Spurs Rumours Archive August 12 2012

12 Aug 2012 19:52:25
Hi guys heard a rumour about the possibility of signing two u20 internationals marc bartra of Spain and gueida fofana of France anyone got any info on these guys, also really hopefully we add 2-3 top players to the squad as avb has yet to put his stamp on the squad regarding players coming, really optimistic of a good season as long as we add a bit more quality COYS

Fofana plays for Lyon and Spanish plays for barca

Bartra is unlikely, he signed a new contract last year is a b team player now on the edge of the first team. Why would he want to leave Barca to move to Spurs with Dawson, Kaboul, Vertonghen and Gallas ahead of him and arguably even Caulker, there's no benefit to him and unless Barca sign a new CB he and his team mate Andreu Fontas will get a decent chance of some first team games this season

12 Aug 2012 16:44:25
Yann M'Vila, Emanuel Adebayor and Lloris will be the 3 signings we make before window shuts. Forget Hulk, Damiao and Sturridge.

RtheYID

Agree with that add another striker and you may be correct.
We will def sign 2 strikers of some kind, even if it is saha again (hope not tho)

Lloris , mvilla and hulk/damiao

LMFOA dont be a mug

C O E

Add remy 2 that i think u cud be rite for sum reason i think remy be the one we will sign on deadline day or around that time,ade,loris i reckon will sign soon them mvila and remy be near the end of the window

Oi C O E, you use the term 'LMFAO', and you got the cheek to call someone else a mug.
What does C O E mean anyway?
Is your first name Sebastian ? {Ed008's Note - Put your handbags away please...

Cream for the laddies please.

Mvila isnt going to Spurs. He wants CL football and waiting for Arsenal to bid last minute and get him on the cheap.

He ain't going to arsenal either. He wants to win trophies.

He has got more chance their than at shi*ty hart lane

Must of taken you ages to work that out all by yourself.
Well done.

Champions of europe ......mug

12 Aug 2012 13:04:39
Yan M'Vila set to join within 48hrs. Fee around 12m. Adebayor will join before Newcastle.

RtheYID

Should be going for Moussa Sissoko. Cheaper.

Same old Tottenham truing to sign players that Arsenal were linked with {Ed008's Note - The thing is it looks like they will sign him ahead of Arsenal what a slap in the face that'll be to Wenger!

^ Wenger said he dont want him, so yh, no slap in the face. {Ed008's Note - Wenger's wanted him for years, he's arguably a better midfielder than their current crop mind you anybody is :] he'll regret not signing him if thats's the case...

Ed are you a mug? Everyone knows m'vila wanted to join Arsenal, he said it himself. We lost interest in him, not the other way round. r*****. {Ed008's Note - Yeah i am biggest mug out there :] how could you lose interest in a player like him when you've been chasing him since he arrived on the scene i smell a hint of jealousy spurs fans..

Get a room,you two.But seriously,M'Vila would prefer to go to the mighty gooners.
Braintreegooner

HAHA Gooners need 2 calm down and focus on their own clubs transfers?why do u come on this page for?...and Spurs will sign M'Vila and he will be great player for us...then come on hear and tell us u woudnt want him at your club....COYS
Dapz

Its always nice to read about who think you might get in the transfer window,dream on boys,if the Mighty gooners show any interest in M'Vila,he'll be ours.
Braintreegooner

What just like Vertonghen?!?

Ed 08 ...... You are awesome : ) keep up the good work
Bear yid

Wenger definately wanted him and Arsenal were pushing however after what happened at the Euro's with France where he apparently had an attitude problem, Wengers interest waned. I'm a Liverpool fan so don't care about who is better out of Arsenal or Spurs. Just impartial, an excellent signing for Spurs if you get him however Wenger did decide against him and is moving for Wanyama of Celtic instead. This all comes from Ed002 btw lads.
Cheers
KiwiRed

Im an Arsenal fan. Take Yann M'Vila. He's not that good. If anybody has ever watched him pull a full match more than twice and not just you tube you'll know he isnt that good.
And to Ed 008 every other Ed has said if Wenger wanted him all he has to do is make a bid and he's got him because the player has already expressed his desire to join Arsenal.
A lot of people/pundits in France day M'Vila has went backwards and believed his own hype. Im going to go out on a limb and say I reckon Huddlestone will be better than M'Vila!

Vertonghen is a spud anyway,so had to get him,and the talk of The mighty gooners being interested in him was pure speculation.If M'Vila makes a serious career mistake and signs for you lot before the 31st I will take my hat off to you all,BUT IT AINT GUNNER HAPPEN.
Braintreegooner

Ed, face facts, of we really wanted him he'd be an Arsenal player. You think he was holding out to sign for Spuds? You're the most delusional fans in the PL! If he signs for you it's because a CL league club wasn't willing to pay the fee. We were clearly interested until he went crazy at the euros and punched a kid. If we want h, he'll sign for us. No reason why he'd go to a smaller club for any reason other than the bigger club not really being interested. Christ you're thick. And jealous? Hilarious. AVB in charge and signed the third bear Belgium defender and a player that wasn't wanted in Germany so was sent away to Swansea. {Ed008's Note - But he's not gonna be a Arsenal player unless you bid for him fact! Spurs have bidded for him fact! 1-0 Spurs, Vertonghen turned you down to join Spurs fact! 2-0 Spurs I know M'Vila has a preference to join Arsenal because of his admiration for Wenger realistically who wouldn't want to play under him ? Rennes want to sell him this summer, Wenger does want the player but if Song is sold watch Wenger go for him my opinion. Decent debate!

Look at all the gooners squirm.
Ha ha ha quality.
Like little worms on the end of fishing lines.
Love your work Ed

Ed 008, Arsenal are not after Mvila u person, Wenger PUBLICLY said hes not interested and why would he join Spurs anyway, probably the worst club to play for, on the way down! {Ed008's Note - Listen many times managers have stated they are not interested in a player then BANG! next day or the next week they've signed that player it's called mind games! Never he said he was joining Spurs it's well known they are interested and placed a bid that is all...

Why does everyone say Vertonghen rejected us, what proof do you have that Arsenal put an offer in, its just BS.

If M'Vila goes to white hart pain,it will be either a springboard to get to a bigger team or spurs will offer a higher salary,so then it won't be a football decision.
I stand by what I said before that if we want him,we will get him.
Braintreegooner

12 Aug 2012 00:08:55
No particular reason not to believe word starting to go round given our track record; Ade should sign (but not cert) by end if window so not in time for first games and still deoends on the City stalemate and who backs down first if either. After that there won't be anybody, if Modric goes it will prob be last minute to get best price and maybe a token cheap signing but otherwise it's same-old-same-old we've seen for several windows now. We will struggle to challenge top 4 through lack of goals and AVB will have to spout the same as he did at Chelski but Levy will make him a longer term scapegoat I reckon to gloss-over not spending/signing who we need.
Enjoy!

What a miserable sod. why don't you just wait until the window shuts , while your waiting learn how to spell and put a sentence together.
enjoy pr*ck
shorty

LEVY OUT!! It's been going on for too damn long!! {Ed008's Note - Bit harsh!

We are one of the best run clubs in the prem. We have gone from being a mid table team to now being one of only 2 clubs to break the top 4. and to be honest, most people will say we are a good team who play good football.

10 years ago I could'nt see us in the champions league, now I have been to the Lane to welcome teams like inter Milan who we even beat... convincingly.

So with this in mind, please do not besmerch Levy's name for him doing incredibly well.

Naz

Levy out? You serious? Very under rated chairman, pulled off some bargain deals for top players and stands firm when players throw toys out of their pram, he also excellent with finances and correct me if im wrong, we are one the few clubs who dont have a debt? Big respect to DL!

Dont have a debt! Spurs are apprx £60 illion in debt.

I wrote this article for another site a few weeks ago. I hope it addresses the total stupidity of certain fickle fans.


'When Daniel Levy took over as Chairman of Spurs, we'd spent the previous five seasons in 10th -14th place, with a team during that period which included the likes of Armstrong, Ferdinand, Anderton, Rebrov, Doherty, Clemence, Davies, Korsten, Carr, Iversen, Sherwood, Leonhardson, Andy Booth, Sullivan, Thatcher, Gardner, Perry, Nilson, Taricco, Hans Segers, Luke Young, Tremezanni, Berti, Saib, Dominguez, Vega, Scales, Baardsen.

And as dedicated as some of these players were, anyone with an ounce of footballing knowledge could see that these guys were never going to secure our position as a top club.


Since 2001, Levy has taken Tottenham into a new era - not only has he achieved top five positions over five different seasons, he has thankfully also avoided the Portsmouth and Leeds financial models in the process.

In addition Levy has had the compounded pressure during his tenure of those artificial cash injections from the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea, and now Manchester City. This financial bias is like trying to run an airline when your three major competitors are flying people first class around the world on economy fares and being prepared to lose hundreds of millions of pounds in the process.

Levy has given us players of the ilk of Van Der Vaart, Berbatov, Modric, Bale, Vertonghen and Sandro. We have quality players in depth like never before, and we have the funds already sidelined to build a new stadium as well. We have finished 4th, 5th and 4th in the Premiership in the last three years, and Levy clearly felt that that wasn't good enough for his ambitions for the club. I loved what Harry Redknapp brought to the club from a motivational perspective, but I doubt many true Spurs fans weren't wondering what the bloody hell was going on in respect of some of the tactics he employed. In Levy and AVB we must now trust.

Next we come to the Luka Modric affair. Now Modric is clearly a top quality player, someone we signed for a very competitive price considering he was already a proven international star. A player who was nutured and commited enough to sign a long contract with the club. And, to be fair, a player who had shown some flashes of Barcelonesk flair and ability.

But the opportunity to play at the highest level, and the ability to double his wages, was clearly a temptation too far. Levy was stoic in rejecting Chelsea's advances, and selling him to the enemy would have only been counterproductive in any case. Levy's business acument and negotiation skills seem to point to a Modric move away from the Premiership, for a fee somewhere around £36m. I find it hard to understand how anyone could regard this as anything other than superb business for the club.

So let's stop for a moment and summarise Levy's tenure:

1. He has moved Spurs from a mid-table sleeping giant to a geniune top four contender.

2. He has invested wisely in players and built a squad of real quality and depth.

3. He has budgeted and planned a state of the art new stadium for the near future.

4. He has operated a profitable Plc unlike many of our main competitors.

5. He is loyal and ambitious and has the genuine interests of the club at heart.

I for one am absolutely delighted with him.

The Oracle

Dear mr t. oracle,

thus far i have refrained from participating in bashing you like others have on this forum, but i feel compeled now to say that you are full of horse-s**t! you made quite a few fair points about levy and i actually agree that he's done more for our club than 99% of our previous chairmen put together. but if you were really in the know as you claim to be, you'd know that loyalty is not the aim of the game for mr levy and his boss mr lewis. these two are in this for money, they are hard-nosed businessmen who aren't necessarily out to make a quick buck but are using spurs as a vessel to make a whole mansion full of cash. their plan is simple so even you should be able to understand;
a) purchase a premier league club with a history of winning things but may not be the force of days gone by.
b) begin by investing in talented managers and players that could get us into a europa league spot consistently. the club becomes more attractive to prospective players and the club makes more money.
c) invest further in squad to compete for champions league and invest in training facilities and new stadium to increase weekly income in long term.
d) use all of the above to help sell the club at a massive profit upon completion of stadium, all of which ultimately goes into levy and lewis' pocket to go buy an island somewhere.
levy does love the club, but only because he knows that given the right amount of work and investment he can make himself and absolute mint.

ergo; loyalty in football is dead (save dave whelan = hero)

I was really enjoying and agreeing with most points..

Then i get to the bottom and the sign off is "The Oracle"... which now makes me question the whole article! {Ed008's Note - Can't believe im saying this but The Oracle has a point...

I read that full article from another site, as stated by oracle but wasn't wrote by the oracle.
Like most of his 'itk', his best friend
'mr copy and paste' had been applied here.

A few very good points from the oracle, and the poster below makes a few more realistic ones about the fact that levy and lewis are top flight businessmen, with little or no loyalty. But if joe lewis wanted to buy an island, im sure he could do that without needing to sell spurs? Aint he like the 9th richest man in the UK?

i can see why levy is doing what he is doing and he is clearly a businessman that has learnt his trade in a specific way and he cannot change that now - if he appears a tight arse, it maybe because that is how he made his personal fortune to date? he aint gonna have got it by wasting his money is he? so for the good of the club long term, whether that is with levy and lewis in charge or some kuwaity conglomerate, i think we should praise Mr Levy for the way he has handled the financial aspects at The Lane during his tenure - the club has certainly moved forward in a way we all want to see, and as long as the club keeps moving in the correct direction and improving,without jeopardising the future security of the club, surely we can all be pleased?
Spurs will win the Premier League within the next 5 years i think....maybe with avb in charge ?

Just to point out, I started this thread with a rumour I heard that isn't that wild given our recent transfer track-record, the but about Levy was more like my own conjecture that he won't stand up and take the flak if we're struggling and, how will we not struggle with no strikers? I agree Levy has done a sensible job and we have improved massively but, if Ade plus another doesn't come in then we do not have the correctly balanced squad at all and this is going to be a basic and fundamental failing.
PS - I also replied back to to Shorty laying it down, to mention he spelt you're with your and that my post was type-os not spelling mistakes, wasn't put up though.
Simmo

Just to expose the jealous immature destructive input from some readers. Above an anonymous post claiming that the article I posted was not written by me. Well perhaps you would post your nam if you want to lie, or maybe write to Mr Vic Daniels who is the director of hereisthecity.com and clarify that the article was submitted by Tge Oracle.

The educated and informed readers here will know it is me from the style of writing. For the anonymous liar, go throw stones at somebody else from inside your greenhouse!

The Oracle
{Ed008's Note - Confirmed the Real Oracle!