Good morning.
The source is Caughtoffside.com and their suggestion is that Benoit Assou-Ekotto is wanted, enquiries made etc by Chelsea football club to us, Tottenham Hotsour football club about purchasing him for rumoured £10m.
Factors at play here are pretty straightforward.
Benny won much respect/sent shivers down a few spines with his public admission that football was just a job. Despite it being 2012, the world is still swimming with naive fans who like to see a bit badge kissing and actually believe the players remotely mean it.
Ashley Cole has reportedly been told that he won’t be getting a fat new contract and has as a response reportedly said he’ll pick up his boots and leave Second Hand Fridge when the window reopens in January.
But is this true?
Who knows.
Would it work? Well, I’d be surprised if Chelsea went for Benny. Yes, he’s Premiership house trained, but is he a typical Chelsea pick? I think not. He’s not solid enough, not uniform enough and I can see them seeing him as a bit flaky.
If we get offered £10m should we sell him to them? My first reaction is that I can’t see anyone else giving us anywhere near the same figure for him in this lifetime. Not a chance. My second reaction is that while I prefer Jan at left back, if we get an injury in one of the 27 competitions the boss wants us to participate fully in and win; then that £10m isn’t really going to help us too much.
What will happen then is Dawson gets wheeled out as the cash dissolves into the ether. So in conclusion it’s a thanks but no thanks from me.
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Benny is a great player.He is clever,talented,maybe not clinical but certainly cynical yes and often cyclical.
But he does has a vision.
So do I but I cant see him going to the bridge.
Not only his hair stylist in the Tottenham high road will surely go bankrupt and who is he going to give charity to? the designers in Sloane street????
Have. Square. Ronnie you dolt.
Ned, you in a tin suit?
Ronnie, look up the meaning of the word ‘great’. Note the absence of a picture of Benny in the description.
He’s a good player, but he certainly ain’t great.
I am not a relation to BAE but its all relative,Unc
With him, Jan & Naughton, you can really say for the first time in years, we are solid at LB. Why let him go for £10m? We would not be able to replace him with anyone as good or proven as him for that kind of money, even if he now 28. Certainly wouldn’t want to lose him mid-season. Let’s see how this year pans our for us and him.. Allowing us a summer to make other plans and bed new players in.
On a more humourous note,I do think Naughton could be a really good traditional left back,or we could move Vert to left and sign another CB.
Nah.
Lets keep Benny.He makes us smile.
Stopped reading at Caughtoffside.com
This.
nutshell
yep
Do you think Sandro would jump out of a plane 100,000 miles up in space and could he land right on half way line at the lane?????
Who would do it?
Lloris? Bale?
Just sayin…….
Sandro would do it without a parachute, doing karate moves all the way down, land on the half way line and break a stack of concrete blocks with his head.