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we only have speculation to defend him with aswell. exactly. So let's give him the benfit of the doubt then instead of having these daft arguments everytime no i wont give him the benefit of the doubt. i'll await evidence before i decide which side of the fence to be on. I dont even know why you ever consider even parking your arse along side ashley tbh, given what we have seen the last few years. "i dont know who to blame because i havent seen any concrete evidence" "omfg ashley arselicker facepalm pwnd" as usual. My big gimps minge. What evidence do you want, we got relegated because of the decisions coming from the owner and his cronies. i'd like to know why keegan quit, not (with the benefit of hindsight) what happened after. time will hopefully tell. Allerdyce, KK and Kinnear all said we needed players, all 3 of them were ignored. Allerdyce was sacked and KK quit what does that tell you. that we have very little money? thats actually a fact. allardyce practically wasted about £20+ million btw. Only actually spent about £10m iirc (Parker, Dyer gaining money). Wasted all but about £4m of it mind and racked up a staggering wage bill in the process.

You're more optimistic than me. I have City, Villa and Everton to be certainties to be above Spurs. 8th place at best. Villa i don't agree with. They need to pull some major signings out the bag before i start thinking we can't finish above them. Everton i agree with because they're very consistant and get results even with half their team missing and City...well...it really depends on who they sign. If they continue the same formula they're using now which is to sign any half decent player who might be available irrepective of what position he plays or if they actually need him, then we can certainly finish above them. Imo we need a striker, centre midfielder and lb competition for ekotto (make lm Bales permanent position). Get rid = Bentley, Dos Santos, Zokora, Bent, and hopefully Keane (maybe even Pav to tbh...50/50 on him). That is Spurs all over, though, isn't it? Sell Keane, then buy him back in the same season, then sell him again shortly after? That'd be short termism all over. I think we're going to struggle unless we replace Laursen (Barry, despite the views of the rest of the country who see him play well for England and assume he's that good week in, week out, will be much easier to replace) and bulk the squad up, but I can't see a single thing at Spurs that makes me think we'll finish below them. I recall this exact same conversation going on this time last year and look how it turned out. Dos Santos was going to be amazing, and he ends the season on loan at, errm, Ipswich. Bentley was a stunning signing, and he achieves nothing more than a fluke goal and a particularly flamboyant haircut, Modric is going to be incredible (and he is, until someone so much as gives him a nasty look and he goes missing for the rest of the match, like a gigantic fanny). I worry much, much more about Everton than I do Tottenham - they're sensible, realistic, don't have their head in the clouds, go after players they've got a decent chance of getting and who will do them a job (can you ever imagine Spurs signing players as low key as, say, Jagielka, for example) and they've got a better manager than Spurs and Villa. To reiterate, i know a lot of this isn't Spurs fault and it largely comes through the media, but I can't help but think that ultimately, whilst bigging you up one moment (look! pics of Levy and co in Madrid! They've gone to sign 17 Real Madrid players!), they're laughing at you behind your back. Good post. It's been said before in the past, but over the last few years Spurs' approach in the transfer market has looked a bit 'FM'-ish. There's a huge turnover of players that leads to a massive lack of stability with players coming and going like there's no tomorrow. Vast amounts are spent and received, and they're forever buying either 'the next big thing' (dos Santos, Bale, Huddlestone, etc.) or someone who has impressed over a relatively short, recent period of time for too much money (Jenas, Bent, Bentley, Modric, Pavluychenko). Last summer in particular was mental. This all seems to have been happening without much thought for where everyone's going to fit into the team and how the squad will blend together. They need some stability and cohesion, it looks like there are some exciting players there and a decent squad. I'm just not sure there's a team yet. It looks as though it's all been done by someone with a short attention span.

Are adequate passing and shooting skills less required in Spain?

What/where is the £10m bonus story?

That last line still makes me laugh everytime

What did he do to us exactly? I'll think you'll find he had our best interests at heart going by the events since he left. And I bet he has been gagged by the del boy who owns us. He left us in the shit at the start of the season and we never recovered and i cannot forgive him for that and its been churned up so many times he should never have came back ,How many times has he jumped ship ? if he wasnt so spineless he should have insisted on Wise leaving before him ,this argument will go on and on but imho let him go cos self interest is his motivation and we need to start a fresh as i said why oh why go back to him because we all know it will end in tears as history tells us this,how many managers have acted like a spoilt brat like him through there managerial careers . Words defeat me sometimes.

Tomas Radzinski Simeon Jackson Paul Stalteri that's it. Julian DeGuzman of Deportivo. And Fulham favourite Tomas Radzinski. And Tomas Radzinski.

Managers don't have the same powers players do though. Surely those coming in after a stint out would almost have to take what they can get?

I don't understand why rolling contracts aren't the norm within the managerial world.

Doesn't he fancy you?

Played very well in the middle at Stoke (better than Bassong I thought), but has been woeful at full back when I've seen him.

I find it extremely hard to believe Robben won't have a better club than Spurs in for him too. Would be quality for Liverpool.

You think it was something he did? Sat bored at home so thought he'd knock something out on photoshop and write out a few envelopes? Or, more logically, do you think it was done by someone else in the heirachy that is his life, with decisions being made elsewhere. I wouldn't be surprised if documents like this are sent out all the time.

Black power?

I'm genuinely excited about these.

They overlapped by about 24 hours

Wouldn't that be staggeringly expensive? I think the main problem FIFA or whoever face with implementing this technology is how far down does it go? Surely they can't just give it to the top leagues, so where do you draw the line? If the prem has it, the championship should have, so should leagues one and two, do the conference get it? Below there?

Saw him a couple of times for Spurs, looked very dirrect, quick and exciting. Seemed to go somewhat to pieces when presented with a chance to score. Kinda a poor man's Agbonlahor would be my description.

I think there's also a mixture of the fact that they're not particularly desperate to move away from their cushy life here.

The kids not being that good at school is an interesting one. I know someone who went to school with Chris Eagles (hemel hemstead area) and said he was absolute class, but certainly not the best player in the year, just about scraped in the top 5. No-one could believe it when he was the one picked up by ManU, but the scouts can obviously see what we can't.

Well look at it another way - it's a Man City player having his say about us. I say again - p*ss off Shay. What should he have said when asked the question? No comment, I don't play for that club anymore? Be realistic. I think he left at an inappropriate time which messed us around as a club somewhat, and it rankled. He's done a hell of a lot more for us on the pitch over the last ten years than anyone bar the bloke who took us down at the end of the season though, so for that I'll cut him some slack.

Here's an explanation for you, and it includes why Habib Beye doesn't get called a cunt and won't get called a cunt. If someone has given everything they have for the club, been a true pro at all times and genuinely cares that we've gone down they'll be well received by the fans. If they didn't seem to give a fuck, feigned injury so they didn't have to play in Stoke, missed a number of chances that could have kept us up and didn't seem particularly fucked that we went down, they'll probably get called a cunt whatever they say in hindsight. Those reasons are Oba-specialised, but they can be adapted to fit the vast majority of the team.

I helped get us relegated with a number of below par performances - FUCK YOU, CUNT

Yup.

Yeah, but we thought that when we first read the profitable groups interview We're so excitable.