Good evening.
I tell you were I am. Thinking about that old Sherlock Holmes line. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Can you see Tottenham Hotspur Football Club playing £47M for Leandro Damiao? I love the old girl dearly but she wouldn’t rustle that up in a hurry if the roof on a stand fell in.
Negotiations for all the other striker options that have been doing the rounds for months on end now have been hanging on in there like a Jimmy Cagney death scene. I’m becoming increasingly convinced that brinkmanship isn’t a factor. The market is stagnant and that that’s more than half the battle.
Why? Well try this. Levy & Co. quite understandably lost a little ground due this summer due to private matters. Replacing Sir Blabbsalot wasn’t a task would have been undertaken lightly. To ship in Villas-Boas and leave him high and dry, despite what some wet hens have been clucking is not the plan.
Yes, Arsenal are spending. But you’re the most intelligent Tottingham readers in existence online, so I don’t need to tell you they need to in order sustain their business model. They don’t want to. But after Nasri, Fibreglass and now Van Pervert what possible choice do they have to keep selling repayments seats to the Emptycrates?
This is from a brand new source @Journo_London. Brand new?! Could this be hood-winkery?! And the suggestion is that a number of signings are only days away. Andy Carroll ‘done bar the shouting’.
My belief is that a) I have no beliefs and b) this is very plausible based upon a process of elimination as per Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s and common sense. Will it happen? Not long until we find out, that is for sure.
It seems obvious that Adebayor has gone from really wanting to be a Spurs player to really wanting to screw Manchester City on the way out the Out Door.
We need a striker and anyone who genuinely believes Levy & Co. are more concerned about saving a couple of million quid than getting us fixed up are giving me a migraine.
He has weird stubble though, like he just can’t quite commit to mutton chops.
Banged ten quid on this yesterday with skybet at 14/1, he’s now 4/1 on same site. Bookies must think there is something in it
Long time reader, first time commenting, love the site, always my first port of call, love your style Harry, far more level headed and enlightened than most. I for one would welcome Carroll, brilliant target man for the wingers, outstanding in the air, riding high on being one of Englands shining lights at the Euros and holds the ball as good as half effort Adebayor in my opinion, excited by this, definately ! Damaio, yes please, but not gonna happen this season at least, played himself out of our reach at the Olympics I fear
Dad, you’ve not been well. Stop it, you’re embarrassing me. Back to the ward.
Anyway… the point you make about the target man for wingers is absolutely key Mattski. Villas-Boas wants to service the men that can finish.
Sorry son, pumped the morphine tap one too many times ETHEL MORE LITHIUM…
Where is To Madeira and Cherno Samba when you need them…
Well said Mattski1979 except i respectfully disagree with the whole notion that (a) Andy Caroll is what we need and (b) that he would do well for us. replacing one lazy striker with another is not a pleasant idea in my mind. Any caroll is big and physical, I give him marks for that, then again he’s clumsy, loses focus real easy, get’s demoralised very fast when he’s having an off game (which was very often at Liverpool), lacks skill and pace and he misses tthe goals you would expect even an average striker to score 8/10 times. Defoe doesn’t have the height or consistency to be our lead striker, but very good to have around. We need someone athletic, fast, doesn’t have to be as tall as ade but can jump well and finish even better. It would be nice if such a striker could also challenge one or two defenders and make them look rather silly. There are a whole lot of strikers and attacking midfielders out there that are right on the verge of becoming superstars. they cost between £7m and £14m now, but after this upcoming season, we will find a whole host of wonder-kids whose price ranges are £18m – $26m, and if we wait until then, we can’t afford to sign them as their weekly wages would be £70k/week and upwards, way upwards. They won’t all pan out and some won’t be suited to the EPL while others will prove themselves injury plagued players, but there’s that 35% of that talent pool, like Papiss Cissé, Pape Moussa Konaté, Christian Atsu, Ever Benega, Mohamed Kamara, Ander Herrera and Paulo Henrique Ganso who currently plays in Brazil for Santos, even our very own castaway superstar Giovanni dos Santos. makes you wonder what we look for when we try to sign players.
Then we should team up with Citeh by telling them this is how they/we stick two fingers up at Adebayor and see if we can get Dzeko from them.
Dzeko’s already had a moan about 1st opportunities and I reckon we’d snare him on another season loan from our wealthy ‘friends’ up the road.
In short, he is shit. Like this blog.
if we sign andy carrol i will sh*t myself and sit in it for a week out of protest
Any excuse
ditto!
When he’s holding up the white shirt and kissin’ his cockerel, then I for one will-whoopeeee!
Always one :-p
Is he a shirt holder upper?
Well, when you’re as poor as us, we must be a little more ‘creative’ than other teams, so I thought…