Morning.
The unmitigated cobblers of transfer speculation had a bucket of ice cold water hurled over it yesterday as Arry revealed that Spurs had not made a single enquiry about Adebayor.
I’ve mixed feelings on the definitive news he won’t be coming to The Lane. His form has gone right off the boil of late no two ways about it, but I do find him a more convincing Premiership option to 3MP. Given a run, he could have done us some good.
Blistering Bob Keane is now in the shop window. Well, sort of in the back, behind some old shop fittings. Actually, he nipped out for a Topic and a Lucozade a few days ago and no one’s too sure where he is.
But the latest is that he might be going to Ajax. And a swap deal for anyone including El Hamdaoui, Gregory van der Wiel, Urby Emanuelson….
I’d say a bookie would give a price on that not dissimilar to the one for Roy Hodgson signing him. PSB has two immediate problems. The first is that he cannot make the Spurs’ first team anymore. The second is that he is not cheap to keep.
Any sale will include the blushes saving, ‘undisclosed fee’ line and he is looking at at least a 50% wage cut. At least.
The answer lies upon the ploughed fields with white lines upon them in Scotland and he really ought grab the opportunity whilst it’s there. Bob still has his supporters. Those hardened few who see beyond his ‘boyhood club’ fiasco and his decay when he eventually returned.
I have no time for the guy. But I don’t hate him and that’s why he ought to go North and salvage some self respect. I haven’t as clue how likely a move to Villa might be, but I just see this as just another potential twist in the PSB death throes.
If we do sign Scott Parker (and more importantly keep him injury free for the rest of the season) I think it would all but guarantee a top-four finish this year. The guy is exactly what we need right now; he’d be a perfect foil for Modric in the middle of the park and is a massive upgrade on both Jenas and Palacois. Add a fit-again Huddlestone into the mix and we’d have the strongest midfield in the world outside of Barcelona (and possibly Madrid).
If we can just prise Leighton Baines away from Everton as well, we could seriously start thinking about a title challenge.
We are indeed very very close to being a major threat. Parker would absolutely be an upgrade on Wilson (just cannot pass, is clumsy and has no control) and JJ (so much good in his game BUT makes silly errors and does not track runners). Parker would himself be improved with Bale, Modders and Lennon in a middle 4 with VdV and JD up front. Think Harry would like Lassana Diarra but he would be more expensive both wages and fee wise, hence Parker. Also think we need some left side cover, possibly Baines but Everton not likely to play ball. They will be forced to let Peinaar go as his contract ends in the summer. Other possible left siders N`Zogbia Wigan, Enrique fron Newcastle. Then of course we need 1 or 2 finishers to replace PSB and or Crouch/Pav (I assume Pav as Harry prefers Crouch). Problem is who will buy PSB, will we even get ten bob for one Bob? Whatever happens we need him and O`Hara, Bentley, Gio to move on. Prospective buyers are few and far between…. Everton have no money, Foolem and Villa look likely to be in a relegation who would want to go to them?, Wet Spam playing Championship footie in an empty olympic stadium cannot be too attractive, Newcastle in complete turmoil, Sunderland possibly but they have spent big on 2 forwards already, Blackburn might have a bit of cash after recent takeover but not exactly for the purist, Bolton are skint, Sjoke again not exactly for the purist. So who will buy our outcasts? Very tricky to offload in this market but reckon H and D will manufacture one or two deals soon. Very optimistic the deals will come because Harry said yesterday that …”We are nowhere near doing anything on transfers”. That can only mean that we are indeed very much near doing something. Mirrors, smoke, rabbits, hats etc.etc… COYS
we can now sneak in and grab carrol and suarez.by the way I saw a pelecan today wot does that mean ,mr trotter you soothsayer.
Is that the Brazilian spelling for a seabird, or the posterior of a football legend?
Hopefully we are gonna get a brazilian goal predator
I’m not convinced Jol will go to the Toon, obvious link aside.
Home down south, if he’d come back Fulham was going to be his gig. Newcastle? After his mate got knifed? Not 100% convinced. I’d rather back him to succeed Wenger! Or rather, suspicious of the fact someone wants to lay £2k of Jol at 2/1 considering he was odds on earlier.
I appreciate the school of thought that bringing Jol in with Hughton by his side could go some way to appeasing the apparent lack of approval from the Barcodes’ playing staff, and the general reaction to Hughton’s sacking. But if it was that much a done deal I also wouldn’t expect the 2/1 to be so widely available.
Hamburg seem to be in a bit of disarray, Armin Veh won’t be there long if they carry on the way they’re playing, and Jol was a popular manager I believe there, was he not?
That could well be an option for him. I’d also assume Hughton in turn wouldn’t be satisfied with relegating himself to No.2 in Geordieland after the way he’s just been shat on. Put another way, if I’d done a sterling job and got the bullet by return, I wouldn’t be rushing to help the c^nt who shafted me in the first place by taking a lower position so he could save what little face he has up there. In Hughton’s case, c^nt = Ashley.
Also, you think Hughton will have good words to say to the Big Cuddly Bear Soprano about the Chairman he’d be potentially working for? I expect they are still in touch….
“…had little money to spend and too much was expected but you know that – nothing will change – Mike Ashley won’t spend any money, you’ll have to try to work miracles on a shoestring” – something like that, perhaps.
I don’t expect either will be unemployed for too long and wouldn’t entirely dismiss them possibly working together again, but I would just think it as unlikely to be at Newcastle.
Well West Ham has to be in the running for one of them very soon. I also feel a bit for poor Avram who has given it a go and even defied the odds a bit, but he’s surely a dead man walking.
Agreed but Martin Jol can do much better and hope he comes back to the Premiership one day, perhaps at somewhere like Foolem ???
Prattle? :winke: