Good evening.
Friday night for most readers so what better than whistle stop tour of transfer rumours, hints and allegations?
Well some might argue watching Superstar for a dash of car crash TV. I tried the team GB game but for pity’s sake, that needed the old fake crowd noise special FX box the match commentator had in Escape To Victory. Oh yes and Team GB’s kit not to have been designed by Quentin Crisp.
To work.
Moutinho contact has 100% been made but as per Madrid Spur on FTL the ownership of the player or his contract or whatever makes a consortium of lashed up Paddys at Cheltenham look like a sound business model.
Adebayor? Nothing to remotely suggest that this isn’t done other than 146 articles not worth reading written by journalists who need to fill column inches daily and that is it. They need to fill the empty spaces. Greedy, nasty Adebayor. Boo hiss. Repeat till fade. Adebayor is done. Contracts signed and paperwork sent off today. Hertyid on COYS. A highly regarded poster.
Modric is the killer. Such is the passion of the little git to get out of The Lane for anywhere with brighter lights, such is the interest in Real Madrid signing him that the combination has everyone presuming this too is a done deal.
The problem as Villas-Boas made crystal before the emphatic win™ at Stevenage, is that we will sell if the gun held against our head is loaded with about £40M quid in cold hard cash.
The other problem which touches again on the Ade tales is that the printed press has a remit to print. If you feel patronized by me sharing this, I apologise. But this is where these Carvalho plus cash type things come from. No development in the saga? Hang on a mo. This other bloke used to play in that league. Oh don;t worry about how Fosters weak the tale is. Wallop.
Last up. I ask nothing of you, do I?. Well, other than continuously suggest you sell furniture, property etc to but copious amounts of tee shirts. I need a very good, very cheap lawyer and I specifically need one in Dublin.
I have an update according to an ITK source ( very reliable – informed me of the bentley, bent, keane, berbatov, zokora and kaboul (twice lol)- according to this friend he told me that the ade deal IS complete (apparantly 115k per week!)
Modric has refused to train for two days in a row now! AVB wants modric sold as soon as, however DL is far from happy with the current offer from madrid (only 35 million euros – 27 million pounds). Spurs did offer Modric 115k per week as well, but he is not interested at all! :( (Levy has told madrid that he wants a deal completed and the price met – 35 million pounds, by august 1st.)
Just as this article says, we are in discussions with Moutinho, I have an update from what this article says – stumbling block is the release clause in his contract – a whopping 35 million euros!…however, we are willing to pay this! eek!
which brings me to my last point – apparently we are loaded with Arab money! (all this rubbish in the papers about not being able to afford wages and so on are a load of nonsense)…back to the money issue…you only have to look at the signings we have made plus the work happening on the stadium!
COYS!
The money spent on the two players who came in could have come from sales, easily. The building work to the stadium is a bit of hoarding + a ‘Sainsburys’ supermarket. I don’t beleive for one minute that there’s Arab money coming into the club as that would leave ownership weakness possibilities for Daniel Levy who has a 30% stake. These ITK’s know fuck all. If I see it on the BBC web site or the THFC website I beleive. Anything else (including The Telegraph, Guardian, Times or Independent)I don’t take seriously. So all this ‘I have juicy information lark’ is absolute toffee.
Arab Money coming in for us Yids…. Hmmmmm EPL, CL then a Nobel for Peace in the Middle East?
Actually although it seems the arabs and the Yids dont get on,I think the Sunni side of the street is well in with the yids against common enemies.
That’s absolute Shi-ite
I’m Muslim and the Jews have on occasion paid me very well. Love the lil’ buggers.
Money spent on the stadium ?
Jumping the gun I’m afraid the supermarket is being built nothing else.
The stadium build hasn’t even gone out to tender yet FACT
Stadium in 4/5 years away .
Modric should be isolated from the squad and told to watch eastenders until RM make the price: he is doing a berbatov and IMO is a little ****.
If RM don’t make the price, he can rot and I wouldn’t even let him contaminate the youth squad.
The RVPs. Rooneys, Berbatovs, Modric’s, Fabregas’s etc. of this world need a lesson
Who is Kat Moon’s mystery lover? Hope it’s Derek!
dunno..never watched it but it’s always a good thing to throw at those who annoy you : )
Not being sarcastic as I only watch movies on TV as even that crap they call”news” p*sses me off badly.
What really gets my goat is when the dailies, and all the comedy web sites that regurgitate their drivel, say toilet like: ‘Real lay down £27 mill max, take it or leave it etc. etc.’
Have they never read ‘Negotiating for idiots’ (forward by Duncan ‘Tight Sporran’ Bannatyne)?
Here’s how it goes – Owner of property does not want to sell, potential buyer asks price, owner says does not want to sell, potential buyer makes offer, owner says “no, fuck off!”, potential buyer offers higher price, owner eventually says “Ok, might sell but only for this price”, poetential buyer meets price, Owner accepts.
Not : Owner of property does not want to sell, potential buyer says, “27 million, take it or leave it!”
I know I might be accused of naivity, but this is were I am really glad our very own Bond villain is in charge of proceedings. Gator don’t play, bitches, and Pimps don’t cry! DL has got some walkin’ around money, and he aint takin’ no shit, Y’hear?
Daniel Levy (IWWT)
Inland WaterWay Terminal???
absolutely Daniel Levy IWWT and IWWT even MORE!
In Whom We Trust
O NO! WHO TOOK YOUR GOAT! THATS JUST TERRIBLE. I HOPE YOUR OK MAN.
Don’t worry, I have a freshly shaven sheep to replace it. Thank god for Adultfriendfinder!
It’s my goat you bastards!
As long as DL doesn’t wake up with a horse’s head in his bed.
Any post that starts “What really gets my goat…” is always going to be an interesting read. Love it mate
A consortium of lashed up paddys, if your referring to Irish for someone who has banged on about john Terry been racist, well pot & kettle. Stupidity of the highest order.
Go be a plastic politically correct twit in a €2 shop somewhere and don’t bother me again you halfwit.
Your overly precious, time expired fart of a comment is ill timed.
What does he mean like pot and kettle?
Is it the Kettle calling the Pot Green?
well it is isnt it?
“A consortium of lashed up paddys”?
They were voted out and decimated in the last election.
The new crowd aren’t great either!
Just spent a week in Poland with a ‘consortium of Lashed up Paddys’ and I have to say, there wasn’t much business discussed. Just drinkin beer and singin’ songs till 6 in the mornin.
..and that is why my avatar momentarily metamorphosised into a scared flea.
Has anyone seen any of the Spurs veterans matches recently ? I saw on the official website that Phil Beal is turning out for them.
He is now 67 and had the misfortune in terms of international recognition to be playing CB at the same time as Bobby Moore.
Phil Beal wasnt a centre back.He was a right half (midfielder) Good Boy Phil Beal though.
Wasnt a top top player but a Spurs man.
I remember him….but this from Wiki….
Beal played for Surrey boys and England Youth before signing as an amateur for Tottenham Hotspur F.C. in 1960 and became a professional at the club in 1962.
He made his debut as a defender at Aston Villa F.C. in 1963, and went on to make 16 appearances in that season.
By the start of the following season Danny Blanchflower had retired with Beal taking on the former captains right half position. With the team in transition, he only made eight appearances that season.
The versatile player filled a variety of defensive positions admirably and featured in 21 matches in 1965-66 and started in 26 games in 1966-67, but did not feature in the 1967 FA Cup Final because of an injury. By the late 1960s he had fully established himself in the side and consistently showed his calm, authoritative and composed style.
Beal played in both League Cup winning sides against Aston Villa in 1970-71[1] and Norwich City F.C. in 1972-73. He played in both matches against Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. in the 1972 UEFA Cup Final final in which he collected a winners’ medal, and in both legs of the 1974 UEFA Cup Final against Feyenoord.
Beal finished his career with Spurs in 1975 and made 420 appearances including three as substitute in all competitions, and scoring just one goal.[2]
Beal was not a right half. He played next to Mike England and wore the number 6 shirt which was worn by the left sided centre backs or sweepers during that era.
Thats what I remember but then I questioned my memory with Google and Wikippedia and it said right half. But I too remember Number 6.
But then again there was only one Number 6.
Beal played DCM but could fill in at CB and worked his backside off for us. He was a slightly better than average Div one(then not now) player and a lilywhite to the bone. I saw him as a youth and thought that he would do better but he lacked that extra whatever it was. At least he wasn’t like the guy whose name escapes me that was also a very hard worker but made one ****up per match every match..someone remin d me who it was……ahhh got it!! Pratt.
Strange how John Pratt played regularly under every manager during his long career? and was also a scorer of great goals?
Will he was definately a worker and a Tottenham man,good guy but he wasnt a player with any impact like Mullery,Peters or any of the great midfielders that came later.
Joe Kinnear was a good player.Think he followed Peter Baker in the mid sixties
Pratt was either loved or hated as he did something stupid in every game but Bill Nich saw the sunlight coming out of his trousers and always picked him. He made me always grind my teeth when he had possession, but occasionally he surprised all of us sceptics.
Silly b*****r couldn’t keep his hands to himself in the penalty box though. I remember Alan Mullery giving him a bollocking in the dining car back from Derby in 1970 when Phil conceded a penalty in injury time in a 1-1 draw.
He used to score some pretty neat own goals as well, but I made the effort to watch him and Joe Kinnear turn out for Brighton(who had Chris McGrath in the side) against Millwall at the old Den, 31,ooo crowd in a deathtrap of a stadium, those were the days eh?
Ron: he did and Knowles took over from Henry. Baker was very underrated as the only non international in teh double sdiealthough Saul and John Smith also were not. Marchi was for England IIRC. Brown faded quickly when Jennings came on teh scene and yes, Pat made a few beauties initially(blunders). Then w ehad England come in for Norman and he was our best CH for decades although as Mackjay dropped back more often he became a sort of CB. 4-4-2 became standard afte 1966
just after this photo, the snapper was rumbled. Dressed as a construction worker, and chased by Modric, and Perez, he had to run away with his accomplices, the hairy biker, the red indian, the traffic cop, and the Cowboy, taking a wrong turn and ending up on stage at the ‘Herbert Chapman’ club. After an impromptu performance of YMCA, the boys made their excuses and left.
Sky Bet?
@SkyBet
Tottenham’s Luka Modric now 1/4 to join Real Madrid after this picture hits the web: p.twimg.com/AyME6LXCIAE8mq…. Odds: bit.ly/MhK3i5 #THFC