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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.
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I agree with you HH. I trust Levy and he’s done very well this window. Moutinho would have been the money shot but it wasn’t for lack of trying. Hopefully, after agreeing a fee with Porto we might go back and get him in January,along with making good on dumping Bentley and JJ. But on balance we are looking exciting, I hope we put Norwich to the sword. Haters might as well head off and support Chelski if you want a club that spends money like it’s monopoly. But me, I’m staying with the Lilywhites COYS
I see dead people.
Could be worse, could be the spammers.
Could have been even worse – you could’ve turned into an Arse supporter overnight ………
The job of Daniel Levy is to keep us interested enough while he gets the stadium built.
Weare sold on that we are a big club.
When they call us a big club what they mean is we are a brand.We are not Nike.But we are not a private label no name manufacturer either.
Most Tottenham fans believe we are a Nike but that we just havent been discovered yet or have discovered a way to buy without a suger daddy or a huge stadium.
We are a solid club that somehow gets our fans to believe we are bigger than we are. I do believe that in the end our sites are on a bigger brand but we are handing things as usual very conservatively albeit with noise.
I can only be happy about one thing this morning and that is the fact that in my estimation we have edged about the arse.
Harry I dont give a shit what you had on your pizza last night or what Levys shirt colour is.I do care about getting into the very top group of the premier league.
I wasnt sold on Harry.Infact if it wasnt for the anomaly of horrendous stars by Chelsea,Liverpool and arse the writing would have been on the wall a lot earlier
more…
I think the striker situation is the most dire and I understand we have limited budget (its obvious now) but ADe and Defoe lack any hard core box power that we need with all the talent that will buzz all around them.
It was the one mistake Levy made.We have enough talent if not out and out creative then definately can develop and create in a different way to Modric but firepower in the box is more limited
Ronnie, I believe that Dempsey will be a pleasant surprise for you. With our midfielders behind him I think he will blossom for us.
just stop, you are a prize idiot, not a fan, or a supporter, you are a whiner
Are we Umbro? Hummel? Le coq sportif? reebok? Slazenger?
I think if you check the small print… We are tottenham, super tottenham, from the lane…
Actually I’ve just checked the small print and it turns out we are infact Dunlop Greenflash.
Sorry for the confusion.
Actually, Hi-Tech squash.
Stylo matchmaker!
Matty one has to not only test a product within the company but also outside the company.The company people are mostly biased (believers).The market dictates the truth.
Ha ha Hummel. Fuck that takes me back.
Hopefully we’re not ‘Joe Bloggs’ or ‘Chipie’
Well at least we’re not pony
LOL aidy!
What happens if adebayor is injured? defoe/dempsey just cant lead the line.
Hopefully Levy will go in for moutinho in january.
on a side note can we put jenas on gardening leave?
simple, clint 23 goals last season.
I can see us spending 50/100 million in January with Levy really backing AVB
Exactly the stupid sort of shit that made you think we were going to sign Llorente, Messi or Mara-fucking-dona yesterday.
Get in the real world, we’ve never spent more than 16.5M on a player. Our current ground holds 37.5K fans. We’re 11th in the Deloitte rich-list on revenue, 5 times less than that of Real Madrid, 3 times less than Manure in annual funds. We have no ‘new money’ and no sugar daddy! This is reality.
Spending 100M in January….fuck me, what do you lot put on your breakfast?
Brilliant…
yes – sensible response, and, on this basis, Levy did well.