Good morning.
Interesting interview on FIFA.com with a chap we signed a while back who is now playing football in La Liga for Racing Santander. It’s mostly the usual Jermaine J**** ‘pushing on’ spiel but what grates more is his rewriting of his time at The Lane.
Spurs fans embrace rather than suffer from the Messiah complex whereby we’re always on the lookout for the chosen one who’ll lead us into the promised land. We kid ourselves it’s about glory in it’s purest form it make Opus Dei look like the Girl Guides. Soiled Campbell, The Baldgarian… to a lesser extent Bring Out The Bostock, Broadmoor Danny Rose and Idle Teerrabpptt.
Giovanni Dos Santos’ arrival at Spurs had a whole rake of Yids acting like lovestruck schoolboys. You only had to look online and watch the advancing tide of new usernames lapping over the forums and message boards. I recall him in some preseason matches – was it against Norwich? He looked every bit the part.
Sadly he never reproduced anything close to what was expected, hoped for. So what happened? Salacious gossip ran that he was a booze-hound. I initially didn’t buy that. He looks about 15. But what does a drinker look like? They don’t have to be Gary Oldman, Keith Moon or Olly Reed.
The that picture was released. We’d seen several snaps of Ledders after 28 pints of dental anesthetic, but the image of Giovanni collapsing downwards arse first whilst ‘aides’ tried to keep him vertical sealed his fate and the calls for him to play evapourated.
You must be relieved to be playing regular football, after enduring a difficult period at Tottenham.
I went through two very tough years, during which I barely played. I just wasn’t given a chance. The situation wasn’t ideal either, because when I signed Juande Ramos was in charge and I was quite regularly involved. Then he got sacked and Harry Redknapp came in, and I’ve not been part of his plans.
Did you have any personal problems with the manager?
Not at all. I trained hard and gave 100 per cent during the week because I wanted to convince him to give me more playing time, but at the end of the day it’s his decision and it didn’t go my way.
Maybe he’s errr… back on his feet again. In which case, Arry needs to recall him.
Never mind about bringing Gio back in, it should now be about getting Henry ‘motor mouth’ Redknapp out.
Mediocrity has it’s reasons. This is the only way i can explain Spurs’ lack of achievements over the years, and the way you rationalize it.
GDS was never a worse case of “partying” than 90% of the players in the world. Crouch, King, Keane and the rest of them have been involved with booze or parties in several occassions, yet they (and most of EPL players) go out and play 90 minutes in front of their fans.
Redknapp wanted to get rid of all of Comolli’s players and so he attached a “story” to each one of them. Taarbat was selfish, Bent “missed goals”, Boateng was “not one us”, Bale was almost on his way out, because “we never win when he plays”, etc. GDS “story” was partying. Except for that one pic, taken after a xmas party, there was never an actual proof of your remarks.
As for talent….he was interviewed by fifa because he is considered the “steal” of the January window market in Spain.
enjoy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCTpZZq7SVg
Interesting theory. So we will be getting rid of Modric, Bale, Corluka, Thudd to name but a few and we will soon see ‘dubious stories’ about them.
So you would disagree with those who claim that HR’s improvements were not real because it was Comolli’s team he was using?
You would also disagree with the generally held view that Taraabt was selfish.
Thudd’s on his way already.
To Greggs?
Yep, they do a good Balti pie where he’s off to.
Listening to Redknapp’s pre-match comments, is it worth him and the team turning up tonight and next season?
He had a good world cup, but has failed to impress.
I always had one question about him: If he were really that good, would Barca have sold him for £5 mill?
harry. having just watched us outplay city but not create a clear cut chance in the whole second half can you do me a personal favour and start a new thread? entitled” To greedy for a sugar daddy” or “fu*king rich owner,do we want one”
vincent kompany man of the match??? f*ckin joke
we are that close to being a very good side.i do think arry doesnt want europa and obviously couldnt give a toss tonight but these players and us deserve more