Spurs Banter Archive August 19 2012

 

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19 Aug 2012 22:58:51
Help me......help me please......
I'm an itk troll.
Apparently, this week, according to itk,
We are signing
Ade Monday
Llorente Tuesday and Wednesday
Lloris Tuesday
Damaio Monday and Tuesday
Adam Johnson Tuesday
Caesar Tuesday
Butland Tuesday (3 keepers in one day)
moutinho, m'villa, dembele, modric staying.
And loads about andy Carroll.
I don't think I've missed any.
I can't wait till that lot sign lol
The only real 'itk' is the official spurs site.
Levy had been a busy boy lol

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Blimey, I forgot Sturridge, meireles, isco.
It's all happening.

I just want anyone. Please (not andy Carroll tho)

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Pickie.Just not carroll ,some people are never happy.He is a world class 30goals+ a season striker.A bit like Heskey.

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30+ goals a season - I wish !

Puzzled

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19 Aug 2012 22:53:42
I wonder why many of u fans seem to be panicking already. AVB already said he learnt a lot at Chelsea, n he's up there wit the best managers in d game. U can't feel so bad losing at Newcastle. A striker must come in, no matter who, he'll be a good additn. A midfielder will also come, which will make us stronger. We played good yesterday and will be better in time to challenge for d title. Just have faith...

SpursMe!

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Top man spursme, spread that word.
I wish everyone would just step back and take a breath.
We played well yesterday.

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How is he possibly up there with the best managers in the game? That is just ridiculous, who knows 1 day he might but he has alot to prove and learn still

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Think you just have to look at AVB's record at Porto to confirm his credentials! Get behind the man lads!!
No doubt about it with a creative midfielder and at least one quality forward (Ade will do), Spurs will without doubt be in that top 4 pack plus who knows...

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I doubt we will challenge for title this season. Too much team integration with new tactics to be worked through. Hopefully we can challenge for top 4 but as of today it requires Levy and the board to provide AVB the tools to do the job.

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My faith is becoming restored with fellow yids on this site - some positivity at last. We should all be behind our team like this, some of the negativity on here is embarassing!

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19 Aug 2012 22:40:27
Improvements i think our squad still need-

Keeper - love Friedel but he's past his sell by date and has no future for us. Go out and get Butland or Lloris who can give us 10 years +

Defence- I honestly don't rate BAE. Way too casual and defensively not solid enough.

Midfield- Obviously need a play maker who does box to box. Would love Dembele of Fulham. Aaron Lennon needs competition for his position. Again too casual, always backs out of challenges and a clever defender always knows what he's gonna do.

Strikers- Its obvious for everyone to see...we need 2 strikers! maybe Remy or Sturridge who can play attacking right or CF.

My ideal targets-

Butland = £6 mil
Cissokho (Lyon) = £8 mil?
Dembele = £10-12
Sturridge = £10
Llorente = £25 mil

KK

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19 Aug 2012 21:15:56
from just watching Sat games, we are really in need of some more attacking midfield, if bales having an off day - who is cover? same with Lennon! we just need one more versatile player besides a creative mid and sttriker. Personally i think our defence was top class.

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Dembele (Modric replacement), Sessegnon (Plays right across the attacking midfield trio) plus a striker for me and will be in great shape

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I hear a certain Adam Johnson is available and apparently waiting for spurs to come in instead of Sunderland !!

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19 Aug 2012 20:37:32
Always been a massive fan of Levy, but I am seriously beginning to doubt him! We have needed a 20 goal a year striker since berby left if we don't sign the striker we need before deadline we are stuffed this season! Poor signings cost us the £20-30 mill we would of got from champs league. All of his penny pinching is costing us in the long run, even Ramirez would rather go to southampton cos levy wouldn't offer a fair wage! Don't want to be a moaner or negative bat the club I have supported all my life but I am worried about the lack of investment in the team

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Hold that comment till 1st sept. if same situation ad now, then complain.
Give him a chance first.

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And we missed out on champions league due to Chelsea's luck! We aimed for 4th place last year and achieved it.

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19 Aug 2012 19:18:17
I am a liverpool fan but just a little post on how bad the game of football has become. already, fans of clubs have got there managers under pressure, us with rodgers, mark hughes, chris houghton, avb. im a season ticket holder who has been to the 4 corners of the earth following liverpool and i enjoyed every minute of it, but now the game has changed for the worst so much. to many fans now havent got a clue about football its a social event for alot of people . every club has got alot of good knowledgable fans and you find most are working class people, not all but most. but football now has virtually been took away from us. most fans up and down the country cannot afford to go the game now and as for taking our kids to its just impossible, so more and more the working class man is being squeezed out the game. so in a few years time it will be 80percent corparate or as roy keane said the prawn sandwich brigade. i no by speaking to alot of fans and workmates that they are coming to the end of there love for the game. we work 50 sometimes 60 hours a week really struggle to keep are heads above water, like most in the country. i live by the ground and struggle payin my morgtage but if rooney and van persie put one weeks wages together they could buy are whole side of the street ! fottballers now are so far from the fans its ridiculous, i dont blame them for the wages they get cos anyone in there right mind would work for as much money as they could get. but clubs need to do something before it really is to late and the working man and his kids walk away from the game. sent this post to most clubs sites and would be grateful for peoples thoughts, thanks. {Ed008's Note - Great shout!

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Top, top post! Totally agree with you. I wish you well, whoever you are.
Yours with respect
Super Y*d

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I'm sorry. Reading thru the posts on these sites, I think spurs fans who are are angry and looking to blame someone (about 50%), are more blaming levy than AVB.
I don't think you can put AVB with the other 3 managers mentioned after yesterday's performances.
After all the results yesterday, I would say arsene whinger (after selling their best players.....again) and the Liverpool are under the most pressure already.

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Sorry, I forgot to add (after writing above post), I loved reading your post my friend.
Excellent comments, brilliantly put.
Top man.

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Only the ones like Rodgers and AVB

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Now tell me above poster, how, after one close game (to Newcastle away), can AVB be under pressure. Stupid comment.
If spurs invest heavily, and come up short, then blame AVB.
Otherwise, if no investment, then above AVB are too blame. He would of taken the job with the promise of investment.
If no investment,

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Great original post.

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19 Aug 2012 19:15:56
In reply to Super Yod, good valid post there but i would say Levy has failed yet again to get us the striker(s) we have needed for a long time. Its cost us already just like last season and it aint good enough its as simple as that and i think alot of posters here are extremely frustrated. Just a couple of signings will make us very strong.

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Sir, see my reply to the Rufus post below. Im not disagreeing with your sentiments i just think that there is more to it than meets the eye. Dont forget, we really need a quality striker who will hit the floor running and they cost loads, let alone their ridiculous wage demands. Have faith, DL has a history of pulling rabbits out of hats.
Super Y*d

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19 Aug 2012 18:42:30
Berba- 6 mil
Adi. - 5
A Johnson-8
Kaderia-10

Total 29 mil that would do me

Mr g {Ed008's Note - Try between 12-15 for A.Johnson, Ade 8 and Khedira no chance.

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19 Aug 2012 16:48:11
After watching holland/Belgium during the week, I thought Verts had a blinder in midfield.
Surely, he would of been a better option than Livermore yesterday.

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Ok seriously guys ? What's with the hate for livermore ? He is a decent paced decent passing just all round midfielder ? He will
Only get better playing with the other quality we do have in midfield ... Stop just stop hating on any or all players that play for us yes yes even modric after al he will have made us double what we paidafter he goes .... Why complain at that ?
Ed i don't mind if you dont agree as im
Not looking clarification but what do you think of Livermore ? {Ed008's Note - I think he's a decent player not better then Sandro or Parker but just below them he works hard and that's what i like about him but at times last season he was clumsy and loses possession a lot at times just needs to work on that.

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Hey mate...I was original poster, where did I show a hate for Livermore. I just stated that, given our squad, we have got better player at our dispersal.
I like Livermore, as a player, he, in our squad, is ahead of the likes of jenas, Bentley and Carroll.

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Where was the hate, I thought it was just a general opinion. Like most comments on this site. It is all about opinion.

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19 Aug 2012 16:22:41
Ive got to say this. Ive been reading this board since the Newcastle game and, frankly, Im f*****g ashamed.
I didnt think we had so many mealy mouthed no nothing w*****s who, given the first opportunity have all come running out telling everybody they can how we are all doomed, AVB knows nothing and Levy is a tight c**t who will bring the club to its knees.
Well Hallelujah!! We have only played 90mins of football in the new season and, already the knives are out. Well done you lot!!
Lets deal with some facts, as difficult as they are to stomach but facts none the less. AVB is, without question, one of the brightest young managers in World football, never mind European. Exactly why do you think Abramovich was happy to pay tens of millions of pounds to buy out his contract with Porto? His record in Portugal was excellent, his reputation first class and he spent his formative years being guided in his chosen career by Bobby Robson and King Jose himself. Just because player power f****d him over at Chelski and he got no support whatsoever from the very person/people that went to great lengths to appoint him in the first place doesnt make him a bad manager!
Levy? He has had our club punching way above its financial weight for years. Look at all the other clubs with similar or greater ground capacity, support and Premiership experience and tell me how many of them have been as successful as us over the years? How many of them have bought in a Modric, Walker, Bale, VDV, Sandro etc, etc. I will tell you how many, BOG ALL! Sunderland is a prime example. They have nigh on a 50,000 seater stadium and supporters that can fill it and more without bother. They have spent loads and yet nobody will expect them to be much higher than mid table this season. Top four for Sunderland? haha!!! So how can we be more successful than they are, chase a top four finish when they are not expected to? Take a bow Mr Levy, take a bow for always finding the kind of money that attracts quality players, take a bow for being firm with Modric and not let us get sha* on by " bigger" clubs who think they can come in and just cherry pick our best players. Take a bow for turning a £16 million pound outlay on a young talent into a £30 + million sale allowing us more money to spend in the transfer market.
I always knew the average Y*d could be fickle but some of the S**t im reading belongs on the Gooners?chelski side of the forum, not ours. Lets show some dignity and class!!
Im sure we have some somewhere.... :/
{Ed008's Note - Post of day and week!

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Class. Quality yod post. Good on yer.
100% behind you and everything you have said.
I have posted before, don't even question levy until 1st sept and I for one, am well happy when AVB was approached and took the job.

COYS

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To who ever you are, I take off my hat! Well said.

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Sorry, It was my post.
Thanks for the replies, that encourages me a lot!
Super Y*d

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Super y*d, taking credit for someone else's post.
You bad man lol

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Haha!! Im afraid it is all true, even the Ed will confirm through IP addresses and such.
Its just good to know that Im not the only one who is getting slightly hacked off with all the negative stuff thats going on here. Trust in the Club, trust in the manager and get behind them. Sure debate the ins and outs, ask lots of questions but just keep calm and carry on, as the saying goes..
Super Y*d
{Ed008's Note -I can confirm it was Super Y*d

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I admit the negative hysteria was rubbing off on me too!

Your reality check helped - Good work

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Respect, you are indeed super.
Could not agree more. DL works his ass off for the fans to be able to watch our magnificent club play wonderful football.
Fans who already, as you put it, put both avb and levy to the knife, are no better than the chavski fans, maybe even worse.

Support the club and the management.
The future is lilywhite.

Knut

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As much as I agreed with super yids post I still can't get why DL would leave something as important as a striker/centre forward to beyond the first game of the season? I'm pretty sure that's not how he got to where he is today, it's not like it's a January window and everything is a rush, 3 months he's had to get either adebayor or a fresh face in! If other clubs can do it then why can't we?

Rufus

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Rufus fella, on the face of it you are not wrong. It does seem like, again, that we are doing everything last minute. My take on it is that we HAVE been chasing strikers and those strikers and their agents have been holding out for clubs with CL football to come in. The Adebayor situation seems to be about how much money he can cream out of us every week, it did seem that City were prepared to do a deal on the price to get him off the books. Some clubs have done early deals but some of those players have no real background or big reputation and im not sure that us signing "potential" would satisfy the average supporter who actually wants "proven". The Gooners have signed Podolski and, on the face of it, it may be a wise buy but im not too sure TBH. We do need a striker urgently tho and my best guess is that it will be a last minute buy at a good price. Ok you can knock DL for bartering as if his life depended on it but this transfer window will only be a few games old by the end and, as we have seen today, most of the big boys are having to bed into things just like we are. No outstanding performances today and nothing that makes yesterdays result look that bad, on the contrary, Newcastle away will be far tougher than Wigan away and the saints at home.....
Super Y*d

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Super yod , its the frustration that makes me at least , mad at Levy . Personally I am happy at AVB appointment at the mo , RA spent a lot of money to get him out of the porto contract and Arry did leave a lot of deadwood behind along with the good stuff . He has to filter out that rubbish , but should have at least done that by now even if they are still at the club . The longer he picks them the longer they will think they have a future here and wont clear off , and picking Gallas over Vert is indefencable !!
But Levy has known for 3 seasons that we need a top class forward , not a good forward , a top class forward . Yes , he has done amazing things for our club , and we owe him a lot for that , but at times he causes problems for us with his stubborness . All we needed this year really was a good goalkeeper and one maybe two top class forwards . Getting Vert was a bonus , siggy wasnt really needed but good squad player , but as we have for the last three years , we need a goalscorer , and like it or not , its Levys fault we havent got one ! Another thing , because of his attitude , not many managers , agents and possibly chairmen like to deal with us . Could that also be why we cant attract top players , Levys attitude and way of handling people ???
Davo

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Yes Roman did pay millions to get AVB - but at the of the day he paid millions to get rid of the useless pr!ck.

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What can I say? I dont disagree, we have needed the striker situation resolving for a long time now. Can we say that DL is soley to blame for that? What was 'arry doing during his time there? There has not been a manager that has worked under Levy who hasnt been financially backed, HR was no different, maybe it was HE who failed to identify a striker for DL to do the deal with? We shall never know! Ive mentioned before why, for me, Gallas playing ahead of Vertongen was a good move, look elsewhere here for my reasons. As it all turned out, we dominated so much of the game we could have had Mr Bean playing at centre half so little a threat Newcastle posed over 90mins. Ok, maybe Gallas COULD have closed down Ba for their first......
Levys attitude may well not go down well with other clubs but, then again, its just business, no hard feelings and all that, Im sure, if it came to it, Seville would be happy to do business with us as we would be happy to do business with Utd and Chelski. You have to leave personalities at the door, DL drives a hard bargain because he has the interest of our club to look after. I dont see modrics agent jumping up and down at the lack of movement in his sale, im pretty sure the more we get for him the more his agent earns in commission, right?
Just keep the faith, if it wasnt for levy, we may well be in the same situation as Aston Villa, a club of equal size and clout but a very long way from knocking on the door to the top four. Would we REALLY be happy selling the club out to foreign buyers? It did Liverpool no good, Villa ditto and being a rich arab doesnt mean that you will have hundreds of millions to spend, just look at Malaga.
Better the devil you know sometimes.
Super Y*d

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Above but one poster ( the chavski fan). I suppose mourinho, ancelloti and the others where stupid p.icks too!
There is only one stupid p.ick here mate.
Your owner, paying millions for the worlds best, then he decides what he wants as a trophy toy that season, then fires if he don't get it.
You know as well as I do, you will have a new manager this time next season.
Now, really, who is the stupid p.ick.

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Super Y*d, great post and subsequent replies. You echo my feelings exactly.
K

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Temper temper spurs fan getting all hot under the collar so what ......we sack who we want we sack who we want we have money we sack who we want ...........avb will hopefully take you down you bunch of mugs

C.O.E

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Newcastle fan here.
Sunderland don't fill there 47,000 stadium... their average attendance is about 35,000. .
and good luck this season, about time Liverpool and Arsenal were thrown out of the top 5 for good.

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35, 000? Thats even closer to our average attendance! Proves my point even more then...
Super Y*d

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19 Aug 2012 16:14:33
Everybody says that our targets wants cl football.granted. But a few years back man city was not in the cl and they attracted stars..... Money talks and that is all the players are after.. A longer and better contract then there existing club.like levy wants the best deal 4 his players so do all the other club owners. Does anybody know who our scouts are and who have they have found on the cheap.
Mr g

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This is true but now man city are in the rubbish for it with all the players they bought for way over priced and give them crazy wages. Now no other team can buy man citys deadwood players because they cant afford to pay the players wages, probably the reason why they havent spent big in this transfer window

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19 Aug 2012 15:55:50
I see no loic remy for marseille again today.
I think remy and ade are best we can get this window.
We need to be more realistic in my opinion.

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Carroll n berby

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Ade and Berba

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Crookes & Archibald

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19 Aug 2012 15:20:14
Ed008 i dont think Bielsa left, he threatened to but he is still at A.Bilbao. {Ed008's Note - I just checked he hadn't i thought he did but then he would have been LFC manager instead of Rodgers if he did. Thanks

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19 Aug 2012 13:46:44
Hats off pinky. Your chavs looking good.
Did you see the way Caldwell went thru hazard?
He is gonna need to get used to that!!
I reckon your midfield are in for a tough season but you will be playing against 10 men quite often.

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How bad did hazard look today. What a waste of money chavski.
I'm so glad we never wasted our money on him.......ffs....looked class didn't he.
Another one levy could of had last year. HR got a recommendation off joe cole.

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Did u see hazard playing a part in both goals! Every player gets smashed I Dnt see ur point. Oscar looks like he gonna be something special not worried bout him as Brazilian footy is tough. Will take time this season but am sure we will get top 4

Pinky

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Pinky, I think the manc teams fighting for 1 and 2. Unless RDM really f.cks up, then you got 3rd sewn up. Then it is all up for grabs.
After yesterday's games, if that is gonna be the pattern, then I can't see further than us and the geordiesfighting for 4th again.
Alot depends on the transfers in the next couple weeks.
Like us, the arse are just a couple of signings away from a very good season.
Levy and arsene whinger are built from the same mould I think.

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I was shocked when you spent 60 odd mill on those 2 but, given their age too,it might just be very good business.
I'm just happy all the talking has stopped.
Now the football is here, happy days.

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Lads ur be fine i dnt know why u worry so much! all u need is a world class striker! the rest of ur team is as good as anyones in the prem!

pinky

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Pinky, for once I agree with you but not just a striker, a good younger keeper too will do.

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Chelsea fan here and i come in peace its nice to see everyone posting nice and normal stuff instead of all the arguments we are both london teams and should not really be at war with each other we have enough enemys up north and in the media ..to be fair i think you were very unlucky the other day you looked pretty good and all you need is a striker and it will be happy days for you and that was a harsh pen .hope we all finish above the mancs


ktbffh

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19 Aug 2012 13:25:43
Hi lads, im a Gooner and believe me i hate Tottenham as much as you lo9t hate us but I just love our friendly banter, best entertainment every year! I just want to ask do you think Yann M'Vila will come to us or you? i know previously said he would love to come to Arsenal but its gone all quite with us. But heres to another good season and let North London scare the mancs and the chavs

TomArsenal

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Think now Song is going he'll be going to your lot. Might surprise a lot of ppl but don't hate ARSEnal just like to see them lose.
Good luck this season should be a interesting 1

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Think it'll depend how much Arsenal want him if they do they'll be his first choice if i'm honest.

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19 Aug 2012 12:44:52
If levy does not splash the cash this summer he must go, we need to invest in players to take us to the next level.

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Agree; the Top teams have shown you need to spend to be competitive.. his stubborn tight business mind is holding us back

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We have had one (very tough) game away from home against a top 6 team.
We need to reserve judgement until 1st sept then get on levys back if we need too.

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People's seriously just as someone posted earlier we are in a stadium that some championship and newly promoted teams have bigger grounds or the same and can't touch us
Leave levy alone seriously.... The guy is brilliant for us.... Why do people want investment from oil rich owners ? I am proud much the same as aresenal should be proud to be a club self sufficient and still right up there with out mega bucks McGee coming and throwing the odd 100 m a season into us ....

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Newcastle didn't spend to get from relegation contenders to top 4 contenders. they haven't spent this window either and i think they'll get in the top 4. All DL needs to do is buy some bargain players with 1 year left on contracts to get them for - £10m

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19 Aug 2012 10:40:27
Just heard chelsea have made an approach for adebayor,

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Yep this is true im told they will offer city 5 million for him and pay him 140,000 aweek .

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This seems pretty doubtful, can't see why they would want ade, unless it's so they cab throw him in a deal for modric!

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Makes sense, they only have Torres/Sturridge.
I wish someone else would sign him so we can move on.
I'd say most of the reason we haven't signed who we need is because of modric and adabeyor situation. {Ed008's Note - Chelsea want Cavani even if they have Torres...

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19 Aug 2012 10:07:42
Ha Ha ha...this forum is excellent reading. Spurs fans showing their true colours, no class at all. Thanks for making my day...

Gooner Sam

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Glad we could help mate. Bet it loads more interesting than your boring site. Little bit like your stadium really (the library).

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Hmmm some people have very short memories i was lovong going on the gooners site just to listen to all the stick they were giving venger, board and all the players and then when they started playing well it was in venger we love fickle fickle two faced gooners lol i just love your post funniest thing ive read for a while

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19 Aug 2012 09:01:07
I do not understand how other clubs have been able to find good quality strikers without spending huge money?
Examples; Fulham, Swansea this season.. Obviously Newcastle and Everton last season..
Mybe instead of chasing over inflated superstars, we should use a better scouting network.

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So you want us to be as ambitious as Swansea and co? Yeah missed out big time on Danny Graham

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No, you mis-understood the point completely..

Why are we continuously dreaming about the most highly rated and highest value strikers, when we cannot afford to buy them? Hulk, Damaio, Llorente...

Fulham and Swansea signed two guys I've never heard of, who both scored two on their debuts and look competent finishers.
Swansea spent 2million I think, so what can we get for our budget? Another Cisse or Jalovic?

My point is other have good goalscorers whimsy have the most fashionable names! {Ed008's Note - I like Petric good all round player Fulham got him on a free transfer would easily fit in the team.

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There is always a new signing that everyone wished they had bought for peanuts.
Cisse,ba, countless Wigan players. Fulham sign well (cheaply) and so do others. I think it says how poor our scouting is now.

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This is the best post i have seen so far! We know tight arse Levy wont fork out for a big name, the whole Damaio, Llorente talk is rubbish. I agree that swansea striker Michu would hold the ball up and score 20 + goals for us. Its not just one team doing this, most clubs who have not got top 4 money seem to pkick up these strikers every year! I am not saying this should be our club policy but in our current situation i woul rather have paid around 5 mill for one of these strikers and still gone for a big name. At least we would then have one hold up player for first couple of games. We will end up with Ade or no one! Newcastles scouts are the best aroundimagine us having scouted cisse, tiote and cabaye last season. We would have finished 3rd if not better!

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19 Aug 2012 08:35:06
went to the game yesterday and as we expected played one up front and defended high up the pitch thought for long periods we were much the better side , a couple of additions and think we could certainly challenge just a couple of interesting changes bale in vdv number 11 shirt vdv in ade number 10 so there is a big number nine shirt to fill plus one more thing did anybody notice avb wheres his cockrel on the wrong side whats all that about

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Challenge for what? the title? FFS i'll have some of that acid mate. By Newcastles standards they were poor yesterday and meanwhile we are all creaming ourselves thinking we played well. Bad omen if u ask me. Also Rumours of AVB in a bust up with Tommy Hudd, did he learn nothing from his Chelsea disaster?

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Newcastle were poor?!?! How do you work that one out? They spent large swathes of the game chasing the ball!!!
Lets get this right, because Newcastle didnt see too much of the ball and wernt keeping possesion and peppering our goal mouth with shots it will be because they were poor ( by their standards, whatever those standards are) and it had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with us playing five across the middle, pushing up on them and squeezing the f*****g life out of them by keeping hold of the ball and having them chase around for it? Ok..........
I guess we all just imagined hitting the post and crossbar too..
Tommy Hudd is a moderately talented midfielder with the pace of a slug and only half as much talent and ability as Glenn Hoddle who also had the pace of a slug ( think about where that one is going) Thats the problem with Pro players, they believe that they are entitled to play, be in the managers plans and have the absolute right to know why they are not being picked. Well Hudd can go and f***k off, no player is bigger than the club and we dont want big heads at the club thinking that they are greater than they really are. AVB has been bought in to do a job and if he has to be ruthless so be it. When are players and some supporters going to learn? FFS, BACK the manager!!
Super Y*d {Ed008's Note - Well Said! For the formation you need to press and have great stamina and I think that's why he went for Livermore instead of Huddlestone maybe in home games he'll go Sigurdsson and VDV together.

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19 Aug 2012 18:30:49
A team with 2 forwards possesion wise will always be dominated with a team with 5 across the middle. Sure we had the ball plenty and 1st half unlucky not to score but 2nd half apart from Defoe not much. Second point regarding Hudd regardless of whether we all rate him ( i dont by the way ) AVB has really got to learn some bloody people skills, Hudd already taking a potshot on his twitter. Hudd will of course have mates in dressing room and therefore can lead to problems with other players. Remember he caused a mutiny in the Chelsea dressing room when he made Alex and Anelka train with the kids

In AVB i dont trust {Ed008's Note - Such a childish post!

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So you are blaming AVB for not putting his arm around Hudd, giving him a cuddle and whispering sweet nothings in his ear to placate him? You dont actually think Huddlestone has acted unprofessionally by airing his dirty laundry in Public? Come on now! Whether Hudd has "mates in the dressing room" or not isnt the issue at WHL because, make no mistake, he and all of his "mates" will be out the f*****g door in no time to the likes of Fulham, Sunderland etc if they dont like things. DL is no abramovich and will not tolerate mutinys or big mouths , he has put a lot into securing AVB and WILL NOT let any player undermine him!Understand one thing, Football doesnt breed player loyalty, the idea that one player can spark a mutiny because he doesnt like the orange juice out of the clubs vending machine is bull. Most of the squad players at WHL know they are playing for a big club, most are painfully aware that they are not going to be wanted by the "big four" and that anywhere other than WHL will be a step down.I cant see Bale or VDV asking for a transfer coz Hudd has thrown his rattle out of his pram, can you? Why d'ya think Defoe has made all the noises but still hasnt handed in a transfer request!!!! Sunderland, are apparently interested... I rest my case. As for the Newcastle game your response makes no sense to me whatsoever? You are merely stating the obvious and concouring that we dominated the game. Your point is? Oh, yeah, we didnt win. Well, sometimes teams that dominate dont it happens all the time, its Football, you just carry right on because you know that come the next game your domination of the opposition will bear fruit, to wit, you dont give up!!!
Super Y*d
{Ed008's Note - What i don't understand is that why he assumes he's 1st choice to play ? The line-up all deserved to play maybe not Gallas Sandro always plays good when he starts Livermore this year works hard for the time and is 100% fit i don't think Huddlestone is at the standard in terms of fitness.

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Ed008, agree with you regarding Hudd. That kind of attitude stinks TBH, Ive not seen Dawson come out and whinge about things, Gio hasnt demanded a transfer either..... Personally ( and after that i think it will happen) the club ought to get shot of him.
Super y*d

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Sorry to say but, Newcastle had 52% possession.

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19 Aug 2012 00:50:04
Toon fan here...
i can safely say, avb is about to send your team back to midtable. sad story, seems you fans hate the chairman too... trust me, once the fans hate the chairman, the chairman stops caring. hence Mike Ashley hiring Shearer to relegate us.

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What ? Ashley hired shearer to relegate you? that's a mental statement
we lost 1 game away to a good side and your condemning us already.
get a grip
shorty

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Toon fan here total b******* spurs were better team bit more luck would have won this......

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I think any foorball man looking at spurs would clearly see that AVB got the team very well orgainsed, Newcastle couldn't live with us in the first half and the difference was simply two flashes of brilliance from Ba and Afra (well or stupidity from VDV/Lennon)! If Spurs sign NO ONE then I would agree with your post however I can't believe a creative midfielder and at least one striker will come in before the window shuts and if so then I can assure you Spurs will be up there challenging...

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What a ridiculous statement!

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AVB is a better manager then Pardrew, Levy is a better chairman then Mike Ashley, we are a better team then newcastle, We were the better team yesterday, but you just had luck. AVB did everything right, all we need is to but 3-4 players and we are solid, You are basing AVB from chelsea and not even looking at porto.

Spurs Lad
{Ed008's Note -Great post!

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I thought it was a scrappy encounter with all players looking a little rusty (to be expected).Spurs were better 1st half and Newcastle 2nd half after they changed things. Thought HBA terrified the Spurs defence late on.

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As a spurs fan I would say both teams where ok. Both showed some good play.
After the bin dippers and gooners yesterday, I would be more than happy if us and the Geordies where battling for 4th. We both looked better than the other 2. I agree with other posters on this site, we are only. Couple of decent signings away. Def need at least one striker and a keeper. I would love to see dembele come in. The guy is young and class

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19 Aug 2012 00:46:15
Personally think Ganso would be a fitting replacement for modric.

Also, if Damiao was to be brought in I think there would be good chemistry between he and ph Ganso.

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19 Aug 2012 00:17:55
Dembele was magnificent today for Fulham. Surely a bid for him can't be a bad idea, as he will be far cheaper than Moutinho, has PL experience, and is very versatile. Could be a really smart bit of business as Modric's replacement. I've heard there is interest, can any of the eds confirm this? And, if there is any, how serious is it? {Ed001's Note - there has been interest from Spurs and Madrid in him.}

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Yep couldn't agree more, asked about any rumours on Dembele last week. He is quality and could easily fill Modric's boots!! Sign him!!

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