The footballing world has been shaken to it’s very core at the news that Mr Scott Mosely Parker has according to the Sunday Mirror rebuffed the advances of Turkish bohemoths Fenerbahce in order that Uncle Arry can make what top ranking pundits anticipate to be an audacious swoop.
A million love songs and £8M later and the Tottingham’s supremo should have his man.
I’ve been pondering this deal – well there’s something iffy about this toaster I think it may be the thermostat and one’s mind tend to wander when staring at a butter dish – and am coming around to the idea of Parker’s 1940’s barnet sprouting out of the Lilywhite.
This whole Uncle Arry arm around the shoulder, he’s a top top player for sure business lost it’s charms on me a while back. Largely as my perception was of a bloke who was talking the same language as Crouch and Defoe but was left scratching his loaf when it can to Pav and Modders.
Modric I am convinced and this all supposition on my part is no more communicative with Arry than Pav or anyone else born beyond the chimes of Bow Bells. To an extent I believe that the Croat Cruyff is so good you could literally drop him into any team in the world and he’d do the business. He understands.
People describe some players as having a footballing brain. Occasionally this is to mask the fact they have yet to fully master cutlery, but more often to acknowledge that they are instinctively conversant in the nuances of the game.
Pav I admit is perhaps less so ‘with it’, but having some Cockney Sparra shouting Use the channels, drop in, in, in…oh my days. Pav! Pav! E’s deaf inne?. Release! Play it into …the… Oh for fu… at a bloke who’s English isn’t 100% isn’t the answer.
My point is that if we can meet somewhere in the middle, I might be happy. How sweet of me. But I hope you see where I’m coming from here. I was put off Parker largely on the basis that I saw it as the start of Arry turning us into West Am 2.0.
Parker coming into replace Modders stories were clumsy and to be frank I think I bought into them a little. I’d argue all day that Pav is three or four times the player 3MP is, but we have a scenario whereby Crouchino is the only striker Arry has come out and said he’d be reluctant to sell.
It’s precisely this sort of thing that terrifies me. Even Arry knows he can’t defend Defoe anymore. No chance. We’ve heard all about ‘the injury’ (you’d think he’d been hit by a runaway truck if you didn’t know better) but the reality is Defoe has become so formulaic, so wound up and unimaginative I don’t know what the answer is. Nor do Spurs. That’s why they gave him a Jimmy Greaves DVD ferchrissakes.
What I want is a measured approach to the way our team is constructed and managed. Push and run. Not just Parker brought in to wallop the ball onto 3MP’s nut. I prefer Parker to Rodwell or perhaps any other of these £20m plus boys that have suddenly sprung up like daffodils. We need to get back into the Champions League and we’ll do more than damage our chances taking a punt that maybe doesn’t quite come off.
Hear me right on this, this isn’t me saying Bentley was a disaster so we should only ever buy proven pensioners in future, what I’m saying is that it’s a question of getting the balance right.
A small request: I put out in a blog some time back a small cry for help in relation to assistance with a HH podcast. There was a brilliant response from a number of readers who appeared to be well worth talking to.
Unfortunately, I have discovered that the email I was using at that time has been made defunct – for want of a better word.
So I wasn’t being an ignorant git, my replies went into a void. If anyone who expressed an interest is still interested in assisting in the tech side then please mail me on the old faithful harryhotspur.blogspot.com@hotmail.co.uk.
Aye fankyou.
Players like parker…Let me start again…footballers like parker are a dying breed, someone who actually looks like they care. We have a very quiet squad. Bigger picture says good signing, watching him fail to trap anything other than short rolled passed for england..not so keen.
This is, I suspect, exactly why Harry wants him.
With you there. Parker is a winner and a leader with a Graham Roberts type mentality.
Had he played last term he would have bridged the gap between 4th and 5th on his own.
I disagree ODM, the game has moved on since those times, a goalkeeper who doesn’t make massive howlers in key games would have bridged that gap as would a decent forward.
The inability of DL to clear out our surplus players is what is now holding the club back. Until we reduce our wage bill and bank some cash we won’t be buying big. It’s been that way since 2009/10 and they’re still with us
I was comparing Parker to Roberts in terms of his “never say die” attitude. A player whose self belief motivates those around him to turn hopeless situations into winning ones.
As Parker did in staving off relegatio… oh. :-D
Unless one from Mods, Hudds or Sandro leave I can’t see the point in having Parker. Can’t see any of our current 3 being happy with the odd CC or Europa game.
Parker is a good player but not considerably better than what we already have so why upset our young starlets to bring in the old, injury prone guy? May as well keep Jenas as 4th choice.
Having said all that I’m sure HR will sign him if he can.
We dont need a young holding player still to develop, we’ve got younger players in Sandro and The Hudd. Parker (At £8m) is a bargain for his drive (being a Spurs fan all his life this will be double) and experience along with his ability. With Harry being Allerdyces mate I’m sure he can convince him a couple of our loan players will do him well in the Championship as a sweetener to selling to us too.
I know that Caulkers being talked about going to Swansea on loan. But IF he goes out again, and I believe he should stay put with us, then I’d rather see him playing for Allerdyce who will show him his trade and toughen him up rather that Brenden Rogers where he’ll be left to deal with an onslaught most of the time with their first year in the Prem and their open attractive palying style where the play is more focused on the attacking aspects of the game rather than the defensive side. I’d much rather send out a Kane or Townsend to a team that plays attacking attractive such as the Swans. Init.
Yup. Being a Spurs fan helps. Look at Bentley :lol:
Bentley is an exception to EVERY rule with a mentality like his… his problem wasnt being a Spurs fan, it was being a wide boy and liking one too many shandys
How dod Dos Santos pop into the discussion!
One cannot take swipes at GDS or Bentley’s alleged fondness of the drink without noticing our one time great Ledley King stumbling out of clubs with some regularity in recent years. And being off the pitch even more than that!
So, when mentality is referenced, who’s OK and why again?
Did Bentley even get a proper run.
http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html Have a look at the comments
why didn’t you put 1st aswell?
very funny :-D
That’ll stump him, there will be smoke leaving the computer trying to work that one out
I agree with SpoletoSpur… esp if you assume that we won’t sell Pienaar and then we have youngsters like Parrett who could fill the role. I thought the point was to STRENGHEN the squad. Does anyone think Parker is BETTER than Modric, Hudd or Sandro???
I think he is shite, looks good at the likes of Charlton and West Ham because he is surrounded by shite. He is a more polished shite thats all, with a small dusting of glitter. Scott Parker = shit with a bit of glitter on him :whistle:
What I was trying to say… but lacked your way with words :shifty:
Completely agree…and if we do buy him it will be another step backwards….
Parker is under the same catergorie as Sandro and Hudd, not Modders – he plays a different position entirely, although Parker can play further forward. So the question is, is he better than Sandro and Hudd? Again id say he’s a different type of holding player. Which is what we need if we’re looking at 3 central midfielders – you dont want three of the same type of player. For me it’d be Sandro the first name in that position everytime.
Point is, he’s better than ***** — so as long as that unnamed waste-of-space is finally shipped out at least the squad has been strengthened. For that reason alone I would welcome Parker’s arrival.
Amen Brother. I actually forgot about him completely, such is his contribution. Can take Pienaar too and keep Krank!
NO.