This oncoming transfer window is giving every impression that it’s going to be a remake of The Longest Day.
As per my earlier piece we’re in for perhaps more speculation than most sides. A front line that a house clearance company wouldn’t take away and suitors for their positions will certainly arrive by chartered coach.
Bale to…? Modders to…?
But that’s much duller than the undercurrent of rumour relating to our tight lipped ashen faced supremo and Levy & Co. This chitter chatterhas been doing the rounds for a good few weeks and I thought I’d threaten my Dairylea server with the subject a while. My questions are – what’s up, if anything and is it believable?
Giving some chronological order to matters unless anyone out there has ‘fresher meat’ the last public comment we got was in the closing days of the last window when Citizen Redschnapps was giving us Larry Large out of his car window with that ‘The chairman wants to spend’ schtick.
So now we are supposed to swallow the tale that Levy & Co are suddenly revealed (‘At long last!’ cry the Communists in the cheap seats) as the purely money grabbing agents of ENIC: the football Death Star – we knew them to be all along.
Question to the tree hugging Customer Reference Number in the front row: How long have ENIC & Levy been at this THFC long firm lark now and when are you ever going to wind it in?
Every season this hairbrained conspiracy theory that Levy is a bagman man for the ENIC mob emerges. It’s laughable. There sadly appears to be a decent raft of fans out there who are prepared to operate very selectively when it comes to facts. Which to embrace, which to twist or worse still absolutely ignore.
So is there a rift or not? Ha. I speculate that there is. Arry hummed, Haaah’d and fecked about in the last window. We know this as he banked upon our existing strikers coming good. They did not. The epitaph to this fantasy that didn’t pan out was 3MP’s own goal. Nail, might I introduce coffin?
Levy I imagine, is rightly furious with Arry. There’s been some mismanagement at the highest level. It’s his job to select the team and with no Director Of Football on the manor it’s his job to assimilate all the scouting info and select targets.
I called Benzema based upon good info. It didn’t happen and ordinarily you never hear why. When you’ve stuck your neck out like I did, you care even less. But Benzema was very much in place. But for a move, not a loan. Arry hesistated I am told. He believed that ‘his boys’ would come good.
So Levy’s a saint and Arry’s the devil? Didn’t know that H -Thanks for clearing that one up. Case closed. Nothing to see here. Go back to your homes. Of course not. Levy must frustrate Arry at every turn. Wanna flog a right back to a geezer in a motor who’s as safe as houses who’s in a right two and eight? The response of Portsmouth’s director probably translated as, ‘This is very exciting, isn’t it!’ Anyone want to defend that schmuck might wish to take a crash course in ‘Doing Sums’.
The wage cap based upon how much we earn as a business is a dog. I wouldn’t have the self control. Few amongst you would. I say this as few actual real life football club directors bother to pay it much attention.
The wage cap is a muzzle. We know that. But it’s down to Arry to manage. Every business has it’s restraints. Which leads me neatly on to… where has all this rift talk come from?
Well, one of the parties concerned can’t go to buy a paper without phoning talk SPORT. The other one has steered a football club away from obvious and irressistable perils for some time now.
BIOYC!
I heard some irrational gooner say a while back that Redknapp had blagged the last year and a half or so, europe and all. I don’t think thats entirely the case but Levy may do.
Yeah he facking blagggged it dih’un’ee!!
No. he didn’t. What is wrong with you all? Why on Earth do you think the manager should at any time tell you, the public, anything remotely true?
That’s not how you win wars people. Let the man get on with it. Let Levy get on with it. They are moving us on. It eventually happened and no one seems the bit fecking pleased about it. Cast your minds back to our no so distant past. It’s was a shambles.
Today? Not so much! Start loving it while it’s good or you’ll never live anything in the moment.
Reflective love of past glories is nothing to the glory of now!
There is one other potential reason for a rift.
The distinct possibility that ‘Arry is guilty, your Honour.
I don’t have any direct insider at Spurs, but I do have some healthy connections with my local Blue Square South team, Eastleigh FC. Eastleigh FC’s captain is one Tom Jordan, son of Joe.
One of the directors of said club told me earlier this season that ‘Arry allegedly offered to pay a sum around £80k to HMRC in settlement of their claim against him. This was refused by HMRC.
Two questions immediately struck me:
Why would you offer HMRC an amount of money if none were owed?
Why would that offer be turned down if there was a lack of evidence?
If that is the case, or he has other info to hand, DL may be pissed off with ‘Arry because he knows that this will soon affect the club seriously.
Please note, I have passed this info on in good faith. I know no other info about this.
It could be – and I don’t have any connection with anything other than a vague understanding of business interests – but, it could be that Harry (who makes 80K in wages every ten days or whatever it is) thought that he could save himself some money (on expensive barristers’ fees) and a lot of speculation (your post notwithstanding) by settling, even if he honestly didn’t think he was guilty.
And the HMRC may have rejected it, not because their evidence is so watertight, but perhaps because they aren’t sure if what Harry has done is illegal, and they are interested in setting precedence, rather than simply trying to convict.
Perhaps.
Or to summarize even further, how about a little “innocent until proven guilty” around here?
You are the voice of reason. Very often irritatingly so. ;-) .
go to the mirror their all fucking chelsea, theyll love it. Then we can get jose or somit and clear up.
I’d just like to say, that I had ‘difficulties’ with The Inland Revenue 10 years ago. I was right, and they were wrong; it took me a year with the help of my M.P. to sort it out, and at the end they gave me the max they were allowed (probably bullshit) £120. If I could have stopped this early on by paying £10,000 I would have.
I don’t know the guy, but he might be on the up-and-up.
We know how much shit Arry spouts in public, i can’t imagine how much he spouts behind closed doors :pinch: