Parky

Alex has thrown a strop! Not really, I just think it is just to gain a few popularity points. Everyone knows they earn an obscene amount and there's nothing that can be done about it. Is he proposing anything new? It's the clubs' business anyway, not his. I do have a bee in my bonnet about sports facilities though. Alex IS grassroots.

Greedy 14?

Alex has thrown a strop! GM senses an incursion into HIS territory of expertise.

Jol rewriting history tbh. When it was uncertain that Berbatov would be staying or going (and it still is), there was a need for another able striker, both Jol and Comolli were agreed on Bent and Comolli agreed a deal at £8m rising to £10m . When West Ham's involvement jacked up the price, Comolli preferred an Italian whose name escapes me, he was late 20's costing £7m or so. Jol preferred Bent as he was proven in the Premiership and Levy agreed as he fitted in with the strategy of buying young and English with a trade on value and that in the end that was the way it was agreed to go forward. Petrov had been on and off for about a year, left winger and quick, true, but had a cruciate and there were question marks about his pace being maintained. Comolli had reservations, Jol had no great desire that Petrov was the one so it all fizzled out. Elano was never on the radar as far as I'm aware. As for Robinson, Jol always maintained he was one of the team's untouchables and will always play if fit irrespective of his form. I'm not saying anything new, I said it all here before in previous threads. No offence but I prefer to believe the ex-Spurs manager than his namesake. If you care to research it a bit, you'll see that the ex manager said on numerous occasionsin press conferences that Darren Bent was his number 1 transfer target etc. He was also coerced into dropping Defoe and briefing against the player at the behest of hidden forces to force Defoe into signing a new contract.

If you bother to do your research on here you'll see I was universally panned on these here boards as a loon for suggesting plans afoot for a breakaway league especially by the likes of Victoria Toon. These "plans" don't amount to a hill of beans, Parky. Platini is simply playing with his train set and will capitulate instantly. But it shows intent you'd agree? Not sure about Michel Plantation (one of my fav characters) capitulating without a fight imo.

Dof would have said no. mackems.gif Maybe, maybe not. Well Jol was ignored. But apparently the system is brilliant. Not a fan of the system but your logic doesn't add up. Since when have you known me to bother with logic?

Jol rewriting history tbh. When it was uncertain that Berbatov would be staying or going (and it still is), there was a need for another able striker, both Jol and Comolli were agreed on Bent and Comolli agreed a deal at £8m rising to £10m . When West Ham's involvement jacked up the price, Comolli preferred an Italian whose name escapes me, he was late 20's costing £7m or so. Jol preferred Bent as he was proven in the Premiership and Levy agreed as he fitted in with the strategy of buying young and English with a trade on value and that in the end that was the way it was agreed to go forward. Petrov had been on and off for about a year, left winger and quick, true, but had a cruciate and there were question marks about his pace being maintained. Comolli had reservations, Jol had no great desire that Petrov was the one so it all fizzled out. Elano was never on the radar as far as I'm aware. As for Robinson, Jol always maintained he was one of the team's untouchables and will always play if fit irrespective of his form. I'm not saying anything new, I said it all here before in previous threads. No offence but I prefer to believe the ex-Spurs manager than his namesake.

If you bother to do your research on here you'll see I was universally panned on these here boards as a loon for suggesting plans afoot for a breakaway league especially by the likes of Victoria Toon.

Dof would have said no. mackems.gif Maybe, maybe not. Well Jol was ignored. But apparently the system is brilliant.

Dof would have said no. mackems.gif

Are you being sarcastic? Not like you Dave.

....G14 are threatening to go it alone and are setting up to take on Platini regarding the CL. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2007/11/02/sfnbon102.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox Exclusive: Arsenal plot European boycott By David Bond Last Updated: 1:00am GMT 02/11/2007 Have your say Read comments Arsenal are leading calls for a boycott of the Champions League by Europe's biggest clubs unless Uefa president Michel Platini scraps his controversial reforms for the competition, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The 18 clubs which make up the G14 are threatening to set up a breakaway European Super League unless Platini backs down over his pledge to open up the Champions League to more countries from smaller nations. They also want him to shelve his proposals to allow the winners of domestic cup competitions, including the holders of the FA Cup, entry into Europe's premier club tournament. A final decision is due to be made by the Uefa executive at a meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Nov 30. But frantic negotiations are already under way between the leading clubs and leagues in Europe to persuade Platini to drop his controversial reforms. The Daily Telegraph now understands that Arsenal are the prime movers in the plot to go it alone, in the event that Platini refuses to negotiate and drives through the changes.

Thank god they didn't get Elano and Petrov.

Martin Jol hits back at Damien Comolli By Richard Morgan Last Updated: 8:37am GMT 02/11/2007 Recently-departed Tottenham Hotspur coach Martin Jol has spoken for the first time since his abrupt departure from White Hart Lane last Thursday and to no one's great surprise the Dutchman has laid the blame for his exit squarely at the door of the club's sporting director Damien Comolli. Jol says that during the close season he informed Comolli of his wish to recruit an experienced midfield player, as well as a left winger, to help the north London club break into the top four this campaign and he put forward the names of Brazilian Elano and Bulgaria international Martin Petrov, both of who were subsequently picked up by Manchester City's new manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. And, to add insult to injury, the pair have since gone on to play key roles in City's unexpected rise to third place in the Premier League. Meanwhile instead, Comolli oversaw the transfers to Spurs of striker Darren Bent, centre-back Younes Kaboul and midfield players Kevin Boateng and Adel Taarabt for a combined cost of £30 million, moves which Jol himself strongly disagreed with. "I felt the squad would be unbalanced with these signings and it proved to be the case," he says. "The funny thing is the new manager will probably come to the same conclusions and the club will go out in January and buy the two players I felt we needed. "When Frank Arnesen was director of football we spoke together about the players to bring to the club. But I did not have the same relationship with the next man. "I think the club wanted to invest in younger players because they wanted to make money on them in the future. "The decisions were not being made for footballing reasons," before Jol adds omniously that: "I knew that in the summer and I realised my position was becoming very difficult." Meanwhile, the position of Tottenham's England international goalkeeper Paul Robinson could come under threat in Januray if Comolli follows up his reported interest in Udinese No 1 Samir Handanovic. Despite claiming that he is unconcerned about his future at the Lane, it is thought that new Spurs head coach Juande Ramos has some serious misgivings about Robinson, with Slovenian Handanovic as well as Schalke's Manuel Neuer both possible January transfer targets should Robinson's form get any worse over the coming months. However, Robinson himself remains defiant: "I am confident I will be the No 1 choice," said the goalkeeper. "We have been working defensively, shoring up at the back. But the work is far from done."

The average mp earns about £68,000 ish a year that's roughly half what Terry earns in a week.

Telegraph: "Here's more bad news for a Tottenham board again squirming with embarrassment — surely they appreciate the indignity of a manager's dismissal spreading through the crowd at a match he is supposed to be supervising — and it concerns the director-of-football system they keep trying to operate. The Spanish are going off the idea. Or so Rafa Benitez, the only Spanish manager in the Premier League pending Juande Ramos's arrival at White Hart Lane, was saying on Friday. ''Some people in Spain are starting to think we might be better off with the English idea of the manager being in charge of everything," mused Benitez. He was not being mischievous — although Liverpool's manager must have enjoyed the respite from questions about his own future that, in truth, appear a little ludicrous just five months after he steered the club to a second Champions League final in three seasons." He came to Liverpool because he had no control in the buying at his former club. I'm not blindly opposed to a DOF just not really sure that the role isn't just an admin thing with bells. Vision for the club should imo be primarily the managers responsability. I wish people would stop going on about Dein. It just looks silly. Dein had no say in players and was mainly upper management and coporate entertainment. It is true he was Wengers man in the boardroom but that isn't really a DOF thing.

blueyes.gif Don't really rate him. But he plays for Arsenal so he must be brilliant by default.

Sam always hires about 20million helpers tho doesn't he?

Imagine those two together in the middle. Disgusting.

If Wenger doesn't rate them why bother he after all is the all seeing eye.

I'm happy.

Wrong answer. Sorry. He's that really good player isn't he? I just don't see how you could class him as a failure even if you don't particularly rate him. He only cost about 3 or 4m didn't he? I do rate him however. Exactly. He's (imo, obviously) a fantastic player who cost noticibly less than Michael Chopra did this summer. He's a fantastic player and Winga is an all time genius wasting his time masquarading as a football manager.

Wrong answer. Sorry. He's that really good player isn't he?