Syrette Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Tottenham could potentially have a central midfield that includes both Palacios and Appiah. If that happens they will qualify for Europe. I hope they fail miserably. Appiah haven't been fit for 2 years. I know. They won't bring him in if they don't think he's up to it though. They're not stupid. I've heard he's passed a medical and is waiting to sign a contract (terms agreed), but Spurs are still not sure if it's worth it if they bring Palacios in anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Tottenham could potentially have a central midfield that includes both Palacios and Appiah. If that happens they will qualify for Europe. I hope they fail miserably. really ? i hope they fail spectacularly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Portsmouth agree a fee with Liverpool for winger Jermaine Pennant. (Sky Sports News, 1126 GMT) Really think we should be in there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrette Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/?cms_id=78&qs_articleid=2044&qs_media=html BID FOR PENNANT ACCEPTED Pompey have had a bid for Jermaine Pennant accepted by Liverpool. The Blues plan to discuss personal terms with the player over the next few days. The 26-year-old has made 81 appearances for Liverpool since signing from Birmingham for a reported £6.7m in July 2006. Pennant began his career with hometown club Notts County before joining Arsenal for £2m while still a 15-year-old. The right winger spent time on loan at Watford and Leeds before signing for Birmingham in 2005. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Portsmouth agree a fee with Liverpool for winger Jermaine Pennant. (Sky Sports News, 1126 GMT) Really think we should be in there. just to sit in and find out how to conclude a deal ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Portsmouth agree a fee with Liverpool for winger Jermaine Pennant. (Sky Sports News, 1126 GMT) Really think we should be in there. just to sit in and find out how to conclude a deal ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Portsmouth agree a fee with Liverpool for winger Jermaine Pennant. (Sky Sports News, 1126 GMT) Really think we should be in there. just to sit in and find out how to conclude a deal ? It couldnt hurt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 cant believe how jammy spurs are. they get inflated fees for berbatov and keane, are buying palacios, maybe appiah and i bet theyd get a massive fee for jenas. theres no justice. at least we havnt got the most annoying manager in the world.......oh yeh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrette Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Arsenal were linked in the Times... with a player who doesn't exist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jan/15/masal-bugduv-moldova-hoax-player If you had to compile a list of the world's 50 hottest young footballing talents, who would be in it? You would probably start with a couple of members of Arsenal's Carling Cup team, that Argentinian striker who was linked with Chelsea in the summer and the youth team prospect who's scored twice in 18 substitute appearances for your local league club. Four down, 46 to go. Pick someone from the Brazil Under-23 team, throw in the reigning Concacaf Young Player of the Year and peruse the German goalscoring charts until you find someone still in his teens. Phone that bloke you know who watches reserve matches and do a Google search for "the new Zidane". Now what? There is, in short, a good chance that you'd get a bit desperate. And so it was that a journalist from The Times included, quite accidentally, a totally fictitious footballer at No30 in their own list of fledgling superstars. He's not on it any more, of course, though the evidence is there if you search, but this is what they wrote: 30. Masal Bugduv (Olimpia Balti) Moldova's finest, the 16-year-old attacker has been strongly linked with a move to Arsenal, work permit permitting. And he's been linked with plenty of other top clubs as well The problem was the identity of those who had been doing the linking. Their story started unravelling when the website theoffside.com alerted readers to the list, and a blogger posted a message suggesting that Bugduv didn't exist at all. On his own blog the author, known as Makki, had already detailed, in Russian, his failure to find any evidence of the player on any Moldovan website, including that of his supposed club. Searches in English had found stories apparently written by the Associated Press (although not in a style regular AP readers would recognise) linking the "midfielder" with Arsenal and Zenit St Petersburg and boasting about international appearances that simply never happened. Fredorrarci, a contributor to soccerlens.com, took up the hunt and unravelled a web of blog postings, apparently from different people, that had combined to create a player out of nothing. Most of them had appeared last summer, when Wikipedia's entry on the Moldovan national side had been altered to include a prominent mention of Bugduv. The Wikipedia user who had added it was called Masalbugduv. His true identity, and those of his potential co-conspirators, remains a mystery, as does his motivation. But the Times was not alone in being duped by the story of a young, obscure prodigy. It turns out Bugduv had already been mentioned in dispatches by When Saturday Comes and on goal.com. But there is genuine talent lurking in that part of the world. We asked our Eastern European football expert, Jonathan Wilson, to suggest an up-and-coming player from the region who might have made the Times's list and actually exists. He instantly came up with Danijel Aleksic, a 17-year-old Serb forward playing for unfashionable Vojvodina. You heard it here first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Arsenal were linked in the Times... with a player who doesn't exist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jan/15/masal-bugduv-moldova-hoax-player Kinnear will come out and say we have put in a 5 million pound bid in for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Have I missed something? Since when was Palacios an amazing player? A few good performances = world class? Right oh. A good player but I fail to see what the hyperbolic fuss is about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Have I missed something? Since when was Palacios an amazing player? A few good performances = world class? Right oh. A good player but I fail to see what the hyperbolic fuss is about. We are comparing him to Butt,Guthrie and Geremi so against them he is world class. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest teepee Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Have I missed something? Since when was Palacios an amazing player? A few good performances = world class? Right oh. A good player but I fail to see what the hyperbolic fuss is about. We are comparing him to Butt,Guthrie and Geremi so against them he is world class. but for that fee he will always be a failure.... spurs are being raped here imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Have I missed something? Since when was Palacios an amazing player? A few good performances = world class? Right oh. A good player but I fail to see what the hyperbolic fuss is about. We are comparing him to Butt,Guthrie and Geremi so against them he is world class. but for that fee he will always be a failure.... spurs are being raped here imo Wigan will be lolling all the way to the bank. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brummie Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Tottenham could potentially have a central midfield that includes both Palacios and Appiah. If that happens they will qualify for Europe. Rewind to last summer. OMG!!! Spurz have buyed Modric and Bentley!!!" They iz going to be champonsh league!!11!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Spurs have needed a tough central midfielder for ages though to be fair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Where is all this money coming from for Spurs? Add up their summer and winter signings and this is Chelsea money. Crazy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Spurs have needed a tough central midfielder for ages though to be fair. they thought they got one in zokora. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtype Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Spurs have needed a tough central midfielder for ages though to be fair. they thought they got one in zokora. One that isn't shit would be preferable Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Where is all this money coming from for Spurs? Add up their summer and winter signings and this is Chelsea money. Crazy. Sold Berbatov and Keane for £50m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowen Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Where is all this money coming from for Spurs? Add up their summer and winter signings and this is Chelsea money. Crazy. Sold Berbatov and Keane for £50m. Plus about £10m from the mackems, £5m for Kaboul, £8m for Defoe, even £3m for Robinson. They seem to have a huge turnover of players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Palacios is an intresting one. Spurs need a strong combative player in the middle of the park to go make their powder puff midfield a bit tougher, but £14 million? Think I'd be looking elsewhere. The fact that Wigan only paid £750,000 for him in the first place shows there are bargains to be found. Unfortunately for them they'll always be a selling club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkhead Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 14 million for Palacios.. wtf? he's not even better than Zokora Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Appiah played a friendly match a couple of days ago and apparantly looked very good. I doubt were gonna sign him though (even though he wants to sign). In other news, Jose Mourinho confirms he wants to sign Jenas. This "shit" midfielder is really rated by a lot of managers (I forgot to add Wenger to my previous list, who said he was very interested in JJ when he was with you lot). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbob Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Appiah played a friendly match a couple of days ago and apparantly looked very good. I doubt were gonna sign him though (even though he wants to sign). In other news, Jose Mourinho confirms he wants to sign Jenas. This "shit" midfielder is really rated by a lot of managers (I forgot to add Wenger to my previous list, who said he was very interested in JJ when he was with you lot). Every single manager out there has signed a dud. Personaly ive never seen the issue with Jenas that a lot of others seem to, ive liked him as a player, good on the ball, tidy passer of the ball, doesnt give away the ball often, his major weakness is that he's not a great tackler and that he's got no outstanding qualities as a midfiedler aside from being a natural athlete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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