alfieconn

4 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Yeah. Rumours Spurs and West Ham both in for Batshuyai. Apparently loan terms agreed with WHU but now just announced Palace are going to buy him!........edit, now a loan deal!

Why are you so naive to mention every rumour going ? and worse still you have to put them on here !

4 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said:

Well that was an interesting turn around and now it starts to look as though Poch was well justified in his FA Cup selection.

 

What a funny old week!

To be fair Ronny, even before the results of the last few day's i thought we had enough of a buffer to not have to worry too much about last nights game that's why i didn't see a problem with playing a stronger team at Palace (hence why i was angry), even if it meant not taking 3 points last night.

35 minutes ago, carmine said:

Yes, the Messiah is now human as United's frailties reappear, and what a proper bottle job by City.  Couldn't make this stuff up!! ????

Yep, one more bad result and they'll be calling for Poch again, a shame he's going nowhere ????

5 hours ago, Kadilo said:

I appreciate £10 mil don’t buy you much but by your own admissions Llorente ain’t up to much anyway it wouldn’t take much to improve with out Kane up front. 

As well as that a new face can freshen up the dressing room a bit and give everyone a lift and provide at least a little competition for Llorente. 

The Lifelong supporter sounded genuinely peeved that he felt 

Poch as good as threw away a good trophy opportunity rightly or wrongly. 

 

 

From Redknapp :

“It’s difficult to replace people – where are you going to find a top class player who is going to come in for just four and five weeks, but when Harry Kane is back fit you’ll be on the bench? It’s very difficult to find somebody.”

1 hour ago, Kadilo said:

Oh looks like someone’s found that dummy first!!

 

Stay down Canvasback, take a count............and keep that chin tucked in!

Don't worry thats supergrass iv'e put on ignore, i wouldn't put you on ignore Kads, your much too fun ????

16 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

So in the past 2 seasons Spurs have bought several players around 10m but when somebody raises why not spend 10m our resident spurs expert (555) goes off on one again.

 

You spurs fans should remember your 81 FA cup victory  over City. Why do i raise it? Because  City were  struggling that season then john bond went out and bought 3 seasoned pros on the cheap and it turned our seaon around [(tommy Hutchinson (winger) . .gerry gow (midfield)..Bobby McDonald (LB)]. Maybe one decent pro in the 10-15m could help the Harry Kane Team kick on.

 

The conversation was about an understudy for 10m to Harry and iv'e already explained why it wouldn't be a good idea I.e.  having 3 centre forwards next month when H is fit

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So your advocating getting a 10m pound player to give competition to LLorente when we now have Son back and H will back in a months time.

So your comparing buying 3 old timers in 1981 with a 10m pound CF as understudy to one of the best CF'S in Europe in  2019 ???? 

Anyway you are now on ignore again Supergrass as you are boring me again.

16 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

So clearly so sense of humour as well as an angry old man. 

 

To be fair, i did think you was joking until you mentioned we pay 10m for another CF ????

Old ? ????

27 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

It’s just an opinion Alfie. Not everyone has to see it your way. Im only repeating what some other lifelong fans were discussing last night. 

 

Some may argue, as your own fans were on the radio that your squad doesn’t already have sufficient quality to progress any further and in a months time you may be struggling to hold on to 4th. It’s a matter of opinion, they are Spurs fans too so maybe not everyone is as expert as you on how your own club works. 

 

Why dont you just stick to a discussion and accept not everyone has to agree with you and sort your anger issues out. 

 

 

No anger issues just people like you come on here speaking rubbish telling us where we are going wrong, why don't you stick to sorting out your own clubs issues like being the 7th highest net spenders over the last 5 years and still looking over your shoulder at relegation !

Mind you, you did say something half sensible, that we should buy Crouchie ????

Anyway, so buying a 10m pound CF is really going to solve this  

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squad doesn’t already have sufficient quality

21 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

I appreciate £10 mil don’t buy you much but by your own admissions Llorente ain’t up to much anyway it wouldn’t take much to improve with out Kane up front. 

As well as that a new face can freshen up the dressing room a bit and give everyone a lift and provide at least a little competition for Llorente. 

The Lifelong supporter sounded genuinely peeved that he felt 

Poch as good as threw away a good trophy opportunity rightly or wrongly. 

 

 

Read what i said :

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 we can't just go out and replace them short term as A. it isn't cost effective B. you can only register 25 players.

 

Well 10m isn't going freshen anything up !! 

 

So your advocating getting a 10m pound player to give competition to LLorente when we now have Son back and H will back in a months time.

What your saying for Spurs to do is exactly what Poch implies he no longer wants to do, i.e load up the squad with players of insufficient quality.

Why don't you stick to the scammers thread as you really don't have a clue as to how Spurs work. 

2 hours ago, Kadilo said:

I’m a big fan of Poch and what he has done at his disposal shows his class but yesterday I think he got it wrong despite prioritising a top 4 position. 

 

Even despite your injury situation to make 7 changes to a side that lost 4 days earlier was pretty much giving up on any chance of Silverware this year. By not even having Eriksen on the bench, and it doesnt appear he is injured, just rested and with Watford, Leicester and Newcastle your next three games seemed an odd decision. It was a game in the balance and introducing someone of his quality could of changed the game. It was clearly winnable. 

 

Maybe he was trying to send a message upstairs in a weakened version of what Mourinho was doing that he needs more players and at a minimum should spend the money they got for Dembele to freshen things up. 

 

Listenong to the Radio 5 phone in after the game there was a mixed reaction to his decisions with some growing frustrations of being knocked out of 2 competitions in 4 days with some saying they would rather win a trophy than worry about a top 4 finish. One fan for 39 years stating that Poch should go as he has taken them as far as he can and he is a “loser” and you need a winning manager. A bit extreme but there does seems to be a growing divide among the supporters with some losing patience as to which direction the club should be going and what the priorities should be. 

 

 

 

 

It's not more players we need it's less injuries and we can't just go out and replace them short term as A. it isn't cost effective B. you can only register 25 players.

Well 10m isn't going freshen anything up !! 

To be fair some fans such as this one have very short memories, he must have seen enough lean years where we have struggled to even get in the top 8 and had some real crap players and he should be appreciating what Poch has done with little resources. 

8 minutes ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Yeah we all quite loath it.

 

Remind us, who are all these academy players you are referring to?

Well judging by Foden being a regular quite a few ????  incidentally you constantly ask this question ( do you have alzeimers ? ) and one of us answers so best you go back and have a look at previous posts.

Haven't read any of the previous posts so might be repeating what has already been said. Anyway, i'm livid, ok we have a few injuries to key players but Poch didn't have to play such a weakened team and as soon as i see the team i knew we were going to struggle, one trophy we have a realistic chance of winning and he Farks it, play Eriksen, Lamela, Rose, Winks and rest them in midweek after all the Watford game isn't a must win where as yesterdays game was in my book.Strangely enough i thought we might struggle against Zaha and Townsend but they really didn't give us any problems and in Foyth i think we have found a great replacement for Alderweireld.

4 minutes ago, carmine said:

I see you made him look a massive whopper yesterday!!  Looks like he's coming back for more.

Don't worry carms iv'e got one in the pipeline ????

3 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

???? That's what a squad is for!

Ses the man who came on here crying when De Bruyne was injured !

1 hour ago, carmine said:

Nice to see the usual valued input from R2D2 being posted on here.  Brummie simpleton????

 

First half we were very second best.  Pochettino made good tactical switches at half time and we were a fair degree better.  I didn't think we would win anyway some i'm quite ambivalent really.  

 

FA cup fixture this weekend another banana skin in the making.

Strange !!!! woke up this morning and didn't feel gutted, can't remember the last time that happened after losing, anyway it was always going to be a difficult game and i feared the worst at two down but thought we done ok in the 2nd half, losing on pens and another couple of injuries didn't surprise me.

3 hours ago, Kadilo said:

The difference being the depth in quality of your squad and the effect losing one player makes compared to smaller and less quality squads. 

 

Not buying more quality back up players was and still is a calculated gamble Spurs bosses took and til now has proved shrewd as Poch has worked miracles. 

 

The next couple of month  could make that decision not look so great and change the whole complexion of their season.

Fine margins. 

The problem we have at the moment is not the quality of back up players but the amount of injuries and Son missing.

In fact being 3rd in the league and still in 3 cups with the amount of injuries we've had proves the squad is good enough, of course you can always improve the squad but we haven't got the money to buy expensive squad players, just like a majority of the Premier League hasn't.

Heres one for ya carms : Guru Tony Cascarino just said on Talksport the Kane injury means it's more likely Pochettino leaves

20 minutes ago, champers said:

Agreed, not to replace Kane. Could be a future makeweight in a deal for Ericsson with Barca.

I think the problem is his money grabbing agent.

14 minutes ago, champers said:

Bought in the summer from Bordeaux, a right winger. Reckoned to be one for the future and bought to stop others getting him. Seen a bit of him last season in Ligue 1. He is very promising and seems to be smart and level headed.

No chance of him coming !

2 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

So tells us then Alfie who is going to play upfront?

Well i'll give you a clue, Parrott is 16 y/o coming up to 17 and Janssen isn't even in the squad ???????? so by a process of elimination that leaves LLorente or a false No.9, but i did hear somewhere that Crouch is coming back ????

54 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Could do worse. 

I would expect a loan announcement shortly. 

Are you joking ? on seconds thoughts  probably not ????

2 hours ago, 3 minus 2 said:

Yeah jansson isnt he still out on loan?  Thought it was a shame we never gave him another season. Decent physical presence and always looked well up for a challenge  thought there 'was light at the end of the tunnel in terms of his development..he seemed to 'over try', maybe the pressure got to  him, dificult  but he defo needed just to relax and go with the flow,, easy sayin that but not so when the knobhead media and idiot  prem  fans ONLY judge you on goals scored..like  kane, for me,  and for whatever reason he was poor for the first 2 plus ish mnths of the season  but all was percieved as 'well'cos he scored a few  .. but hey everyone judges football by their own measure shallow or what ever.. and  Some just look for the negative and aint got the nouce to realise that  in anyway it dont look  good

but  thats life i suppose, takes all sorts

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Yeah jansson isnt he still out on loan?

That was last season 

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idiot  prem  fans ONLY judge you on goals scored..like  kane, for me,

3rd most assists in the team

Most dribbles of the team

2 minutes ago, champers said:

Reports on the BBC that 16 year old Parrot is under consideration to play up front. Jansson (remember him?) is still at the club, so is another option.

Oh dear, even Champs is posting rubbish from what he sees in the MMS now ????

8 hours ago, 3 minus 2 said:

Yep.. so with kane injured and son gone  NOW  we're in a crisis.. 4 me  not that much has changed all  season .. traditionaly kanes a late starter and son's been absent with leave and not really match fit until ?? games ago.. so with lucas returnin soon, ali steppin up.. 4 me  he aint been great recently and boy wonder pamela all well capable of world class performances/ displays we'll be more than ok.. from watchin  many many worse crisis's at exeter .. IF HANDLED RIGHT.. a star in the makin will emerge..short term  pain for long term gain.. so to speak.. but we'll c

Very late starter if he aint got going yet ???? be interesting to see how many he scores if he doesn't start the season late????

Son comment is one for Kadilo to answer !

2 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

I would not be surprised if Kane injured is a ploy between the staff to get the wallet open before deadline. Defoe on a free and a cheeky 25m buy might solve it.

Does anyone know what he is on about ?