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We had two good chances just before we scored in extra time (not sure why it has to be only normal time like), hit the bar with one of them. Gayle got through in the first half and could have scored, Diame's header right in front of goal was a clear cut chance. Not sure if Hull even had more than one shot on target..

If Leeds ever get there it won't be with Monk.

Hype. Granted, it is remarkable how reputable, switched-on managers like Pochettino still fall for it, but when £30m represents slightly more than pocket change for English CL clubs, signings like this will continue to happen. Its still 16% of Tottenham's total revenue last year. Remove all the normal expenses (wages ect) and its pretty much everything they had. No doubt in the coming year revenue will increase again, they can certainly afford it, but its still going to be a significant chunk of their cash flow.

Ignoring the fact Rafa has turned the entire club around I guess. Also ignoring the fact that Leeds are 11 points behind us. People are going on as if we're in a comparable position but Benitez has gotten their the easy way with lots of cash ect. In reality they're nowhere near us. Same goes for the manager of the month thing. Leeds have lost and drawn in the league in October, got 10 points for the month. We've won every game and have 15 points for the month. Not to mention we won our cup game in October 6-0 while they drew theirs. Again not even comparable.

Fucking hell Sterling really is shite. England breaking forward with Rose and he steps in, takes it off the feet of Rose and completely halts the move.

How the fuck can this Scotland side not have Matt Ritchie in it?

This Sissoko thing is even worse though IMO, completely mental, makes literally no sense at all.

I don't know, I mean Ronaldo's hit over thirty in La Liga six seasons in a row, three of those seasons he's scored forty or over just in the league. Messi's scored over thirty five times and once scored 50 in the league in one season! These are 38 game seasons as well. You mention Shearer doing it three times but two of those seasons were were 42 game seasons. Would be good if Ronaldo came back to the Premier League soon or Messi came over, than we could get a better idea. But I still think Premier League is tougher overall, no team can just turn up and dominate every game.

Of course he would. Like I said earlier, players with half of his ability have done exactly that, which is why this whole thing about our league being tougher is lost on me. :don't know: Tougher than La Liga yeah. As far as wether Messi/Ronaldo would get 30+ goals a season, its impossible to say. My own opinion is they'd certainly reach that number but not consistently. You mention earlier players that have done it in this league (Suarez, Aguero, Hazard). Those three have certainly been successful. But only one of those hit 30+ in the league and he only did it once (31 for Suarez in his final season). Ronaldo hit 31 goals in the Premier League once, didn't come close any other season. Yet he's only failed to get 31+ once in his time in La Liga, often scoring 40+ in the league.

Maybe if they were top 4 () they'd manage to get their current attendance but with everyone actually paying to be there?

Sean Dyche saying on SSN that Pardew did a great job here, just added Dyche to the list of people I'd like to punch.

Looking at those numbers it looks like they've got something like 20-25k paying fans and the rest are just their for the free tickets. I mean Sunderland do their own catering as well right? So that should push their match day revenue up in comparison to ours (since we outsource catering). Yet our match revenue is 2.5 times their's.

I still hate this cunt so much!

Fucking irritate me those two. During the match John Anderson was saying how we really want "one of the big boys" like Liverpool in the next round. As if we're some tiny club that never gets to play big games so we should want that chance ahead of a better chance of progressing.. I mean FFS we played Liverpool last season and the season before and most seasons for the last god knows how long. I couldn't give a shit about playing Liverpool, I just want a draw that gives us the best chance possible of getting to the semi's.

Aye its great to have everyone playing so well, no matter who comes in they do a good job. Such a contrast to years gone by when you'd pray that certain players wouldn't be involved.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/revealed-how-much-tottenham-are-paying-for-moussa-sissoko-and-why-mauricio-pochettino-wanted-the-a3334451.html

Spurs fans are f***ing stupid. Oh its ok lads we can sell him next season for £10M, don't worry about the repayments they will just not exist anymore. Surely one of them didn't think that? Oh aye plenty believed it, the evening standard actually peddled this bollocks as well The story was they offered £16m, we responded by telling them we wouldn't sell for a penny under £30m. But we would accept that in five payments of six million pounds. The financial god that is Daniel Levy saw his opportunity to accept that offer because obviously (in Spurs ITK fantasy land) it meant they only had to make those payments while Sissoko was playing for them, because they're special and not subject to real world contracts. They actually thought Tottenham could just sell him on if they didn't fancy him, keep the fee but stop paying the six million per year to us as soon as he was off their books

Had a look and if they lose their next two they'll equal the worst ever start to a Premier League season (unsurprisingly that team were relegated). They'd then need three points from their next two games just to keep them equal with the record, any less and they'll break it. Next four games are: West Ham (A) Arsenal (H) Bournmouth (a) Hull (H) So they may just hang in their for now, but IMO only a matter of time before they're crowned the worst ever.

West Ham away first, then Arsenal at home. Lose both and surely its the worst start to a Premier League season by any team ever?

Their next game is an absolute must win, lose that and they'll be in a position worse than they've ever been in before.

Not been given the chance IMO. Still a bairn too. He's not. He's 26 on Thursday. Defoe's twice his age so hes still a bairn by comparison.

Decent point, as I never saw Pele except on old vids, and Maradona was past it by the time I paid attention to football. He was a hasbeen playing against Australia in 1993 and a drug cheat at the 94 World Cup. But to use this notion and go back to HTT's point that Shearer was a better CF than Ronaldo (!), I'd suggest that there were half a dozen or more strikers in my lifetime better than Wor Al. Apart from Ronaldo, there's Van Basten, Gullit, Weah (admittedly only for 2-3 seasons), Batistuta, Henry - and that's before getting to the debatable ones. Everything you've mentioned their is extremely debatable, shudder to think who you'd come up with as debatably better. I mean Weah better for 2-3 seasons? Better for a couple of seasons (debatable as well BTW) means fuck all.

Better than Di Matteo (not saying much there like). But they better have a plan for who to replace him with if he ever gets them promoted. Absolutely rotten manager outside of the Championship.

Massive lads fan?, they saying he was a homosexual chubby chaser ?

Anywhere showing this in Newcastle?