Good afternoon.
The name of João Filipe Iria Santos Moutinho has been doing the rounds for a while now. I think the most conventional report was in the Daily Star suggesting that a bid from the Tottinghams of some £20M had been lodged.
Just on the money side of things, the player comes with a history one could at best described as a near unfathomable mess. Try this quote from his Wiki page for size:
‘On 3 August 2011, Porto partnered with Soccer Invest Fund to buy back 37.5% of Moutinho’s economic rights. The private investment fund acquired 15% after the overall transactions, while Porto recouped 22.5% for €4 million.’
Anyway Pedro Pinto has Tweeted on the matter of the player joining Spurs (see below).
Pedro’s credentials/Wiki blurb is this: Pedro Pinto started his career with Caderno Diário where he was a sports anchor and editor for the Rádio Televisão Portuguesa show. Pinto used to anchor the program World Sports in CNN between 1998 and 2003, in Atlanta, Georgia. Back in Portugal he anchored the program Últimas Notícias on Sport TV. He is presently coordinating European Sports at CNN International. He also anchors the CNN World Sport show from London.
Having had a snoop about some foreign media, it’s clear that Pedro is out on his own on this one. That said, if he’s right he’s right and that’s an end to the matter.
“Solid box to box player”. Sure he isn’t called Jenas Moutinho?
Feltching is about as close as ‘box to box’ that Jenas gets. He’s an attacking midfielder.
Affelay,Remy,Lloris and Moutinho
Mustard !!!
Horseradish :ermm:
meat!
hasenpfeffer!
How could you with those cute fluffy ears & lettuce eating ways.
Wasabi :dizzy:
Can someone please tell me how we are going to keep all these midfielders happy?Egos don’t like being benched.
Dembele Sandro & Moutinho in CM….Parker, Livermore on the bench. VDV sold. Sigurdsson to add a more attacking CM role when needed, maybe in place of Dembele.
Afelay, Bale, Lennon, Remy fighting it out for the wide positions with Remy also competing for striker role.
Easy peasy……at least we won’t get to February and all our players are zonked having played 90 minutes of every game.
Listen AVB keep your opinions to yourself:-)
Indeed, AVB is planning of going for the 1-6-8-2 formation and hoping we shift the ball quick enough that referees don’t notice our personnel advantage…
How about the 2-4-6-8 motorway formation?
FIRST = F*ckin’ Irritating Retard Still Typing
Arf
Excellent!
Mate, you must be easy-peasy to wind up. Effortless, in fact. I bet all the firsters rest peacefully in the knowledge that even if they don’t get first, someone will and it will bug you to pieces. Sort yerself out.
Firsters, is that really their collective name? What is the world coming too …
Remy, Lloris, Moutinho, Affelay …and a half-decent Galatico on loan!