Tottenham Thread

[carmine]

I wonder which BS headline is gonna challenge us today? Hopefully Redruns is on his own thread trying to dissect their 3-2 defeat..... .

I don't dissect defeats, thats for the team and the manager, I move on, quickly.....

Anyway, good morning/afternoon gents.....

redrus

Must have been crushing that defeat though Russ. How are you today? Chin up dear

[redrus]

I wonder which BS headline is gonna challenge us today? Hopefully Redruns is on his own thread trying to dissect their 3-2 defeat..... .

I don't dissect defeats, thats for the team and the manager, I move on, quickly.....

Anyway, good morning/afternoon gents.....

redrus

Must have been crushing that defeat though Russ. How are you today? Chin up dear

Don't be silly, couldn't give a hoot mate, seriously. I'm not a fan of pre season tours anyway, just to fill coffers and please other countries with lies about full teams playing who should be with their family or, training..!

redrus

[smokie36]

I wonder which BS headline is gonna challenge us today? Hopefully Redruns is on his own thread trying to dissect their 3-2 defeat..... .

I don't dissect defeats, thats for the team and the manager, I move on, quickly.....

Anyway, good morning/afternoon gents.....

redrus

Morning rus....so....are you on here checking to see if we have signed an expensive striker so you can plunder our midfield?

I know your game but....remember....you can't afford £85m. plus the usual £10m man Yoo surcharge of course!

Don't be daft 1936.............,

We've got buckets of cash, marquee signings galore and, owners to die for........ (literally)

'We buy when we want, we buy when we waaaaaaaaant,

We're Man United, we buy when we waaaant....'

(If its ok with the other team and we pay enough money and we beg and we............, oh you get the message)

redrus

I've just completed courses dealing with conflict resolution and people with depression.

I'm working on how to apply it to an entire team's supporters at the moment so I will say just this.

Have a lovely day.

[redrus]

I wonder which BS headline is gonna challenge us today? Hopefully Redruns is on his own thread trying to dissect their 3-2 defeat..... .

I don't dissect defeats, thats for the team and the manager, I move on, quickly.....

Anyway, good morning/afternoon gents.....

redrus

Must have been crushing that defeat though Russ. How are you today? Chin up dear

Don't be silly, couldn't give a hoot mate, seriously. I'm not a fan of pre season tours anyway, just to fill coffers and please other countries with lies about full teams playing who should be with their family or, training..!

redrus

[smokie36]

I wonder which BS headline is gonna challenge us today? Hopefully Redruns is on his own thread trying to dissect their 3-2 defeat..... .

I don't dissect defeats, thats for the team and the manager, I move on, quickly.....

Anyway, good morning/afternoon gents.....

redrus

Must have been crushing that defeat though Russ. How are you today? Chin up dear

Don't be silly, couldn't give a hoot mate, seriously. I'm not a fan of pre season tours anyway, just to fill coffers and please other countries with lies about full teams playing who should be with their family or, training..!

redrus

Rooney out for £30m and no one in. The Glazers will be pleased that their new action plan is bearing fruit!

[redrus]

The battle for Bale: Real Madrid may want him but United may now hold the key to signing the Tottenham superstar

By IAN LADYMAN

PUBLISHED: 22:30, 23 July 2013 | UPDATED: 23:55, 23 July 2013

According to those who know him, Gareth Bale remains a down-to-earth kind of footballer.

For example, when he plays for Wales in Cardiff, he still gets his mum Debbie to record the game so that he can go ‘home’ afterwards and watch it.

Success, they say, hasn’t changed him much. Even he, though, must have found his head swirling on Tuesday when the front page of Spanish sports paper Marca claimed — somewhat prematurely it appears — that he has agreed a six-year deal to join Real Madrid.

Bale, remember, wasn’t even a regular in the Tottenham team when Harry Redknapp arrived at White Hart Lane in 2008. Indeed, so unconvinced was Redknapp initially by the young left-back that he offered him to Manchester City as bait for Craig Bellamy.

Now, in the summer of 2013, Bale is one of Europe’s most sought-after footballers, coveted by Madrid and Manchester United, and destined, it seems, for the very highest level of the European game at some time in the next 12 months.

Spurs, of course, are trying to hang on for another season at least and who can blame them?

Without their most influential player, Andre Villas-Boas and his entertaining team will find themselves short of what is needed for a top-four finish.

With Bale still in harness, Tottenham still have a chance and no wonder Villas-Boas was talking in such belligerent fashion on Tuesday when asked in Hong Kong about the future of the 24-year-old.

‘I want to repeat what I was telling you last season and what I was telling you from the beginning of pre-season so I cannot extend myself,’ said Villas-Boas.

‘He’s a Tottenham player, he’s one of the most fantastic players in the world at the moment and we are counting on him for the future.’

It is easy to sympathise with Villas-Boas. Tottenham will sell Bale before long. It makes sense. The timing, though, is everything and it is clear that they will do what they can this summer to prevent him leaving, before September 1 heralds the closing of the summer trading window.

Interest from Real is genuine, as indeed it is from United. As it stands, an offer is most likely to come from Old Trafford.

It is hard to see Real testing Tottenham’s resistance while Cristiano Ronaldo remains at the Bernabeu and it is worth noting that Carlo Ancelotti also has another direct wide forward currently in his squad, Argentina international Angel di Maria.

Taking that into account, does Ancelotti need Bale? Not really. Not until Ronaldo leaves, at least, and when looked at from that angle it seems as though United may hold the key to all this.

As we know, United have flirted with the notion of a dramatic and sentimental return for Ronaldo. Some people in football insist it will still happen. As time moves on, however, it seems ever more difficult for United to pull off.

More possible is that the Barclays Premier League champions harden their interest in Bale himself.

Former United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has long been a fan of the Welshman, having tried to bring him to Old Trafford before Spurs signed him from Southampton in 2007. Now that the baton has been passed to David Moyes at United, the admiration for Bale remains.

Moyes knows that Bale would bring an awful lot to his team but — as Sportsmail first reported in early June — United are reluctant to begin another period of painful sparring with their old adversary, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy. Negotiations with Levy tend to be as painful and drawn out as pulling teeth and without any guarantee of a successful resolution.

United have experience — having bought Michael Carrick in 2006 and Dimitar Berbatov in 2008 — and it is this that makes them nervous.Equally, though, the club’s owners the Glazers want a marquee signing this summer and the more other avenues begin to close off the more likely a serious attempt to get Bale out of Tottenham becomes.

Luka Modric has long been on United’s back-up list as they look for a creative midfielder, while Moyes has a week to decide whether to close in on Everton’s Marouane Fellaini, as the Belgian’s £22m buy-out clause expires on July 31.

Certainly, the longer Barcelona’s stubbornness over Cesc Fabregas goes on, the more likely it is that something will have to give. United need players and Moyes has already indicated publicly this week that he cannot wait forever.United’s fanbase are also starting to get a little agitated. Moyes is aware of this and remains calm. When he looks across the landscape, though, he can see his rivals spending money, strengthening. If this doesn’t make him nervous yet then it soon will do.

Bale, for his part, is keen to better himself before long. Represented by the experienced agent Jonathan Barnett, he will get his move eventually and those of us who enjoy watching him play so much can only hope he remains in the Premier League.

There are too few of his ilk left. For once it’s all too easy to understand all the fuss.

redrus

Thanks for that, now tell us something we don't know

I graduate today.....

That good enough for you...?

redrus

[smokie36]

Congrats rus.

[redrus]

Congrats rus.

Cheers Smokie lad.... 1st one, and another next year too. CHuffed to bits..

redrus

[redrus]

Duped

redrus

Edited July 24, 2013 by redrus

[MrRed]

Well done rus,i hope it is ok to send you warm congratulations on the Spuds thread

By teh time you awake tomorrow you will have some good news i hope to ease the hangover

[MrRed]

Well done rus,i hope it is ok to send you warm congratulations on the Spuds thread

By teh time you awake tomorrow you will have some good news i hope to ease the hangover

[smokie36]

Well done rus,i hope it is ok to send you warm congratulations on the Spuds thread

By teh time you awake tomorrow you will have some good news i hope to ease the hangover

I gave you a like....but only for the first bit.

[redrus]

Well done rus,i hope it is ok to send you warm congratulations on the Spuds thread

By teh time you awake tomorrow you will have some good news i hope to ease the hangover

Haha, cheers Red. It's the only thing I could think of that Alfie didn't know about, apart from the 'secrets'.

Fingers crossed mate.

redrus

[smokie36]

Well done rus,i hope it is ok to send you warm congratulations on the Spuds thread

By teh time you awake tomorrow you will have some good news i hope to ease the hangover

Haha, cheers Red. It's the only thing I could think of that Alfie didn't know about, apart from the 'secrets'.

Fingers crossed mate.

redrus

Oh I see....its all smoke and mirrors now is it?

Away and play in yer sandpit....at least we know we'll end up with a Lithuanian striker no one ever heard of for £8m....you lot are just insufferable!

[stoneyboy]

Is this Micky mouse competition between spurs and man city on TV today or not ?

[jellydog]

Is this Micky mouse competition between spurs and man city on TV today or not ?

Can't find it in the BKK post. Liverpool at 17:00. Bayern and Barca at 23:30. Both True 1.

[smokie36]

Is this Micky mouse competition between spurs and man city on TV today or not ?

Channel 3 or 7 apparently.

[stoneyboy]

Is this Micky mouse competition between spurs and man city on TV today or not ?

Channel 3 or 7 apparently.

In place of mid week Lakorn never in my lifetime.

[smokie36]

Is this Micky mouse competition between spurs and man city on TV today or not ?

Channel 3 or 7 apparently.

In place of mid week Lakorn never in my lifetime.

Whatever floats your boat my soon to be relegated olympic plonker.

[stoneyboy]

Is this Micky mouse competition between spurs and man city on TV today or not ?

Can't find it in the BKK post. Liverpool at 17:00. Bayern and Barca at 23:30. Both True 1.

Cheers.

[rijit]

try this www.wiziwig.tv/index.php?part=sports

it might be a bit early but if its being streamed . chances are it will tell you

[mad mary]

I feel like I'm stuck in a revolving door!!!

[JacknDanny]

I wonder where mystic is today ? probaly looking for his crystal ball

Maybe mrboj has given him the job of "re-educating his new pal the young yet effective ankle biter silva. Good luck to him with that....a gaze in that crystal ball would tell him they bought the wrong Brazilian.....back down the tanning shop Jack!

Whats up guys?

Have you bought Soldado yet? Oh I guess not

Bernard? Nope

Anyone forward yet?

So what I was saying is correct, so far.... dont need no crystal balls for that one

No point in coming on here until you have some positive news, as you guys seem to get upset very easily.

Funny how you seem to take the p!ss out of the Rooney situation and the Suarez situation, and that we have bought an overpriced Brazilian lump

But we mustnt mention the Spurs situation, as either the newspaper reports are incorrect or just plain lies.

Carry on, wake me up when something concrete happens

[iancnx]

CTH BPL1 ch 131 has 2 Thai guys talking spurs now..... ;-)

[rijit]

CTH BPL1 ch 131 has 2 Thai guys talking spurs now..... ;-)

loads of links on wiziwig now

[iancnx]

Now showing late KO. Now 1730 hrs. Good picture HD. Raining in HK

[MrRed]

Spurs match delayed because nobodys turned up to watch by the looks of it.

[smokie36]

Now showing late KO. Now 1730 hrs. Good picture HD. Raining in HK

How late Ian? I'm just heading off to the pub to watch it.

[MrRed]

Now showing late KO. Now 1730 hrs. Good picture HD. Raining in HK

How late Ian? I'm just heading off to the pub to watch it.

[rijit]

gomez still there !!!!! thought his contract was finished