Spurs Banter Archive January 23 2013

23 Jan 2013 23:53:45
Isnt anytin I heard or anytin but just my opinion.i reckon we will sign holtby and negredo before next thursday, negredo scored 2 goals tonight too I might add, if we fail with negredo have a feeling we might sign hooper, but we wudnt have a problem signing holtby or negredo if levy stops his penny pinching and try to get players that are class for that little bit cheaper then there valued for instance negredo is worth between 12 and 15 mill I think levy will offer no more then 2 mill short of the valuation just to act the mickey.

This hooper link is untrue.

A journalist linked him to us so midtable clubs like Norwich and everton(who are doing well this season) panic and start a bidding war.

Now serveral papers have noted it without having any real evidence a deal is in place.
One newspaper said he was at the game which was untrue. People just getting excited if you ask me.

The Channeller.

23 Jan 2013 22:10:37
Bid for Soldado is looking very likely now.

23 Jan 2013 20:51:40
To the sweatysock, We, Levy, Avb don't want Hooper. If we did we would get him its as simple as that. Tottenham would rip you to shreds if we played a competitive game so keep enjoying your pathetic friendly win you had years ago.

spurs guvnor

^^ I see the ketamin is freely available again.

Yep, we have got another supply from Scotland!!

23 Jan 2013 19:43:07
Have you Spuds heard yourselves. Gary Hooper would be a quality player for your team, much better than what you have now. So what he plays in the SPL, so did Larsson. Hooper has proved he can score goals at a level higher than the premiership, The Champions League.

No matter what level you play at a strikers job is to put the ball in the back of the net and Hooper can do that no problem.

It's all right you's putting the SPL down, 99% of you have probably never even seen a Scottish game. Watching Hibs vs Hearts is no less entertaining as watching Wigan vs West Brom.

And I seem to remember a Celtic reserve team giving your first team a good doing a few years back at the start of one Celtic's worst seasons in years.

And for all you fans saying he would be the cheap option, He will cost £8.5m not the £6m you think.

Cheaper doesn't mean worse.

This is a good joke

Oh come off-it, watching spl is like pulling teeth.. painful, the majority of teams can't string 5 passes together without giving the ball away, you would find a better standard in lg1.
As for Hooper, well where to start, he needs 2or 3 touches to control a ball properly, he won't get away with that in pl, he's slow so how in the way of hell is he going to keep up with bale & lennon on counter attack.
He has a good strike rate i'll give him that but wasn't Connor Salmon leading goalscorer in spl at the time he signed for wigan & look how that turned out, There's plenty of others as well kenny Miller flopped, Tommy coyne, David Kelly David healy Kyle lafferty & mcdonald at middlesborough all scored goals at a certain but that's the crux of it that's there level.
Look Hooper might be a good impact sub for someone in bottom half of pl but he is nowhere good enough for a side chasing top4, he's about same standard as jay rodriques at southampton scored goals at his level & as for Hooper been better than Defoe, Adebayor or Dempsey jeez what are you on? Robbie keane looked like bloody Pele in a 2bob lg.
Now if it was that kid Watt it would be another story he definately has something about him & with right coaching could have a chance of been a hit in pl.
Espur

Espur, you should be knighted. Your post was fantastic.

The channeller

23 Jan 2013 15:42:24
Agree if you want to sign Gary Hooper, disagree if you don't!

Anyone better than ada

Last season he wasn't!!

23 Jan 2013 14:25:35
I'm just wondering what people think of wilfred bony at vitesse.

Seems to know where the back of the net is, and its time we discovered someone who doesn't cost top dollar who turns out to be a star.

Our scouts should be picking up the new talent and not always looking for the expensive buys that we never seem to be able to get. Not saying Bony is that I couldn't answer but he looks interesting think 16 in 18 goals this season so far.

There is a lot of talent out there that haven't yet made a name but could be excellent.

Just my thoughts

Marc {Ed002's Note - Wilfried Bony was of interest to Newcastle over the summer and has been a player Chelsea have been considering for a while. Recently there has been varying degrees of interest from Marseille, Aston Villa, QPR, Liverpool, Everton and a couple of German sides (Hamburg and Schalke) but only Marseille is pushing. It would not be a surprise to see interest from other teams, possibly Napoli and Roma. The player has said he would like to join Chelsea. Whilst an offer is imminent from one side and efforts are being made to get interest from Russia, any move in January is by no means certain and he will be away at the ACON until the middle of February.}

Marc, he does score but he is not that great a player. He reminds me a little of martins that had a spell at Newcastle.

The Channeller

23 Jan 2013 12:38:00
Can people stop posting to/talking about the Oracle please.

He's obviously oblivious to life.

It's annoying and he doesn't need the attention you all give him.

Thanks

SpursDave

Well said Dave !!

Flippit

Ok so we are saying a blanket block on oracle unless damaio is signed...............sounds great

derbyshire dave

Im already ignoring him. And as we already know that 80% of his posts are utter nonsense and the other 20% we have all read in the press before he claims it as his ITK, it's very easy. Just read who has signed the post, if it ends with Oracle, I don't bother reading it. Simples.

Mark my words, if he says Diamiao will sign, he won't (AGAIN). He will not predict anything - just claim general knowledge as his. Then 1st Feb will arrive and we'll all be on here asking him to explain himself and he'll just disappear for a couple of months in the hope that we'll all forget. Same as every year.

Flippit.

How can you talk to a brick wall?

With a hammer !

23 Jan 2013 10:32:09
Jermain: One final point about Dembele.

I do rate him and I certainly don't want him to go, even if we signed another world class midfield player. It is just that his statistics at Fulham were exceptional: number of runs; players beaten in runs; ball retention; tackles won; passes completed, etc. That is the player I want to see week in and week out at White Hart Lane (whatever role he eventually settles into).

When he joined us he picked up an injury and this slowed down his integration into the team. I haven't seen him have a bad game yet and he has showed glimpses of how good he can be. I am only disappointed that I haven't seen him really firing on all cylinders yet. Against United he had a solid game (with a couple of magic moments, such as the one you mentioned) but the stars were Parker (despite his limitations as a player) and Lennon. I want to see Dembele starting to rack up the 'man of the match' awards.

For what its worth, after half a season I was equally underwhelmed both by Berbatov and Modric. They quickly came good and that is what I hope and expect of Dembele.
KM

Also dembele will be playing a slightly different role to that at fulham with better players around him he probably doesn't feel the same onus to run with the ball etc as he did when playing at fulham.

he looks real class from what I have seen of him in fact he is probably the reason we won't sign another mid fielder with holtby coming in as well I really think we need a striker not a midfielder as we have cover enough in there.

derbyshire dave