The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 27th December 2012

Gbspurs · Dec 30, 2012

Blackcanary said:
Bilbao have this unofficial policy where they only sign Basques so Ade....no.

Of course. For some reason I was thinking Llorente was at Athletico Madrid not Bilbao! By the way loving your avatar.

Blackcanary · Dec 30, 2012

ITK from the Fighting Cock:

I know for a fact that Llorente has turned us down twice

Wesley S was never a target. We made no contact.

Heard we are looking at Alvaro Negredo.

And that AVB doesn't get on with Benny

I'll be over here in this corner weeping quietly at Llorente turning us down twice. :cry:

mpickard2087 · Dec 30, 2012

Hmmm, I think we need to get that guy on the Newcastle forum transferred over here. State what he has heard on the thing, rather than holding stuff back.

Gedson100 · Dec 30, 2012

Gbspurs said:
I disagree, I don't think our starting 11 is strong enough to consider signing squad players. If we signed a worldy like Sneijder, Moutinho they would go straight in at the expense of 2nd striker/Dempsey. Moutinho is a bit trickier because he fills the same position that Dembele is playing but even pushing Dembele further up would give us a much better starting 11.

Maher wouldn't be a squad player, he's one for the future, but you're not gonna alienate him if you don't play him straight away.
Sure you'd fit in a world class player but I like the balance we're achieving recently and don't want it unnecessarily disrupted

class of 62 · Dec 30, 2012

Blackcanary said:
Bilbao have this unofficial policy where they only sign Basques so Ade....no.

foriegn players are ok!...no spanish other than basques. .. i think john aldridge played for bilbao

Teddy Klinsmann · Dec 30, 2012

jair1970 said:
Thing is, any DOF is gonna have to go through Levy anyway, so he might as well have someone doing the job unofficially for small money like Sherwood and carry on as we are.

I'm wondering where we are gonna fit any 'big' new midfielder into our system. Dembele/Sandro picks itself. The wings are covered, and we're trying to get our strikers playing together. Throw in Parker, Dempsey and Sigurdsson who aren't gonna want to get zero game time and where does a Moutinho or Sneijder actually fit in, without disrupting things. Villas-Boas strikes me as a 'team' man and is unlikely to discard one of our starters just to accomodate a Levy signing, is he? (Witness, Lloris, sure he was wrong not to bring him in ASAP but he showed loyalty to a player in good form who'd not let him down: Brad).

So Moutinho arrives, he's his boy, he'll fit him in. Eriksen or Sneijder? I can see Eriksen on the bench and I guess one of our strikers would drop out for a Sneijder type.

So where am I going here? Well, 'someone' just tweeted 'Maher'; they forgot the goodnight, but maybe that kind of player, ie. young, given time to adapt, come into their own next year would be a preferable signing? Not gonna cry if benched a bit...

It's different this year to last. Last year it was about kicking on for the title, maybe and we needed a big push, big players and it didn't happen. Throw in the misery of the Redknapp situation and it turned to shit.

This year it's more about kicking on and getting amongst the top 4, something that we seem to be homing in on. We've shown this year that we can come back from potentially demoralising defeats, and as the season goes on, the team is playing better and better football, and there is no reason at all for us to fade or the wheels to come off post transfer window. Ironically, I think we don't need major tweaking right now, but moreso when we get to the summer, if we've secured Champions League, then it would be time to really take stock and sign the right players, especially if we lost Bale.

Anyway, we shall see...

It's very possible that Hudd, Livermore and Parker could leave in the next month. If a Moutinho or Sneijder type player came to the club I would imagine AVB would look to play a 5 man midfield once again.

In doing so our bench would be very strong with potentially Dempsey, Siggy and one of either Ade or Defoe along with others. For too much of the last couple of years our bench as been weak. The reason Utd and City win so many games is that try have 3 or 4 world class players sitting on their bench. We aren't there yet, but its a problem I'd rather have

Wellspurs · Dec 30, 2012

This is the first time I could bear to look at this thread.... has the Pottle spoken about this window yet?

ComfortablyNumb · Dec 30, 2012

TottenhamLegend said:
Page 15 of what?

I feel so left out

Sorry for my slowness!

Page 15 of this thread, a post from ChristianBaler with this link:

http://www.nufc-forum.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=47939.0

Gbspurs · Dec 30, 2012

jair1970 said:
Maher wouldn't be a squad player, he's one for the future, but you're not gonna alienate him if you don't play him straight away.
Sure you'd fit in a world class player but I like the balance we're achieving recently and don't want it unnecessarily disrupted

I think our balance has been better definitely but compare the starting 11 with this time last year and we are lacking in a few area. One of this is AM. I must confess I don't know much about Maher.

Have we not had any ITK since Christmas Day? Looking at the RO thread and its baron!

mpickard2087 · Dec 30, 2012

class of 62 said:
foriegn players are ok!...no spanish other than basques. .. i think john aldridge played for bilbao

No, Basque-only policy.

Hot-Spur · Dec 30, 2012

Llorente, Moutinho, Sneijder..... seriously people as if! This window won't be any different to any other recent one, hopes will be raised, only to have them smashed on the ground and rolled over with a 10 ton roller machine.....twice

Blackcanary · Dec 30, 2012

class of 62 said:
foriegn players are ok!...no spanish other than basques. .. i think john aldridge played for bilbao

Are you sure? I think they'll sign players who are mixed but have a bit of basque heritage but they have to have some.

class of 62 · Dec 30, 2012

mpickard2087 said:
No, Basque-only policy.

thanks...but didnt john aldridge play for them!.

TottenhamLegend · Dec 30, 2012

ComfortablyNumb said:
Page 15 of this thread, a post from ChristianBaler with this link:

http://www.nufc-forum.com/nufcforum/index.php?topic=47939.0

Ohh thanks!

Interesting stuff!

Blackcanary · Dec 30, 2012

Gbspurs said:
Of course. For some reason I was thinking Llorente was at Athletico Madrid not Bilbao! By the way loving your avatar.

Thank you!

God, Falcao and Llorente would be an amazing front partnership...Imagine...

mpickard2087 · Dec 30, 2012

class of 62 said:
thanks...but didnt john aldridge play for them!.

A quick wiki on him says he played for Sociedad, who iirc used to follow the same policy as Bilbao in only using Basque players but then dropped it in the 1980's.

So yeah, no Llorente-Adebayor in prospect (n)

nayimfrom50 · Dec 30, 2012

Blackcanary said:
ITK from the Fighting Cock:

I'll be over here in this corner weeping quietly at Llorente turning us down twice.

No idea if there is any truth in that but negredo for me would be v good signing and likely more realistic than some mentioned

jedimonkey · Dec 30, 2012

mpickard2087 said:
No, Basque-only policy.

Not anymore. They stick to it mostly, but they have signed non-Basque players recently.

vavaboom · Dec 30, 2012

Sum Monsterism said:
except it's bollocks - claiming all sorts of "my grandad is a ref, my mum's dad is a ref, my dad's wife is a ref, I'm a ref..."

I didn't know referees got so much info more like he's lonely and wants to validate his highly suspicious claims, to other no nonsense geordies. Dude's got an identity crisis looming.

I'm ITK and so is my wife!

I reckon it's true, sad to think that "the dressing room fell apart" and this was cause for VDV to up sticks, I have some doubt on that as it did seem to be his wife wanting to leave :S

Let's hope the january funds bit is true though!

jedimonkey · Dec 30, 2012

Or at least players who are not Basque but have some Basque ancestry.

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