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He sure learned that lesson well. I was told in another thread that Mort has been running things for months (before he was even appointed to the board) without the old board having any involvement. Is that in the rules? As a number of people in this thread are in the "wait for the review" camp, can someone please answer my questions here. Cheers. Well technically you don't have to be a board memeber to run things inside a company, the board would ratify any major decisions but (from my experience) its non board memebers who actually make the decisions on a day to day basis

Nothing, it's Steve Round. he also has a 60's haircut. Aye, they must have the same barber Don't you mean butcher? Nobody messes with THE DO!

The TV money hasn't been touched. £20m profit was declared in the interim accounts, the annual accounts would have been showing near to £40m. We're only reinvesting the profit in players to avoid paying tax, we've never been a club to pay dividends either. Add in the sponsorship deals from Puma and Mansion and Spurs are currently very liquid. We're nothing like Leeds. Their salary/turnover ratio was something like 70%, Spurs is around 45%. There's so much wrong with that statement! (1) Buying players is a 'capital' invstment and as such will nt impact on this years profits (2) Most (if not all) of the players have been bought after Spuds year end - so even if (1) wasn't true they would have no impact on tax (3) The comment suggests that Spurs are willing to spend money anywhere to avoid tax, rubbish (4) I'll give him the Puma/Mansion money bit though I effectively repeated comments made elsewhere, so apologies for any inaccuracies. The general thrust of the comments is that Spurs have been very profitable in the past year and Levy, unlike previous profitable years, has elected to spend far more than previously. The feeling was that there was a tax benefit, but if not, maybe he thinks this is our best opportunity to join the big 4. Yeah bit of a sarky reply, not meant to be directed personally, think your last sentance hits thenail on the head though, it won't be a tax thing its a spotted opportunity to go forward which may not be there next year

The TV money hasn't been touched. £20m profit was declared in the interim accounts, the annual accounts would have been showing near to £40m. We're only reinvesting the profit in players to avoid paying tax, we've never been a club to pay dividends either. Add in the sponsorship deals from Puma and Mansion and Spurs are currently very liquid. We're nothing like Leeds. Their salary/turnover ratio was something like 70%, Spurs is around 45%. There's so much wrong with that statement! (1) Buying players is a 'capital' invstment and as such will nt impact on this years profits (2) Most (if not all) of the players have been bought after Spuds year end - so even if (1) wasn't true they would have no impact on tax (3) The comment suggests that Spurs are willing to spend money anywhere to avoid tax, rubbish (4) I'll give him the Puma/Mansion money bit though

Emre and Luque deals weren't flagged as being 'wrong' per se, rather that the investigation hadn't been able to speak to the agents (as confirmed by Emre's agent later) and therefore they couldn't be given the ok

Well I think we can safely say that it aint match fixing. Or if it was, the worst case of match fixing ever by a club

Where's the option for Beresford? Rather Bez than Babs tbh

Not true, Premier League have already said this is not acceptable - they want to see the money go to West Ham and stay there (or spent on othr signings obviously)

Or how about Replacing Martins with Deco? Different positions, but would allow one of the Zog, Dyer, Milner to push on as a wide forward and free up a midfield birth

Standard quotes incase the move falls through, retain favour with the home crowd

So does this put him closer to a callup than Huddleston?

I still don't understand how the Premier League can dictate where the money goes to. Either West Ham own the rights to the player through the exchange of contracts and therefore get the money Or MSI retained the ownership rights and West Ham don't get a penny. The only money I can see West Ham being entitled to is for Tevez breaking his loan deal with them and therefore West Ham need compensating for the transfer of his playing registration? Just don't get it!

But where does Dyer fit into these teams?

I seriously doubt that. I kinda doubt it as well, but I can see where he is coming from, he has the engine and work rate to be able to overlap on the attacking front as well as stick in tackles. It was actually based more on his u21 performances where I thought he looked far better when digging in at the back than he did going forward

That Swansea logo is wank. Suppose thats what you get for £100k a year though

Done

He's already much better than Gillespie ever was. Great news. He isn't, he's an average player who stood out last season because of his battling qualities when everyone else had given up on Roeder, same goes for Butt. Geremi's a better winger than him. I think milner is underrated by alot of people. He didn't just stand out for his excellent workrate, his willingness to take on a man, his crossing and his shooting are very good for a 21 year old. Yes, he's got plenty of room for improvement, but that just makes him a even more exciting player. As for comparisons with Gillespie id take milner now over Gillespie in his peak anyday. Gillespie rarely looked up and his whole game was basically about pace. I think alot of people look back fondly on him because he was part of the Keegan team and had one great game against Barca. He was average if that overall though, and at his best wouldn't have given us nearly as much as milner last season. If he was a geordie who came through the ranks he wouldn't get any jip at all, everyone would be calling him the next chris waddle. On his day Gillespie was as unplayable agaisnt as Ginola, just for different reasons. A poor attitude outside of football and niggly injuries prevented him really fulfilling his potential, but he ws far from average

Personally think he will end up as a full back in a couple of years

Oh and big up our Austrian correspondants!

Just make sure that the point gets put across that the majority of fans wanted Sam, appreciate that rebuilding will take time and that we would happily sacarafice (Elton John spelling) attacking football for a trophy.

There was no anti-bellamy bias in my post - I'm one of those who would take him back if either MArtins or Owen left. It was simply a reply to the point that Bellamy was going to earn more money and play for bettr clubs than Shearer and win more medals

Well then lets give Shearer two FA Cup medals

it made sense to all but the simple no coincidence he calls himself Bramble tbh Don't care any more, mods you may with my full blessing ban me after what I'm about to say. Vic you really are a sad wankstain on the sheet of humanity. Your sole goal in life is coming onto a message board to be contrite and controversial. It doesn't make you clever, funny, smart or interesting, what it does make you is a t***. Some of the posters on here can be irritating but at least at times they come up with valid points, you however would argue black is white because you think it makes you windswept and interesting, guess what,it doesn't. it makes you a t***. I'd like to put a bet in real life you're sitting in your bedroon still desperately trying to figure out how to program your commodore 64 whilst jerking off over the underwear pages of mammys kays catalogue. Bottom line you're a irritating c***, so do us all a favour, stick your mammys coat on and f*** off down to Soho and get yourself a girlfriend. He loves that sort of s*** man. Just ask him a straight question about something to do with football and he runs a mile. I stick to complicated footballing arguments like pointing out Bellamy not playing for England and Shearer playing for England made f*** all difference between the two in terms of medals christ, they've both even captained their country FFS Oh come on, I'm sure you could grasp that it was a throw away comment and did not imply any factor on the number of medals won. And anyway, David May has more medals than Shearer and Bellamy put together

I apologise. I made a flipent comment about how Bellmay would never play for England to which vic made a sarcastic reply which then escalated into a slanging match about relative inteligences and ages. As much fun as it was reading the insults I think it needs to stop

must have missed the bit where you get a Premier league medal for playing for England Que?