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20 Aug 2014 23:03:11
Destro is off to Chelsea, £24mill and Torres! Missed out on another one Mr levy! Jokes!
1.) That would value Destro at anything from 32-38m or more depending on how you want to value Torres. Seems very high to me.
2.) I think you are getting a bit carried away with your newspaper or internet stories!
3.) My bad Italian translation, £24mill or Torres, or Torres is to be part of £24mill deal!
Either way Chelsea want him! looks like we've missed out on our 3 top targets, destro, scherderin and mussachio. Missing one is bad. Luck but missing all 3 is a joke!
4.) I'm not sure that all three were targets that would have meant forking out somewhere around 60mil which seems unlikely. Besides it's not as if we have a lack of players at the moment. The only area which we absolutely need to sign someone in is upfront really
5.) Maybe we could offer Kane for Destro . he's about as deadly in front of goal as Torres these days and younger.
6.) What about CB?
7.) What strengthening at CB? We have Vertongen, Chiriches, Dawson, Kaboul, and Dier right? Do we need more? Whilst I'm not saying that there is a world class pairing in there it doesn't look that bad does it?
8.) 22 Aug 2014 06:45:24
Please don't forget Veljkovic, he and Dier look sensational to me. Also with Davies and Rose the LB options, don't forget the young lad Fryers who also has potential.
Vertonghen to Barcelona is the bigger concern, but if he plays like he did in Limassol we won't be missing much. I think Vertonghen is superb but we need heart and soul not just presence.
9.) 22 Aug 2014 08:36:55
@ Pike, how have we missed out on our top 3 Targets, the Transfer Windows has not ended yet. Have faith.
29 Jul 2014 22:45:41
Heard levy was up to his old tricks and bid £13mill for Morgan s! F'in typical!
1.) For me, all Levy's messing around with negotiating costs will always be an issue.
When you pay over the odds for you target but get your target, in time before the season starts, you then get chance to work with the target in advance and have only lost a little money.
When we delay and loose the initial target and then look at somebody else, we then do not have the taret we initial wanted and therefore have to accept that we are not gaining the services (quality) that we initially wanted, however saving a few £'s in the process.
2.) Spot on Northeast
16 Jul 2014 10:59:46
Any truth in the tevez rumours ed?
{Ed007's Note - Sorry, Pike, not that I know of.}
24 Jan 2014 13:00:23
Hulk pictured at Luton airport! Any idea if he's going to see any clubs ed?
{Ed001's Note - seems to be Chelsea.}
1.) Russian off season and he's heading back to porto via luton
2.) Ryan 1988 - I hope you are not inferring that Hulk on £100,000 per week, is looking to save £200 on Easy Jet via Luton.
The truth is Spurs are trying to broker a loan deal that will surpass all previous arrangements. But Zenit have false hopes on behest trey can recoup
Expect
3.) How wrong you are Oracle, read the comment next to the instagram photo."porto com meu parceiro" translated is porto with my partner
4.) Right or wrong he left the airport!
How much fuel does a small private jet need?
He is either sight seeing or here for business. Very strange how quiet things are at Chelsea, Arsenal & Spurs.
The question is probably - Red, White or Blue?
Interesting and fun
{Ed001's Note - or Monaco.}
01 Sep 2013 22:26:31
Damiao!
1.) What about him
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02 Sep 2014 23:18:02
Pretty happy with that window, would of been nice to add another striker tho! Really don't understand why Lennon and Townsend are still at the club. Lennon has shown absolutely no improvement since his debut! And Townsend is possibly the most selfish player at the club! How can Lennon be classed as premier league quality when he's still not learnt to cross the bloody ball!
1.) A few weeks ago I said I would be reasonably content with a quiet transfer window. It was quiet and I am reasonably content.
First, a few unpalatable facts:
Joe Lewis is very rich, but he is a business man. He bought Tottenham as a business and he is running it as a business. Clearly, he is not going to give Tottenham a £200m gift just to please us. Why should he?
Levy is the Chief Executive, so he must run the club properly. Balancing the books is not a strange obsession; it is Levy’s legal duty.
We don’t make huge operating profits, so we can only buy players if we first sell. Since I didn’t want to see our best remaining players poached by Champions League clubs I wasn’t expecting any big purchases. Our best transfer action this summer was keeping Lloris, Vertonghen and Eriksen, without them being unsettled by rumours or disruptive offers.
Last year, our defence was the weak link and that has been addressed. We now have Vorm as younger cover for Lloris. We have two genuine left backs (Rose and Davies) with Vertonghen as cover, and two right backs (Walker and Naughton) with Dier as cover. In the central positions we have a good range of options with Vertonghen, Kaboul, Fazio, Chiriches and Dier. I think our defence now has a better balance to it.
In midfield we have just tinkered. Personally, I saw no point in selling Sandro (proven) and bringing in Stambouli (unproven). I also thought Sigurdsson was good value for money and well worth keeping, but we were stronger in midfield than in defence so swopping him for Davies was probably the right thing to do.
We had a couple of good offers for Townsend and should probably have accepted one of them, if only to keep Lennon in Pochettino’s sights. He is never going to be quite as good as we hoped, but he is a hell of a lot better than most people recognise. If it had been Lennon caught in possession, rather than Townsend, he would have had the pace and resolution to prevent Moreno’s unchallenged run into the area.
Of course we would like to strengthen the forward line, but that is always hard to do. Last year we broke our transfer record for Soldado. He had a tough first season, but if he can recover the form he had at Valencia, then we might have already solved that problem.
In the meantime, Adebayor is still playing with a lot of commitment. There aren’t many better in the Premiership. Of course, he wouldn’t get into the first team of our main rivals, but they are all much richer than us and they can offer Champions League football. We are not going to compete with them for proven quality so we must try to find quality before it is proven, like we did with Berbatov.
Last year, we spent over £100m and in the short run we got very little for it. This year, we have to hope that investment will start to pay off. If it does, then we won’t regret this low key transfer window.
2.) KM, great post. I agree with you. Quite a lot aren't happy with our window but our squad looks settled and players look happy under Poch which I think will be key to getting his methods across. I think the Liverpool game came to soon for us.
Top 4 will be tough this season, you can't look past city/chelsea 1st and 2nd, then it will be Spurs, United, Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal fighting for those next two spots. Newcastle might even surprise a few.
Here's hoping exciting football's back at the lane COYS
3.) KM. a very realistic concise post.
Unlike a few fans wanting DL & JL out. Complete nonsense.
I've been banging my gums about stability for some time. Let's hope we now get that with the team and manager. Maybe a striker in January.
4.) Fair point about Joe Lewis but he is mid eighties and has a net worth of about £3BIL. You can't take it with you, can you? what's the point of stability with sub standard players. It should of been a new start under Poch and wholesale changes were needed. Poch now has a squad that had any ability coached out of them by AVB, and getting over playing under Sherwood.
5.) Wholesale changes? 6 new signings this summer, 7 last summer that still haven't been used properly in a settled team. That's 13 in total, how many more changes do you want?
6.) 04 Sep 2014 23:13:56
Joe Lewis couldn't just give us 200m anyway with the ffpr.
Stramboulli may be unproven in the epl but imo he is better than Sandro.
7.) 06 Sep 2014 10:41:58
Interested to know what you base that opinion on spurski? Seen a lot of him at Montpellier? (Genuine question).
8.) 06 Sep 2014 15:23:26
Simmo, I've seen a few games not many but he is more skillful, better at passing and runs a lot and tackles good. Sandro may be a tough tackler and have cult status but he is quite limited aswell as injury prone.
I think it was the right time to sell Sandro.
9.) Spurski, so you base on seeing a few games that he is better than Sandro . I know nothing about him so I am not here to argue but that is quite a statement considering How good Sandro was .
10.) 06 Sep 2014 20:50:14
Fair enough Spurski, my thoughts are I just hope (not maliciously because the guy gave his all for us) that the club know there's every chance Sandro can't stay fit or play at his best anymore. At his best he was definitely a beast at what he did, one of the best that would need big money to replace so, getting rid seems a risk to me. Hoping obviously that BS is indeed a good acquisition.
11.) I don't think 2 bad injuries makes you injury prone. But we will see how he does for QPR this season, where I imagine he will have to work a lot harder as they don't play the same sort of possession game that Spurs have had the last couple of years (with teams sitting deep against us).
Lewis could give us £200m; he'd just need to buy a company, give it £200m, and then have that company sponsor us for £200m haha!
24 Aug 2014 16:34:21
Performance of the day has to be from Levy doing the ice bucket challenge #motorneurones
1.) It was pure class and he was pure class. Changed my opinion of him somewhat.
24 Aug 2014 00:19:06
A.V.B is an absolute legend for putting levy and abramovich up for the ice bucket challenge!
{Ed008's Note - Great BANTER! instagram.com/p/sC--NWA_X4/
1.) 24 Aug 2014 22:09:16
Levy then put up Perez the R Madrid president!
{Ed008's Note - Funniest thing ever!
2.) 25 Aug 2014 16:51:45
Someone please put up Wenger!
06 Aug 2014 23:39:22
What are the chances of the destro, mussacio or depay deals actually happening ed?
{Ed002's Note - Measured how?}
19 Jul 2014 11:03:24
Hopefully baldini in Italy to sell sandro is a smoke screen and hrs really there to sign destro and flog Pauline to juventus.
1.) Hopefully Baldini is in Italy looking for a new job!
2.) Hopefully Baldini is in Italy looking for new job, and getting rid of Paulinho!
3.) If you out baldini whom would handle your transfers?
levy a number of clubs are reluctant to do bizniz with him full stop.
levy picks and buys the players and the manager has to make them fit his system far to much of the bale money went on midfield players. where at best needed to be tweeked only.
as davo wulf and a no of others have pointed out decent c/b l/b and quality striker was needed.
saldado struggled as the lone striker although performed better with ade.
point trying to make levy needs to run the club poch needs to manage the team but that won't happen.
4.) The manager and the chairman. Manager picks the players and then chairman sorts out the financials! Or a DoF that listens to the manager and gets who the manager wants and doesn't force his stamp on proceedings!
To me Baldini has too much influence on who we buy. If that's the case then why is he not manager? It's annoying that the manager gets sacked for what the DoF does! Ludicrous
I may be wrong but that's the way it looks and the past managers have illuded to that theory!
His link up play with lamela is awesome, if they both stay fit they will be. An awesome partnership! Great to see them enjoying being at the club and the banter between team mates.
My bad Italian translation, £24mill or Torres, or Torres is to be part of £24mill deal!
Either way Chelsea want him! looks like we've missed out on our 3 top targets, destro, scherderin and mussachio. Missing one is bad. Luck but missing all 3 is a joke!
We need baldini or another df because levy has tried to mug off every club we deal with and no one wants to deal with him. He thinks it makes him look like a hard nosed business man, but just makes him look like a bellend and tarnished the club's name! Fair play to humor the New stadium project tho.
Actaly tv ate reporting that he's waiting for other offers, also why is he delaying then?
Have heard that he's also talking to the gooners.
12 Aug 2014 19:54:41
Levy signed van Der vart, Harry even said in the press he knew nothing about it!
Totally agree, he was frozen out because Sherwood was a person and trying to prove his point! Personally though no sandro is an absolute legend. The 2 games against inter his performances were as good as I've seen from a dm at spurs!
10 Jul 2014 11:39:08
No mate, not posted in ages. Got bored of people reading news now then pretending there itk.
I'm with davo, only 3 more games to put up with him! You you can tell he worked under Harry, loves a chat does Tim.
I would definitely take Benitez over Sherwood.