Could This Really Be About To Happen?
Firstly I don’t think there is anyway Daniel Levy would shell out £12m for a player who is almost 32 years old in David Villa however I do think there may be some truth in the rumor but I am sure he will get us a better deal than £12m if true. It’s not the [...]
Wigan Game, I’d Drop Parker For This Man
I do think Scotty Parker has been again one of our best players again since Sandro has been injured but for the Wigan game this weekend and a game we must take 3 points in I’d drop him, well not so much drop him but give him a rest for a week. My reason for [...]
Seen a couple of guys posting one of the season review videos around the net so I thought having watched it I’d share it with you. So many ups and downs and as usual so much rotten luck but it comes with the territory of supporting Tottenham, we all know our luck is horrendous just like supporting England but mark my words one day we will prevail.
Enjoy the video below and leave the guy a comment if you liked it.
Eden Hazard, early in the new year for those of you who remember was reported to have said on Belgian TV that he could possibly join Tottenham in the summer as we were a club that appealed to him and looked as though we were going places. Unfortunately for us we weren’t going places due to our fall for grace in the latter part of the campaign.
It doesn’t really matter anymore but if we really wanted this guy I said we should have tried to wrap up a deal for a summer move their and then as once other top clubs are interested then suddenly Spurs doesn’t seem the best option. Chelsea look to have secured his services but was it the fact that they won the CL and we can only have Europa to offer now that has meant he had a change of heart (for which I don’t blame him) plus the fact he would probably be on double the wages at Chelsea.
Another theory is that we were interested but did him and his agent use Tottenham to alert other big clubs of his desire to move, were we merely a pawn for Eden Hazard to engineer a move to either City, Chelsea or United who can offer him CL football and pay him the best wages he could possibly get?
“Maybe it will be Tottenham. It is a great English club,”
“I said that I would go to England and there is very good players [at Spurs]. I have not yet signed, this is going to happen soon,”
Where did it all go wrong?
This season Brad Friedel has been fantastic. He has produced some truly great saves and kept a decent number of clean sheets this season for us. Though on occasion he has had a few poor performances, against man city at the beginning of the season he let in 5 goals, of course some of which he could nothing about but he could have performed better. Also against QPR more recently he let in a freekick that was easily managable from Spurs Old Boy, Adel Taarabt. Also Brad is 41 years old and will retire in the near future as he is simply too old. He has the experience but he is losing the physical ability and you can see it in some of his performances.
Fortunately on the 19th of May Sunderland released Scotland international Craig Gordon. Craig is a nine million pound rated keeper and recently won the Premier League Save of the 20 Seasons award with an incredible save against Bolton. Even better is Craig has never played in either the Europa league or the Champions League and if he were to join spurs he would accept lower wages to join for free. He is only 29 years old and is a great keeper. The only downside would be that he is injury prone, but he is currently injury free. He wouldnt have to be first team keeper in his first season as Friedel still looks to have another season in him, but Gordon could be a true blessing to the club in the future as he is currently in his peak years with experience and athleticism.
Harry! Sign him up!
Jan Vertonghen I believe Ajax want something in the region of about £12m and we are offering something like a couple of million off the asking price. We missed out on Cahill last summer and now he has a Champions League winners medal.
It’s not like Ajax are holding you to ransom, a top quality defender and the Dutch player of the year is not being over valued at £12m so why is there always a reluctance to pay up and spend months trying to haggle the price down to the point where we end up missing out, we should also thank our lucky stars that this guy still wants to join us after our CL heartbreak.
It always seems that we worry too much about how long a player still has left on his contract rather than how much the player is worth, the truth is that if he has 1 year or 5 that’s none of our business, he is still their player and it’s not our place to dictate that he is worth less because of his contract length, I know sometimes you get away with that and you have to try your luck but if they won’t budge then just meet their valuation or risk missing out on a very good player.
Back in January we sat in 3rd place and had a chance to push for the title so what do we do? we let go of some of our backup players and bring in Ryan Nelsen and Louis Saha which showed a real lack of ambition.
We let Pav go and players like Bassong go out on loan as well as Bentley earlier in the season our only over natural right sided midfielder, there were more but to me in January we significantly weakened our squad rather than strengthen and it could have cost us. I’d rather have seen no new faces than bring in these 2 guys who are no longer up to the standard required to be Spurs players. Nelsen came from a now relegated Blackburn side and nobody ever raved about him there, unlike Chris Samba he never have a reputation as being a quality defender. Saha has long since lost his legs, he will score the odd goal but we need to be aiming a lot higher.
If we sign to many old players then we will find ourselves in a situation where we need to replace a lot of players at the end of each campaign and we simply won’t be able to afford it, Chelsea were supposedly in that stage where they let the spine of their team grow to old that they needed about 4 or 5 players but they have the funds at their disposal. Football before business has to prevail sometimes.
I remember watching deadline day and hearing the news that we had signed Ryan Nelsen and to my utter horror even Iain Dowie made fun of the deal. When asked if it was a good move Ryan Nelsen to Spurs he laughed and replied “it is for him” and that summed it all up for me, where the hell did this deal even come from? who actually thought it would be a good idea to loan out players and replace them with Ryan Nelsen. If we are going to sign players of this caliber then I wish Bale and Modric all the best and give them my blessing to leave, they deserve a lot better.
How many more transfer windows do we have to go through to get it right. Previous manager have actually had more money to spend than Harry, we got £30m for Berbatov but did we ever spend all of that on a replacement? We sold Pav in January and Robbie Keane plus O’Hara at the start but we have spent next to nothing so where is the money going?
