Good evening hep cats.
The old ITK game eh? Not the oldest profession in the world but there are stark similarities between all the parties involved in both.
The Journalist came out with a string of stuff in the last window that didn’t quite pan out. Sadly this has been grasped as an opportunity to throw him to floor and strike him soundly (in virtual bully boy but no actually fisticuffs type of way).
There isn’t an ITK in the Tottinghamsphere with a one hundred percent track record, not one. You can’t be a bit ITK. That’s like being a bit of a genius. A bit pregnant. So when it comes to ‘information’ you take it in good faith or you ignore it. Exercise self control, don’t blame others for your own failings and ignore it.
To the goss then. Daniel Levy is going all out to sign Pato. It is Daniel Levy’s personal goal to get him. Blimey. I like ITK like this. No song lyrics, no ‘my first is in ‘November’ but not in ‘tracheotomy’ cobblers. Or, ‘Blue & green should never be seen’.
Would Pato leave Italy? My answer to that would be a resounding, ‘Dunno has anyone asked him this week?’ Second question is of course money. And this is a point perhaps worth dwelling upon. Levy has witnessed a season that is doing a good impression of not only a greatness but consistency.
Champions League money is the sweetest money of them all. And to fund it’s return is the canniest investment the director of a football club can make. Pav, and Defoe have obviously failed to blaze a trail this season or the one before it. Yet the Lilywhite machine appears new and improved.
Complacency isn’t in Levy & Co’s modus operandi so don’t discount the idea of the THFC Board going all in on a Top Top Player ©. Remember, intelligent folk not only learn from their mistakes but more importantly have a willingness to learn.
I can imagine that Levy & Co had to be ‘sold’ the idea of Adebayor. Let’s face it, he’s naffin’ expensive. However, the impact of Adebayor (okay, he hasn’t actually scored for a bit, but do bare with me) will not have gone unnoticed. Not at all. I predict Levy & Co offering an ‘enhanced’ salary deal to someone very soon. That said, if he knock more in, it could well be Manu himself.
The Didier Deschamps thing is interesting. The suggestion is that he is being lined up to replace Arry. This would have fitted Levy & Co’s profiling system before the whole Juande Ramos business. But a combination of Arry’s success and Capello’s slow PR suicide, I’d struggle to see him getting the nod over a more ‘British’ manager.
Interesting background quote from PSG Coach Carlo Ancelotti talking to Gazzetta dello Sport.
“Pato? That’s a strange story – we don’t know. We’ll see. For January that one’s no longer a topic. In June..
I was offered unexpected players, players who have just signed spectacular contracts. In January.
Everybody wants to be here, there is money, there’s a coach with a good reputation.
Names that have been offered by agents in addition to Tevez have been Fernando Torres, Dimitar Berbatov, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Edinson Cavani and Fernando Llorente.”
I’ve just had the misfortune to see the dreadful Alan Titchmarsh Show. (I have no choice what is on tv) The equally appalling Karen Brady was on and I can honestly say with the exception of David Starkey I have never seen a more contemptible person on television.
At least David Starky tries to think through his argument! :shifty:
Starkey is a Grade-A C*nt…….just saying.
I agree Billy, but he’s a thinking Cnut, unlike Brady who’s just a….
piers morgan?
Jeremy Clarkson.
Both wankers!!
love hate for me, hate her, but would love to give her a bit of hows your father!! ;-)
:sick:
Oh deat, you need help, and lot’ of it :sick:
she has a face like a kicked in fridge.
Newcastle just bought Papiss Demba Cisse I have talked about and liked this player for a long time and always thought he would have been a good signing for us.
Sounds like ‘Grade A’ championship manager speak to me….or Football Manager for a more recent touch!!
“Wonderful Human being” & “lovely man” should be on that bingo card Harry. Llorente out of those strikers & Brendan Rodgers to replace Redschnapps.
Clutching at straws here, but is there even a remote possibility of Leds being fit for Sun, does anyone know??
I have to say I’m quietly feeling quite bullish, honestly think we could play them off the park Sun, just a shame about Daws & Kab playing at the back together…
On Talksport last wednesday, HR said King was a week away from being able to play.
Trouble is, he is so fragile that the slightest knock and he is out again.
I understand King and Sandro are back in the picture, and the great news was Huddleston is doing some light training again..C’mon Billy Gallas, I say
A cautionary tale to those who champion people like Lambert or Rodgers for the Spurs job; in 2008, quite a few people were seriously hoping Levy would put Phil Brown in charge, considering the job he’d done with Hull City up to that point. One good half, or indeed, even one good season in the PL does not a good Spurs manager make. Brendan Rogers was only able to impose this playing philosophy on Swansea because Paulo Sousa, and Martinez before him, had set the foundations by buying and training many of the players Rodgers now has at his disposal. Consider that at Reading, where he didn’t have the advantage of such foundations, he struggled and eventually ‘left the club by mutual consent’. Just because one gamble on a solid lower to mid-table battler worked wonders, doesn’t mean it will do so again. Didier Deschamps, while not possessed of experience in the PL, has a winning pedigree and is a continentally respected manager. I’d prefer him to someone like Coyle, Rodgers or Lambert.
Lambert is a Champions League Winner as a player.