweet dreams!

Reply to Ted:

Berbatov must start v Sunderland.

Without him we have no link up play in the middle as we saw on Saturday.

While he is a Spurs player he gets my support and he should stay unless Manure match our valuation.

Would prefer we buy a DM but OHara has at...

Ted

We would of had some link up play in the middle if Ramos hadn't lost the plot and decided to change the whole formation around and play a different system to the one that saw us play so well in pre-season. Why move J2S out to left wing when all summer he's done so well in behind Bent? Why play Bentley out of his favoured wide right position?? why keep Bale on the bench and play BAE instead?? Why play Les Dawson at CB when a cardboard cut-out of King would of done a better job??

I think the Boro game was a lesson for Ramos in why he should pick his strongest side every game and play players where they are most effective.

More bad news for Citeh fans...... If this doesnt smack of desperation than what does??

LINK

Corluka, pack your bags. Your taxi to WHL awaits!

Harry I know that you don't have all the answers so I'm not going to ask any dumb questions. However I and many others do like your entertaining blog so Pops entering the blog chart at no. 6 above should introspect and excommunicate.

Reply to yidomatic:

Can you confirm if Anton Ferdinand and Veloso deals are just paper talk Harry?

of course he cant. he just nicks his news and 'inside info' off of coys. hey dont forget to click his sponsors.

We're all passing the day talking boring shit, because nothing is fuckin happening,someone must know, ITK's are shit.

I wish Berby would just start crying instead of sulking. Then that would be okay and noone would mind and we could be happy in the knowledge he was just emulating the actions of another Spurs legend.

KEEP BERBATOV (who cares if he doesn't smile. He is brilliant and this isn't a Miss World competition).
BUY CORLUKA (or another top defender)
BUY MIDFIELD ENFORCER (ideas welcome)

I'm not sure how much more dissecting we can aim at the wknds loss; we all knew it'd take a few games for the new signings to bed in properly. What we didn't know was that we'd start with a makeshift defense that really only served to highlight the deficiencies in our summers spending so far. In fact, for several seasons we've been crying out for a Defensive Mid and a top notch centre back (not to mention an out and out left winger!), so while Woodgate is a signing in the right mold, his tendency towards injury means its unlikely we'll survive without someone else coming in there too. How we play at home next underlies it all for me. thats the start we should be looking for.

These are the words of Diego Capel when he found out Barca were interested in him "The fact such huge teams are interested in you fills you with pride, but I’m relaxed and happy to play for Sevilla, who are a big club,”

That to me is a fantastic display of loyalty and exactly what Berbatov should be saying, instead of saying I dream of Manure, FUCKING MERCENARY

Sorry, I'll shut up about Berbatov, I'm boring myself

There's some real bitter boys about today. To be fair lads, keep your opinions to yourself, we use this blog to chat as fellow spurs supporters, HH hasn't claimed to know things others don't so take your pointless whining elsewhere... It's ashame that some supporters of our beloved club don't seem to possess the manners and grace that others do.

Supporting Spurs is like living in an episode of Dad's Army.

I can hear Private Frazer intoning, 'We're doomed.'

Then there's Lance Corporal Jones yelling, 'Don't panic!'

What I want to hear is the spiv, Private Walker - the man who can get you anything, including a couple of CBs, a DM and some decent strikers. "Mind you, as it's war-time it will cost you, 'cos you can't get 'em."

I've never thought of Levy as a spiv before.

I can't stop thinking of Dawson as Private Pike.

Why is it the world and his dog can see the glaring holes in our squad and yet we haven't made the required signings. I am also a little bemused as to why we haven't signed one Spanish player.
Any team wishing to perform well in the EPL or in any other league for that matter need to do so from a base of a strong defence, i see our defence as one of the weakest in the league.
Unless this is addressed in the remaining 10 days or so it will another season of us Spurs fans scratching our heads wondering wtf is going on

Reply to 9__37:

Supporting Spurs is like living in an episode of Dad's Army.

I can hear Private Frazer intoning, 'We're doomed.'

Then there's Lance Corporal Jones yelling, 'Don't panic!'

What I want to hear is the spiv, Private Walker - the man who can get you anything,...

Don't tell 'em your name pike!!

Blimey, thats a very very good analogy.

Reply to 9__37:

Supporting Spurs is like living in an episode of Dad's Army.

I can hear Private Frazer intoning, 'We're doomed.'

Then there's Lance Corporal Jones yelling, 'Don't panic!'

What I want to hear is the spiv, Private Walker - the man who can get you anything,...

Hey waccy, remember the grapes?

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Do you honestly think Berb will play Saturday? I don't, and I think it will be sorted by then. He and his Alice would need appease the Spurs faithful, or the club would need to make some statement. I for one won't boo, but won't applaud either.

Trouble with all these other rumours is that we're all building ourselves up with talk of stars and all we'll get is meteorites.

Manure had the Neville brothers, and now have the Da Silva brothers in the their ranks. We're crying out for help at the back, why not add one more and go for the Dawson brothers. They won't have the excuse of not knowing each others game

Seriously though, I can't help but wonder what two x Two (four?) Saints would be like in lilywhite....(with a solid defence behind them of naturally).

Trembly

Its bad enough having one of the useless bastards in the side. Let alone having two!!

Reply to hoopspur:

Do you honestly think Berb will play Saturday? I don't, and I think it will be sorted by then. He and his Alice would need appease the Spurs faithful, or the club would need to make some statement. I for one won't boo, but won't applaud either.

Trouble with all these other rumours is...

Yeah. Unfortunately I do think he'll play for Spurs on Saturday. This will probably go to the line or not at all.

Reply to jamiespurs:

Trembly

Its bad enough having one of the useless bastards in the side. Let alone having two!!

didn't know BAE and Daws are related? Oh - you mean two two Dawsons?

I take it you didn't mean the possible 4 saints combo.

Reply to Trembly:

Reply to jamiespurs:

Trembly

Its bad enough having one of the useless bastards in the side. Let alone having two!!

didn't know BAE and Daws are related? Oh - you mean two two Dawsons?

I take it you didn't mean the possible 4 saints combo.

J2S has done no wrong in my eyes yet. And Johnny's brother Johnny would be welcome at the lane also. However, I reckon theres a few people at Barca wondering why they sold J2S. Still, their loss.

BAE and Dawson's only relationships are the fact they play for Spurs and that they are both shite. Unfortunately for us they decide to unite and both conspire to be shocking against Boro. In fairness to BAE his mistakes did not lead directly to a goal. Whereas Les Dawson's mistakes lead to ALL 3 goals!

Can we sign a CB that knows how to mark?
Ramos knew that Jol spent his money on attackers like Bent instead of a decent CB.

Even with Woodgate and Hutton, if Dawson is more than a sub, we have to win games 4-3.

What about signing someone like Giourkas Seitaridis or any CB with over 50 international caps and CL experience.

Jamie. I'm just annoyed that I put forward a team selection with BAE at left back. If he learned to defend (or could be coached to defend) then I'd be happy to keep him behind Baler in LMF. I'm thinking long and hard about what line up I would put forward for Sunderland. Its unlikely that any buys before Friday would slot straight into to the the starting line up.

Wasn't serious about the Dawsons. Only mentioned it because I saw a replay of Hull v Fulham. How good is Nicky Barmby still? We could have done with him a bit more over the years. Shame he suffered from northern 'homesickness'.

The OS says:

'And defender ‘Daws' is refusing to dwell too much on what happened at the Riverside - a game he feels could have gone either way.'

'Either way'? What - bad, or very bad?

Am I wrong in thinking there's merit to be had in dwelling on mistakes? You can learn from them.

3 positions we need to cover, CB, DM, Striker.

3 players who are all playing in the prem, for "lesser" teams that we could get.

Upson - I dont care that he played for the scum
Diarra - I dont care that he played for the scum
Santa Cruz - may have to buy his little brother as well as he has just signed for Blackburn

We could get the 3 for around the £35m mark.

Reply to 9__37:

Supporting Spurs is like living in an episode of Dad's Army.

I can hear Private Frazer intoning, 'We're doomed.'

Then there's Lance Corporal Jones yelling, 'Don't panic!'

What I want to hear is the spiv, Private Walker - the man who can get you anything,...

Dawson

On saturday I thought we had Les Dawson in defence!!!

Reply to Trembly:

Jamie. I'm just annoyed that I put forward a team selection with BAE at left back. If he learned to defend (or could be coached to defend) then I'd be happy to keep him behind Baler in LMF. I'm thinking long and hard about what line up I would put forward for Sunderland. Its unlikely that any buys...

Barmby was fine at WHL. It was his wife who couldn't hack the big smoke of North London!! She whined and whined until he left & lets face it he's never been as good since he left Spurs.

I know you were joking about the Dawsons but i'm so very annoyed with him still that the mere mention of his name sees me punch the nearest object. I have not rated him for over 18months now ans yet somehow we offer him a new contract!!

BAE has shown complete ineptitude at defending since he joined almost 3years ago. Not once have i seen him play in a PL game and defend well. If we want to keep him then play him in the cups so that he learns how to defend. Bale chose us over UTD because he wanted to play LB and Fergie wanted him to play LW so in order to keep Baler happy I want to see him played alt LB, at least he knows how to track back and defend & his athleticism and pace help him work his way up and down the flank with ease.

I think if King isn't fit to play against Sunderland & Hutton is still injured our back 4 should be:

Gunter - - - Woody - - Zokora - - - Bale

Dawson has had enough chances to show he's got what it takes. We cant afford to keep giving him the opportunity to fu*k things up for us!

Reply to fatfish:

3 positions we need to cover, CB, DM, Striker.

3 players who are all playing in the prem, for "lesser" teams that we could get.

Upson - I dont care that he played for the scum
Diarra - I dont care that he played for the scum
Santa Cruz - may have to buy...

Upson - £7m-£8m
Diarra - £12m-£15m
Santa Cruz - £15m-£17m

We'd need more than £35m but they are players i'd like to see in the side. Apart from Upson (another injury prone CB!) Pompey wont let Diarra go on the cheap. and Rovers will wan to keep Santa Cruz after he battered Everton on saturday.

really dont know why everyone is shitiing themselves after 1 f**king game. if we were unbeaten in the first 10 and then lost to boro knowone would of cared. but because its the first day of the season everyone gets prang! its also pissing me off that people are questioning Levy's decisions with who to get in. The man is the Chairman of, not only spurs, but one of the biggest firms in the land and we are lucky enough to have someone like him genuinely care about the club where as most chaiman sit on their arses and count their money. I trust Levy and Ramos 100% and personally think they have a couple of tricks up their sleeve before the window shuts. i rekon their will be 3 new players there by the end of next week.
so come on boys lets stop getting so negative and trust the powers that be. things could be a lot worse.....we could be man city!!!

Reply to johnnyg:

really dont know why everyone is shitiing themselves after 1 f**king game. if we were unbeaten in the first 10 and then lost to boro knowone would of cared. but because its the first day of the season everyone gets prang! its also pissing me off that people are questioning Levy's decisions with who...

Well said, I am in agreement. Whether we can get 3 in before the deadline, not so sure. A new quality DM right now could really get us going. Fingers crossed. It's gone very quiet from any ITK's at WHL

Well said johnnyg. No need to panic. I remember how shocking Berba looked on his league debut away at Bolton 2 years ago, and how bad the whole team were. Much worse that saturday. Boro are very similar to the Bolton side of 2 years ago, tough to break down, especially in front of a rejuvinated home crowd, the players wanting to put on a good show after reducing ticket prices in an effort to get more fans into their ground. We finished 5th that season and Berba showed his class.

This is about the only Spurs blog I enjoy reading as most of the others are full of stultifyingly ill-informed cretins. This one seems to attract the more discerning Spurs fan. Let's turn those frowns upside down. Can't wait to stroll down Park Lane on Saturday and watch our boys put on a good show.

COYS

Reply to Gazza:

I wish Berby would just start crying instead of sulking. Then that would be okay and noone would mind and we could be happy in the knowledge he was just emulating the actions of another Spurs legend.

KEEP BERBATOV (who cares if he doesn't smile. He is brilliant and this isn't a Miss...

> KEEP BERBATOV (who cares if he doesn't smile. He is brilliant and this isn't a Miss World competition).
> BUY CORLUKA (or another top defender)
> BUY MIDFIELD ENFORCER (ideas welcome)

Exactly, well said Gazza. If Berbatov plays like he did at Boro that is fine by me. It is how he kicks a ball that counts not some smile-a-thon.

We just need to fix the defensive part of the side, in central midfield and central defence.

Do that and keep Berbatov then we got a shot at a great season.

Reply to 9__37:

What's available in the January transfer window that isn't available now? Woodgates aren't ten a penny.

Are Spurs keeping their cards so close to their chest because thwy have a weak hand? Does it contain jokers?

If, with sales balanced against purchases, our actual...

If we arent on the verge of wrapping up said big name signings that would mean we are still casting around in the dark waiting for something to bite.

And if we are still doing that with 14 days or whatever to go then i darent contemplate exactly who we will drag up from the depths.

Anton is looking likely. A typically over rated Englisg defender. An unlikable Dawson.

The desire for an average young CB begs the question of why sell Kaboul?

Reply to Trembly:

Reply to hoopspur:

Do you honestly think Berb will play Saturday? I don't, and I think it will be sorted by then. He and his Alice would need appease the Spurs faithful, or the club would need to make some statement. I for one won't boo, but won't applaud either.

Trouble with all these other rumours is...

Yeah. Unfortunately I do think he'll play for Spurs on Saturday. This will probably go to the line or not at all.

'Do that and keep Berbatov then we got a shot at a great season'.

I no longer consider him a Spurs player, add a striker or two to your list.

Reply to Carlosspurs:

Reply to johnnyg:

really dont know why everyone is shitiing themselves after 1 f**king game. if we were unbeaten in the first 10 and then lost to boro knowone would of cared. but because its the first day of the season everyone gets prang! its also pissing me off that people are questioning Levy's decisions with who...

Well said, I am in agreement. Whether we can get 3 in before the deadline, not so sure. A new quality DM right now could really get us going. Fingers crossed. It's gone very quiet from any ITK's at WHL

i think there will definately be 2 new strikers and despite what the reports are saying i think arshevin will be a yido by next week. we wouldnt of wasted so much time on the guy to let the deal evaporate over £3m. and also another center back too....but please god not donkey ferdinand!

Reply to jolsgonemental:

Reply to 9__37:

What's available in the January transfer window that isn't available now? Woodgates aren't ten a penny.

Are Spurs keeping their cards so close to their chest because thwy have a weak hand? Does it contain jokers?

If, with sales balanced against purchases, our actual...

If we arent on the verge of wrapping up said big name signings that would mean we are still casting around in the dark waiting for something to bite.

And if we are still doing that with 14 days or whatever to go then i darent contemplate exactly who we will drag up from the depths....

JGM - what names have we actually officially chased that are average?

Paper talk is just that. Talk - hot air - guff. None of us expected Modric or Dos Santos. We only found out about Gomes and Bentley because they were drawn out affairs. Until its correctly reported that we've officially lodged a bid for Anton Ferdinand, I'd hold off from slitting the wrists just yet.

Reply to CaptainMabbsey:

Well said johnnyg. No need to panic. I remember how shocking Berba looked on his league debut away at Bolton 2 years ago, and how bad the whole team were. Much worse that saturday. Boro are very similar to the Bolton side of 2 years ago, tough to break down, especially in front of a rejuvinated home...

Captain and JohnnyG

I dont think everyone is pancicking after one game. Its more frustration as it appears that the same problems that hindered us last season are still occuring despite us going out and overhauling the entire squad.

I hate to bang on about it but Dawson should not be at the club let alone the proud owner of a shiney new contract. He's just not good enough and he showed that last season but we kept him, played him and once again he proved to be our downfall.

BAE hasn't played a proper competitive game for over a year yet we throw him in on opening day of the season. He has a stinker and we lose the game.

All the noises coming out of the club and all us fans agreed that a good start was vital. So instead of doing what every other club did on opening day by fielding their strongest side, Ramos changes the squad, style and positions around after a very promising pre-season. Resulting in us failing to hit any rythym whatsoever and meaning that come the 71st minute the game was a stalemate and Boro had the upper hand.

It was almost a mistake made out of the Martin Jol handbook. Ramos needs to learn that tinkering dramatically with the side rarely works in the premier league. We need to field our strongest side EVERY game.

Headline from The Sofia Echo:

'More babies means more future Berbatovs'

The article goes on to talk about the birth-rate in Bulgaria blah blah blah. Doesn't mention our national hero once. Wonder how many male babies will be called 'Dimitar'? His destiny is not his own.

Meantime, parents in England are scrambling to called their boys 'Daws'. Imagine the stick they'll get at school.

I feel for all the kids out there called 'Daws' I think its actually slang for imbecile in some parts of north london!

LINK

Link to that Sofia Echo BS.

They will have character in abundance!

Let's be honest, Daws was ok once. A series of unfortunate Robinsons and Kabouls put paid to that. Now, Daws may yet become ok again. But we need ok now. Actually, we don't just need ok - we need very ok. Can we wait? No. Can our blood pressure cope? Well, maybe the younger ones amongst us.

If Ferdinand came I'd want WHL fumigated when he eventually left.

Jamie - You've got to admit that some of the posts since Saturday have been manic depressive, bordering on clinical. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and perhaps there's an element of bandwagonism, or mob-like behaviour, but i would suggest that some people check this out just in case LINK the mental feckers

On the OS, Spurs celebrate Woodgate's 200th league appearance of his career, made last Saturday against Boro.

They make the unfortunate decision to entitle the article - 200-up for Woody.

When I first saw the headline, I wondered if it referred to the speed he was allegedly doing.

I was at the airport on Sunday, checking in using one of those self service machines. A girl using the machine next me asked for assistance and it turned out she was a Bulgarian flying to Sofia. With my current annoyance at a certain countryman of hers, I refused to help.

Sad, but true.

Turned out she'd missed the plane anyway.

Reply to 9__37:

Let's be honest, Daws was ok once. A series of unfortunate Robinsons and Kabouls put paid to that. Now, Daws may yet become ok again. But we need ok now. Actually, we don't just need ok - we need very ok. Can we wait? No. Can our blood pressure cope? Well, maybe the younger ones amongst us....

Dawson WAS ok ONCE! Ok, last season Robbo scared the life out of everyone, as did Kaboul. BUT now theres Woody and King playing next to Dawson and he's still crap. Scratch that, VERY CRAP. He seems to be unable to do the most routine pieces of defending and its cost so many times. I reckon we should bench him, give him a spell in the reserves and make him work for his place. IMO he's far too comfprtable at the club, I think he's stop striving to become a better player now that he's got his feet under the table and a nice new contract. Make the fuc*er work for his place & until he improves don't let him back into the side. Then we'll see what he's made of!

May sound harsh but IMO its very very fair. We need players who are fully committed and playing to the limits of their capability. He's not one of them!

Reply to Trembly:

Jamie - You've got to admit that some of the posts since Saturday have been manic depressive, bordering on clinical. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and perhaps there's an element of bandwagonism, or mob-like behaviour, but i would suggest that some people check this out just in case...

But, Trembly, it's all there in black and white:

'What causes bipolar affective disorder?

Differences in people's footballing preferences can make them more vulnerable to develop bipolar affective disorder. First-day-of-the-season defeats, raised and then dashed expectations, or lack of cover in vital areas of the team can trigger individual episodes of illness.

Reply to TMWNN:

I was at the airport on Sunday, checking in using one of those self service machines. A girl using the machine next me asked for assistance and it turned out she was a Bulgarian flying to Sofia. With my current annoyance at a certain countryman of hers, I refused to help.

Sad, but...

Since she'd already missed the plane you've swerved the bad karma. IT's like being bad and getting paid for it.

Reply to Trembly:

Jamie - You've got to admit that some of the posts since Saturday have been manic depressive, bordering on clinical. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and perhaps there's an element of bandwagonism, or mob-like behaviour, but i would suggest that some people check this out just in case...

Agree some people wanting to top themselves is bit excessive but in reality its only because they've seen another shit performance.

It is only one game in and no doubt we will get better and I still expect us to finish top 4/5. But Ramos needs to start playing the right players in the right positions and playing the best players from the start.

I'm not saying we should get rid of Ramos NEVER WOULD I SAY THAT! i'm just perplexed by what he did on saturday. And through the haze of my Dawson induced anger I'm trying to be realistic.

To be honest, Trembly, I was mightily pissed off myself on Saturday. It's the swing backwards of the pendulum after all the emotional investment post-last season and pre-this season.

It's a credit to Spurs fans that we're so passionate about the side, but we can't give ammunition to the finger-poiting 'You're fickle' brigade.

We may not get all the playing-staff we need. I'm optimistic we will. But, even if we don't, we still have a talented squad and some top staff.

Bar Dawson, of course.

Bless Mr Dawson.. He seems to be completely oblivious to the fact he was majorly responsible for the defeat on saturday

"It was a bad day for us," Michael said.

"Credit to Boro, they worked hard and did their job well, but if we'd have got that first goal they might have come out at us and we might have got another one"

I think that should be translated to "If i hadn't of let Wheater walk past me for the first goal and if i'd done my job and cleared the ball for the second goal then we may of won"

May I suggest that for all the Dawson-Bashing thats going on, no-one has questioned our attacking players. Yes Dawson didn't do his job, but the fact we didn't score suggests to me that our array of attacking talent didn't either.

Jamie - Say you were out in Glazgee on Saturday night. And you just so happened to bump into Daws (who made a quick trip up from Mackem land to say visit some friends or munch on something local, having just played like he did last week. Would you:

1. Give him a piece of your mind
2. Seriously verbally abuse him
3. Pour a pint at him
4. As for his autograph and say better luck next time eh?
5. Lace him in the nads?

I'm guessing you're not very happy with the man and would currently go for option #5?

PS. If I even hear a hint of calls for Ramos out this early in the season, mental is the way I shall be going.

I would have loved to see us go all out for Diarra this summer. Remember when the Chelscum came to us in the FA Cup replay a couple of years back and Mourinho put him at right back. Joley chucked Lennon on the left to run at him as he was playing out of his usual DM slot (when Lennon was pretty much at the height of his popularity... so far) and he was outstanding, not only at keeping Lennon quiet but breaking everything up. He was MOM that night and has grown ever since.

We have indeed got a great management structure in place and I have faith that i'll be getting value for money again this season. Would like to see Pavlyuchenko at the Lane. Bit Rawer than you'd ideally want a 26 year old striker to be but has a touch of the Berba about him before he joined the Blue & White army.

I REALLY hope Dawson re-discovers his form. He seems like a great lad and I want to be happy to see him in the starting 11 again... And his bird is FIT!

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May I suggest that for all the Dawson-Bashing thats going on, no-one has questioned our attacking players. Yes Dawson didn't do his job, but the fact we didn't score suggests to me that our array of attacking talent didn't either.

Our array of attacking talents weren't marking the 2 goalscorers. Even after we had a lucky escape and Wheaters 1st goal was disallowed Dawson still neglected to mark him sufficiently for the second, forgetting to stick to his man even after the initial cross had been cleared. The 2nd official goal was again Dawsons fault.

Ok we didnt score but if dawson was sufficiently switched on we wouldnt of conceded either. Turning a defeat into a draw.

I'm hoping that Ramos will revert back to the side and formation that hammered Roma (incl. Bale & King starting) against Sunderland on saturday. I'm confident the goals will come but unfortunately we need to stop conceding to give us a chance of winning games.

Reply to Trembly:

Jamie - Say you were out in Glazgee on Saturday night. And you just so happened to bump into Daws (who made a quick trip up from Mackem land to say visit some friends or munch on something local, having just played like he did last week. Would you:

1. Give him a piece of your mind...

I'd probably go for a good 1 then a 2 then hit him with a 5 when he least expected it then 3 then just to make sure there's no hard feelings i'd go for number 4

But seriously.... he shouldn't be near the starting 11. He's our weak link and everyone knows it. Until he improves or pulls his head out of his arse then he should be in the stiffs.

You fail at reading, I acknowledged Dawson's failure to do his job. If the attackers had done their's we would have drawn too. 2-2. Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid. You can try to find a scapegoat all you want, but you wont turn football into an individual sport, it's a team game. Our team wasn't good enough on the day. Deal with it.

Reply to Trembly:

Jamie - Say you were out in Glazgee on Saturday night. And you just so happened to bump into Daws (who made a quick trip up from Mackem land to say visit some friends or munch on something local, having just played like he did last week. Would you:

1. Give him a piece of your mind...

Similar thing happened to me a couple of months back to your hypothetical daws situation. Was down in Portsmouth, drinkin with mates in tiger tiger in gunwharf, when who should i turn to see standing next to me at the bar... Judas himself, having just played in some pompey charity match. btw, it was student night (cheapskate/pervert!)I was stood there open mouthed, and he was then swarmed by people before i had the chance to even contemplate throwing my double vodka red bull on him! Gutted

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Reply to Trembly:

Jamie - You've got to admit that some of the posts since Saturday have been manic depressive, bordering on clinical. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and perhaps there's an element of bandwagonism, or mob-like behaviour, but i would suggest that some people check this out just in case...

But, Trembly, it's all there in black and white:

'What causes bipolar affective disorder?

Differences in people's footballing preferences can make them more vulnerable to develop bipolar affective disorder. First-day-of-the-season defeats, raised and then dashed...

can't believe you actually made me recheck that link and look for those words!

Reply to PLN:

You fail at reading, I acknowledged Dawson's failure to do his job. If the attackers had done their's we would have drawn too. 2-2. Swings and roundabouts I'm afraid. You can try to find a scapegoat all you want, but you wont turn football into an individual sport, it's a team game. Our team wasn't...

Mate I've dealt with it. I'm in the post mortem stages at this moment in time. A team sport it may be however.... every team is only as strong as its weakest member. Unfortunately on Saturday DAWSON was our weakest member.

I could understand your point at trying to apportion some blame onto our attacking players if they had wasted a miriad of chances, constantly construing to miss the unmissable, hitting shots high wide and handsome at gay abandon and generally being unable to hit the proverbial cows arse with a banjo. However, they didnt do this. The generally didn't create chances and therefore only a small part of the blame can be apportioned their way.

In times when the strikers aren't scoring we'll need our defence to do their job and stop us from conceding goals. Even BAE's shocking performance was not responsible for us conceding a goal on saturday but from the obscene amounts of times i've seen Boro's goals on saturday I can say hand on my heart that Dawson could be blamed for every goal.

Go figure. Football is not an individual sport but you only takes one turd to spoil the swimming pool.

It's a charming anecdote you suggest, but if both teams are in the pool then I say shit away, may put them off. I'm trying to give a balance to all the Anti-Dawson stuff, thats it.

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It's a charming anecdote you suggest, but if both teams are in the pool then I say shit away, may put them off. I'm trying to give a balance to all the Anti-Dawson stuff, thats it.

I agree maybe I am taking it all out on poor pasty Dawson. But you have to admit its obvious to everyone that saw the goals go in on saturday that the only thing they have in common is that Dawson could of stopped every single one of them.

Teams know he's our weak link and until he stops being a defensive jellyfish they'll keep targeting him. When he has a stormer i'll be the first to congratulate him. Until then I still think 95% of the blame for saturdays defeat lies at his feet.

Roma were pretty ropey, jamiespurs, really; and we all knew the first game of the PL would be a stiffer, sterner test. The first two goals against Roma were gifts, too, remember. Had they not been so gracious, maybe we would have huffed and puffed without blowing their hose down all match.

Dawson will leave next season and mature into a great centre-back elsewhere, if we're not careful. I do believe in pointing the blame when people are culpable. It serves no one if everyone shares the blame when individuals are at fault, because the true origin of errors won't be addressed. There's also a difference between criticism and critique. One is negative, the other positive. On Saturday everyone was pretty low-key. Dawson was just key to major setbacks.

Behind the public expressions of calm and 'all's well' on OS, I'm sure Dawson was made aware of any shortcomings - as were the others. Assou-Ekotto had a bad day, but I wouldn't have anticipated it from his pre-season form, in which he was excellent.

Bent got a bit of stick, too, for not scoring. Comparisions are still made between him and Berbatov, they are different types of player. It's like comparing a grenade to a sniper's rifle. Bent is but one of the munitions in the armoury. I wish we could hang on to them both; I wish Berbatov loved the club like I love it; and I wish money grew on trees.

All player and financial donations will be gratefully received.

Did Roma have a 'hose'? Maybe a few players were wearing them... I meant 'house', of course.

Nine_thirty-seven

I know what you mean and where your coming from but I would also like Daws to come out and say "ok. I wasn't good enough. I am frustrates with my performance and I have assured the management and my teammates that I will be running and tackling my bollocks off against sunderland in order to show that I am better than my boro performance suggests"

I'd be much happier seeing something like that! lol

Anyways. I'm off for the evening.

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Reply to 9__37:

Reply to Trembly:

Jamie - You've got to admit that some of the posts since Saturday have been manic depressive, bordering on clinical. Everyone has a right to an opinion, and perhaps there's an element of bandwagonism, or mob-like behaviour, but i would suggest that some people check this out just in case...

But, Trembly, it's all there in black and white:

'What causes bipolar affective disorder?

Differences in people's footballing preferences can make them more vulnerable to develop bipolar affective disorder. First-day-of-the-season defeats, raised and then dashed...

can't believe you actually made me recheck that link and look for those words!

But it's true, I tell you. It's all true. I believe the treatment is to support Queen's Park Rangers, in order to prevent over-excitement and regularise the emotions.

I think the moral of my little anecdote is that football (especially supporting Spurs) can make nearly all of us behave in an irrational manner. Be it ranting on an internet blog or refusing to help an innocent tourist.

9.37 rightly points out that this shows how passionate Spurs fans are towards the club. In my experience the more passionate the fan, the more irrational they're likely to behave.

We all have our opinions, some more valid than others, but to start questioning poster's allegiance to the club (as one or two have done) if you don't like what they write, will only prove divisive.

Call me a cunt, no problem, but I'm definitely nothing other than a Spur.

A brain and two turds go into a pub. The Barman says to the brain, "I'm not serving you, get out!"
The brain asks why and so the Barman replies, "Because you're out of your head and your two mates are steaming!"

why is this post preceded by a pic of Joe Cole holding a tiny woman?

Why do our assistant managers feel the need to patronise our intelligence after every shit performance?

Why do we see the same recycled Jenas quotes after every loss?

Why Dawson? Why? Dawson? why?

TMWNN, yes - we're all Spurs. And here's another - Gus Poyet - providing balance:

"Taking away the positives, we can say that the new boys, especially Gio and Luka, would have learnt a lot from that game. They are quality players so I am sure they will get to grips with the English style of football very quickly.

"We were not the best team in the world after beating Roma 5-0, and we are certainly not the worst now. It's just a football game that didn't go our way, so we need to stay calm and keep believing in ourselves.

"There are always positives and we need to address the negatives, but that's one game and we've got another one now to bounce back."

Cheers, Gus. That'll be a win against Sunderland, then.

'Gus says 'We were rubbish'' wouldn't get past the editing board.

Anyway, if he creates an expectation, then he's expected to meet it. If we don't win I'll be checking myself in for biploar assessment.

bipolar

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'Gus says 'We were rubbish'' wouldn't get past the editing board.

Anyway, if he creates an expectation, then he's expected to meet it. If we don't win I'll be checking myself in for biploar assessment.

two words.

chris. hughton.

change the accent and whole quote could have come from Hughton after the Sunderland game last season.

and probably did.

Latest ITK drivel just in:

'Been told that Fergie is fuming with the yanks who own the Manure because they wont meet our valuation of Berba and he believes he is being made to look like a ****.pissing myself' (SC/FTL)

Earlier today: 'Again I say that mancs have not increased their bid and show no signs, plus installment terms not applicable, and bonuses building upto extra five million if win this, if win that not to our liking. Barca not in financial position to buy at mo, even at comp fee, and we have excellent relationship with them. My opinion strictly speaking, I don't think he will end up a mancs player for at least a year, that's what inner circles believe. Let's see if they come up with money. I personally wouldn't hold my breath on it.' (SC/SO)

Yea yea yea we know ITK's are twats, get over it, this is for entertainment like this blog.

wow our ITKs have infilitrated Fergies mind as well.

wow, they are good.

LINK

Love this quote from FOXSPORTS

"Spurs’ Michael Dawson’s all-round display against Boro made recently departed Younes Kabul look like the reincarnation of Franco Baresi"

Not sure why Daws has struggled to regain the form he showed after first joining Spurs. He has, of course, not had a steady defensive partner, but he has also suffered from a series of injuries ... including a hamstring, ankle and two head injuries. Perhaps the once-reliable aerial wizard has had his brains scrambled?

I know I am going to get shot down in flames.. But.. Dawson in MY opinion can get back to being a good Centre Back, just needs to be on the bench for a while. To say Dawson should not be at Spurs, I think is harsh. Ramos is not a fool and if he thought he was that bad, he wouldn't of been given a new contract.

I agree CB. We need more experienced cover (perhaps something a little younger and more nimble than Naybet this time), but Daws is Spurs. He even captained once in the absence of King and P-S-B. Perhaps he'd benefit from a loan spell?

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Reply to CaptainMabbsey:

Well said johnnyg. No need to panic. I remember how shocking Berba looked on his league debut away at Bolton 2 years ago, and how bad the whole team were. Much worse that saturday. Boro are very similar to the Bolton side of 2 years ago, tough to break down, especially in front of a rejuvinated home...

Captain and JohnnyG

I dont think everyone is pancicking after one game. Its more frustration as it appears that the same problems that hindered us last season are still occuring despite us going out and overhauling the entire squad.

I hate to bang on about it but...

Totally agree with this!!! We are not panic, just so frustrated!!! The Boro game is the continue of later stage of last season, disjoined, no rhythem, no creativity, no defence. Just speed (and direct run of Jenas then lost the ball).
I am starting to wonder is the the style of Ramos??? I have seems almost all of his game and I can certainly see the identical.
For somebody asking us why are we panic?? Of course we are!! Imagine you hire 3 teachers to work on yr child's math all summer and first test when the school starts he/she got 30 out of 100, will u concern?? Frustrated?? and back of yr mind u will ask yrself what if she/he still failed after 3 test???

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I know I am going to get shot down in flames.. But.. Dawson in MY opinion can get back to being a good Centre Back, just needs to be on the bench for a while. To say Dawson should not be at Spurs, I think is harsh. Ramos is not a fool and if he thought he was that bad, he wouldn't of been given a...

Get your flame retardant suit on CB.

They signed Les Dawson on to an extended contract, because they know King Ledders has knackered knee. It was desperate and stupid move. Lazy.

I'll admit Dawson looked like he could play well when King was playing consitently beside him, two seasons ago.

One his own, as I gave said many times before on this blog, he is a fucking liability.

We need a solid replacement for King and we need a another CB, are you availble CB?, to cover for the very able but frail/injury prone Woodgate. Dawes will not do. Ship him out.

Ramos, or camolli or Levy or whoever makes the deals these days needs to spend the next week and a half purchasing, at least one centre back like King, a Defensive midfielder like Mascherano and a forward like Carlos Tevez. Then we will be sorted. They have the money. Spend it.

JGM, it's true what you say about the platitudes. I just see it as a kind of bargain: my part of the bargain is to be patronised, and Gus' part is to deliver the winning team he promises.

I'm content to be patronised all season in exchange for great performances, rather than get sub-standard football followed by frank appraisals.

As the season progresses, the less Gus meets his side of the bargain, the more my gripes become legitimate. I hope I don't soon have a bunch of gripes.

Alright all 1st post 4 me different subject but how about steve finnan we need a right back liverpool need cash he wants out. He has experience which we could do with what ya think?

Reply to chingfordyid99:

Alright all 1st post 4 me different subject but how about steve finnan we need a right back liverpool need cash he wants out. He has experience which we could do with what ya think?

Hutton's a good right back. The money would be better spent on another CB like woody, but fitter, and a proper DM.

'no one can disagree with me wanting to follow my dream'

IF you do stay Berba (and I know you read this blog) remember there are a lot of Spurs fans out here - what about OUR fucking dream?

Should be interesting to see his performance for Bulgaria on Wednesday compared to his recent half-arsed efforts for us.

Reply to Snap:

'no one can disagree with me wanting to follow my dream'

IF you do stay Berba (and I know you read this blog) remember there are a lot of Spurs fans out here - what about OUR fucking dream?

Should be interesting to see his performance for Bulgaria on Wednesday...

May be Dawson's reading this blog too, but doesn't know how to defend himself.

My 'dream' is to snog Keeley Hazell. Like the Glimmer Twins once said, "You can't always get what you want"

Reply to Hairy_Hotspur:

My 'dream' is to snog Keeley Hazell. Like the Glimmer Twins once said, "You can't always get what you want"

But if you try some times.

...you still lose 2-0

Reply to Hairy_Hotspur:

...you still lose 2-0

What about the own goal? Be fair mate. It was 2-1. And it didn't look we we were trying as hard as they were.

Thudd playing in an illegal window near you!

Reply to BruceCastle:

Reply to Hairy_Hotspur:

...you still lose 2-0

What about the own goal? Be fair mate. It was 2-1. And it didn't look we we were trying as hard as they were.

Fair enuff - wasn't inclined to count that OG, if only to fool myself into thinking Mido didn't actually pot the winner.

Where's HH.

Police chase him home through the dark rainy night. Fluorescent jam sandwich with flashing blue light. His mum's waiting up, she hopes he's alright, but he's wrapped round a lamp post on a Tuesday night.

The hyperbole surrounding the aftermath of the Boro game has been staggering. Yeah the defence played badly and King and Bale should have played but you can bet that Ramos could see that too.

The reason we played badly is clearly that lack of a holding player. Modric and JJ are not defensive let's face it. Hudd should have played but we need to strengthen there beofer August is out.

Surprising to hear nobody really mentioning Stephen Appiah - available on a free after quitting Fenerbahce and still a good 4-5 years left in him. The guy would provide the perfect balance behind the likes of modric, j2s, Bentley and Lennon (not necessarily all at the same time Juande!)

Cheers for a cracking site Harry.

Reply to BruceCastle:

Where's HH.

Police chase him home through the dark rainy night. Fluorescent jam sandwich with flashing blue light. His mum's waiting up, she hopes he's alright, but he's wrapped round a lamp post on a Tuesday night.

He's just a stereotype

Reply to Johnnytwosaints:

Reply to BruceCastle:

Where's HH.

Police chase him home through the dark rainy night. Fluorescent jam sandwich with flashing blue light. His mum's waiting up, she hopes he's alright, but he's wrapped round a lamp post on a Tuesday night.

He's just a stereotype

The tablets are finished, the cure is complete...seventeen pints, tonight is the night

Be positive

The thing about being a Spurs fan, is we really believe through out the summer we are going make that divide between the top four, challenge for the title and gain entry to the champions league. Every new signing is greated as the best in their position or at least with the potential to be the best. We wind ourselves up into a frenzy, about to take on the world and all of a sudden bloody ugly boy weater and ex yid Mido bring us down to earth.

I mean don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have it any other way, the expectation and anticipation of a new exciting season, I suppose this what makes being a Spurs fan so exciting. However on the down side, we always were going to end up disappointed unless we thrashed the boys on teeside.

I think we all thought a win was going to happen, since we didn't experience that losing feeling in preseason and the way we dispatched Roma was fantastic. Buts lets not lose sight of the positives, the true quality in our team, a bloody good manager and the likelyhood of at least two exciting signings in the next couple of weeks.

The future is bright, the future is liiywhite

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Reply to Johnnytwosaints:

Reply to BruceCastle:

Where's HH.

Police chase him home through the dark rainy night. Fluorescent jam sandwich with flashing blue light. His mum's waiting up, she hopes he's alright, but he's wrapped round a lamp post on a Tuesday night.

He's just a stereotype

The tablets are finished, the cure is complete...seventeen pints, tonight is the night

goes straight to his head he ends up in a fight

Maybe Harry met Sally.

He doesn't really exist

Reply to 9__37:

Maybe Harry met Sally.

And Worzel's upset.

Reply to Kingyid:

Be positive

The thing about being a Spurs fan, is we really believe through out the summer we are going make that divide between the top four, challenge for the title and gain entry to the champions league. Every new signing is greated as the best in their position or at least with...

The power of positive thinking! That might just see me through until kick off at the weekend.

No matter how much I drink the glass is always half empty.

Reply to 9__37:

JGM, it's true what you say about the platitudes. I just see it as a kind of bargain: my part of the bargain is to be patronised, and Gus' part is to deliver the winning team he promises.

I'm content to be patronised all season in exchange for great performances, rather than get...

Indeed. But a bunch of gripes, if left to ferment long enough, produces a most splendid whine...

In truth we weren't that bad against Boro. But I think the reality of the Premier League hit some of the team hard.

The team selection seemed a bit odd to me but I was actually excited by the prospect of seeing GDS, Bentley & Lennon swapping around and causing havoc in the Boro defence, but it didn't come off.

As for our defence, I think that may have been more of a political selection, intended to prompt Levy to splash the cash in a game that maybe Ramos felt we could afford to lose. What better way to let Levy know that DM and CB are needed than to play a team that leaves gaping holes at the back. Bet he doesn't play the same team against Chelsea.

Reply to BruceCastle:

Reply to Kingyid:

Be positive

The thing about being a Spurs fan, is we really believe through out the summer we are going make that divide between the top four, challenge for the title and gain entry to the champions league. Every new signing is greated as the best in their position or at least with...

The power of positive thinking! That might just see me through until kick off at the weekend.

No matter how much I drink the glass is always half empty.

Just get two glasses. Then you'll have two halfs.

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Reply to 9__37:

JGM, it's true what you say about the platitudes. I just see it as a kind of bargain: my part of the bargain is to be patronised, and Gus' part is to deliver the winning team he promises.

I'm content to be patronised all season in exchange for great performances, rather than get...

Indeed. But a bunch of gripes, if left to ferment long enough, produces a most splendid whine...

That would potentially make WHL a vineyard.

Sunderland is going to be an interesting game, the return of the rejects, maybe thats not fair, I quite liked Tanio and Steed. I wish I had a ticket now.

COYS

We will win against Sunderland and the world will be a better place

Reply to Kingyid:

We will win against Sunderland and the world will be a better place

Except Sunderland.

Reply to 9__37:

Reply to Kingyid:

We will win against Sunderland and the world will be a better place

Except Sunderland.

Exactly

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Reply to Ted:

Berbatov must start v Sunderland.

Without him we have no link up play in the middle as we saw on Saturday.

While he is a Spurs player he gets my support and he should stay unless Manure match our valuation.

Would prefer we buy a DM but OHara has at...

Ted

We would of had some link up play in the middle if Ramos hadn't lost the plot and decided to change the whole formation around and play a different system to the one that saw us play so well in pre-season. Why move J2S out to left wing when all summer he's done so well in behind...

Ted your spot on mate, i think Ramos will look back on that game like jol did when he blew it against chelski and think i f**ked up, lets hope this was a one off but in my humble oppinion the way Ramos let us fall away last season and with him making Jenas captain when he shouldn't even be playing in the premiership is kinda making me wonder if he is that good after all?

YES everyone Jenas is that sh*t!!!!!!!

I think Tainio will have an emotional block preventing him from playing well against the club he loves.

Maybe he'll even give us a sneaky own-goal. Involuntarily, of course.

I f/cking hate Newsnow .. I can't get down to some work unless I read every useless f/cking article on it beforehand .. and they're all useless .. even Harry's f/cking deprerssing me!

the truth
we all love spurs
we all want them to be no.1 in PL
we all want them to win all games
we all want CL football

reality
no teamwork because of Berba case
(make problem for whole team)
no balance in the team(miss defender/holding midfielder, and striker(wheres Pekhart?)
as usual perfect pre-season
smell of problems overall

future:
get rid of Berba now
solve missing players
get a mental healer for the team immidiately

and we will win

There is a problem that no-one has mentioned ie our less than satisfactory transfer performance.

Though we are within 2 weeks of the end of the transfer window it would appear we are still trying to buy players and are short of a central defender a striker and a defensive midfielder. Also, we seem to pay top dollar for almost every player and seem incapable of unearthing any bargains like Santa Cruz and half the Man City players Sven bought.

It's disappointing to say the least that neither, Ramos, Gus or Commolli have unearthed any unknown gems from their own countries.

None of this suggests much planning.

While I sit here gazing vacantly at the screen with nothing between my brain and fingertips except the stultifying fear of what yet another exorbitantly priced assemblage of wannabe's might concoct with the next 37 matches worth of my life's greatest distraction, would somebody mind explaining how 'links' are put in posts.

Much obliged.

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Love this quote from FOXSPORTS

"Spurs’ Michael Dawson’s all-round display against Boro made recently departed Younes Kabul look like the reincarnation of Franco Baresi"

Not sure why Daws has struggled to regain the form he showed after first joining Spurs. He has, of c...

Paul robinson mk II anybody?

People forget that Keane and Berbatov played almost as much in midfield as up front.

Berba played in the hole and in midfield at Boro and brought class, compusure, and link up play where it was lacking.

Aside from King (when fit) Berbatov is our only world class player and he performs so many functions that his absence is very damaging to us.

Glad to see Levy sticking to his guns over the transfer fee - we would need a fortune to offset the loss of Berba.

Reply to onedavemackay:

There is a problem that no-one has mentioned ie our less than satisfactory transfer performance.

Though we are within 2 weeks of the end of the transfer window it would appear we are still trying to buy players and are short of a central defender a striker and a defensive midfielder. ...

how about J2S?

You have a point though. Juande supposedly wanted his squad fully assembled by the start of pre-season. Although this was difficult due to the euros, he is leaving it bloody late. Maybe he wasn't planning on letting PSB and the sulk go, but he has not addressed the weakness at the back.

One out and 4 in with 13 days to go is a big ask.

Unless Wendy is twice the manager I thought, I'd say that unless we grab a CB & DM with muscle and attitude by the last day in august, we'll be lucky to make top 8. A couple of end of contract oldies but goldies with one or two years left in 'em 'll do.

Pretty please.

The answer is simple. If Man u want berbatov....pay the asking price £30 million pounds. If not they are complete idiots and are making a fool of themselves. That related back to the ronaldo saga. Saying we are not selling him when he did want to leave. Wanting £70 million for him etc. We need a nice new centre half. Corluka is a brilliant singing if we do get him. Sell kevin prince boateng and the other rejects and with some of the money sign Corluka. Our defence is just terrible! Dawson needs to improve. AND IN THAT SUNDERLAND GAME..WHY DIDNT RAMOS JUST FUCKING START BERBATOV! Who cares if he wants to leave..or is that just papers? Theres alot of speculation just like the january transfer window over him. But what happend in january! HE CAME OUT INFRONT OF THE TABLOID AND STATED HE IS A TOTTENHAM PLAYER AND WANTS TO STAY! Either they pay £30 million or piss off! SIMPLE AS!

We will need this startin line up if we would like to win vs sunderland!

Gomes
Zokora/ hutton Huddlestone Woodgate/king Bale


Bentley Modric Jenas Dos santos


Berbatov Bent


As we all do know. Woodgate is excellent and holding the strikers off and huddlestone can clear easily and easily do a long ball to dos santos who can prove width feedin berbatov or bent easily!

Ok enough of my armchair bravado. I am not a credible punter by any means. I have no objectivity. I ams what I ams. I am hooked like a hopeless junkie. Whatever the gaffers throw at me, be it: Barry Daines, , John Pratt, Sergie Rebrov, David Kerslake, Ronie Rosenthal, Gary Doherty, Christian Gross,Ramon vega, Jason Dozzell, Michael Dawson, or Ricardo Rocha, I will still love the Tottenham. Through thick, through thin and in spite of the worst crop of talentless shit imaginable.

BC