Why say things like this?

Because it makes you look a muppet if it backfires. I would prefer players to just get on with it quietly.







Van Der Vaart – Spurs will beat Man Utd and win the League!






Tottenham
Hotspur’s newest star, Rafael Van Der Vaart, is absolutely certain that
Harry Redknapp has brought together a brilliant squad that is more than
capable of beating Man Utd at White Hart Lane this weekend, and then
going on to win the League title.
Sir Alex Ferguson’s team is still unbeaten in the Premiership this
season, and Man Utd have an excellent record over Tottenham, but Van Der
Vaart thinks that won’t count for anything this season.
“I think we are good enough to win the title. We have the squad to do
it,” he said. “We also have to respect the little teams, but I think we
will beat United on Sunday.
“We at Spurs believe we can win the league. It’s a long way, but I believe we can do it because we have such a good squad.
“Belief is the biggest word in football – if you believe you can win something, then you can.
“We have got the squad and I believe we are ready. We played Charlton
in the FA Cup last week, changed the team completely and still won.
“I’m very happy with the team, we have great players and we are going to play for many years together.”
Well if confidence could put points on the board, then Tottenham
would certainly have lots of them by now! It would certainly make the
Premiership wide open again if they manage to take all three points off
Man Utd.

[b]I like it Baz, I like to see the belief from players like VDV because it's not like they are going into this game thinking the points are already won. If the team believes they are good enough then this is exactly what we have wanted from them for a number of seasons now.

I have been believing this since before the season began, as you know. We have all commented that we want to see this kind of belief in our players, well now here it is.

VDV is well respected in the team, looked up to by the other players as he's been there and done it. These kind of comments, I believe, will fire the team up and get them playing that much better.

VDV's comments have given me butterflies .......... But in a good way. I'm excited about this game as I really feel that we are going to turn these red tosspots over in a big way. I mean I have a REAL good feeling and when I get that feeling it invariably bodes well.

Come on mate, live the dream. VDV is right, we ARE good enough to beat the Mancs, we ARE good enough to win the league and it's about time the players started buying into that belief.[/b]

I always like the players to keep quiet ion so i know where baz is coming from.

But i have £20 with a man utd mate on the game and i really think we are ready to beat them.

everytime we play arsenal or man u we mouth off before the game and lose. this time aganst arsenal we didnt say anythin on the eve of the game.

i would rather vdv not say anything

Loughtonlegend wrote:everytime we play arsenal or man u we mouth off before the game and lose. this time aganst arsenal we didnt say anythin on the eve of the game.

i would rather vdv not say anything

God bless vdv lought ! he knows its our turn to beat them, no ref will do us out of this fcking game....

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is confident his side will become the first team to beat Manchester United in the league this season on Sunday.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s men have not lost any of their 20 top flight matches this term but the Spurs manager insists his side can end their run at White Hart Lane this weekend.
“We’re not an outsider playing against red hot favourites,” said Redknapp. “It’s a very evenly balanced game between two good teams and I don’t think there’s an awful lot between us.
“We don’t fear anybody. You’ve got to believe you can win the game and there’s no reason we shouldn’t believe that. When we play well we’re as exciting as anybody.”
Fourth-placed Spurs are eight points behind Sir Alex’s table-toppers and Redknapp believes his side need to win on Sunday to retain any hopes of winning the league – and he expects this year’s title race to go down to the wire.
“It’s a game we need to win to keep us in there,” he said. “It’s so close that getting in the top four is going to be hard. There are five teams scrapping it out and we’re one of those teams again.
“I wouldn’t write Manchester City off, I wouldn’t write Arsenal off and even Chelsea are capable of going on a run. Those teams can go and win eight out of the next 10 and draw a couple. It’s very open, I don’t think any one team is on another level to the others.”
Redknapp also all but ended speculation over a possible loan move for David Beckham by revealing there is no deal on the cards. The LA Galaxy midfielder has been training with Spurs this week during the MLS off-season and despite showing interest, the Tottenham boss says the former England captain will not be joining the North London side.
“I would have liked him to play,” said Redknapp. “If he could have come until the end of the season that would have been great.”
And Redknapp revealed he won’t be quizzing Beckham over his former club ahead of Sunday’s showdown. He said: “Manchester United is part of his life and I don’t think he’d want to do that. What can I ask him? A lot of the players weren’t there when he was there and I wouldn’t put him in that position, it wouldn’t be fair.”
He added: “If he wants to come in to our dressing room or go into theirs (on Sunday) that won’t be a problem, but I don’t know whether he fancies coming or not.”

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I know where you are coming from Baz. If you think you can beat them then go out and do it just saying it doesn't make it happen all it does is make the opposition try that bit harder.

I agree we are good enough to beat any team on our day but we are still not consistent enough, look at the Everton game.
I would be much happier if we said nothing and did everything.

Mikey M

Dean i think lee!

I was interested to see the comment regarding VDV been there and done that. Unless I have misunderstood his career trajectory he won nothing whilst at Madrid and was offloaded - he won nothing at Hamburg - it may be that while with Ajax he won a trophy a few years back but PSV were champions for a few years running

This sort of silly comment may indicate the lack of a trophy is getting to the player

Innit Dave ?

anicoll5 wrote:I was interested to see the comment regarding VDV been there and done that. Unless I have misunderstood his career trajectory he won nothing whilst at Madrid and was offloaded - he won nothing at Hamburg - it may be that while with Ajax he won a trophy a few years back but PSV were champions for a few years running

This sort of silly comment may indicate the lack of a trophy is getting to the player

Innit Dave ?

Could be Nic, just doesnt come across as sour grapes, nah mean!!