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Thursday, 09 July 09, 12:59 AM · Comments (109)
The man with the the golden galoshes, Stewart Drowning is in the building. Well he's not actually in this building, or I'd be deafened by frenzied delighted shrieks of football fans. And all I can hear is my own heart slowly sinking.
No, the want away Boro Boy is simply in The Smoke. Avec agent and obligatory bird (sorry no snapshot). Now this may be a Roadshow & Brochure distribution exercise, but with the prolonged silence in relation to Arjen Robben...
Talk of Ashley Young has died down and rightly so. Is Martin O'Neil really going to sell us just about his best player? Or more ludicrously enter into some Noel Edmond's Saturday Swap Shop horse trading involving David Bentley? Unlikely seems one of the kindest responses I can muster.
And so as the euphoria of the bank wire for Didier Zokora subsides, it gradually dawns on us all that his departure is simply an overdue response to Sgt Wilson's arrival and merely a few more shekels into the spendy spendy kitty.
For a brief moment yesterday I was buoyed by the transaction. But the reality is that we are failing to blaze a trail and my prediction is that Bent will be next. To Sunderland. Hardly puts me in the same league as old Zoltar, but my point being there is nothing exciting on the Inbound List.
Speaking of prolonged silences and dying down, don't worry about the Likely Lads. Whatever happened to Ruud Van Nistleroy?
Want another prediction? We'll buy Peter Crouch. I'll go on record now saying I'd welcome him. All gags aside, he is head and shoulders above any of our other prospective suitors. Well, the realistic ones, anyway.
BIOYC!
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NOOOOO not crouch,please say you were only kidding
1st 
If aston bring in downing ... we have a chance in a bid for young. And chelsea have signed zirkhov and will propably go for adam johnson, we have a chance to sign joe cole ...
Perhaps it's all bullshit, but a left winger makes me dream and wake up with an ... :p
There is a dutch player at Liverpool who does not get much first team action, and seems to be worth a goal or two...
...I still don't understand why it's a given that we will sell our highest scoring striker?
DRP : sooooo kuyt ...
A typical buy of a mickey mouse manager who will turn us into a mickey maouse club. Downing is at best fucked till December is he really going to be any use till then. We are going to sell a proven striker in Bent and buy Crouch? God give me strength.
ramsesv: try somthing begining with a 'B', it's a little less obvious than Kuyt, but should be doable for reasonable money, and he honestly does not get much 1st team action...
Com'on; Babel must be an option?
I wonder what makes people think that we can even attract anyone better than Downing?
I think he'd actually be a decent buy - sure he doesn't set the world on fire, but he's a good player with plenty of Prem/international experience, he's still young and I think he'd do a decent job down the left.
For £10-12m are we really going to get anyone better?
Also, securing the services of a "big name" striker seems implausable.
Whoever comes has to deal with 3 highly rated internationals in front of them in the pecking order.
It's going to have to be someone alright with being rotated - and in a world cup year I suspect that cuts our options down a bit.
Just a reality check, sorry!
Reply to Frazzle:
i would say for 10-12m you could get someone better than downing, mabey not in England but we are talking about Harry the dodgy bastard Redknapp here.
Have faith my Pedigree Chums.
Give the boy a chance, left footed and english, think he will be very good for us!
I seem to recall, that a large percentage of us were gagging to sign Bentley and what did we end up with...............16 million reasons to dislike the bloke! I also note that the probably the same percentage don't want downing (I am not one of them), face it, He's got a good left peg, likes to run at defenders(and ain't exactly slow), but the one thing about him is he is consistent, and at the moment I'd much rather a player like that in my team! I reckon if he comes in, he will prove alot of people wrong!
Reply to Glenn:
He is injured, and when fit no great shakes.
Not going to be one of the most popular views on here but i WOULD like to see Crouch at Spurs. For many years now we have spent BIG money on foreign players ie, Pav and Rebrov and not seen too much return on money spent. Yes Crouch is not the worlds best but during JD's time at Pompey he and Crouch struck a good partnership that DID produce goals! Better the devil you know springs to mind!! COYS!!
Crouch only really makes sense to me if he's signed for the same money as we get for Bent and he takes say £40k a week instead of the £60k Bents reported to be on.
I don't mind bent (well too much, he is worth a few goals) but its always rattled a bit that he's one of the top 3 earners when he's never going to be a regular starter (baring injuries).
Probably rather have Crouch over Bent as he brings more to the table.
Reply to Frazzle:
'3 highly rated internationals' who can't win a header between them.
If we are shopping at Aldi now, I'd sooner take Jones than Crouch.
Neither of them seem like 'Tottenham' players (whatever that means),but until we can compete financially (i.e. until the new stadium is built or we're taken over), we're not that desirable.
Hopefully this is all conjecture or smoke and mirrors that hide Redknapp's true targets.
Reply to Nick_The_Greek:
Same stuck record? Or is this mp3 the only one on your playlist? I suggest waiting to see how the rest of the transfer window and start of the next season pans out before you start asking for Arse Whinger to be our manager again.
Reply to Nick_The_Greek:
I'm not Redknapp's biggest fan, but give the bloke a chance.
He hasn't bought anyone yet.
Reply to Frazzle:
Some people really live in poverty, Some people have incurable diseases. Some people live in Luxury. Some people can have virtually anything they want without having to ask for it.
Point is there are some realities that one might like. There are others, like the perception of your reality, that we should steer well clear of.
"I wonder what makes people think that we can even attract anyone better than Downing?" What kind of bullshit comment is that? This is Tottenham Hotspur, at this club we dare and we do.
Beat me to it Trembly.
Reply to Trembly:
Recently it's more like: We dare then we fuck it up.
Reply to dRb:
AGREED!!!!
I have posted that on here before as well! It is world cup year he will require a regular first team place!
He is so underrated by the stupid Spanish waiter, and would be a fantastic signing for us!
Surely ‘arry can get him here?!?
I'd happily take crouch, i say bring him home.
Alot of our problems last season stemmed from a lack of communication, buying more english can only be a benefit.
If we end up cole and crouch i'd be a v.happy bunny!
Im gonna say it! If its crouch or downing or both, if they are wearing the spurs shirt im gonna wish em well and cheer them on! we should really do the same with bent and bentley lets get behind our team whoever the gaffer picks! They may not be everyones first choice but in the end its arry choice that counts! BIOC
Reply to Nick_The_Greek:
Totally agree with you. Redknapp will ruin our club with average or past their best players, because that's all he knows. Bobblehead is a west ham/portsmouth manager at very best and that's where he should fuck off back to (but they all hate him too). He will drag us down to his level this season with the lack of quality he can attract. Do you think if he had been manager last summer, would we have signed Modric or Gomes? I doubt it.
Reply to Trembly:
Will he finish above us again, I think so to. Yes it is a sad day when we know as Spurs fans before a ball is kicked we are incapable of getting any where near our rivals
Reply to Trembly:
I'm not the only one that's noticing he repeats the same worn-out lines about the same people on a sort of rotational basis then? I'm dreading another post about Keane so he can start to tell us once again how much he detests him.
Seriously Harry, time for a filter to allow those of us who read this blog regularly and find it a usually pretty good read to filter out those who use this as a personal soapbox? I wouldn't care so much if the insults were original, or if the target was new. This blog thrives on having decent posters, there are one or two I wish would just...go away.
As for the lack of buys, yes, it's frustrating in one sense. But you can't help but feel it might be nice to start the new season with a pretty settled squad. And I agree that there is little that now attracts the modern day player to Spurs - we've underachieved for more years than we care to believe and been fooled into thinking we've still a world pedigree by the occasional flashes of genius, a la Klinsmann or Ginola, but the reality is somewhat different. Without hard cash or European football, or a manager with a worldwide reputation, I think we ought to look more seriously at the Downings of the football world, as much as it might gall us all
Had this argument about Downing the other day with a mate who reckoned he was useles.
My point was this.... Downing might not be the Ginola we are all looking for (as thats all we've got to compare)but how many crosses did we get into the box last year from the left? Downing is probably one of the best crosses of the ball in the premiership with his left foot, scores goals and is a good free kick taker (anyone for more of Jenas’ free kicks - didnt think so). He can use his right foot well and has a bit of trickery to go with it.
In summary.
He's left footed.
Premiership proven
Bent scored a lot of goals without left wing service last year (agaisnt pompey he missed an easy header - probably suprised to receive a cross from the left i think?)
He can take players on
He wont come in and be a big time Charlie (Robben etc…)
We cant make his England career any worse
He’s not Arjen Roben, but a combination of him, Modric, Palacios & Lennon is surely enough to wet the appetite?
He shone in a shite Middlesborough team last year, which should mean he will be a GOOD player at the lane, not outstanding but good, steady and will provide a left footed service to the strikers that hasn’t been there for a long long time……
I think it was an interview I saw a while back involving Harry where he stated that we have a leak at the club, & that the press seemed to know about his transfer dealings before even he did. I assume this is something he wanted addressed, & all this silence suggests that maybe it was? I'm sure he'll surprise us somewhere down the line. I also think we can forget Downing for now, who's seriously going to bring an injured player to a club when you're looking to improve your league position? The only way I see Downing here before Jan is if it's for around £7 mil. Once we sell a couple more fringe players & free up some cash, I'm sure Harry will then show his hand. I guess Crouch is a possibility, but you may as well go all out for a slightly ageing RVN. People are too quick to forget Pav has just played pretty much two seasons back to back. Hopefully he's been working on his English & we'll see an improvement in both communication & effort. Bentley said he had some serious personal problems last season, which he's over now. Quality players don't become shit in the space of a few months (apart from at Spurs it seems). I recon they both deserve at least another season to prove their worth, who honestly wasn't chuffed when we signed DB? Family & friends all yid season ticket holders too, I'm certain there's more to come given the chance. I also hope we give Dos Santos & Tarrabt a chance, two youngsters who'll improve dramatically given minutes. Thierry likened Dos to Ronaldinho, but that's not good enough for Spurs, even though he scored a brace the other week for Mexico....
Players like Crouch and Downing don't get me too excited (well, the idea of Downing used to). But steady, experienced players like them are what we lack. You know, we go 4-4 at the Emirates, follow it up with 12 goals in four games against the likes of Liverpool and Citeh, then lose to Fulham and can't muster a decent attempt at home to Everton. This sort of thing has been pretty much standard now for at least three seasons.
What was so encouraging about the end of last season was the steadiness - the string of hard-fought one-nil victories, the clean sheets, and the solidity brought by Palacios and the regular play of King. I think in this window we should be building on this.
We've got some good flair players already, in Lennon, Defoe, Modric, Bale, etc. With Lennon on the right, is, say, Joe Cole on the left really what we need, if the goal is getting more actual points in the table, week in and week out? (I'd take him obviously, just to study the idea.)
I think the goals are balance, solidity, experience, toughness - the things that enabled a squad like Everton, without a Modric or a Lennon - to pick up significantly more points than us, despite arguably less total talent. And if we want to get into signing wars, we don't have the money of Man City or European football on offer, anyway.
Like it or not, we are going to have to become more like an Everton to compete in this league. The silver lining is that you can build that kind of a team on our budget - so if we do that, and manage not to lose the attacking players we've already got, then we actually would have a damn nice team. In fact if you wanted to design a strategy, on a budget, to beat a club like City - loaded with talent, but thrown together and overpaid - it would look something like this.
It just means that we might sign several solid players instead of one or two superstars. With Harry at the helm, I feel pretty good about that.
keith where are you;
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Reply to Baggio:
That's a balanced and reasoned view and balanced and reasoned are good.
I think my wariness is spawned from him a) not really being as 'electric' as he was painted by some at Boro and b) because he was a Premiership player we'd inevitably have to pay over the odds for him.
Which all in all makes me a big fat fool, because those are the very things I was telling people to disregard when looking at Bentley.
Funny old game. The killer will be IF we sign him he is able to that which Bentley didn't and rain in crosses on whoever we put up front.
That is our problem and has been for seasons and seasons.
The only reason we scored so many with Berba & Bob was their combined wit. Hence the departure of Defoe to Pompey.
So now I'm calling us witless. Vey.
Reply to SpursGator:
Nice work. Cheers.
Reply to toddspur:
Could it be that we were simply being used to improve his negotiations? Shurely not
Reply to McG:
More common sense. What is happening to this blog today?
Totally concur with the Taarabt thang. Let's hope he does stay. I understand Malaga Ladies or whoever came in for him were skint members... so that has stalled.
Dos Santos looks like a choirboy but word is crazy for the vino and Arry had the ache with him.
Reply to HarryHotspur:
lets hope not H
KEITH?!??!
Reply to DiscoSpurs:
Oh I am sorry you are happy at us being Robbie Keane`s sloppy seconds, the plain and simple fact is he is not good enough.
Reply to Nick_The_Greek:
Why you so grumpy? With your local paper giving out great headlines like this, I'd of thought you'd be fucking over the moon!
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Some cracking comments on here today...sensible stuff! A front 4 of Crouch, Pav, Defoe and Keane (4th choice or A.N.Other) would do me quite nicely.
Babel from the bindippers would be rather pleasant, but got a feeling that him, young and joe cole are all out of our league at the moment. Crouch (solid, dependable and gets very bad press, despite performing consistently practically every week) and downing (see crouch) would do for a kickoff. Get rid of some deadwood (boateng, chimbo, possibly jenas...infuriating ass!) and lets have a proper settled season...i really do believe that good things are happening and we are moving steadily to becoming a proper good side that can comfortably sit in the top 6, which must be the goal before an assault on the top 4 and displacing them pricks from woolwich.
COYS
Reply to weejp:
Heard about this last week, photo shopper has been busy. It makes a welcome distraction to all the stuff with Shell going on here. We had two Navy destroyers and 300 extra Police down here welcome to a real Banana Republic
Reply to DiscoSpurs:
Hear hear. The misery filter sponsored by Prozac. The NtG's of this world have nothing constructive, humorous or interesting to say, they just bludgeon the rest of us over the head with the same old sh*t.
Reply to Nick_The_Greek:
Could always be worse, you could live in the North!
Reply to Sick a the Greek:
Give us something to cheer us up then
Reply to Nick_The_Greek:
Inspired?LINK
I can't say I agree Babel's out of our league, hasn't exactly played that many games for the Dips... Also, Fergie after Ibrahimovic, if true that still leaves Hunt out in the cold, I'll keep dreaming, night!!
A family are driving behind a garbage truck when a dildo flies out and thumps against the windscreen.
Embarrassed, and to spare her young son's innocence, the mother turns around and says, "Don't worry; that was an insect."
To which, her son replies, "I'm surprised it could get off the ground with a cock like that."
We were never going to get Ashley Young. I remeber you posted an article stating that he had been seen at our training ground though.
What a load of cobblers...
Reply to Sick a the Greek:
Reply to Mr. Toad:
Give us all a link to your blog so's we can run our eye over your creative output. Chances are, you ain't got shit.
Newsnow is finally kicking into gear.
Let the fun begin.
'The new Messi'... LINK
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New Messi? Or another Gio, Taratatat?
Looks hot.
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I like very much
Swapping zokora for St Wilson is proof of what is possible if 'Arry's left to his own devices. Go on the 'Arry. I too would keep bent rather than take crouch.
Go on the Spurs.
Reply to TMWNN:
Nah lets stick with Downing, I`d look good on youtube
Reply to A_Felching:
Show me the LINK and ill let you know
I love the last paragraph of this article, "do Spurs need a player like this?" !!!
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PS, do I need to sign up to add links normally? (Just a lazy fooker and haven't bothered!!)
Just answered me own question there!
question;
how do you think Citeh will perform in the first 2 months?
I think they will struggle to gel; whereas we will have a squad that know each other well and from what Arry is saying there is a chance we will only buy one or two players.
My point is; it wouldnt be disasterous if we didnt add a single player unless Ledders injury has worsened we are equiped enough at the back; midfielders coming out of our ears and with Obika we have two tall strikers and two littluns. we have cover in every position and a reserve squad that arent playing competitive league football this season so will be fresh (this is why Arry doesnt want to sell Tarrabt i think)
I would take a left winger if ones available to get modders in the middle and maybe another tall striker but in January we would need to spend again as Citeh et all will be starting to gel.
I guess what I am saying is we can make the top 4 but it would mean citeh having a slow start and the arses falling apart which is highly likely given morale is low and possible move by barca for fabric gash
We do, why oh why do us fans want Spurs to be a successful football club
Reply to A_Felching:
There's nowt wrong with psychological mind games in modern footy.
1. We don't have enough financial clout to compete with the big boys.
Should read: We aren't going to be ripped off like we were last year and the year before. It also puts us under the radar when clubs have a look around to see who they might be competing with.
2. We're not going to be able to challenge for a top 4 spot.
Should read: When we do challenge for a top 4 spot, it won't be weighed down by all the hype and expectations of tabloids wanting to build us up and shoot as down quicker than you can say '2 from 8'. Oh and any players that want to say so to the press, 'Shut it!' before I shut it for you.
3. We're only going to make one or two tweaks to the side
Should read: Any players that were worried at the end of last term should be even more worried now. Pull your socks up cause if anyone is any good and can play in your position, you'd better pack your bags! Similarly - keep the prices down for the players we want; we're not going to get ripped off again.
PS Is that Tommy Huddlestone in the latest training pics on the OS or has someone done something with photoshop to make him look skinny??? Mind games I tell ya. Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that someone doesn't have it in for me. I'm a yid you know?
Reply to CrazyC:
in response to that:
Do you think we would have seen the best of Gomes or Modric if Harry had not arrived? I dont recall either performing to an acceptable standard under Ramos.......... like the rest fo our side. Ramos attracted them, but could do fcuk all with them.
Reply to DiscoSpurs:
Disco, as much as Greeky pains me with his constant Arry abuse, we must respect ying and yang. On occassion, he does have very valid arguments. It's just in this particular case, his Arry bashing I feel is as yet uncalled for.
Reply to TMWNN:
Ah. There's the rub! It takes a lot to intentionally dare to fuck it up
all in the the name of push and run of course
THIS TRANSFERE WINDOW IS VERY BORING!
I WANT TO TAKE UP KNITTING I AM THAT BORED OF IT!
Reply to elfranklins:
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Crouch - yes, thank you - yet to prove his worth anywhere tbh, can do with us.
Downing - *meh*
Cole - naturally, yes please, but doubt it.
Harry, excuse me for being more tedious than usual, but I just wondered how people felt about the old Hummel kits.
When the latest kit was unveiled it disappointed (to put it mildly) many. I love the old Hummel chevron sleeves which, given that so many fans want a retro quality to the design, would today offer that distinctive old flair.
The company is posting continual growth and, in the UK, is up every year by at least 15%.
Bring Hummel back, I say.
If we buy Crouch I'd have to careful my apathy doesn't run away with me, but at least he'd bring Abbey Clancy along with him.
Reply to A_Felching:
harry was brought in to avoid relegation not achieve success. he has never achieved anything so far in his career and is not about to start trying to now.
on the plus side. we definitely wont go down with Harry in charge.
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Thanks for that, more gruel it is so
Reply to 9__37:
When you become as tedious as me is when you want to really fret. Hummel? Yes please. What is fundamentally missing from not just our club but many others is someone with a bit of what can only called 'panache'.
These sorry, thin, mean 'modern' shirts are depressing. It is almost ironic that a business that (to benefit from market forces) has to change it's 'look' so frequently, it manages to be so very naffing UNfashionable.
To dare is to do they say. The only recognisable daring appears to be how much/little they can get away with before being rumbled.
Some daring do in the form of bucking the trend and instructing the manufacture of products people really want would be good.
We can recruit Keith Mills, we ought bring in a George Davis type character.
The fear of course is that the tired old shit that Puma generically pump out sells at acceptable levels no matter how tired or shit they make it.
And the Club and Puma do love that easy money.
What would show balls, make the punter happy and therefore set the tills on fire was a genuinely well thought out range that was seen as aspirational.
But what do we know? We are but the end revenue stream. We are just the end user.
'Please sir, I'd like some more....'
Reply to 9__37:
I'm prone to being very tedious on kits myself - and am want to rant about yellow streaks and the horrors of the Pony years whilst pining for the halcyon days of Le Coq and the better Hummel efforts.
As a young boy the crazy zig-zags of their first kit mad me feel like I was in Tron. With Chris Waddle.
In my prime I have come to regard the collared Hummel shirt (with or without Holsten - as per '87 cup final) as the finest of all our post-Le Coq garb.
Any pro-Hummel comment is usually countered with something about 80s deal being a massive cock-up that cost us dearly - but if they are doing well again and could pay us the going rate I would be quite happy to see them back on the scene.
Reply to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:
28 stitches and 36 rows to 4 inches - I never knew knitting a ball could be so much fun!
Hummel currently makes predominantly men's clothes, but they're pushing childrenswear, too. As a brand, the look is a lot cooler than Puma, and has more energy and verve about it. We'd have far more swagger about us in a Hummel design than the incoming Puma - and that's what we all want to see in a Spurs team: swagger (mainly in the play, of course).
Reply to elfranklins:
But how can you pump it up?
Reply to 9__37:
use Mo air
i'll get my coat
Reply to JoeyDeacon:
Very good. I'll take the advice, but I may also ask Jose Merino.
Reply to JoeyDeacon:
To pimp it up would one use Ho Air?
*instant rim shot and exit to much grumbling & yawning*
Reply to HarryHotspur:
knit wit
Look at my avatar/profile pic and you see a smiling, dapper, not yet twitchy 'Arry Redders, circa 1978, posing with the Seattle Sounders.
I was a wee lad then, having Dad take me to watch this crazy foreign kickball game.
audere est facere....
personally i wouldn't mind crouch and downing joining up....downing has a left foot and crouch is taller than anyone else on the pitch/and is a tottenham boy....both useful attributes....
plus they are both english which doesn't seem to go down too well round here but surely that helps to settle in etc....
anyway...it's up to harry and until we know whether the likes of taraabt,giovani,bentley,thud,bent and pav are being shipped out.....there is no need to get people in....not that i'd like to see adel,giovani or big tommy leave....
one thing i do know about harry is that he will try and get a few big athletic men in for the premiship rough and tumble.....so i expect a couple of big boys to come in somewhere down the line....
harry has signed a few kids up....look at the one on the left...i don't which one he is but he looks bigger than the other two put together....
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i also think harry will keep chimbonda now that zokora has gone....
maybe this new kit,no big signings and no europa league will actually get us off to a good start in the league....something which seems like we haven't done for a long time....you never know..
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Hope the link works. Clicking on the years 1977 though 1979 will yield some 'Arry in his Sounders days pics
try try again
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Please Blackburn, 13 for Bent & that gives Harry 22 mil to play with... Signings will come!!
And there we go
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Reply to SeattleSpursGuy:
shouldn't you be on a sounders blog...or isn't there one....
maybe you should start one up .....
Reply to KOJAC:
There is.
It's a bit dull.
Sounders are fun, but they ain't Spurs.
This is off COYS:I have a friend who knows one of Villa's scouts...he confirmed we have 100% put in a £10m straight bid for Carew...but at this moment in time Villa don't want to sell.
It seems (this is my opinion not ITK) that there is definitely gonna be some business done between us and Villa this summer - seems too many rumours of theirs we want and ours they want for a couple of deals not to go through.
Carew leaves me feeling much like most other players we've been linked with this summer...uninspired
Reply to SeattleSpursGuy:
if i ever make it to seattle i'll certainly look you up so you can take me to the xbox....
but as much as i love the USA...i have this deep down fear that oneday the usa will ruin football....but i guess i'll be dead by then so it won't really matter....
here's to baseball and the NFL...staying top sports in the states
Reply to A_Felching:
well we certainly could do with a giant centre forward.....but why would o'neil get rid of carew....unless he want's one of our players even more than he wants carew....?
Reply to KOJAC:
He has still got the wardrobe, it looks like he is sending us the dresser in part/ex for Bentley and Jenas
Reply to A_Felching:
sure he has dodgy knees or am i thinking of Magrath?
Seriuosly i think this guys heart isnt in the english game, he is lazy and cant really recall anything exciting apart from him being about 17 foot 15
Reply to KOJAC:
Footy has made great strides here, but being in a position to ruin the sport is long way off. Hell, Hockey beats it here.
Besides, Real, Man Shitty, the Sky 4, etc. will have ruined football long before the US will get a crack.
Carew > Pavlyuchenko
Phew
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Crouch?// consistent? consistently shit, bent has outscored him the last 2 seasons, check out how many assists, yes hes english but hes soooo bad, what are u muppets seeing in him? he rarely scores, cant head a ball, gives away free kicks all the time by leaning on people, he is fucking shite, tell me what the fuck you see in him, hes a freak thats it, nice one , we will never get anywhere with that useless cunt up front.
No Berg
No Huntelaar
No Cole.....
Do you ever get the feeling that no body wants to play with you? It's almost as though Spurs have become that Ginger kid with nits.That one stood alone in a puddle of piss in the playground when you were at primary school....
I'm off to listen to the Smiths grimest hits....
..whilst drinking a bottle of Thuderbirds blue all to myself...."Come come nuclear war"....
Surely Villa aren't thinking of selling Ashley Young. He's the best player in the team. David Bentley is no substitute for a class act like Young
Reply to rich g:
So that is a no from you Rich
Carumba!
Reply to SeattleSpursGuy:
Hi, SSG.
Understand the Sounders are playing Chelscum later this month as part of their pre-season tour.
Give 'em a kicking!
That article brought a tear to my eye
The worlds hottest virgin - what a waste.
Nice to see some sensible posts - 29 to 31 - on here!
Sign up! You're much better reading than some on here.
I can understand the frustration with the lack of real news - but to start blaming 'Arry for what is, after all, rumour, is non-sensical.
I expect as much from NtG but I despair at JGM's negativity. The latter usually bases his views on fact. But post 78 leads me to believe he's loaned his JGM identity to a disillusioned Spammer.
"he has never achieved anything so far in his career and is not about to start trying to now."
It's the "is not about to start trying to now" bit that makes me think JGM has finally lost it.
Prove me wrong JGM!
Reply to Bruxie:
A simple F... off will do.
Reply to Bruxie:
louzhonglou cool
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