themanupstairs

Chimbonda having a medical, agreed a 4 year deal.

 

Good for him and hopefully good for Spurs.  Still can't really believe that Sunderland would offer £23m for the 4.

 

Didn't think it was possible for me to hate Chimbonda any more than I already do, then he goes and signs for Sunderland 

 

he's left the scum to sign for the scum......fantastic!

i'm so glad we've steered well clear of rubbish like Chimbonda

Chimbonda having a medical, agreed a 4 year deal.

 

Good for him and hopefully good for Spurs.  Still can't really believe that Sunderland would offer £23m for the 4.

 

So what's the fee for Chimbonda on his own then?

 

No idea, I don't honestly believe £23m for all 4 either tbh.  Keane is saying that 3 out of 4 have agreed personal terms so I'm hoping they've all got inflated fees!

 

What do you mean "no idea"? Weren't you involved with the talks?

 

No.  All I did was make the tea and supply the chocolate digestives....................

 

And thats where Spurs go wrong you see. Plain digestives cost less. Extravengant display by the Spurs tearoom

they have a tearoom??? 

l'equipe are saying that we're getting around 10 million euros for emre "according to turkish press"...  that would be almost £8m  wishful thinking i guess, although if you see fenerbahce and galatasaray attracting rather good players (guiza, meira) you would think that they had some cash...

deal of the century if true

I think Keegan has looked and sounded really positive in the recent interviews he has done and I think it will all come together and he'll do well.

 

One big positive is the fact that he obviously rates Gutierrez very highly having worked with him in training this last week. I think this is of big significance because I imagine he was a player that was likely suggested by our new recruitment team, and Keegan liking him could go a long way towards making the partnership between Keegan, Wise, Jimenez and Vetere even more effective.

 

It should mean Keegan being more open to their suggestions of players for the first team, which would be great, as the three Wise men seem to have a lot of knowledge on good young players that would be invaluable.

 

I really think this is all going to work out really well. It probably wasn't clicking perfectly initially but I think it's all coming together.

 

Crack pipe?

puff puff give

Lots of tapping up there Harry

 

he does it every f***ing time!

 

and £2.5m for carrick??? is he pissed? (i take it he's talking pre-spuds, but still, thats a random mention)

 

That's straight up.  Carrick was waiting for a bid from Arsenal, never came, Pompey offered £2.5m.  Spurs gazumped them with a bid of £3m.

Aye, Spurs are gazumpers imo

SWP in Newcastle airport!!!!111one1

ban!!!!!

 

Would be a decent acquisition imo. No frills, and a player who just wants to play football.

 

hopeful on this one

 

Carter Beauford on the Drums!

yes sir 

Would be a decent acquisition imo. No frills, and a player who just wants to play football.

hopeful on this one

Marca claiming that Valencia will sell David Villa and David Silva - some sort of financial problems I think.

 

We should go for dem innit.

Would love to see Silva in a Keegan team

Which 6 jokers put down Newcastle? Own up.

 

Shiteam on 6 different IPs.

stoke

bolton

fulham

so getting back to the point, what became of those youngsters?

back to obscurity one would imagine

i see this thread is going the same way as the previous.. pisses me off how sensitive some people are

 

and it pisses ME off how UNsensitive some people are...

 

Switzerland finally takes side in an argument....

 

What a boring old joke... Heard it a gazillion times, but go ahead, if it still brings a smile on your face! ;-)

you have to admit, it was quite funny

This forum does have Islamic users, and I can see how some of them could be offended.

 

Tooj should apologise (without taking the piss).

I'm not even muslim, and still find it unnecessary.

Having said that, I don't think Tooj needs to apologize, as he's probably not actually a racist, and is an upstanding member of this forum 

Like nobody else has ever cracked a bad joke in their lives. Never mind Tooj, can't win them all, mate.

 

I'm always cracking bad jokes man....but thats besides the point

 

I don't see many jokes being cracked about whites and the KKK for example.

 

if people want to take the piss (sportingly) out of the arabs or any other race, why not stick to the conventional jokes always bandied about and leave out s*** like terrorists etc...

 

i'm quite sure there would be absolute uproar if a joke was made in bad taste about yossi benayoun or avram grant

 

I'm pretty sure there was a joke about the KKK and Martins(??) flying around here around Christmas time

Well that's piss poor then! Cracking jokes is one thing, and using horrible murderous cunts to crack them is another.

Have you lost anyone in a terrorist blast? I have, and it's not funny

Like nobody else has ever cracked a bad joke in their lives. Never mind Tooj, can't win them all, mate.

I'm always cracking bad jokes man....but thats besides the point

I don't see many jokes being cracked about whites and the KKK for example.

if people want to take the piss (sportingly) out of the arabs or any other race, why not stick to the conventional jokes always bandied about and leave out shit like terrorists etc...

i'm quite sure there would be absolute uproar if a joke was made in bad taste about yossi benayoun or avram grant

Found them.

 

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4350/skorea2fv8.jpg

2J that's pathetic tbh

always thought you knew better

Don't worry, Ashley's sent Wise out to fish for some tadpoles so we can be lucky in 2012 if they turn out to be the right kind of toads.

 

They must be cross-bred with monkeys though ofc

 

wouldn't they also have to be in-bred to have 3 legs in the first place?

 

Nah. Toad + Machete = Newcastle in the Champions League

but of course!!!! genius!!! why go down the genetic engineering route when a good old butchering can be just as effective! 

Got to love NE5. A couple of nights ago we were lacking ambition for signing Aimar, now we've got no ambition because we didn't sign him.

 

so which is it NE5?

 

I'm not a fence sitter myself, but it appears you're swinging your views back and forth as it suits. Please clarify if you've got the time. Thanks

 

its quite simple. We failed to sign a player the manager wanted, and in this case, he wasn't even first choice.

 

 

 

well, let's assume KK wanted Aimar, and agreed with Wise and co to go for him. We put in a bid, which was accepted by all "press" accounts. Let's also say that said club and player had other offers on the table. Doesn't said player then get to choose which club he wants to play for? naturally factoring in his own ambition, the club's ambition, wages, european football, city, climate etc...etc...

 

what if the player really did turn us down in favour of Benfica? why does that automatically indicate failure on our part? he's south american remember, and has been a relatively big name charlie for a few yrs now. There may be several reasons why he would choose Benfica over us, and none of them have to be automatically due to our club failing at boardroom/Wise level.

 

just the same way you accuse people of having an agenda against the old board, you clearly use every chance you get to criticize the new board, even when factual information is scarce and all that's available is unsubstantiated drivel written up by some 2 bit journo.

 

 

 

the club are missing out on managers targets for not showing ambition/having the setup to persuade them to come/not being urgent enough to go and get them, whatever the reason, and making noises about putting in place a policy that I basically think is the wrong way to get among the top clubs and you think they shouldn't be criticised ?

 

You bet your arse I'll criticise mate, and whats more its justified as well.

 

 

Show me one piece of hard evidence that suggests that Aimar was a Keegan target.

Also, what kind of set up are you on about? The type where we spend 9 million on the likes of Boumsong and Luque? we have a top class stadium, top class training facilities (all thanks to Shepherd no doubt of course), a (small) crop of high profile players, and a decent record in the past 10 or 15 years. So what set up would that be mate?

You can't do f*** all about a player who wants to join a London club or a club playing in Europe. And if we throw crazy money at players, we'd end up with mercenaries who you (yes you personally!) would be wanting shot of for being lazy mercenary types.

The rebuilding will have to be gradual, and we'll have to step up a gear in terms of league finish first before we can attract the top calibre players we used to.

edit: oh, and kindly leave my arse well alone. cheers 

It's clear that for modern young players on shed loads of $$$$$$ they are more interested in WHERE they live rather than sucess

 

Spain & Italy will always trump England, ENgland trumps Scotland

 

London beats Manchester & Newcastle and they beat Birmingham & Glasgow

 

Sadly that's true, and who can blame them? If I wasn't a toon fan, and I was earning a fortune a week, I'd be off to Milan/Madrid/London in a shot.

 

All we can do is gradually build ourselves back up to a side that will attract players for what we achieve on the pitch. That can take time, but it's more than possible. I bet Tevez and Ronaldo wouldn't be in Manchester if they weren't such a massive success - achievement can overcome geography, but it doesn't happen overnight.

 

We were almost there but we f***ed it up, so we need to face that fact and rebuild.

 

so they DO exist!!!! thank f*** for that!

 

Who do?

people who talk sense, like your good self sire 

Got to love NE5. A couple of nights ago we were lacking ambition for signing Aimar, now we've got no ambition because we didn't sign him.

 

so which is it NE5?

 

I'm not a fence sitter myself, but it appears you're swinging your views back and forth as it suits. Please clarify if you've got the time. Thanks

 

its quite simple. We failed to sign a player the manager wanted, and in this case, he wasn't even first choice.

 

 

well, let's assume KK wanted Aimar, and agreed with Wise and co to go for him. We put in a bid, which was accepted by all "press" accounts. Let's also say that said club and player had other offers on the table. Doesn't said player then get to choose which club he wants to play for? naturally factoring in his own ambition, the club's ambition, wages, european football, city, climate etc...etc...

what if the player really did turn us down in favour of Benfica? why does that automatically indicate failure on our part? he's south american remember, and has been a relatively big name charlie for a few yrs now. There may be several reasons why he would choose Benfica over us, and none of them have to be automatically due to our club failing at boardroom/Wise level.

just the same way you accuse people of having an agenda against the old board, you clearly use every chance you get to criticize the new board, even when factual information is scarce and all that's available is unsubstantiated drivel written up by some 2 bit journo.

Don't worry, Ashley's sent Wise out to fish for some tadpoles so we can be lucky in 2012 if they turn out to be the right kind of toads.

 

They must be cross-bred with monkeys though ofc

wouldn't they also have to be in-bred to have 3 legs in the first place?

hehehe brilliant

 

i bet we get linked with signing one in the chronicle...

aye and in the nick-o-time we'll pull out of it and mess it up

It's clear that for modern young players on shed loads of $$$$$$ they are more interested in WHERE they live rather than sucess

 

Spain & Italy will always trump England, ENgland trumps Scotland

 

London beats Manchester & Newcastle and they beat Birmingham & Glasgow

 

Sadly that's true, and who can blame them? If I wasn't a toon fan, and I was earning a fortune a week, I'd be off to Milan/Madrid/London in a shot.

 

All we can do is gradually build ourselves back up to a side that will attract players for what we achieve on the pitch. That can take time, but it's more than possible. I bet Tevez and Ronaldo wouldn't be in Manchester if they weren't such a massive success - achievement can overcome geography, but it doesn't happen overnight.

 

We were almost there but we f***ed it up, so we need to face that fact and rebuild.

so they DO exist!!!! thank fuck for that!

He'll be a Benfica player.

 

where's the biscuit avatar when you need it!