Good morning. Is this the calm after the storm or before it? I do like a good shipping forecast.
Reading between the lines from Arry the cosy chat betwixt the Croat and the Chairman rather left old Modders in a state of shock. Deflated and emotionally done in.
All I can say to that is, ‘ Ah diddums.’
He appears to have genuinely thought that this is how you do things over here. To a certain degree he was right, of course. But to attempt what he was attempting with a shade under 5 years on his contract was …well, ambitious.
Just like little Luka, I don’t understand quite how footballer’s contracts work. But I’d imagine that signing one and then saying you’ve changed your mind a few months down the line is akin to buying say a house for cash – and then tracking down the vendor 6 months later – and saying you don’t want it any more. Gone off it.
I would imagine Cheatski’s offer to triple his wages would have come as small comfort to him if he was liable to recompense Levy & Co for the remainder of the term. Ball park 233 weeks @£60k pwk = £13,980000. Ouch.
Elsewhere we have a quote from Citizen Redschnapps in relation to our old mucker PSB. Apparently he’s very much still in the mix at The Lane. Lucky us. Translated that’s nobody will accept a fiver to take him away. I’ve been accused of being conveniently forgetful about the good works that Blistering Bob did for us. And it’s true. I don’t dent it.
But the last straw for me was when he was at Celtic and was asked what his next move was and with a completely straight face he replied, ‘Oi have a contract wid Tottingham.’ With this streak of shamelessness perhaps he could get a job in Starbucks. Their always looking for people who can ask £6 for a coffee and a muffin without corpsing.
Elsewhere the ITK’s have run aground. Their finely honed attention seeking radars know we need succour for the weekend and so they can’t simply say nothing. So Leandro’s name has been regurgitated once more.
On that note, I know it’s July but don’t forget a coat this weekend, you may well need it. Oh yes, the video below is good if you like Cleese.
Can you someone please please please please tell our idiotic media whore of a manager to just SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!
I’ve had enough with him up to my fucking eye balls, yes yes he’s done good for us, last year after beating Arsenal 3-2 he told us all we could win the league……….fast forward to the end of the season, after he and the club failed to secure the one player we needed (a striker who can score), he then told us it was the best we can expect here (finishing 5th)….way to go Harry, really gave your players food for thought over the summer with that one didn’t you, oh look at that, our best player wants to leave to WIN THINGS!!!
Just had it now, shut up and just get on with training the players, getting there minds focussed for the coming season and looking for that striker we need, as for the dead wood, well we still had them in Jan but made big bids (supposedly) for players, so just go buy someone, show the players we do have ambition as a club and maybe they won’t want to leave!
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I’m with you SUR, our beloved manager just can’t stop saying all the wrong things to all the wrong people all the bloody time – perhaps he should watch ‘ON ANY GIVEN SUNDAY’ and take on board the way to motivate players and not keep giving out negative vibes as is his wont at this present time.
Bingo! :daumen:
Instead of looking forward to another CL season and perhaps, with a happy squad and a couple of additions, even a shot at the title, we’ve got a load of old bollocks going on:
The Modric saga that’s set to prove disruptive until he is actually sold
Redknapp’s court case – don’t know how that’ll turn out, but Harry’s definitely been putting in the overtime on the media circuit to curry their favour
The poxy Olympic Stadium, and WHU supposedly taking us to court for bin dipping – good luck with that one
The glorious NDP, and trying to force the governmant into using public money to pay for a couple of park benches, a public square and a lick of paint on a train station or two so that ENIC can pull in an extra £30m a year.
I know the club are probably quite capable of multi-tasking, but you can’t help but feel all this nonsense at once isn’t getting in the way of buying and selling players, or whatever way they’re supposedly going about it, if at all.
Looks like Liverpool are held up on exactly the same issues.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14077470.stm
I think it’s right for clubs to want a level playing field (Otherwise the ball would run off) but seriously, look at this announcement and then tell me that us being asked to pay for the transport links is fair.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/static/corporate/media/newscentre/archive/3549.html
The words £50m, London Transport and investment in Arsenal, kind of make me glad we’re fighting.
I just think Luka is embarrassed, but rather than admitting a mistake he will, for machoness, dig his heels in – which is illegal if he makes a tackle like that
I would be embarrassed if I was pyschoanalysed by Redknapp and subsequently defined as “being confused”
What shit articles you write mate.
what shit comments you write, mate
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I thought Harry’s articles were fine myself
harry has articles
You need a swift kick in the articles.
harry should have kept shut but he cant ersist it can he. anyway he might be out in a few weeks following his day in court, we shall see.
as for keaneo, jenas etc we need to get rid!
Aren’t we all being just a tad over-sensitive about all this? Sky shoving microphones in the faces of managers every 5 minutes for soundbytes is what drives 24hr media, Newsnow & frankly, blogs like this. What the fuck else would we talk about all day?
So far we’ve had kittens over the ‘nailed on’ signings of Charlie Adam & various other pieces of flotsam that we were doubly quick to believe were certainties to sign as it would add fuel to our hate. We’ve had ropes over tree boughs and wobbly chairs at the ready for Modders, Bale & Sandro’s ‘nailed on’ departure and in the process have made comments which have bordered on wanting them out as it would ‘prove us right’ about our views on the management and the Directors. We’ve even had a long, heated and quite personal debate over the finer grammatical points of ‘As good as it gets’ that was frankly bizarre.
It’s July, we’d all like the business done & dusted but we don’t have the money. Spending a little bit here and a little bit there won’t help as you get average dross & neither will panicking and blowing the whole lot on Modders like you’ve caught the missus with your best friend and buying her a mink coat will make it better. He has a contract. Done.
The club have made a major step forward in resisting the pressure on Modders. The little feller is perplexed because Roman, while they were on his nice yacht, said that Spurs ALWAYS royally bend over and take it, so there wouldn’t be a problem. To say that he’s sweetness and light after being told bye bye to £13m would be nonsense.
I think its good we say how much Chelsea’s tactics have upset the situation. It puts pressure on them as they’re already under censure for the Ashley Cole fiasco. I think it also adds to our standing as a club to say that we are pulling together to resolve the situation and that the players have responded well. Maybe, we’ll cut Modders a bit of slack when the new season starts if he’s still in the shirt – People are already talking about booing him and that would really help.
Apologist! :whistle:
I think you know Astro that I’m not a Harry-Hater, but I do think that this is an occasion where a deflection, stock pre-prepared comment or simple silence would have been better. The comments about how ludicrous the Cheatski offer was, simply begged the next question…”how much is not ludicrous” which in and of itself, fostered the idea that he WAS for sale IF the price WAS NOT ludicrous.
True or not, his choices of words fed that fire rather than doused it and this time has been no different. It sounds absurd, but its almost as if Harry was trying to raise the possibility not bury it!
Finn, the problem is that when we don’t say anything when these stories get bandied about, Redknapp and the club are accused of being weak. See my point below, there are people who just don’t like Redknapp. I personally couldn’t give a damn for him either way but I’m not willing to join in a lynch mob over what someone said. It’s actions that speak and Modric is still at this club. Now, someone has been involved in that and if it’s Redknapp saying to Levy he has to stay then well done him.
All I know is that the last manager to get us in the top competition was Bill. I’m not saying Redknapp is even worthy of being in the same office but unless we have a long-term solution (i.e. £13m for Villas-Boas type deal), let’s not round round like Mary Whitehouse shouting “How very dare you” in faux indignation every time Redknapp breathes. It’s childish to the point of embarassment.
……and in fairness I agree most of the time, however not ALL the time and this is one such occasions. I like him and I like what he’s done for the club and how he’s helped (I believe) in grooming Levy into one of the best Chairman in the country. I also disagree with the ropes and burning crosses getting pulled out of the shed eveytime he does or says anything.
However I am equally not going to condone bad, careless or reckless comments just to balance out other peoples mob rage.
You forgot Joe Cole. Not fit to “follow the yellow brick road” let alone pull on a spurs shirt!