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.
I think fidjits comments have sent ken e winks over the edge.Its gone really quiet on here.
We may have to face up to the fact that our youngsters in midfield aren’t good enough. Livermore, Parrett, and Bostock all disappointed on loan, and Townsend is a winger. We won’t get through the season with just Sandro, Thudd, and Modders. So we need cover, even if it’s only an England international.
Rose’s loan spell was viewed as a flop too,didn’t do him any harm
i thought the pikeys promised never to sell to us again
iwe don’t need parker,personally i’d rather have o’hara and he has a left foot,whats the point in parker with wilson and j**** about,if luka is off we will probably buy parker and adam
we really need to be selling and replacing our strikers,i’d give us a chance at upsetting the super rich if we do,but we can’ afford it
like someone above said,without a new 60,000 stadium or playboy owner we just can’t compete,i’m starting to think we should sell bale,luka,sandy,vdv etc for as much as we can and start building it with the CL cash and whoever else we can get good money for and hope jenas,the kids and whoever wants to stay can keep us in the prem until the stadium is finished and we can start again,any takers?
:hae: :blink: :sick: Words for once fail me.
well we need a new and bigger stadium to compete,any ideas
i can guarantee that modric,bale and sandro will be going this time next year,guarantee i say
you seem to have gone into a downward spiral of negative depression regarding the mighty spurs ,try and hang on til kick off next season youll be allright then.
speaking of pikeys i see ashley young has dumped his bride to be 2 days before kick off her name was pikey or close to it.
i’m not sure how old young is but its probably too early to get married,to think of the pussy you could have in your 20’s on £100,000 a week is mind boggling
i don’t think its negative just realistic,we can’t afford to compete,we can’t even afford a striker who will make a difference,we need a new stadium just to get on the same playing field,we need it yesterday and i think it should be the number 1 priority at thfc even if it effects the now,no new stadium and we will be left for dead, for some clubs it wouldn’t be worth it but i think we are big enough to make it work
i dont think we need parker. where would you play him? we have bale/lennon/sandro/vdv thudd et all.
for me sandro is starting to look abit viera like in his prime, here there and every f***in where ,could be a proper midfielder.
As for modders im getting a bit worried cos the papers wont give in till something gives, theyve been banging on about bale & modders, and if vdv finished the season the way he started it they would be banging on about us losing him too.
i think we should slap a 50 million price tag on modders head or tell em to f*** right off and stop unsettling him cos he is definately in the fabregas and torres bracket he is that good.
25 mill is a piss take when you look at recent transfers.
Parker is class and very fit to he will have at least 2 seasons maybe 3 if used effectively. He is at the top of his game and is a natural leader in the dressing room and on the pitch. We are short of really experienced leaders, the only true ones in my view are Gallas and VDV so Parker will add mental toughness, especially in midfield the engine of the team.
I feel sure its nailed on Harry but dont worry you are wrong about Crouchie so your wrong about Parker to. He would be a wonderful addition to the current A team.
Incidently, I had a dream last night and then a premonition today whilst at work and it was that Spurs bought….wait for it….wait for it…
Cheik Tiote from Newcastle!!