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Good morning.
Some people think that newspaper content has an inherent value and so ought to be paid for by its readers. There isn’t a business model (that actually works) based upon the word ‘ought.’
The London Evening Standard leaves others in its wake on the 12th of this month as the paper that was value at 50p hits the streets for free. My prediction is that their wish to increase from 250k readers to 600k readers may in time prove conservative.
Meanwhile, sheltering behind a pay wall like malnourished pup holding out for an RSPCA van to turn up, is The Times. And over that wall is the news that David Pleat is returning to Tottingham in the capacity of ‘European Scout.’
Pleat arrives staggering from the train wreck at Nottingham Forest. Pleat held onto with his fingertips a part time consultancy job at the City ground where baying fans eventually got their wish as he and Schteve McClaren got the old Spanish Archer.
Let’s see how many Forest fans will still be smiling when they read this morning that Roy Keane the World’s Crappiest Manager™ is the bookies favourite to be appointed.
Back to The Lane and our thoughts must be around how this might effect the buying dynamic. Is this merely Director Of Football by another name? Or a crystal clear indication that Levy & Co have caught on that Arry’s transfer talents significantly ebb the moment he walks into a departure lounge?
I have a soft spot for Pleat, his insanity is a part of football that should be cherished but is fading. Pundits and presenters are more like mortgage advisors these days …oh well, the policemen are getting younger too.
Fair enough. God knows where i was when this happened. Dont like him now. :whistle:
Pleat out!
Comolli in! 8O
Marvelous great reply :lol:
Indecisive Dave?
Strange appointment. Levy doesn’t seem like the type of guy that would re employ someone he sacked not all that long ago.
Pleat is a dinosaur. We need to bring in progressive thinkers with new ideas and ambition not a guy who can’t even pronounce names.
It’s embarrassing.
Agreed, but isn’t it soooooooooo THFC?
I should have said agreed to parts 2 & 3.
Wow! we’ve almost got an opinion at long last however misguided and juvenile that may be. For starters we’ve a squad system and limited resources. however, that aside for moment. There were players that we needed to shift, and the end of the summer transfer window meant the only way to offload those players was soley reliant on other teams such as Villa being prepared to take those, therefore releasing both squad places and more importantly funds for new arrivals. To counteract that loan deals and transfers already in motion were then implemented resulting in our current position and possible transfers in the Jan window, simple enough for you?
Old Fruit, you’ve been weighed, measured and found lacking in immense proportions!
Oh fuck off you idiot!
Calm down (done in a scouse accent) But your right!
I know Jim, but I’m resolved to bitch slap him until he starts putting his opinion across instead of being a parasite to other’s.
When I do put my opinion across all you come back with is spin, crap and BS.
You couldn’t slap a mouse you self opinionated popinjay. Get back to sucking Levy’s cock where you belong. :lol:
Yes but this just plain ridiculous EA Spur.
There are so many candidates out there and we go for Pleat…honestly I’m shocked
It’s no different than going for two seasons knowing your team needs two good strikers and doing nothing about it until it’s already cost you CL football and upsetting one of your star players into the bargain. It could also be that the ‘jobs for the boys’ syndrome has rubbed of of Trout Chops and onto Levy.
Angliaspur we’re not Barcelona or Man U, as i remember we tried to bring in strikers but couldn’t afford anyone better than we already had. So whats the point in changing for changing’s sake? “Job’s for the boys” what exactly does that mean? And by the way it was only last season that we really needed a quality striker. Cue Ade on loan admittedly but we dont have £175,000 per week to pay. So bloody good business by levy in anyone’s book. And he revealed that he came for the manager. So Harry must be doing something right. I’m utterly bewildered at your hate towards the two people who have no.1 got us into the champions league. no.2 Financed us into the champions league. And kept Spurs running as a profitable business. Just bear in mind where we were before Levy and Harry. In a years time when Harry is managing England you may find yourself with some real things to gripe about. In the meantime enjoy having a shit hot side in the best league in the world
The way I see it is this: Trout Chops and Levy have an uneasy relationship – to say the least.
Trout Chops puts favourites above tactics – such as they are, hence if he had had his way Joe Cole would playing for us now = jobs for the boys. Don’t be surprised if Lampard and Beckham join us – they’re triffic lads.
Both Levy and Trout Chops have hung onto to dross players for too long, and I include the bean pole and the midget in this dross, instead of doing a job lot knock down sale and getting rid of as quickly as possible.
With that done there would have been more than enough funding to bring in two good strikers. This would have secured CL football for this season and kept Modric happy along with a wage increase for him.
Re Adeboy’s wages: £175,000 x 52 = £9.1M. Is that a lot when he could be the difference between CL football and no CL football. I understand that we’re not paying all of that anyway so this is just another bargain basement deal on the part of Levy when a second striker should have been brought in as well for the job to have been done professionally.
To me it all taints of make do and mend or bottom line first – club and team second. The latter ‘benefiting’ with a think yourself lucky attitude from Levy.
I take your reasons but, surely every manager has his favourites hence how he calls his first eleven. We didn’t want to let go of our so called dross players because nobody wanted to buy for their market value. It was tantamount to giving them away which to a businessman just ain’t gonna happen. And your right about the £9.1m but the watchword there is IF were are in the champions league. None of us i’m sure on this blog would like to gamble our future on making a CL appearance. Leeds, nuff said! In all honesty, right now, i do think myself lucky. So maybe i can give you that one. :-D
That means then by your logic that all managers are unfit for their jobs ‘cos they’re not selecting on merit alone but only because their faces fit. Sounds like a strawman argument to me.
We didn’t want to let go of our so called dross players because nobody wanted to buy for their market value. It was tantamount to giving them away which to a businessman just ain’t gonna happen.
So hanging on to them was a viable alternative yeah?
There was no way they were going to command their market value because their salaries were too high in relation to their playing abilities and Levy would have known that, so they had to go at a competitive price.
There were probably six or seven players of this ilk if not more and would have brought in enough cash to buy at least one top quality striker to add to Adeboy. Bean pole brought in £10M alone.
GOOD businessmen know how to cut their losses and capitalise on what they have got. What was the alternative? Why, exactly what Levy did i.e. sat on his hands or twiddled his thumbs – take your pick.
I don’t see what Leeds has to do with THFC.
So just for appeasement, you expect the club to throw away millions of past and present managers acquisitions and yet still expect the club to be able to afford even more by way of new purchases and higher wages. Every purchase is a gamble, but there are now squad positions to be accounted for for, and you suggest either losing millions, which in truth were recouped by holding onto those players or buying even more players and allowing other high earners to languish about the club draining resources and doing nothing in return?, yes well thought out- Good God no wonder you kept your opinions to yourself! ps-We’re doing quite well you’ll note; in fact against the sides played this season and last we’re 5 points better off-thought you’d like to comment about that as well?
Yes you are fucking politician now you fuck off you slimey little cnut.
Got ya, good and proper, knew you get slapped down-too easy by half, it’s like arguing with a senile old fool, no contest and now you’ve shown all your true colours and are actually the idiot I assumed you to be, thanks for the conformation.. ps Keep snorting the Coleman’s Old Fruit!
You haven’t got anything other than the bollocks that circulates through your addled brain. Get back your mirror and give yourself a kiss.
Mwah,there you go,but you are my bitch now xxxx
Have you considered professional help for your mental condition?
Is anyone a little concerned about Thuds future at WHL?
Very much so, but fortunately we’re pretty strong in that area, and barring a run of injuries in midfield , hopefully there won’t be the pressure to bring him back too soon, which (stirring the pot), is a result of an astute buy in Parker and our chairman’s determination and resolve to keep his word.
Sometimes i wonder if injuries today weren’t yesteryear. It seems the slightest little knock and someones out for a fortnight. I read an article on Daws yesterday and he was quoted as saying “i went for a run and felt some pain, so i’m back in the gym”. This happens to me everyday but im not injured just bloody unfit! And so should he be if hes been laid up.
Could it be a case of being too fit or over developed? There’s no question the game in the years I’ve watched it is far quicker and more technical. But equally everything today is a ‘big deal’ for example, no-one’s just a plain idiot these days, there’s always a scientific reason like dyslexia or in extreme cases Coleman’s mustard poisoning! (inserts smiley face)
Whan i was at school. Spastic was the in word :whistle:
Oh,ours was loon or divvy and the medical term was thick as pig shit, but it’s all changed now-(Plays Hovis theme tune)
Bring on the geordie dancers.