Sheikh to buy spurs

BazSpur wrote:Stick with Levy. He has done us proud so far.

VisionarySound wrote:Oh dear turn the club into a tycoons plaything ? Down this road lies madness ! DJ makes the point about the new finacial fair play rules that will come into force & this will have to be taken into consideration. Ok you look at Chelski & Citeh, and no we can't compete with them but neither can anyone else ! And as nice a pipe-dream as it may be for a RICH owner to come in, who love's Spurs and would throw money at everything, for every Chelski & Citeh you have to look at the reality of Liverpool & Man Ure (possibly Villa as well). Sometimes a quick fix is not what is needed but a long term plan for the future, which in all fairness Levy seems to working to . . . . . . . .

ionman34 wrote:It always seems to be the same old diatribe when we suffer a setback at this club, the players aren't good enough, the manager's not good enough, the policies aren't good enough, blah, blah, blah.

The one area, as I see it, where we didn't get it right, in the closed season, is in the striker department. I've been saying for Months that we are weak in this area and this has never been more apparent than now. What I will say, though, is that the management team has acted in the best interests of the club and not bowed to pressure to spend silly and get in a striker for stupid money and ridiculous wages.

What some don't seem to realise is the knock on effect that will have with the rest of the squad. We bring in a new player, pay him anywhere between 20 and 50 grand more than the rest and suddenly we have a squad full of players wanting, no demanding, parity.

Bang goes any team spirit and bang goes all our financial stability. All because of a ropey start and the resultant panic.

We are currently in the midst of an injury crisi in defence. Now this had sweet FA to do with us not strengthening as we currently have 4 top drawer Ch's sidelined along with our first choice Left back. Now I see some complaints on here that we should have strengthened but I have a few questions for you guys;

1) Who was available that could improve on what we had? I only saw one and we got him, feel free to name me the others.
2) If any were available, why would they want to come to us when, at the time, we had ALL of our CH's fit, apart from Woody.
3) Why would we want to get more when, after bringing in Billy, we had King, Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul and Bassong available with both Charlie and Thudd able to slot in if required?

Considering the above, I can just see the reaction of the faithful had we splurged on another CH ............. 'What the Hell are we spending for? Harry you've lost the plot spending for spending's sake.'

We've had our issues in midfield too. The end of last season was special because we'd found a superb, if unlikely, pairing in Thudd and Moddle. Against Citeh they started off on fire and ran the show, despite being outmanned in midfield. Lennon has blown cold more than hot and WP is a shadow of the player pre his brothers murder. Now I think we've made 2 superb buys in Sandro and VDV. VDV in particular because we have a World Class player who wants to play Football. If it was the wages he was interested in he'd have stayed at Real. We got rather excited about getting a midfielder of his quality in and that was at the end of the window. What that tells me is that there wasn't really anyone else available of better quality than what we have.

The striker department is where we are really suffering though. Lack of goals has cost us all those points, not a leaky defence. I agree with Lobo that we need that Drogba type striker who will score regularly with droughts few and very far between. All the strikers we currently have, barring Defoe, are 2nd strikers, back up strikers if you will. None are capable of leading a line.

Now I don't blame Spurs for not getting one in and I certainly don't blame the manager, he's Harry Redknapp not bloody Harry Potter! He can't wave a wand, shout STRIKORDIUS!! and miraculously produce a 30+ goal wonder, not for the money we are restricted to anyway. He needs to find a young gem or get lucky with an Henry type, out of favour and desperate for a move.


We're Spurs though ............... We don't get that kind of luck.


So bite your lip guys. There are those hitting the panic button straight away, mostly because we lost to the goons. In all honesty I really didn't give a toss about that, I was far more upset about the loss to the Spam as that was league, I couldn't give a toss about the CC as I've maintained it should be a training ground for our fringe and youth for a long while now. So we lost to the goons, we spent over 10 years doing that so it's not so unusual and getting revenge in the league will be so much sweeter.

Get a grip please. We are a far better team than some of you are giving us credit for and are currently seriously underachieving. That's the crux of it there, we're underachieving, we didn't overachieve last year at all so we know we're good enough to mix it with the best. All you people saying we need 6 World Class players to contend need to take a good, long, hot shower and get your brains working again.

A) Name them.
B) Identify that they are for sale.
C) Show ME that they'd want to come let alone themselves.
D) Let me know how we'll outbid richer clubs, particularly Citeh, who are currently building a shitload of glass cases so that they can display all the players they've bought but have no intention of playing.
E) Show me the money.

We're once more with the Jol scenario. A terrific season giving us a taste of European competition, followed by an injury ravaged start to the following campaign, riddled with indifferent results, that has the usual suspects baying for the managers blood. The similarities are frightening, as are the displayed inabilities of the few to learn from previous errors.

If you're going to criticise then make it constructive. There's nothing worse than a whinging tart who whines for the sake of it. Whinging Poms the Aussies would call it and they'd be right on the money here.


Well I've enjoyed my little rant, not that I think it makes any difference because I've done it before and it mattered not then. I'll be intersted to see if any have learned from previous lessons, I seriously doubt it based on the last few days posts, but I'm ever the optimist.

cstmrsking wrote:

ionman34 wrote:It always seems to be the same old diatribe when we suffer a setback at this club, the players aren't good enough, the manager's not good enough, the policies aren't good enough, blah, blah, blah.

The one area, as I see it, where we didn't get it right, in the closed season, is in the striker department. I've been saying for Months that we are weak in this area and this has never been more apparent than now. What I will say, though, is that the management team has acted in the best interests of the club and not bowed to pressure to spend silly and get in a striker for stupid money and ridiculous wages.

What some don't seem to realise is the knock on effect that will have with the rest of the squad. We bring in a new player, pay him anywhere between 20 and 50 grand more than the rest and suddenly we have a squad full of players wanting, no demanding, parity.

Bang goes any team spirit and bang goes all our financial stability. All because of a ropey start and the resultant panic.

We are currently in the midst of an injury crisi in defence. Now this had sweet FA to do with us not strengthening as we currently have 4 top drawer Ch's sidelined along with our first choice Left back. Now I see some complaints on here that we should have strengthened but I have a few questions for you guys;

1) Who was available that could improve on what we had? I only saw one and we got him, feel free to name me the others.
2) If any were available, why would they want to come to us when, at the time, we had ALL of our CH's fit, apart from Woody.
3) Why would we want to get more when, after bringing in Billy, we had King, Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul and Bassong available with both Charlie and Thudd able to slot in if required?

Considering the above, I can just see the reaction of the faithful had we splurged on another CH ............. 'What the Hell are we spending for? Harry you've lost the plot spending for spending's sake.'

We've had our issues in midfield too. The end of last season was special because we'd found a superb, if unlikely, pairing in Thudd and Moddle. Against Citeh they started off on fire and ran the show, despite being outmanned in midfield. Lennon has blown cold more than hot and WP is a shadow of the player pre his brothers murder. Now I think we've made 2 superb buys in Sandro and VDV. VDV in particular because we have a World Class player who wants to play Football. If it was the wages he was interested in he'd have stayed at Real. We got rather excited about getting a midfielder of his quality in and that was at the end of the window. What that tells me is that there wasn't really anyone else available of better quality than what we have.

The striker department is where we are really suffering though. Lack of goals has cost us all those points, not a leaky defence. I agree with Lobo that we need that Drogba type striker who will score regularly with droughts few and very far between. All the strikers we currently have, barring Defoe, are 2nd strikers, back up strikers if you will. None are capable of leading a line.

Now I don't blame Spurs for not getting one in and I certainly don't blame the manager, he's Harry Redknapp not bloody Harry Potter! He can't wave a wand, shout STRIKORDIUS!! and miraculously produce a 30+ goal wonder, not for the money we are restricted to anyway. He needs to find a young gem or get lucky with an Henry type, out of favour and desperate for a move.


We're Spurs though ............... We don't get that kind of luck.


So bite your lip guys. There are those hitting the panic button straight away, mostly because we lost to the goons. In all honesty I really didn't give a toss about that, I was far more upset about the loss to the Spam as that was league, I couldn't give a toss about the CC as I've maintained it should be a training ground for our fringe and youth for a long while now. So we lost to the goons, we spent over 10 years doing that so it's not so unusual and getting revenge in the league will be so much sweeter.

Get a grip please. We are a far better team than some of you are giving us credit for and are currently seriously underachieving. That's the crux of it there, we're underachieving, we didn't overachieve last year at all so we know we're good enough to mix it with the best. All you people saying we need 6 World Class players to contend need to take a good, long, hot shower and get your brains working again.

A) Name them.
B) Identify that they are for sale.
C) Show ME that they'd want to come let alone themselves.
D) Let me know how we'll outbid richer clubs, particularly Citeh, who are currently building a shitload of glass cases so that they can display all the players they've bought but have no intention of playing.
E) Show me the money.

We're once more with the Jol scenario. A terrific season giving us a taste of European competition, followed by an injury ravaged start to the following campaign, riddled with indifferent results, that has the usual suspects baying for the managers blood. The similarities are frightening, as are the displayed inabilities of the few to learn from previous errors.

If you're going to criticise then make it constructive. There's nothing worse than a whinging tart who whines for the sake of it. Whinging Poms the Aussies would call it and they'd be right on the money here.


Well I've enjoyed my little rant, not that I think it makes any difference because I've done it before and it mattered not then. I'll be intersted to see if any have learned from previous lessons, I seriously doubt it based on the last few days posts, but I'm ever the optimist.

So ion, you still not said, if you think we need a Sheihk to Buy the Club. lol

BazSpur wrote:There's a storm a brewin lol.

LOBO wrote:

cstmrsking wrote:

ionman34 wrote:It always seems to be the same old diatribe when we suffer a setback at this club, the players aren't good enough, the manager's not good enough, the policies aren't good enough, blah, blah, blah.

The one area, as I see it, where we didn't get it right, in the closed season, is in the striker department. I've been saying for Months that we are weak in this area and this has never been more apparent than now. What I will say, though, is that the management team has acted in the best interests of the club and not bowed to pressure to spend silly and get in a striker for stupid money and ridiculous wages.

What some don't seem to realise is the knock on effect that will have with the rest of the squad. We bring in a new player, pay him anywhere between 20 and 50 grand more than the rest and suddenly we have a squad full of players wanting, no demanding, parity.

Bang goes any team spirit and bang goes all our financial stability. All because of a ropey start and the resultant panic.

We are currently in the midst of an injury crisi in defence. Now this had sweet FA to do with us not strengthening as we currently have 4 top drawer Ch's sidelined along with our first choice Left back. Now I see some complaints on here that we should have strengthened but I have a few questions for you guys;

1) Who was available that could improve on what we had? I only saw one and we got him, feel free to name me the others.
2) If any were available, why would they want to come to us when, at the time, we had ALL of our CH's fit, apart from Woody.
3) Why would we want to get more when, after bringing in Billy, we had King, Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul and Bassong available with both Charlie and Thudd able to slot in if required?

Considering the above, I can just see the reaction of the faithful had we splurged on another CH ............. 'What the Hell are we spending for? Harry you've lost the plot spending for spending's sake.'

We've had our issues in midfield too. The end of last season was special because we'd found a superb, if unlikely, pairing in Thudd and Moddle. Against Citeh they started off on fire and ran the show, despite being outmanned in midfield. Lennon has blown cold more than hot and WP is a shadow of the player pre his brothers murder. Now I think we've made 2 superb buys in Sandro and VDV. VDV in particular because we have a World Class player who wants to play Football. If it was the wages he was interested in he'd have stayed at Real. We got rather excited about getting a midfielder of his quality in and that was at the end of the window. What that tells me is that there wasn't really anyone else available of better quality than what we have.

The striker department is where we are really suffering though. Lack of goals has cost us all those points, not a leaky defence. I agree with Lobo that we need that Drogba type striker who will score regularly with droughts few and very far between. All the strikers we currently have, barring Defoe, are 2nd strikers, back up strikers if you will. None are capable of leading a line.

Now I don't blame Spurs for not getting one in and I certainly don't blame the manager, he's Harry Redknapp not bloody Harry Potter! He can't wave a wand, shout STRIKORDIUS!! and miraculously produce a 30+ goal wonder, not for the money we are restricted to anyway. He needs to find a young gem or get lucky with an Henry type, out of favour and desperate for a move.


We're Spurs though ............... We don't get that kind of luck.


So bite your lip guys. There are those hitting the panic button straight away, mostly because we lost to the goons. In all honesty I really didn't give a toss about that, I was far more upset about the loss to the Spam as that was league, I couldn't give a toss about the CC as I've maintained it should be a training ground for our fringe and youth for a long while now. So we lost to the goons, we spent over 10 years doing that so it's not so unusual and getting revenge in the league will be so much sweeter.

Get a grip please. We are a far better team than some of you are giving us credit for and are currently seriously underachieving. That's the crux of it there, we're underachieving, we didn't overachieve last year at all so we know we're good enough to mix it with the best. All you people saying we need 6 World Class players to contend need to take a good, long, hot shower and get your brains working again.

A) Name them.
B) Identify that they are for sale.
C) Show ME that they'd want to come let alone themselves.
D) Let me know how we'll outbid richer clubs, particularly Citeh, who are currently building a shitload of glass cases so that they can display all the players they've bought but have no intention of playing.
E) Show me the money.

We're once more with the Jol scenario. A terrific season giving us a taste of European competition, followed by an injury ravaged start to the following campaign, riddled with indifferent results, that has the usual suspects baying for the managers blood. The similarities are frightening, as are the displayed inabilities of the few to learn from previous errors.

If you're going to criticise then make it constructive. There's nothing worse than a whinging tart who whines for the sake of it. Whinging Poms the Aussies would call it and they'd be right on the money here.


Well I've enjoyed my little rant, not that I think it makes any difference because I've done it before and it mattered not then. I'll be intersted to see if any have learned from previous lessons, I seriously doubt it based on the last few days posts, but I'm ever the optimist.

So ion, you still not said, if you think we need a Sheihk to Buy the Club. lol

exactly when i have a rant its a load of bullsh*t and im as thick as 2 short planks , thats where the debate ends .
lonman knowns as much about spurs as i do> nothing to be exact

Its my opinion and im fcuking proud of it, now do i get a rep for my rant

answer no , cos i dont post in a lovely tainted blue

ionman34 wrote:

LOBO wrote:

cstmrsking wrote:

ionman34 wrote:It always seems to be the same old diatribe when we suffer a setback at this club, the players aren't good enough, the manager's not good enough, the policies aren't good enough, blah, blah, blah.

The one area, as I see it, where we didn't get it right, in the closed season, is in the striker department. I've been saying for Months that we are weak in this area and this has never been more apparent than now. What I will say, though, is that the management team has acted in the best interests of the club and not bowed to pressure to spend silly and get in a striker for stupid money and ridiculous wages.

What some don't seem to realise is the knock on effect that will have with the rest of the squad. We bring in a new player, pay him anywhere between 20 and 50 grand more than the rest and suddenly we have a squad full of players wanting, no demanding, parity.

Bang goes any team spirit and bang goes all our financial stability. All because of a ropey start and the resultant panic.

We are currently in the midst of an injury crisi in defence. Now this had sweet FA to do with us not strengthening as we currently have 4 top drawer Ch's sidelined along with our first choice Left back. Now I see some complaints on here that we should have strengthened but I have a few questions for you guys;

1) Who was available that could improve on what we had? I only saw one and we got him, feel free to name me the others.
2) If any were available, why would they want to come to us when, at the time, we had ALL of our CH's fit, apart from Woody.
3) Why would we want to get more when, after bringing in Billy, we had King, Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul and Bassong available with both Charlie and Thudd able to slot in if required?

Considering the above, I can just see the reaction of the faithful had we splurged on another CH ............. 'What the Hell are we spending for? Harry you've lost the plot spending for spending's sake.'

We've had our issues in midfield too. The end of last season was special because we'd found a superb, if unlikely, pairing in Thudd and Moddle. Against Citeh they started off on fire and ran the show, despite being outmanned in midfield. Lennon has blown cold more than hot and WP is a shadow of the player pre his brothers murder. Now I think we've made 2 superb buys in Sandro and VDV. VDV in particular because we have a World Class player who wants to play Football. If it was the wages he was interested in he'd have stayed at Real. We got rather excited about getting a midfielder of his quality in and that was at the end of the window. What that tells me is that there wasn't really anyone else available of better quality than what we have.

The striker department is where we are really suffering though. Lack of goals has cost us all those points, not a leaky defence. I agree with Lobo that we need that Drogba type striker who will score regularly with droughts few and very far between. All the strikers we currently have, barring Defoe, are 2nd strikers, back up strikers if you will. None are capable of leading a line.

Now I don't blame Spurs for not getting one in and I certainly don't blame the manager, he's Harry Redknapp not bloody Harry Potter! He can't wave a wand, shout STRIKORDIUS!! and miraculously produce a 30+ goal wonder, not for the money we are restricted to anyway. He needs to find a young gem or get lucky with an Henry type, out of favour and desperate for a move.


We're Spurs though ............... We don't get that kind of luck.


So bite your lip guys. There are those hitting the panic button straight away, mostly because we lost to the goons. In all honesty I really didn't give a toss about that, I was far more upset about the loss to the Spam as that was league, I couldn't give a toss about the CC as I've maintained it should be a training ground for our fringe and youth for a long while now. So we lost to the goons, we spent over 10 years doing that so it's not so unusual and getting revenge in the league will be so much sweeter.

Get a grip please. We are a far better team than some of you are giving us credit for and are currently seriously underachieving. That's the crux of it there, we're underachieving, we didn't overachieve last year at all so we know we're good enough to mix it with the best. All you people saying we need 6 World Class players to contend need to take a good, long, hot shower and get your brains working again.

A) Name them.
B) Identify that they are for sale.
C) Show ME that they'd want to come let alone themselves.
D) Let me know how we'll outbid richer clubs, particularly Citeh, who are currently building a shitload of glass cases so that they can display all the players they've bought but have no intention of playing.
E) Show me the money.

We're once more with the Jol scenario. A terrific season giving us a taste of European competition, followed by an injury ravaged start to the following campaign, riddled with indifferent results, that has the usual suspects baying for the managers blood. The similarities are frightening, as are the displayed inabilities of the few to learn from previous errors.

If you're going to criticise then make it constructive. There's nothing worse than a whinging tart who whines for the sake of it. Whinging Poms the Aussies would call it and they'd be right on the money here.


Well I've enjoyed my little rant, not that I think it makes any difference because I've done it before and it mattered not then. I'll be intersted to see if any have learned from previous lessons, I seriously doubt it based on the last few days posts, but I'm ever the optimist.

So ion, you still not said, if you think we need a Sheihk to Buy the Club. lol

exactly when i have a rant its a load of bullsh*t and im as thick as 2 short planks , thats where the debate ends .
lonman knowns as much about spurs as i do> nothing to be exact

Its my opinion and im fcuking proud of it, now do i get a rep for my rant

answer no , cos i dont post in a lovely tainted blue

Wow. So You are admitting that you are after Redknapps head then?

Now I never said you knew nothing about Spurs. Why you'd make such a dopey statement that I know nothing about them though is beyond me and really makes you look stupid. I don't need to call you thick as two short planks, and never have, but you seem to want to make a point of proving it.

It's Gods own truth that you need no help from me in that department.

I'm starting to wonder about your affiliations too. 'Tainted Blue?'

Surely the only 'Fan' who'd view Blue as 'tainted' would be one that wears Red?