Can the last fan leaving The Lane please turn the light off.
I have been frowned at by some for ‘Arry Bashing.’ So it will be interesting to see how many still in the happy clapper club want to renounce their inexplicable blind faith and join the free thinking majority.
Joe Downsy Cole. Having taken some time to reflect upon Arry’s CV I’ve reached the inevitable conclusion he is a magnificent firefighter. He knows where you can buy buckets, he’s always got a mate that’ll sell you some top top water.
But when it comes to managing a side that isn’t at death’s door he is actually revealed as being incapable of seeing beyond his innate shorttermism.
The happy clappers need to take a breath and realise that I am not ignoring his good work. I’m simply refusing to ignore increasing evidence that his judgement is not sound when out of a crisis.
His spending at Tottenham has been, within the wages constraints quite free. Certainly, outside of those Clubs with billionaire backers and money launderers behind them he has been assisted with good financial support.
He brought in Crouch and Defoe, both of who effectively flat-lined. You cannot bas an argument in support of a football based upon anything other than goals. If you do, you are a Bendtner fan.
It is easy with the luxury of hindsight to say that Suarez would have been a better bet than Defoe, but is it really hindsight given he was superb at Ajax and Liverpool and Tottingham weren’t the only ones to think so? Arry likes familiar faces and boys that speak the Queen’s.
I have suspected for some time now that Modric’s success has largely been down to the player’s naturally abiility rather than any ‘mentoring’ from Arry. This explains why Kranjcar who is a very good player has not been mentored, not been improved. As with Pav who anecdotally we are told was asked to, ‘run about a bit.’
The willingness to accept the sale of Modric reveals him as fool who would throw antiques onto a fire to keep warm, rather than sell one or two and buy some bloody coal.
Pointy was damaged goods after Liverpool, but this didn’t stop Arry shipping him in without pausing for breath. Why we bought Pienaar I honestly still cannot fathom. Then there was the public courting of Scott Parker. Here is a guy that Chelsea once bought, much in the manner they bought SWP in order to prevent to anyone else doing so.
By the time Parker caught anyone’s eye again he was an aging, bustler with at best 70 minutes in the tank. And thanks to the Porn Barons an expensive player.
And so to Joe Cole. A man that got an even bigger squeeze than Pointy did from LFC as when they took him in, he wasn’t even able to make his then current sides first team.
And now we, the mighty Tottingham are officially in for him.
I could weep.
If Modric wanted to play for us, you’d be right.
Guess what? He doesn’t.
do you still watch streams on that flfooty,i can’t seem to find the site anymore,have you got another one where the streams actually work like flfooty
Shut down, but,
http://www.liveonlinefooty.com/index.php
Very good, very reliable.
:daumen:
But the principal is insane.
When Modric leaves, the money should be saved for the new man.
Redknapp shouldn’t be let anywhere near it.
Joe Cole? Fuck off Redknapp.
As a Spurs fan, sometimes I hate Spurs fans . . never happy . . moan moan moan. This is the best Spurs we’ve had in 20 years, just f*cking enjoy it while it lasts. No doubt you’ve laid in to every previous manager too. What is it in your arrogant minds that thinks top players will come here if there is no CL and lower than average wages?
Personally I would rather look at bringing in younger talent who don’t want £60k to £80k p/w rather than 29 year old plus players with significant injury history who do.
Our transfer/loan/dismantle reserves side policy under Redknapp in the main has cost us a fortune in more ways than one. Pienaar is on £60k a week FFS.
There isn’t anything lower than “average” about our wage structure. There’s a gulf between the top three or four paying clubs which are Man Utd, City, Chelsea, and maybe Liverpool. Arsenal pay relatively well but not as high as the aforementioned first three. We pay well above the remainder of the Premiership, which is why we can’t easily get rid of the ones Flappychops doesn’t want.
As I say, our only hope is that Levy can see what every other person in the country – Harry aside – can see. Or just that he still isn’t answering his calls.
Good grief, the man is a clown and if he’d really had free reign over our cash we would be royally fucked in the next year or two. As it is, we are merely losing several tens of millions because of his top boy recruitment service, instead of the hundreds that it could be had he had everything how he wanted.
Have with that his inability to keep the playing staff we have happy and together and his skills at ‘man-management’ also seem extremely lacking. We already know he has a superstitious aversion to tactical thinking. We also know he undermines the chairman regularly and embarrasses and brings shame on the club and fans at almost daily intervals.
So what is it that the cultish followers really see in him?
worth a try
Not being in the championship.
Champions League quarter finals.
3-2 at the pikeys.
Some of the best football around.
what a twat you are, silly pleb, we were never going to get relegated, especially after 8 games you moron, the league has 38 game, but ud have no idea about that would you, are u jamie in disguise
an old english man with a barb wire fence for a personality.. any way lets keep it football, that is fairer. He insults our supportership (since his time at pompey wanted our boys arrested and called our fans scum.. if u go to games you’d know that : a mum or dad with kids and a home and a good job or not, may be inclined to join in a chant, no matter its profanity ( its a day out, dad might wnt to bond, let his hair down)who the fkcu is harry to lable evryone the one thing that he truly is ( a fkcniu moronic self serving clown ) and to the defenders of the derth – Fkcu u!!!! u enjoy siding with a duplicitous bell end over fellow spurs fans then yeah, like the chinese fella said to his other mate whilst at lunch: phyuick yu
As a joke I predicted J Cole, Carlton Cole, Diarra, Benayoun and Adebeyor as our signings this summer. Can’t believe he’s actually doing it. It’s like he can only sign a player who has played for him or had a decent game against him.
Where’s the scouting network that brought us Bale, BAE, Berbatov and Modric?
It was that that idiot Comolli – look at how he’s let the Liverpool squad stagnate… oh hang on a minute…
Comolli’s transfer record is dubious. He brings in a lot of players for a lot of money – of course this means that a couple will be good. But a lot of wasted money on average players too.
Since he arrived at Anfield – Liverpool have spent 110 Million Pounds on 6 players. Despite this investment – only Suarez would walk into the Spurs team.
If for every Suarez, you had to spend £81 Million on average (or in Henderson’s case – poor) players (I have removed Jose Enrique’s fee from this total as he is a good player)then is Comolli really doing such a great job…
I think it’s a bit early to really judge Commoli’s record at Liverpool. The one thing you can say though is that he has mostly bought young with space to improve, whereas Harry seems to opt for old and deteriorating by the hour.
You can in any case look at Commoli’s signings for us. For the most part, these players are either still playing for us and the core of our team or else have moved on and we’ve recouped a large part of their initial transfer fee’s – or indeed significantly more as is the case with Berbatov and, bizarrely, Mido.
On balance, Commoli’s acquisitions do look to have made us a stronger team, and formed the core of that ‘hotch-potch’ team of losers which had 2 points from 8 games but then were miraculously transformed by Harry Redknapp into CL contenders, albeit with the added ingredients of various expensive flops of his own making.
Oh really:
Routledge
Stalteri
Bostock
C.Sanchez
Bentley
F.Campbell
Berchiche
Bent
Boateng
Gilberto
Gunter
Jenas
Hutton
Pavlyuchenko
and, of course, Ramos – Comolli’s man and his downfall
Look, don’t get me wrong, The Dame made some good purchase too, but let’s not be ‘rose-tinted’ about this.
Not at all convinced that Comolli had anything to do with Bale. Wasn’t that more Jol’s doing?
Bale signed when Comolli was DoF. What don’t you understand about the BoF role?
or even the DoF role?
I remember reading somewhere that Bale was brought to our attention by a third party and that Comolli had nothing to do with it. Damned if I can remember the source, though.
Just because Comolli was DoF at the time doesn’t nececarily imply that he was responsible for every single player the club was connected with during his tenure.
I’ve learnt to ignore most things that come out Harry’s mouth. He can contradict himself in a sentence and his mouth is constantly turned to the verbal diarra button. It’s pointless drivel. I wonder if his media contracts pay him the word.