Tottenham Hotspur 2011-2012 Official Thread

[tommers]

Yeah maybe. I suppose my view is coloured by the fact that I don't want the stadium, and fell in love with the NDP plans at first sight.

Yeah, but he doesn't give a shit about that. He sees a massive site with the best transport links and none of the crap that Haringey are demanding.

And those NDP plans are still plans. Levy has said it is "not viable". Maybe he's trying to bluff but that's just a picture you lot keep posting.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Gareth Bale will demand to leave Tottenham if the club sells Croatian midfielder Luka Modric, who is wanted by Chelsea.

But Spurs are prepared to make Modric the highest-paid player in their history if he agrees to stay at White Hart Lane - the 25-year-old could earn as much as £90,000-a-week.

 

[London_Calling]

So where are we so far ... Woodgate's gone, O'Hara has gone, Freidal has arrived... and at least half a dozen more are in various stages of leaving?

Initial bids for two or three forwards on the table. Media trying to keep alive a non-narrative in relation to Modric. Bit quiet really. Another end-of-window flurry, I'd think.


And Danny Rose is semi-officially a left back, sorry a 'diminutive left back'. If Kyle Walker keeps up the progess we might actually have progess on both sides of the park.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Lol at Levy giving Bale the excuse to leave he's been looking for since January.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Tottenham have still not given up hope of signing David Beckham when his Los Angeles Galaxy contract expires in November.

 

[tommers]

Media trying to keep alive a non-narrative in relation to Modric.

Um... LC... you do realise you've just said it's a bogus media narrative, don't you?

Based on the last one of those he'll be out within the month.

 

[agricola]

Aaron Lennon, £20 million, Liverpool.

 

[London_Calling]

Um... LC... you do realise you've just said it's a bogus media narrative, don't you?

It started out that way! Then Levy realised just how much Stratford could generate....

As for Aaron Lennon - that's our entire midflied gone now (Modric, Bale, Sandro... Lennon) - for £100 mill.

And we're still in June

 

[Refused as fuck]

Yeah, keep bluffing you dumb bastard.

 

[TruXta]

Aaron Lennon, £20 million, Liverpool.

Please God, no.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Robbie Keane's career at Spurs looks set to be coming to an end, with Blackburn keen on signing the 30-year-old.

Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas will make a double raid on Tottenham with a £60m bid for midfielder Luka Modric and the left-sided Gareth Bale.

Spurs boss Harry Redknapp hopes to offload Mexican midfielder Giovani Dos Santos to Seville, but the Spanish club have yet to meet the £6.5m asking price.

Mirko Vucinic's agent has ruled out a move to Tottenham, saying the Roma striker deserves a "more prestigious" club.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Cut and paste from the beeb gossip column is really difficult, you're right.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Cut and paste from the beeb gossip column is really difficult, you're right.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Apparently Crouch has his pick of the 2 "big" north-east clubs; once we've had a couple or 3 players out to free up squad spaces and wages we'll see Forlan and Leandro Damiao signing on the dotted.

 

[Refused as fuck]

'Arry's shortlist is 70 players long, mate.

 

[Corax]

And Danny Rose is semi-officially a left back, sorry a 'diminutive left back'.

He looked pretty handy as a LB. Which is great, because he was a big bag of meh at LW.

Anyway, I just had to post this:

Redknapp's problems will arise if Modric or Bale (or both) are sold, because despite having a wad full of cash to spend, there aren't many players around, if any, who can replace the pair. Charlie Adam from Blackpool, Stewart Downing from Aston Villa perhaps,

Er....

 

[London_Calling]

Well, providing 'content' is a shit job for shit money - never read it, they're all clueless.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp will sell four or five players in order to bring in any new signings.

And Spurs have stepped up their interest in Stuttgart's Germany defender Serdar Tasci.

Blackburn manager Steve Kean is considering a renewed bid for Tottenham striker Robbie Keane, having had a £2m offer rejected.

Six Premier League clubs are chasing Manchester City's James Milner - including Aston Villa, who sold him to City for £26m last summer*.


Either Liverpool or Levy will pay £10 million for him. Then the season after you/they will sell him back to us for £1 million.

 

[London_Calling]

What do we think chaps; match the offer or best left alone:

Ipswich accept Sunderland's £13m offer for Connor Wickham

Ipswich Town have accepted Sunderland's £13m bid for their talented teenage striker Connor Wickham. Although only 18, the 6ft 3in England Under-21 player has attracted interest from Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur and will need to be persuaded that the Stadium of Light is the right destination.

Accordingly Wickham and his representative have scheduled lengthy talks with Steve Bruce and Niall Quinn, the chairman and manager respectively. They will attempt to convince a forward who has seemingly had his heart set on a move to his boyhood idols Liverpool that he will enjoy appreciably more first-team opportunities on Wearside .

Wickham made his senior debut for Ipswich at just 16 and has since scored 15 goals in 65 club appearances. While that is a less than startling ratio, Wickham was frequently deployed as a winger by Ipswich. Moreover the forward's long-term potential is considered immense and Bruce – whose offer is understood to involve £5m paid up-front with the remainder becoming payable on a fulfilment of assorted clauses – is braced for counter-bids from Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jun/28/sunderland-connor-wickham-ipswich

 

[Balbi]

If Wickham goes to Bruce, it'll kill his career dead. Sunderland's been a strikers graveyard since Phillips.

 

[g force]

Really? Because a fair few clubs wanted Kenwyne Jones and some guy called Bent did pretty well there too.

 

[chieftain]

His solo goal last season was a thing of beauty, other than that I've heard he's good but not really seen him play so I don't know.

 

[Balbi]

Really? Because a fair few clubs wanted Kenwyne Jones and some guy called Bent did pretty well there too.

Jones was great at the scummers, and got a bit worse at sunderland - now plodding. Bent was just glad to get out, and flew out the door at the chance. Bruce and strikers, not a good combo.,

 

[London_Calling]

I suppose when you've spent £10 mill on Gareth Bale... you're inclined to roll the dice again. Anyway he signed now (for Sunderland), I believe.

In other FFS news:

Spurs return to High Court over Olympic Stadium verdict

Just when you thought you'd got out . . . . THEY PULL YOU BACK IN AGAIN....

 

[Refused as fuck]

Tottenham Hotspur have joined Arsenal in the race for Valencia winger Juan Mata.

Tottenham are set to make Mexican striker Antonio Pedroza Whitham their first signing of the summer transfer window, with the 20-year-old set to cost under £1m as his contract at the Mexican club had expired.

The White Hart Lane club have also joined Manchester City in the chase for highly rated 16-year-old Caen striker M'Baye Niang.

Bolton and Tottenham are among the clubs to have shown an interest in Egyptian midfielder Hosny Abd Rabo, who plays for Ismaily but is available on a free transfer.

Andrey Arshavin says the new Arsenal away kit will make the players look like jockeys, "but at least it's not as bad as the Tottenham kits".

 

[Corax]

Tottenham Hotspur have joined Arsenal in the race for Valencia winger Juan Mata.

Tottenham are set to make Mexican striker Antonio Pedroza Whitham their first signing of the summer transfer window, with the 20-year-old set to cost under £1m as his contract at the Mexican club had expired.

The White Hart Lane club have also joined Manchester City in the chase for highly rated 16-year-old Caen striker M'Baye Niang.

Bolton and Tottenham are among the clubs to have shown an interest in Egyptian midfielder Hosny Abd Rabo, who plays for Ismaily but is available on a free transfer.

Nice to see we're going for those big glamour signings to convince Modric of our ambition.

 

[Corax]

Taraabt speculated to be the subject of £13.5m bid from PSG.

Why do I care? Because £5.5m of that's ours.

 

[Corax]

NDP back on?

http://triffictottenham.co.uk/a-new-white-hart-lane-is-back-on-the-cards/?

*crosses fingers*

 

[Refused as fuck]

Bolton defender Gary Cahill could become Andre Villas-Boas' first signing as Chelsea manager. The 25-year-old centre-half, who could cost around £17m, is also wanted by Arsenal and, laughably, Tottenham.

Tottenham are ready to listen to offers in the region of £10m-12m for striker Jermain Defoe, 28, to raise funds to buy Villarreal's Giuseppe Rossi, 24, and Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Llorente, 26.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Levy may have some right to call shenanigans.