Good afternoon.
I was in analysis, you should know that about me, I was in group analysis when I was younger, ’cause I couldn’t afford private…I was captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you’ve never seen neurotics play softball, it’s really funny. I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Obviously stolen from Woody Allen, but I am seriously beginning to wonder about the mental health of my fellow fan. The narrow mindedness of many has left me pretty convinced that we are in no small part supported by a gaggle of small mined simpletons. Ha. Maybe this is my Gerald Ratner moment. Well if I wake up after lunch to discover they’ve gone then sentient few that remain are blessed.
Do we need strikers, do we in fact need a bit of need of good transfer lovin’ in any number of departments? Of course we do.
But does anyone seriously believe that Levy & Co. are somehow nonchalantly swanning about only occasionally checking their email during the adverts on daytime television? These critics are the same pseudo commie neo pinko idiots that still believe the Chairman’s only in it for the money and/or that Joe Lewis needs to stick his hand in his pocket. Jesus wept.
Patience isn’t a virtue in football, as in real life it’s a necessity. If you think that footballers sit on shelves in some mystical footballer supermarket somewhere, beneath a shelf-talker with bar code and care instructions printed upon it? Some expectens of millions spent on a man who they can adopt and champion as ‘this seasons Messiah’ with the same expedience they’d employ buying a Happy Meal.
I hear your pain brother, alas Mr Jolly lives next door. The firm are on it.
Why don’t we go and get the bean pole back he was banging them in last season. Seriously though I’m sure it’ll all work out ok let’s cheers on jd this weekend
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I hope so, if we are gonna play a 4-4-3 then all we need is a 6 yard line poacher, which is JD’s game. We do however need cover and options. I’m really not convinced by Kane, seemed weak and to lack that bit extra for the Prem. But he’s very young and if AVB thinks he’s the shit then who am I to argue. For me Caroll and a diet reigime would be great, perfect for our wingers. Would love to see Gio get a run instead of Azza.
“if we are gonna play a 4-4-3…”
We’re cheating. Don’t think we’ll get away with it.
I agree with the Gio bit, but I think JD is way past being our frontline striker. This is why AVB was willing to experiment with Bale and VDV up front. I’m not a huge Caroll fan either. he’s lazy, slow and too easily frustrated for my liking. He’s kinda big and clumsy too but seems a tad bit more motivated than Ade, I’ll give him that. A 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 formation would require that the striker has some amount of speed and is very good at evading defenders marking them. In that regard, I’m really not convinced with Caroll, but I can be wrong.
All well and good. But this – Rasiak. FrazerCambell. Saha. Nelsen v vdV
More fuck ups than successes cutting it this fine.
Been shit in the transfer market since Levy took the reins himself (2008?)
So Vertonghen and Sigurdsson are rubbish buys ?.
The season starts in 5 days,but that doesn’t mean the window shuts does it ?.
If so there are a lot of clubs in trouble,not just Spurs.
Youre joking right? $hit in the transfer market? Honestly, what planet are you on?
Vertonghen and Sigurdsson were bought early, as were Berbatov and Modric. The point is when you wait to the end of August or January you make panic buys. We nearly bought Charlie Adam too.
Well that purchase might have helped us keep Bale safe.
Yes. What you said.
Leaving Verts and Siggudson have been nice exceptions. But leaving it late has normally resulted in a clusterfuckup of Rasiak, Frazer, SahaNelson season destroying proportions. The one time it works VdV was pure fluke rather than design no?
Not saying we will or wont buy what we need this window. Hopefully lessons have been learnt. But we have previous here so dont get you hopes up.
No basis for the InLevyWeTrust mantra from where I stand.
JGM: Adeboy and Parker worked pretty well, too. So our three absolute best acquisitions of the previous two windows came at or very near deadline-day.
Been shit in the transfer market since Levy took the reins himself (2008?) – You wrote this, I didnt know you were just talking about transfer deadline day buys – Levy has done well in the transfer market IMO.
As for deadline day buys, wish we could leave Saha/Nelsen off the list – we had them for half a year, they hardly played and from what Harry said his time was already up in Jan so he was never going to get any money to spend. They were back up.
As were most of our other deadline day signings…..FCampbell was a loan deal and back up, so are all the other useless cnuts we bought – back up signings. I would like to think when it comes to buying a first team regular we are a little more successful.
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I must admit I did have a liking for the Commoli scattergun approach of signing young talent, but still for every Kaboul (post Pompey of course), there’a Ghaly, for every Bale there’s a Mido, for every “Prince” lost there’s a Taraabt binned. Still, exciting days though.
For every Ronaldo there is a DJemba Djemba, for every Scholes there is a Luke chadwick…..same everywhere.
Spot on, but you’d happily take a Djembe x2 and a Ronaldo in the lucky dip wouldn’t you?
I much prefered the days of signing kaboul, Bale, GDS, KPB, Taraabt et al and wasting or binning some, than Saha, Half Nelson and brinkmanship (feels like berbatov all over again, ending up with Frazier-Camp-Bell or oh so nealry Charlie Adam, FFS.)
Still, tricky business this negotiating, maybe Levy needs to go on a training course, that’s what they do elsewhere when you’re a bit slow in the workplace.
Yeah of course I’d want Ronaldo, that wasnt my point….I agree with you, I think I prefered it when we done transfers like that…..it seems like we cant afford it anymore though, or perhaps not until we trim our squad with the Jenas’s etc.
I do wish we would stop going on about Saha/Nelson though, we had them for half a season and it sounds a bit like Harry was already for the chop in Jan so he was never going to get any money.
There must be a reading, or Soton or someone who will take Jenas off us? Surely? please?
lol, purlease ;-)
Wet spam hopefully…..
Raising my hopes there Starsky…read that Satan was taking Jenas off us.
And well stolen too HH, I saw nothing I swear. I am finding solace in the very funny quotes I look forward to reading on thy blog, and I couldn’t give a toss about activity, or the lack of. It has to be by far the worst window in a few years. It’s squeaky bum time re finding strikers, a replacement for the abused Choir Boy and a keeper thats not too close to getting his bus pass thank you very much !!! WTF ????
Haven’t posted for a while but always read.
Great post HH
How dare you :daumen: