Wullie

That we should spend money relative to our income, with the third largest gate in the country, to try and win stuff and play Champions League football, like we did (tried) for years! Fucking hell. This is exactly what I mean about people just being happy with the club actually existing regardless of how good the team is. What ambition! No wonder players are wanting away when even the fans don't care about attempting success.

When do you expect the bailiffs to arrive at Spurs?

Everybody spends money they don't have. Society as we know it wouldn't function otherwise.

Keegan failed at Man City? Aye ok.

Jesus Christ. Proof indeed, not that it were needed, there's more than enough drivel like that on here already.

Best football we've seen since Robson tbh, not that there's much competition.

We didn't have to sell him regardless of what he wanted.

Would you rather have sold Carroll or paid him the wages of a player commanding his asking price? Or c), which everyone seems to ignore, neither?

Don't talk sense.

Oh right why did they put transfer requests in then?

From the money the club generates obviously, same as ours used to. They've spent vastly more than they've made in transfer fees.

What a total cunt that lad is.

They would have if they'd asked for it. Successful football clubs don't run on principles, which is why those players get so much money in the first place.

Would you rather have had that money or stayed up with the extra point that I'm fairly sure a player of Milner's (and/or N'Zogbia's) productivity would have earned us over a season? To those mentioning Spurs sell-to-buy policy, if you suggested to Harry Redknapp that they had one, I suspect he'd laugh in your face. Point is, spurs have done it and found success, so now they don't have to sell to buy anymore. Please understand. No, they had managers who did it, got sacked because the team was shit as a result, now they have a manager who will fight tooth and nail to keep his best players and hasn't sold anyone. Please understand.

Based on what you're saying it's impossible to manage players and pay them based on their own merits. Unless everyone gets the same as the top player they all stick in transfer requests and automatically must be sold. How does every other club manage it then? It's got nowt to do with how much Carroll would have got, it's about how close together he'd have been getting a payrise. Not many clubs give their players two payrises in three months. If I was a teammate, I'd be marching into the manager's office at it. Most of them seemed unhappy that he'd gone because of the effect on the team, apart from Nolan obviously who immediately put a poster of him up in his bedroom. How many of Man Utd's and Man City's players have put requests in since the Rooney/Tevez incidents?

Danny fucking Welbeck, fuck me. Leon Best must be kicking himself that he went for Ireland... I'm not even joking. He'd certainly get a game for Ghana instead of this "Asamoah" clown up front.

Like Fabregas? Like Adam, who's been superb since January? Like Shay Given? Like Rooney? Like Tevez? What an utter nonsense. Like a thicko like Carroll is going to hold the grudge. One trip to Aspers and ten pints, he'd have forgotten all about it.

The part which I think sums it up best is "The concept implies that a single set of principles encompassing all situations (a "single standard") is the desirable ideal." I would have had no problem with the Carroll contract request having been turned down if it wasn't for Tiote getting a new contract within months of his original. I don't have a problem with Tiote getting a new contract either apart from it coming after Carroll was refused one. could you see a difference if it was for example tiote going from 5k to 25k and carroll demanding 80k from 30k ? If we're replacing a £35m striker, how much do you reckon that player will want?

Makes me feel absolutely fucking sick to my stomach tbh.

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Actually he was injured for most of it, courtesy of Lee Cattermole.

Or neither are lying?

He didn't allow him to hand in a transfer request, he told him to hand it in. "Derek [Llambias] asked me to hand in a transfer request, so I was pushed into a corner and had no choice." Pardew says he told him to put it in writing - not "please stay", not "here's why you shouldn't leave" but "fine, put it in writing". Is that what you want from a manager?

Would you rather have had that money or stayed up with the extra point that I'm fairly sure a player of Milner's (and/or N'Zogbia's) productivity would have earned us over a season? To those mentioning Spurs sell-to-buy policy, if you suggested to Harry Redknapp that they had one, I suspect he'd laugh in your face. are we allowed to say that maybe if players like colo and barton had lived upto their billing and price tags that season we may not have gone down also ? re spurs and redknapp......he benefitted from sours making profits on players. Indeed. What's your point? That we should sell good players and expect other players to make up the shortfall in the team? How does having an expensive centre half help if you've sold a winger and need to buy Ryan Taylor to fill the gap? Barton hardly played by the way, six appearances, and we'd have been down a long time before if we'd not won the games against Villa and West Brom at home, two of his best games for us prior to this season.

Fair enough, I think Pardew is a massive leap backwards and will completely fuck us up next season, if he doesn't take us down this one. Who cares what the player wants? He was contracted to us, a brand new one. Fabregas wanted out of Arsenal. Who does he play for now? As for putting it in writing, Pardew even admits that he never even attempted to convince him to stay but just gave him the pen. The club were fucking desperate to get shot of Carroll.