Good morning.
I managed to watch most of first half of the Red Bulls game before the commentary snuck into my brain and began carrying out a living autopsy… so then I opted to forward fast through the second half stopping only to watch the goals.
There’s no need to get to uptight. We won and it was only a preseason. But there are some areas nevertheless of mild concern.
Bentley I want to work. I never had a hate on for the guy. But if Bale is determined to pursue his vision as a number 9 or 7 or whatever then we will need more than him on the wing to facilitate. He was predictable, slow and generally weak.
Obvious positives were Bale and Gilly. Clearly cut from the same cloth is Harry Kane. I’m hesitant with the youngsters but at this stage it’s clear to see why Villas-Boas is interested in him.
Thud started off poorly, constantly giving the ball away, had a couple of nice touches including the shot then fizzled out. Last night he and Jake were no DM pairing of distinction. Jake didn’t actually do very much.
Nice to see Teemu again :wub: and despite carrying a few pounds and coming back from a nasty injury he hustled and moved the ball about nicely.
And so to the Modric business. Strange one this.
The truth is that some players and/or their agents unilaterally wander off and shake hands on a move to a new club. Then the club’s raunchy Presidents talk to each other and start pointing out really dull stuff like ‘contractual obligations’.
So ickle Luka appears to have been busted. Andrès Villas-Boas told ESPN:
“Luka is doing double sessions on his own in London. When we get back to London I will give some of the players some time off and when we return to sessions we will decide what is best for Luka to do,” Villas-Boas said.
“He is a Tottenham player obviously, but he has to be in good mental condition to return to our training because his colleagues are one level up in terms of preparation and fitness.
“So we will have to setup a program for him that gradually brings him up to the team, that gradually brings him to fitness level – and then see what happens.”
when watching the ladies play footy last night it said one of the full backs worked in a care home,i thought the lottery funded most athletes especially long jumpers,runners etc do they not consider ladies footy important or something,
if i was in charge of the FA i would fund ladies football,i thought they did,am i expected to believe they can’t find 30,000-50,000 grand to pay 23 lady footballers a year each so they don’t have to work and can train like cricketers team england etc
Word
Happened upon the following, which seems balanced and takes care of some of my post yesterday’s hesitation about the Thudd (whom I had promoted so strongly a little while back.
http://www.cartilagefreecaptain.com/2012/8/1/3212615/tom-huddlestone-tottenham-hotspur?
keep this under your hats boys and girls but i have just watched the highlights of the game and i think, nay – am sure that
WE SCORED FROM A CORNER
By my logic this means that AVB is a ginger genius, modric is a twat and HR is as much use as j***s on the ball.
Oh, and we are going to win a pot in europe this season no less.
COYGFG
Modric is going to become a rower and we will get 35million plus Boateng
You had to stick your oar in didn’t you. Did you get that from “streaming”?
steaming
stop being a ship disturber
I was in that state once and nearly got locked out for “scull” duggery.
Question your started for ten : Which former manager did we had would be considered a pirate?
Gerry Francis
Oh,no-he was driftwood and a plank
Did we get one sail yet?
Isn’t Piers Morgan a deranged arse supporter?
Brazil played today…..if you recorded it please dont read that Brazil won and Sandro scored as well.The other two goals had to be scored by Tottenham targets (must have The whole Brazilian team are our targets)
The commentator went….’Sandro passes it to a Tottenham target…..and he chips it back to another Tottenham target….’
Funny, even if you made it up. Hilarious if true!
you think I could make THAT up?????
Who isn’t a Tottenham target??????
Hold it there was one player who plays for Braga….no wait…..he was too.
In the Harry days he was in for everybody.Remember those famous words “Im in for ‘im”?
Now we really are and they are mostly worth 9 or 10 mil and as soon as we even mention that we are interested
there is some amazing buy out contract that shows up for 32.5 million. The kid is a fcucking ball boy.
Liverpool willlose 34 million on Carroll but wont sell him to us for 10 mil
and everywhere Levy goes they jack the price up.
Of course he is the only chairman that actually has money