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I think this indicates the departure of Mascherano/Alonso or even both. What a knob end Rafa is. You don't win the league by selling players like those two but spunking 18m on a full back. Reminds me of this http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/benitez-handed-%A320m-to-piss-straight-up-a-wall-200905211777/ Oh and poor Gareth Barry seeing Rafa refuse to spend that figure on him, then spending it on a striker he didn't actually rate, then a year later doing it again on a bog standard, average full back.

18m on a full back, for a club which is in troubled financial straits? Mental.

Here you go Awesome sleuthing there, he's a regular one-man Woodward and Bernstein, isn't he? Keith Harris is involved in pretty much EVERY takeover of a PL club by foreigners.

Good Lord alive. What the fuck is that?

Neither am I. But I can differentiate between giving s*** to someone and arguing with them. wasnt aiming it at you tbh Sorry, I wasn't aiming at you either (if it sounded a bit arsey of me).

Neither am I. But I can differentiate between giving shit to someone and arguing with them.

One of them will be Reo-Coker. Great tackler, niggly awkward fucker breaking things up, but entirely incapable of passing the ball to his conjoined twin, let alone someone standing 5 yards away.

Who is Joe Rogan? Whoever he is, I bet Spurs are "tracking" him and his entire family are ST holders at White Hart Lane. In fact, I bet Levy and a couple of other blokes in suits (occupying jobs which, if they worked for any other club in the world, nobody would have a frigging clue who they were, but as it is Spurs, we get to hear their 'ITKs' going on and on about them all summer, talking about them like they're latter day kingmakers) are right now flying into whichever city he lives in in a bid to sign him. OK, sorry, I'll knock it on the head now. Still, who is he?

You might feel that way, and you'd be entitled to your opinion. All available evidence points to it being a totally incorrect stance, though.

tbf Wiki is a perfectly valid source as long as the articles actually have sources. See that post, that's one straight from the "post loads of HAHAHA smilies around a point, in an attempt to distract from the fact that, actually, there is no point at all" school. :dowie: :dowie: :dowie: :dowie:

I assume you mean "than sixth", but yes, you are right it is, so is 5th the actual cut-off point to challenging the top four? Have you decided that because it fits your past? "decided to wave the white flag" - yes that's right, we just thought "fuck this, we can't be bothered", that was what it was and not the cumulative result of a season that started in early July with one of the smallest squads in the league. Where were Spurs in mid January, by the way? Were you in or out of the bottom 4 or 5? It is about where you finish on the last day. We've finished 6th the last two seasons, you've finished 8th and 11th. Go figure. So, I will ask again, why is us buying Harewood so funny, given your experience with Pavyluchenko? The statistics are in my post a few posts up. I won;t bore myself by repeating them yet again, I am sure you can find them. Based on what? The fact that you won the Carling Cup? You said yourself a few pages ago that you believe your transfer activity to have been a joke over recent years. Why have you suddenly changed your mind?

What is an absolute banker is that if someone does give you 4m for Alan Smith, Spurs will find a foreign based player (Alanikov Smithchenko?) who will be equally shit but cost three times as much, but OMG! their transfer windows are to die for

So what is this about: Someone else says something about Cuellar, so KD refuses to try to answer the questions in my post? Come on, KD, surely you can summon up a cogent, well put argument which doesn't consist of "OMFG!! UR SO SHIT!!! NRC IS A WANKAH!!!!"

Much as I love to say it, that's exactly what everyone was saying this time last year.

When you finished fifth, it constituted "making a serious challenge to the top four", but when someone else finishes 6th, well, that's a different kettle of fish. I don't really know how that works. I also don't understand your point in the above post about Cuellar, whose post are you referring to now? And are you ever going to answer my point about: Pavyluchenko - 14 million pounds - 29 PL games (19 starts) - 5 goals Harewood - 4 million pounds - 29 PL games (1 start) - 5 goals Can you not see the irony in you laughing at our signing of Harewood? And when we flog him this summer, we'll have lost about 2m on him. Do you reckon you'll get someone to give you 12m for Pavyluchenko? I don't.

Dawson £4m Huddlestone £1m Lennon 500k Routledge £1m Reid £4m Gunter £2m Routledge - 4 years ago Huddlestone - 4 years ago Lennon - 4 years ago Reid - 4 years ago Dawson - 4 years ago

You just don't get it do you. From the top. Shorey - didn't feature for much of the season, then did very well at the end. Hutton cost TWICE as much as Shorey, how's he done? Curtis Davies - called into the England squad this season. Cost a lot less than Bale did. How's Bale done so far? James Milner - yes, he was expensive and we paid too much, but he produced the goods and has been called into the England squad. For a direct comparison, how's David Bentley done for you at half as much again? Reo-Coker - come back and look at this post this time in a week or so, he'll be a Tottenham player, so you can choke on that one yourself. Marlon Harewood - see my point earlier about Pavyluchenko who has made the same number of PL appearances for you as Harewood has for us, and scored exactly the same number of goals as him, despite starting 20 times more games than Harewood has, and despite costing 14 MILLION POUNDS. If you're going to be throwing stones, I suggest you step out of the glass house first. I'm not trying to put our transfer activity in the bracket of Everton's at all, I said it was much more impressive than ours. However, for all your listing of transfer purchases you think were too expensive, we've finished in a European place, and spent much of the season in the top four. You spent similar amounts of money on players who performed considerably worse (Bale? Hutton?) and had you spending large tracts of this season in the bottom reaches of the table. I'd suggest you're in no position to laugh at our transfer activity (which has taken us from relegation certainties to two successive top six finishes in three years), whereas we - and the rest of the country - are in a perfectly good position to laugh at yours. Which is why we do.

You can only judge players on how they perform. Bentley has had a nightmare (I still think he's a good player, he just went to a career graveyard of a club), Young has been an inspired signing. Spurs wouldn't go near players of the type Neil listed, people like Jagielka or Cahill, because they think they're not flair enough. Everton do, though, with the result that they're the best side outside the top four, whilst Spurs remain buoyed almost entirely by hype.

I hadn't noticed this bit. David Bentley - 15m, Ashley Young 9m Except signing players from Watford is probably "boring ass" by your weird definition of what the point of football is. I thought it was to sign players who contribute to a productive teamt. You also mentioned Marlon Harewood. Well, he's a good example, so let's compare him to another expensive, flop of a show pony, Pavyluchenko. Both have played 29 league games for their club, and both have scored 5 goals. Except Payluchenko, who cost a lot more than Harebrain and probably earns twice as much, started 19 games, whereas Harewood has only ever started 1. The Spurs approach seems to be to go for players with fancy foreign names or absurd haircuts. Or players they only sold about 3 months before. I've demonstrated to you why our approach works better than yours, by any measure you like, other than the fact that we havent won the League Cup for 15 years, whereas you have.

And exactly why Everton are far more of a challenge to the top four than Spurs, whilst Spurs continue to live in this bizarre Fantasy Football transfer world - which will go on for a while longer as they now have a manager who loves that kind of thing.

There you go, perfect example of why Spurs are so laughable, not stopping to think about how those players have performed, but having a laugh at the fact they don't have fancy foreign names? I judge on how the players do, myself. Of that list, Davies has been called up to the national team this year, as has Milner, Heskey starts for the national side, Luke Young has been brilliant for us all season, probably our most consistent player (talking of which, how did that really expensive Scottish full back you signed last year do for you? Or that Welsh one?) As for Reo-Coker, I wouldn't be taking the piss on him, mate, as strong rumour has it he's signing for you next week (bit of a comedown from Robben, Huntelaar and co, but needs must). As for "giving up like spineless cowards", we ran out of steam, not having a strong enough squad. That's not quite the same as "giving up". As for Mate, your team has done nothing worthwhile for years and years. That's the Spurs delusion, right there, that is exactly my point. Still, I'll leave you to pull your "Glory Glory 2008 League Cup Winners" bedspread over your head and pretend things are different.

KD you had a go at breaking the top four and failed. We had a go and failed (although we finished much closer to it than you last season) nobody gives a toss about the league cup anymore so crowing about winning it makes you sound like a Boro fan or something ie small time. Can you ever imagine an Arsenan fan giving it large about 'winning trophies' whilst referring to the league cup, for example. Spurs transfer dealings are hilarious every single summer, mate. The entire rest of the country is as one on that. I love the way you go on about breaking the top four as if you actually have done ( Spurs all talk no substance, right there) and then mention everton as having done it - thereby supporting my suggestion that everton are more of a worry than Spurs.

We've been linked with Miguel for ages, too. To be entirely honest, MON has some kind of mental hang-up with full backs, so I try to ignore FB related gossip and pretend it isn't happening.

I don't understand Ashley. He's an incredibly successful, self-made billionaire, so he understands business. Yet, for all his "I'm sorry, I really am" nonsense, he then does exactly the worst thing he could possibly do, in making it clear how desperate he is to sell the club, regardless of the huge hit he will take, and entirely oblivious to the massively unsettling influence on the whole club at a time when that is the absolute last thing it needs. When a club gets relegated, the key things to coming straight back up include - prominently - keeping together the nucleus of "a squad", but he's done exactly the opposite and made it clear anyone is up for grabs at the right price. Even if you give the benefit of the doubt of "well, he doesn't understand the football business", he's still a wildly successful businessman, surely he realises that if he keeps his head, steadies the ship and does the right thing, he can both get the club promoted quickly and recoup far more of his money than the 100m he's willing to accept now. It just does not make sense on either front, he's clearly not an idiot, he's clearly a good businessman even if he's got his fingers burned in football (he's far from the first or the last), so why on earth set sail on this disastrous course? I know I'm probably preaching to the converted here, but it really looks like he's determined to get the worst outcome possible, and with the instabilty he's created, I think there's as much chance you could finish bottom half of the table as there is top half next year (and I mean that entirely not in a gloaty fashion, but as a neutral observer). What a strange, strange man.

God bless him, I f***ing love that man, love him. Been shit at Juve though. Any mention of a fee? No idea. I've got a Mellberg Thanks 4 Your Support away shirt in my wardrobe. Little things like buying 3,000 shirts for travelling fans go a long way in these days of uber cynical footballers (hiya Gareth, hiya!). He's a top bloke, Olof, top bloke. And he absolutely fucking hates Blues.