Spurs Banter Archive March 20 2014

20 Mar 2014 19:52:56
just like sunday this team were there for the beating but we start to slow and negative if chelsea or arsenal were playing tonight they would have done the job on benfica same old spurs

To be fair Valley, they did drop out of Champs League, so they are a very decent team.

Also, you boys did have a lot of injuries, so 2-2 away to them is not a bad result.

Benfica didn't have to do anything, it was up to us to win by 3, which for the last 10-15 minutes of the game until the penalty looked a possibility.

20 Mar 2014 19:28:35
i didn't know there was a champions league place for the winners in the europa this year the spurs players seem unintrested and not trying very hard it would have been easier to win this tournament than getting into the top 4 in the league i'm off to the bookies tomorrow to lump on southampton on sunday they will be about 3/1 to win easy money

{Ed008's Note - I think that rule takes place next season

It is from next season but the way the Thursday/Sunday messes up so many League results I think you sacrifice one for the other. Sounds a lame excuse but stats don't lie and teams always struggle with it. I think Wigan would be top 2 of Championship if they'd not been in it!
You're right on 3/1, snap it up, draw no bet at 6/4 is a great price too.

20 Mar 2014 18:51:08
half time and we are still rubbish to watch 1 shot at goal not going to watch 2nd half we are a waste of time getting fed up of seeing dim sherwood shaking his head everytime the other team scores for the first time ever I am looking forward to the season ending roll on the summer

20 Mar 2014 17:20:49
Whenever Tottenham misses out on a player who prove to be great buys for someone else, we blame Levy or the manager (although there is no praise for them when we don't buy players who turn out to be expensive disasters).

Suarez keeps cropping up as the prime example of the one that got away and Harry usually takes the blame.

In truth, there was only ever a remote chance of us getting him.

His strike rate for Ajax was outstanding, so he knew he was being tracked by all the biggest clubs in Europe. If they didn't bid for him, it was only because of doubts about his temperament.

A move to a club like Spurs was only ever going to be the last resort for him and when Liverpool decided to take on the risk, we weren't even that. They had won 5 European Cups, while we hadn't won a major trophy in his lifetime.

He was never coming to us.

But what about Harry's supposed doubts about him?

We would have had to smash our transfer record to get him and we didn't have the £50m Torres deal lined up.

Harry knew he could score goals in Dutch football, but wasn't sure he could do the same in the Premiership. For a season-and-a-half he didn't. He scored a respectable 21 goals in 52 games (0.4 a game), but that is exactly the same strike rate as both Defoe and Adebayor.

Harry probably also have feared his behaviour would make him a liability. It has. He has missed 18 games through suspension: that is half a season.

Harry's doubts were entirely justified.

Of course, Suarez has now answered all those doubts. His overall contribution was always excellent and in the last season-and-a-half the goals have come in a flood: 55 in 72 games (0.76). But hindsight always has 20/20 vision.

If we now regret not taking the risk that Liverpool took, what about United, City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Juventus, Bayern Munich and PSG?

They are the clubs that were really in the running for him.

20 Mar 2014 18:40:54
Km pointless talking about swarez.
Even if we did sign him he probably have left anyway.
Willian deal was done Tottenham dilly dallied on it as normal
That 1 or 2 million to get our original target not the bargain bucket alternative.
Unless u have shares in spurs or care about their accounts back levy ok
Oops we r 1 down
Please someone tell me we won't have these players next year or Tim, lez or Chris in charge plzzzzzz

Mr G

You are right. I only mentioned Suarez because whenever I ask people about all these players we didn’t sign because of Levy’s tightness and Harry’s poor judgement, he is the only credible name I hear.

Maybe there was a window of opportunity when we might have got him, but I doubt it.