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Di Natale has never looked completely convincing as a starter for Italy. His pace and running will be a good option against tired legs. That said, I am fuming considering he's in my fantasy team.

Looking forward to this one big time.

THey won't so long as IDIOTS keep believing them.

See.

What a surprise.

This is the translated interview.

It's like saying that Ashley Cole should be playing for Barbados.

It's all came from 'nufcfans' (who have somehow built up such an extensive following that it makes them appear credible) tweeting that Sky Italia are reporting on their TV channel. This is Twitter rumour wanker 101, claim its from a foreign non-internet source that nobody is able to check up on. In fact I'm sure Sky Italia gets used almost every time. If it was definitely on an Italian news source then a Twitter search would come back with at least one Italian language response/regurgitation, but it doesn't. It just comes back with a load of wankers believing everything that nufcfans posts and a string of 'ITKs' and naff transfer rumour accounts repeating the same shit. In turn these nuggets start putting money on it and betting gets suspensed.

It's all a load of shit.

Come on that's the only one he gets wrong.

nufcfans

The same bloke seems convinced Martinez is going to Spurs?

Germans are probably worse Not really. 2 and they both moved to Germany as children.

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gonna be a rape

Raul Meireles had a 54% pass rate today. Stats don't always tell the whole story but I think that backs up the fact that he is indeed, shite. Should play Viana next match.

You would think so, especially as they should have been looking to win the game really. The Dutch coach is an absolute coward. Disgraceful. I understand your point but while they clearly had more quality on the park second half they had no balance whatsoever. They're let down by a lack of proper central midfielders who can go both ways. Strootman getting no look in has been surprising.

This tournament is flying by

And some signed boots.

It's all very contradictory. You're bigging up Jol essentially saying he did a great job, then claiming Redknapp didn't do a great job even though he got them finishing higher than Jol evr did doing consistently better. There's nothing flukey about finishing 4th, 5th and 4th aswell as getting to the CL Quarters and a League Cup Final. He got them doing marginally better with a superior squad and far more investment. 5th and 5th with that squad/investment is more impressive than 4th/5th/4th with what Redknapp has been able to work with. Spurs squad between 04-07 is terrible compared to the squad Levy has expensively put together for Arry. The progress is down to bridging the gap financially, nothing more. Are you saying that Comolli had a good transfer policy then? Not always but they started spending significantly more and as a result the team improved. Even with mistakes this tends to be the case.

It's all very contradictory. You're bigging up Jol essentially saying he did a great job, then claiming Redknapp didn't do a great job even though he got them finishing higher than Jol evr did doing consistently better. There's nothing flukey about finishing 4th, 5th and 4th aswell as getting to the CL Quarters and a League Cup Final. He got them doing marginally better with a superior squad and far more investment. 5th and 5th with that squad/investment is more impressive than 4th/5th/4th with what Redknapp has been able to work with. Spurs squad between 04-07 is terrible compared to the squad Levy has expensively put together for Arry. The progress is down to bridging the gap financially, nothing more.

Quarter finals of the champions league is not something you can ignore tbh. Plus they had 2 points from 8 games before Big Sexy Harry stepped in, which would indicate the team wasn't all that special. The team was good though. They had finished 5th twice in a row under Jol and had then spent an absolute fortune adding much better players. Redknapp just got lucky that he took over from a characterless moron in between. (who hilariously still won more trophies at Spurs) How many of the signings that have made them a success is Redknapp responsible for? Modric, Bale etc were all bought during that spending splurge that Jol never got to see the benefits of.

The top four was an extreme closed shop for 4 or 5 years. Jol managed to finish 5th two season in a row (one year being extremely unlucky on the final day with half the squad coming down with food poisoning). His net spend during that time was £6 million in '06, £6 million in '05 and £13 million in '04. Then when they stepped their spending up a notch (£40 million in 07) he was given the boot after 2 games of the season. They had Ramos for a year then spent another £40 million in the summer of 08. Redknapp came in and steadied the ship but essentially took over a much improved side from Jol and finished 1 place higher, helped out by Liverpool having an abysmal season compared to the previous 5 years. Not massive progress at all and certainly not done a better job. He's just lucky that that Ramos in between makes him look like he turned round a terrible team when it was anything but.