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Leicester fans say he downed tools towards the end of last season sounds ideal for Spurs

Absolutely fine with this sort of transfer being as my biggest concern last season was thinness of squad especially given the way we play and how much they give. Was bound to be dips if not injuries. Can negate that with this sort of thing. Not sure it will happen, especially if they want 30m (Maddison might not end up going for much more than that). 'Tino!, there's only two Tino's' chant good to go though?!

Agree entirely. Ginola was a luxury that we couldn't carry at that stage under Sir Bobby and football generally has gone like that now. Even a Man City might not risk a Ginola, Tino, Le-Tissier type now. Substance over style. If you can win with the style that would be perfect though so its a personal interpreation of what 'best' is and whether entertainment overrides practicality. As he's come up I often think that way about N'Zogbia and Milner. N'Zogbia, to me and with us, was the better 'footballer' most ability, style but Milner's attitude was better and look at their careers. Milner would often not look good, horrible shots, crosses but he wouldn't hide the next time.

Some reach that. If only their club had a similiar reach they might have closed the gap to being just under half as good.

Everyone's got to deal with ffp and has a limit. Selling clubs don't hold the cards. Without it there probably would be a bidding war for Maddison. That's gots its pro's and cons. Wonder if the Saudi league keeps going the way it is if ffp is revisited.

The gaps don't look that big now but when nearly every club in the top two divisions is sandwiched between 10k and 30k averages, 4k, 8k and 11k (randomly picked) are pretty significant. Stick an extra 8k (the gap between us and them in 88/89 *despite the heavily boycotted last two games) on our average and we'd have had the fourth highest gate in the country for example.

"comparable" ...

Reminds me of this. Shameful double whammy from Sky.

Used to be tackling too. Harder to tackle if your right footed and someone's slipped in to your left especially chasing back. Used to be a thing where you'd try and expose that.

That's fair enough because of your age you'll have missed Ginola. Himself miles better than Robert for me.

Liverpool and Man City are expanding. We don't want to end up in a cylce started in the 90s with the expensive expansion proving to be too small then having to go for an even more expensive one after that's now too small and requiring another expensive expansion.

A sliding door at the bottom of the back of the East Stand like Centre Court at Wimbledon now - for light purpose on none match days would be better than it is now even if they built over the road - obviously just thinking outside the box because luckily we've the only ownership where SJP and expansion is possible. St James Terrace can be sacrificed yet I'd love to keep those cobbles as part of things.

Like Luton where you have to go through the buildings to get into the stand

Was a bloke in the 90s in Leazes near where my mate used to sit that would hand song sheets out that he'd come up with. Wasn't well thought of. Though these things have to start somewhere just seems so inorganic to see it in action, especially before the player has even played for us, compared to someone starting a chant off at a preseason game that takes hold.

Its of the standard of the last one at least.

Milan once bought for a world record fee, and nearly five times the most expensive English transfer, the best player from their nearest European competitor (the only team to beat them in Europe in 6years) at the height of Berlusconi's then unlimited sums and their dominance. Bet it was just fine then. *to say nothing of sabotaging the floodlights to get a game called off that they were losing to said team.

Ravanelli won the champions league and left the biggest club in Italy to go to Middlesbrough in the same year Vialli (having also just won the CL) and Zola (like Ravenelli a fully fledged starter for Italy) opted for a club that hadn't finished above mid-table in living memory that was getting 15,000 the previous season in a ramshackle half-built half decript stadium. Money might have been involved. Football's been finished as a beautiful game for decades. But that sums up the attitude behind the ESL - wah wah only we should be allowed to dominate its not fair to get a taste of our own medicine

Maybe he's just browsing, looking for more souls to buy.

Bet if Luton were in for him he'd have managed it *whoever he is

I was thinking a better version of the nerd on Die Hard 4.0 (and other films I haven't seen) ish

"Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason Luke Edwards is shit." - Danny the Dealer (1969)

And that's over now, that's the entire point. The exact opposite point could be made since we had finished above Spurs the lions share of the time pre Ashley and still had a bigger stadium, but which club offered more. They're not going forward we are.

Its common place for a rising club to supercede an established one in player destinations. Blackburn, Chelsea, Man City players all left and/or turned down more established clubs to go somewhere with a brighter futures and a buzz. For footballing reasons there's no reason why you wouldn't. Were far more likely to have it and challenge for it on a sustained basis than Spurs. Were not going away. They're clinging on to it.

Similar sized clubs once you take Ashley out of it. They've peaked and will only return to those heights fleetingly with their fans suitably morose about it. No CL, no magic. Were only going in one direction and will only drop out fleetingly. CL, magic. If anybody would even mull over us or Spurs at this point I'd make their minds up for them and move on. Doesn't indicate they'd have the right mentality for us

Have you heard the one about how Geordie identity, which we reinforce (!?) to feel relevant, holds the region back?