sweyid
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You know how it goes. A bit of bad ITK/low activity and it's doom and gloom. Some promising news and we're all extatic.
The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 9 August 2011
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You know how it goes. A bit of bad ITK/low activity and it's doom and gloom. Some promising news and we're all extatic.
Ionman34
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Amen Brother!
Paxtonite
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Delusion takes many forms mate....and how do you know we wouldnt any better off with a different chairman? I don't have a problem with Levy per se but it is also clear that his transfer dealings in recent season's have been questionable to say the least. I hope he proves me wrong, but the end of the january window was case in point where we supposedly were making bids in excess of £30m for just about anyone that seemed more like a smokescreen for an incopetent transfer strategy not only in that window but also the summer before. What i mean is that there appears to be no substance behind anything that we do. Levy has just built himself a reputation with other clubs as being a bit of a dick and i can't see how that isn't a hindrance to our club.
As for the sleep thing i have been posting the same message for the past few days because it gets boring. Endless and pointless discussion on what we may or may not do to change our squad based on rumour and inuendo. Hence why i say wake me up when we sign someone, because as it stands nothing will be likely to happen until 11.59pm on 31st August when we will be blaming the fax machines again. It's all so predictable.
McFlash
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Yeah, c'mon...let's show those arab countries how civil unrest should be done!!
Pah, you want civil liberties and freedom? I want an iphone and widescreen telly!!
I wouldn't be shocked if HR was a little wary of signing Llorente TBH.
In the same way as there are varying views as to whether he'd be a success on here - the difference is that HR gets paid a fair old whack to make these decisions.
As calm as I'm trying to be, it's getting a bit annoying that Spurs seem to be acting like a stoner in the supermarket!
Clamour_Kid
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Well I can feel its going to be Triffic Tuesday today!
ryantegan
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I am still told that Rossi is the target, that could be construed as stubbornness from Harry or simply a confidence that it can be done.
Harry would surely see the qualities in Llorente though, after all, he sees them in peter crouch!
Again I apologize for the limited updates from my end, my boss is really not well at the moment and I'm keeping the hassling down to a minimum.
Harry would surely see the qualities in Llorente though, after all, he sees them in peter crouch!
Again I apologize for the limited updates from my end, my boss is really not well at the moment and I'm keeping the hassling down to a minimum.
cooko70
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And FFS Friday...
yozza
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Whatever info you get is much appreciated dude :grin:
yido_number1
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Your about 3 hours late on that one...
ravo
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This. We must stick to our wage structure whilst the funds are limited.
... and totally fucked up Friday.
Appreciate that mate. It's good to try and get some idea of Harry's thinking.
Rossi + Llorente = Championship winning version of Defoe + Crouch.
DoublePivot
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I think if you look at Levy's history, you can see why people are panicking. During his time as chairman, all but one of his best buys have been done by this point: Berbatov, Modric, Bale all early doors. Sandro may well join that. Of all his last second buys, VDV is the only one that hasn't sucked balls. Rasiak, Murphy, Gilberto, Rocha were all horrible signings. Niko was last second, but has been fairly unsuccessful due to lack of playing time. And Corluka was a last minute transfer, but that had more to do with City playing games with us for weeks after we had it all settled.
The deeper it goes into August, the more likely it will be a failure. Carrick was late and was great. Pavlyuchenko was a late deal that was a reaction to losing Arshavin and has been so-so. Robbie Keane was very last minute on his return from Liverpool and has been a disaster, second time around. Bentley was at window close and has never been a good fit.
The fact is that when we have our targets established and go after them early they tend to be successful. BAE, Gomes, Lennon, Huddlestone, Crouch were all done by now and have been different levels of good for the team. The only ones that were failures on our end when signed early were Bent, Kaboul, GDS and KPB, but other than GDS, they were mistakes on our end as they did go on to be great elsewhere, to the point where we bought Kaboul a second time.
Historically, sign early and you have a good player. The later you go into August, the better chance of failure. Wait til the last day and it is almost guaranteed to be a failure.
So, Levy has passed the the point where success is more likely than failure. And every day, the chance of a signing being a failure is more probable.
The deeper it goes into August, the more likely it will be a failure. Carrick was late and was great. Pavlyuchenko was a late deal that was a reaction to losing Arshavin and has been so-so. Robbie Keane was very last minute on his return from Liverpool and has been a disaster, second time around. Bentley was at window close and has never been a good fit.
The fact is that when we have our targets established and go after them early they tend to be successful. BAE, Gomes, Lennon, Huddlestone, Crouch were all done by now and have been different levels of good for the team. The only ones that were failures on our end when signed early were Bent, Kaboul, GDS and KPB, but other than GDS, they were mistakes on our end as they did go on to be great elsewhere, to the point where we bought Kaboul a second time.
Historically, sign early and you have a good player. The later you go into August, the better chance of failure. Wait til the last day and it is almost guaranteed to be a failure.
So, Levy has passed the the point where success is more likely than failure. And every day, the chance of a signing being a failure is more probable.
Mr Pink
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So is the general consensus that the Diarra deal has been done and we await the finalising of Palacios to Stoke before announcing it :shrug:
I was thinking that last night, not so sure this morning....I think wages could still be an issue regarding Diarra.
I was thinking that last night, not so sure this morning....I think wages could still be an issue regarding Diarra.
spursfan77
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The Sun (I know) are saying we've pulled out of going for diarra because of the fee. I guess it could be games from our end though.
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