Hello fight fans.
There was a piece lurking in the shadows yesterday from our friends at Knickers Up Mrs Brady here in relation to the Levy & Co’s ‘authorised agents’ procurement of phone records.
The gall of these people. They are actually trying to put this on a par with journalists hacking mobile phones. And am I being over sensitive, but why is the fact that Dionne Knight has a 14 year old daughter living at home with her suddenly being nudged into the equation?
I knew about her daughter when I wrote my piece the other week . I didn’t include her as I didn’t see it as relevant to the facts. The daughter is from a previous relationship and if anything I didn’t like the possible idea of a cheap shot being taken at Knight for being an unmarried mother living in sin with another man. But now the child is wheeled in as if in some bizarre manner a minor was at peril whilst men in balaclavas were shinning up drain pipes, going through knicker draws and generally acting like very bad Milk Tray men.
Levy & Co employed these ‘authorised agents’ not to obtain information that would assist in selling newspapers. Not to dig up dirt on people’s private lives. They did so to confirm and as it transpired, quite rightly, that a £500M deal government deal was not conducted in a wholly open and honest manner.
The payments to Knight from West Ham were concealed from her main employers. The fact that #facelikeakickedinfridge and other senior figures at Upton Park knew Knight worked for the OPLC is neither here nor there. What is pivotal is that the bloody OPLC didn’t know she was working for West Ham!
The OPLC had by their own account ‘taken measures’ to limit what information Knight had access to on a day to day basis as she had declared she was cohabiting with Ian Tompkins, West Ham’s Bid Director. So if she had declared part, why not all?
I’m not accusing her of being corrupt. How could I possibly know? But she certainly wasn’t transparent and the outcome of a deal such as this was too important to indulge parlour games like this.
What makes matters worse is that the West Ham bid religiously adhered to the requirements of the OPLC every step of the way. Without deviation. Despite that the fact that the sanity of giving the Porn Barons the stadium was growing more questionable by the day.
Their entire business was chained with debts. And their future as a football club looked suicidal as a business model and very swiftly after they won the bid 14-nil it was confirmed as such.
Any decent players from their stock will be sold at less than their full market potential as they bail from the sinking Championship wreck. Their income streams devastated.
The government need to investigate the issue of public interest and transparency here and not be distracted by the desperate death throes of dildo salesmen.
BIOYC!
I too think our position is a lot stronger than Talksh*t etc make out.
They keep making comparisons with Berbatov which arent accurate, besides Levy has obviously learnt from Berbatov.
Unless Modric puts in a transfer request (which he wont do cos he desperately needs his cut of the transfer fee to pay for plastic surgery), or someone comes up with a better offer we dont have to do anything.
Having said this, I think if a decent offer comes along, good riddance because although a good player he isnt irreplacable.
I am intrigued to see whether Levy and that Redknapp are singing from the same hymn sheet though:
‘Arry: ‘come on Dan, he’s a diamond kid, he deserves a chance to play for a decent team and win something and we can never match Chelsea – we can spend what we get on Parker and Joe Cole.
Levy: ‘Youre sacked you stirring little sh*tbag’
Couldnt give two s&*ts what some troglodyte spammers made up. Levy as I see it now has a couple of options.
1) Sits down with Modric, expresses that we’re here to win we’re investing we value him more than some rich club and are willing to pay him the most we can. Theres the deal, take it or leave for foreign shores.
2) Sell him for a good amount, but only to the Spanish or Italian leagues. Some kind of swap to Inter or Real involving Sneider or Kaka/Benzenma respectively would be a bit of a win win situation.
Mainly though, this is about showing that we will NOT have our players tapped up and then hand them over just because we’ve been ‘bullied’ This applies to both Chelsea AND Utd as theyve first of all done it to us in the past and secondly have been making the same noise to Modric as Chelsea have, if not a little more subtle.
So there you go, convince him to stay or tell him the only other option open to him and his 6 year contract is to leave the league that WE want to challenge in. End of.
Here here! Couldn’t have put it better myself. I can’t quite believe that modric has the balls to come out and call our Dan arrogant after what he has said and done, its beyond hypocritical!
But, like you and others have said, we are in a strong position, and it’s time for us to stick two fingers up to the filthy Russian bankrolled scum and any other clubs who think they can destabilise us illegally and the reap the benefits.
Moreover, what is the joy in being part of a club that has quite clearly bought success rather than earnt it? If this is about dreams mister modric, then why not aim a little higher than those masqueraders in blue?
Regardless of the outcome, there’s something special being carefully constructed over time at THFC, and I’ll be damned if
one little Croat destroys the master plan, infant I’ll go so far to say that he wasn’t even an integral part of the blueprint. Now, let’s get on with bringing in some quality and shipping out the deadwood, COYS
Lol, lol, lol
Say bye to Modric he don’t wanna play for you and that’s life.
West Ham won the bid for the stadium and you lost and that is life
You liked Mod and said he was the heartbeat of the team, many saying he was your best player but now he is going you change your tune lol (pathetic)
Buy another player, worship him, watch him play well, then watch him leave when we decide we want him lol, you cannot stop it waha ha, the player himself says he wants to leave we do not have to force the issue
So have some decorum accept you lost Luka (I call him that now :) and lost the stadium. No chance Spurs fans are the biggest whingers around and can’t take losing boo hoo
PS no one responds from either club because they just don’t care what you lot have to say or who you are, you’re a feeder lol
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haha another moron who follows the masses, keep piling the money into your souless club mugboy. This is the only reply you’re worthy of as you know nothing of real football and competition.
Lol, been with them before they went bust sweetheart, and we were doing quite badly (still above spurs mind lol)
I was and still am so happy about the millions we have now as would you be if Levy could and did the same.
You latch onto this money thing because you have nothing else to argue about.
Accept going on about how Modric is wrong to want to go to a bigger club because of Spurs’ history. Do me a favour bigger is about the here and now or maybe Acr
ington Stanley should come into his thoughts.
Mugs lol
Say hello to Sunderland on the way down lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
Nothing you can do
You sad sad little man, your club already has no soul, you masquerade as a football superpower but you are nothing of the sort. If one of our players is foolish enough to fall for it then he can go and I won’t lose sleep over it.
But here’s a warning, when the money is torn from your wretched hands, and suddenly the numbers don’t seem to add up, and debt piles higher and higher, and your club slides helplessly in to the black hole, don’t come whining about it on here.
Anyone who loves football has no respect for your club, so keep up the game, keep selling your soul to the Russian oil baron you mugs.
I’m a yid and I’m proud of my club and I know that slowly but surely we are moving forward and earning the right to do so.
Chelski ha! Your clubs a joke.
I glad you came on BLUEEEE,you make me feel so superior
go and ask the ruski to hand out male enhancement pills at the turnstiles.fake team fake supporters fake men.
If Levy backs down on this it will only be because Chelsea have to pay £40m for Modric.
There is no way on Gods earth that Levy would accept £22m for Modric. He continues to play hardball, he may not want Modric to leave and he may now be upsetting him to a point that makes him useless to Spurs BUT unless Modric has a change of heart, this will only ever end with someone over paying for him.
The bench mark has been set:
Berbatov, aged 27 with 2 years left on his contract and refusing to play for us…..sold for £31m. Very little was in our favour but we still extracted a mega fee from Utd. With Modric, everything is on our favour, so we can expect a mega mega fee.
Look at the facts:
He is yooung
He is on a long contract
Chelsea, with a history of massiviely over paying for players, are the buyers……They spent £21m on SWP for f@#ks sake, and they expect Modric for £22m. They bought Torres for £50m CASH. This will cost them, end of!
Its a case of offer mega money or F off.
Back to the phone hacking, I read yesterday that many of Spurs sponsors are watching this story closely with a view to pulling out of the club if these reports are true … worrying times !!!
Oh really and where did you read that exactly? NOTW?
Oh come on TalkSh*t are all on the russian gravy boat themselves. Cund(t)dy and his usual Chelsea love in and anti-spurs waffle (something mustve really happened during his time here for him to have such distain for us.) Funny how such a fat useless ex ‘footballer’ is now so attached to his former rich club and a presenter on TalkS&*t. His trying to convince plans now that if we sold to Chelsea then we should forgive and trust Levy, trying to ease people into thinking that we should just let him go there. Well how bout no? How bout Levys making a stand sunshine so live with it. He’s tied in until he’s 30! We hold the cards, if we dont want to sell to the teams who TAPPED HIM UP AGAINST PREM LEAGUE RULES then we dont have to do squat. Commit to our project Modric of get your Spanish/Italian phrase book handy.