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Good morning.
The W is NSFW is for whiners.
I thought it was a shrewd move to stay offline last night before I had a moment and fell somewhere between Michael Douglas’ character in Falling Down and Gerald Ratner. Liberal amounts of Heineken, the arrival of £150’s worth (or so it may well have been) of pizza and the tinnitus of Sky Sports news aided me ‘turning in’ relatively early.
Your common or garden ITK knows somewhere between little or nothing. So why get so worked up? When your 5 year old child comes up to you and tells you knowingly they can do something fabulous, like ride a horse without holding on as they are eating their breakfast cereal you don’t bawl at them that they’re delusional. You simply watch them bob up and down in their chair making ‘clip clop’ noises with their arms outstretched and make sure that they catch you smiling.
This window I decided to become increasingly less involved in ‘calling’ signings. This was for the simple and glaringly obvious reason that their was such ridiculously high volumes of supposed ‘ITK’ flying about that most of it had to be either innocent or mischievous …disinformation.I lost track of the supposed agents etc on Twitter. You toss a coin in the air 100,000 times the odds always remain the same. Always. Whooping with pride of howling with pain at the result is the pursuit of a complete imbecile. Demanding to know if a supposed ‘ITK’ on Twitter will delete their account if their predictions don’t pan out makes you as big a time waster as they are.
Clint Dempsey? I’m not even convinced he knew he was coming to Spurs until a car turned up for him at his front door.
So we’ve looked at how adults cope with the way they assess what’s put before them. Now …coping with the unknown.
I mentioned pizza at the beginning. Now, can anyone tell me if I managed to force every last damn fat soaked triangle down my gullet, or did I leave a few bits and what about garlic bread? Welcome to the world of guessing. You only know I had pizza because I told you and I’m the guy that ordered it. You haven’t got a clue how much I ate (yeah, okay I polished off every last crumb, who are you, the Cheese Police?) You actually know nothing.
The amount of angst and bile being hurled about everywhere last night was embarrassing. Levy’s left it too late, again! Levy’s too tight! Please. Not one of you tedious whiners could even tell me what colour shirt he had on yesterday.
The most expensive thing that most of us buy is a house. And what sort of money on average are we talking here? A couple of hundred thousand? Loose change compared contracting a footballer.In fact a fortnight’s wages in some instances. We really haven’t got a clue.
Yet to listen to many, they were a fly on the wall as the chairman spent the evening sat in his neatly pressed Thomas The Tank Engine pyjamas playing Angry Birds …blissfully ignoring phones bleeping and trilling around him.
So no Moutinho. Like you, I know nothing. Unlike some of you I acknowledge the fact! What is certain, is that there was a third party ownership element in the equation. Was this an insurmountable stumbling block? Well, we don’t actually know. But if you were buying a house from someone who told you that there was someone else that owned 15% of the property what would be your gut instinct about a possible deal?
Dempsey in. His goal scoring record is comparatively modest with I think maybe a dozen in 2010/11 and a few more on top in 2011/12, but you have to argue that this was with ten Fulham players behind him providing the opportunities.
Dembélé in. It’s easier to list those he hasn’t been winning plaudits from. Yes, Modric was an exceptional player, but this guy may offer us something equally exciting.
Loris in. This ought to be just what the doctor ordered. A young agile and forward thinking goalie to aid implement the Villas-Boas systems.
So to the soothsayers and harbingers of doom I say ‘be told – you’re boring.’ I support this club and it’s Board based upon things that have actually happened. I criticise the same based upon things that have actually happened.
Come on in, the sanity’s lovely.
Hotspurs Half Hour – Show 3 by hotspurshalfhour
are you sure about this? don’t you think it would have been good for Mr Levy to put his hand in his own pockets for a change? almost £50m in and £50m out that means once again Mr Levy comes out smelling of roses unless you really do the maths.
Yes Moutinho would have been great and unless we are about to become a Spain or a Barcelona why just 2 strikers? (don’t say Dempsey is a striker) why oh why can’t we BUY A PROPER STRIKER.
maybe i’m crazy but maybe just maybe Arsenal and Spurs have a deal at boardroom level not to pay top wages or fees in North London.
We can be kings if we only had belief and a chairman who thinks football and no profits all the time (sometimes yes but every damn year) COYS
Like Adebayor?
Seconded
“Yes Moutinho would have been great and unless we are about to become a Spain or a Barcelona why just 2 strikers?”
Becoming a Spain or a Barcelona would be a tragedy of epic proportions for us, would it?!?!? :-|
three hundred and forty seven percent the best blog i have read in the past three months. completely agree.
I thought SpursInsider on twitter was great for ITK.
Been a great Transfer Window COYS
Yesterday he said ten times Moutinho done! Feck him.
I thought he was great too at first.
He predicted LLoris, Remy LLorente Willian Moutinho. He was 100% certain on 4 of 5 and we signed…… Lloris, hardly ITK. I didnt even hear a whisper of Remy Lorente or Willian
why any of you lot listen to these melts is beyond me
Duncan castles seemed to have the best record in terms of deals, broke sig, vert and dembele
i still dont believe that dannyboy was ever going to splash the £22m.did moutinho get anywhere near the medical room?
No but his Agent was there all day!!
which is why i feel that it was a token gesture.if you felt it was going to happen then surely the medical,paperwork,etc formalities would be taken care of?
It didn’t matter that moutinho was still in Portugal. He could have signed the contract by fax and done the medical today
But if Moutinho was serious about joining us, why did he stay in Portugal ?
Lloris and Dempsey both turned up at the Lodge before agreement had been reached and VDV flew out to Hamburg.
Maybe the player did not want to sign for us.
no, deals can be done “pending medical”
I think the signings we have bought throughout the window look interesting enough; certainly Lloris, Dembele, Adebayor, Vertonghen and Sigurdsson all offer us some newly enthused blood to play AVB’s 4-2-3-1. While Modric’s departure was inevitable, I do feel that with VdV also leaving we may appear short of the world class touches they sporadically provided. Not to have signed Moutinho is only a shame as the press lead us to believe we were so close, but perhaps Dempsey might provide some depth for the front positions as Willian was supposed to. Our season can now finally begin in earnest, having only been able to use those first few games as warm ups without a finalised and apparently not match fit (in some cases) squad. Hope we can kick on today; think the timely announcement this morning of Lennons new deal is designed to stave off the regrets of missing Moutinho.every little helps. COYS
I agree mate, especially about Dempsey. I was screaming at the telly (and the wife but she didn’t seem to follow what I was going on about) saying we need to sign him up. As soon as he arrived at the lodge I felt complete. Moutinho would have been great and I woke up this morning half expecting to see we’d somehow agreed a deal overnight but alas it wasn’t to be.
Dempsey and dembele will do us wonders. Yes we will miss Modders and vdv but providing the newly formed midfield gels quickly we should do the business, what with siggurs, bale and Lennon in the mix. COYS