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.
Dee – I don’t think a midfield with Lennon, Modric, Hudd, Sandro and Bale CAN fail… unless it is due to poor tactics and poor performance in other areas of the pitch. That is a world class midfield. It is better than the Manure midfield and argueably better than Chelsea’s. I think that it is other areas that cost us.
Which bring us the point of why are we fucking about chasing down mid-fielders when our weaknesses are definitely in the goal scoring dept and defence dept?
Are these proposed midfield purchases just a smoke screen to keep the ‘proles’ and journo whores occupied?
Leighton Baines.
Gary Cahill.
Rodwell.
Damiao.
Job done.
it’s all about gettnig a new stadium. otherwise we’ll be forever outside the restaurant looking at the top 4 or 5 bigger boys stuffing fine euro cuisine down their gregories while we have to hope they choke every few years so we can possibly nick a quick bite before being kicked out onto the street again. great to get a berba or a mods or a VDV or a Bale now and again but we’ll just continue to feed them off to Manu or Barca etc unless we get a new stadium which puts us in the big boys league. Really hope that ENIC is up for the investment in a new grond rather than looking for a cheeky deal with Stratford or Wembley. Nothing against them looking at those options but for the long term of the club we need 55k kick ass stadium that is ours and ours alone in N London. how many on the waiting list now? 100,000? lol.
I agree, but why only 55k? We need 70k minimum.
You’re right, 36,000 plus 35,000 on waiting list, 70,000 plus, has to be the target to max the rev.
Wheres this Rodwell buisiness come from? Midfielder No.31…or who are we selling? Jack doesn’t seem to be a bencher. So long Luka…
Oh ye of little faith
Alright cardinal Roland.
given the parker possibilities a bit more thought …….
a modern day midfield general needs certain qualities
parker as far as I can make out is missing two or three of the key requirements – heading ability for defensive/attacking, pace and passing ability. Does an injury prone 31 year old midfielder who has never cut it at a top club sound like good value @ £8 million?
Sorry I think not – diarra @ madrid would be a better deal, at least there’s some sell on value in the future, Donovan the yank who was on loan @ everton looks a better prospect than parker.
Rodwell is an ok player but inferior to hudd, sandro & wilson IMO – he reminds me of J****
Am I the only one starting to hope ‘arry gets bird in his pending case?
NO MORE MIDFIELD FFS. Jimmy krankie would have looked good for spam this year. Parker no no no, we have already got the best midfield in the prem potentially. Keeping Luka is the ONLY issue on a midfield basis.
Cover for injuries, for Europa games. This year we’ve needed J****, Wilson, and others, so we’ll need someone next season when they’ve been sold. Why not Parker?
Livermore, Parret although he’s probably been shipped off again, Townsend. Does Parker want too be cover for these games. use the younguns. Ryan Mason was in midfield areas but is listed a forward? But then spend 8 odd mill why not eh?
Or don’t sell Wilson? Or shouldn’t of sold O’Hara?
Forggot about Bostock, one of the best youngsters in europe s’posedly..
@jfdit
You know you aren’t the only one :-D
you know jole cole & parker will be unveiled at WHL just before the window shuts don’t you?
triffic pair of good old east end boys
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I spoke to someone that I had a conversation with this afternoon and it was suggested to me that Arry’s porridge concerns might not be just about dosh.
Let’s hope he’s not relying upon just a simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play.
Well he should be locked up for buying Parker.
:-D