The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 29th January

SteveH · Jan 29, 2013

hooper for me - if any

marvel · Jan 29, 2013

A bola saying we're after a Braga striker AVB has worked with previously, any Portuguese speakers around?

http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=379273

greaves · Jan 29, 2013

marvel said:
@gstobart
Damiao is both AVB & Levy's first choice of the 'attainable' strikers. Expect #THFC will wait until the summer & look for a stop-gap now

Damiao is never going to go away is it.

Agreed. Very much like athlete's foot (or worse). Still, I suppose one can start to enjoy one's ailments. In a pervy kind of way.

Misfit · Jan 29, 2013

WiganSpur said:
We need this man back to his best

That would be perfect. Have my doubts though, personaly and that's not an attack on Ade. Just a reading of the situation and the oh-so-familiar feel of it all.

Cavehillspur · Jan 29, 2013

marvel said:
@gstobart
Damiao is both AVB & Levy's first choice of the 'attainable' strikers. Expect #THFC will wait until the summer & look for a stop-gap now

Damiao is never going to go away is it. In summer, 'January is the perfect time to sign him' and in January 'we will wait until summer'.

Have to laugh at the 'attainable' part of Stobarts tweet. He is anything but.

greaves · Jan 29, 2013

SteveH said:
Our scouting is fine - We just dont pay Chelsea type monies, it is that strait forward.

The market values will start to shrink over the next few years for 'our' price range targets.

Yep. We let people think we shop at Waitrose. Then when no one's looking we pop into Lidl. But we do use Waitrose carrier bags. Just to make the right impression.

ryantegan · Jan 29, 2013

dellybelly · Jan 29, 2013

Bobbins said:
I'd rather Graham over Hooper - proven in the PL. I'm actually very surprised Swansea would let him go.

Danny Graham at Spurs? Good grief.

am_yisrael_chai · Jan 29, 2013

am_yisrael_chai said:
Short answer is yes, expect the club to increase the hype over the next few days culminating in the proverbial:

- fax machine broke
- ran out of time
- complex third party ownership
- difficult selling club

Pretty much everything other than the truth which is that we had no intention of paying the required amount.

Apologies I forgot to add the most obvious:
- waiting until mythical target player is available in the next window

Luis Fabiano, Diego Forlan, Giuseppe Rossi, Leandro, Moutinho.....

Danners9 · Jan 29, 2013

marvel said:
A bola saying we're after a Braga striker AVB has worked with previously, any Portuguese speakers around?

http://www.abola.pt/nnh/ver.aspx?id=379273

my browser speaks portuguese. Says he's been linked lots of places, the alternative to Drogba for Galatasaray and some other Turkish teams, and Tottenham is the latest to be linked. Also says that AVB knows him from his time with Academica.

McArchibald · Jan 29, 2013

Gomis would be good... A crowbar type player to break open oyster-like defences...

Cavehillspur · Jan 29, 2013

SteveH said:
hooper for me - if any

Most likely / realistic imo. I would be happy with him now that we have also got Holtby in early.

dellybelly · Jan 29, 2013

I have a mate who lives in Madrid and watches a lot of football.

He rates Negredo higher than Soldado but not as highly as Llorente.

He doesn't think that Negredo is good enough for Spurs. I disagree with him on that last point.

kd2000 · Jan 29, 2013

Danny Graham, really?? If anyone in here was offered Danny Graham 2 weeks ago it would have been a laugh, then a big fat no, followed by a WTF?? you were actually being serious. Dempsey is better than him, defoe and adebayor are much better than him. He's just a lump who occassionally scores. Bit like a poor man's white Heskey. Hooper may or may not be a good player, ive not seen enough of him but again people would have been annoyed if we said 3 weeks ago we would get this hooper fellow from Celtic. Im not saying he couldnt do well but im also not jumping on the if he comes he would be great bandwagon either. I dont think AVB would realistically settle (and thats what it would be) for either player

joelstinton14 · Jan 29, 2013

Time to get andy booths phone number from the filing cabinet.

Misfit · Jan 29, 2013

SteveH said:
Our scouting is fine - We just dont pay Chelsea type monies, it is that strait forward.

The market values will start to shrink over the next few years for 'our' price range targets.

€11m for De Jong. Sorry, Steve. Disagree with you on this. It's painfully obvious our scouting network is pony. More for it's lack of direction than anything else. We're linked with obvious candidates, which we simply can't afford, or last minute buys. LDJ and RVW et al have been known about for 3 yrs or so in the smaller leagues. Obviously the big guns don't worry themselves with those kinds of players often, waiting for them develope further. We should be signing these kinds of players though. Like Modric but at striker. Able to grow into formidable players but also good enough to contribute to the team in the meantime.

Anyways, this isn't the scouting thread and I've said my bit.

Negredo and Hooper are OK signings. Graham as a last-minute fall back. Not the actions of a club with a plan though. I understand having a financial plan and sticking to it but let's try and marry that up with a cohesive direction in terms of the players we need. Enough of this shit or bust approach. There's no need for it either.

Gollorius · Jan 29, 2013

SteveH said:
"The Celtic lad for me"...........Hooper! these names are a burden.

Hooper will have resale value 'if' it does not work out and Levy and myself if I was in shoes may see it as a calculated risk.

Negredo is not worth the risk IMHO....

Levy is right to keep the wheelbarrow in the shed till summer.

If Hooper fails, how does he have resale value? Will Celtic give us a refund?

Failure here = move to a lower club/division. Therefore no chance of a return.

Hot-Spur · Jan 29, 2013

Morning eyeteekers

Is it just me that yawns everytime they see Leandro's name mentioned?

I really wish he would clear off to blazes!

AussieSpurMan · Jan 29, 2013

ryantegan said:

Diego Capel really made me laugh!

Sandro30 · Jan 29, 2013

Misfit said:
€11m for De Jong. Sorry, Steve. Disagree with you on this. It's painfully obvious our scouting network is pony. More for it's lack of direction than anything else. We're linked with obvious candidates, which we simply can't afford, or last minute buys. LDJ and RVW et al have been known about for 3 yrs or so in the smaller leagues. Obviously the big guns don't worry themselves with those kinds of players often, waiting for them develope further. We should be signing these kinds of players though. Like Modric but at striker. Able to grow into formidable players but also good enough to contribute to the team in the meantime.

Anyways, this isn't the scouting thread and I've said my bit.

Negredo and Hooper are OK signings. Graham as a last-minute fall back. Not the actions of a club with a plan though. I understand having a financial plan and sticking to it but let's try and marry that up with a cohesive direction in terms of the players we need. Enough of this shit or bust approach. There's no need for it either.

LDJ has been poor for BMG though so can't really say that's a huge miss currently.

I agree with the general consesus of your post though.

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