1 Answer to ALL of our Problems

[There's always next year]

Barry makes Huddlestone look like a greyhound. One paced, one footed and not the one for us. We need to look at better quality than him.

Considering Comolli, used to work for \Wenger, why is he not uncovering the little athletic gems Wenger keeps finding!

 

[karennina]

Barry makes Huddlestone look like a greyhound. One paced, one footed and not the one for us. We need to look at better quality than him.

Considering Comolli, used to work for \Wenger, why is he not uncovering the little athletic gems Wenger keeps finding!

He's trying, Assou-Ekotto is his attempt to recreate Gael Clichy, Zokora is Viera-lite and if Wenger had signed Kaboul noone would have batted an eyelid.

 

[thegreatap]

Fuck me Michey, you ARE a brainless twat.

I run businesses for a living you schmuck, million pound businesses.

YEAH I'd spend every last penny on one player NOT.

We've got, according to common belief, four problem areas, so does it make more sense to buy 4 unproven foreign players in an over inflated market, pay 4 sets of wages, or sign one player that can cover them all WELL and has Spurs in his veins?

Yeah four lots of wages would be a lot less than a big Transfer bid wouldn't it? DUMBASS! :shake:

i would say it would be better to get a player for each 'problem area', than get 1 player to cover the lot, unless you feel barry could carry the 3 positions left aswell during a game? above average player at best. i would rather have poulsen and kallstrom for the money you are suggesting any day and get a proper, experienced centre half.

 

[eViL]

i would say it would be better to get a player for each 'problem area', than get 1 player to cover the lot, unless you feel barry could carry the 3 positions left aswell during a game? above average player at best. i would rather have poulsen and kallstrom for the money you are suggesting any day and get a proper, experienced centre half.

But we DO have good players for those positions already.

 

[Yid-ol]

i dont think Barry is the answer, i think we should be looking at better players than him IMO

 

[hybridsoldier]

barry is very good at this level, can he do it at a european level? im not convinced

possibly worth about 12mill bt e is the heartbeat of villa, o'neill is nt feckin stupid

 

[BoringOldFan]

I love this simple idea of "let's buy so-and-so". We go ballistic when other fans say things like "yeah we should pick up Berbatov he's class" but think all we have to do is flash the cash and they'll come running.

Barry is a Villa youth product and currently playing for a higher-placed side. I don't think he'd come running that easily.

 

[eViL]

But he did it at international level and made a bunch of England's Champions League players look like a bunch of pub players.

 

[General Levy]

Jamie O'hara> Gareth Barry.

 

[Mullers]

He's trying, Assou-Ekotto is his attempt to recreate Gael Clichy, Zokora is Viera-lite and if Wenger had signed Kaboul noone would have batted an eyelid.

Ekotto is no Clichy, Zokora is more like Viera's fart and Wenger didn't sign Kaboul and when you look at how many defensive errors he has made this season, you can see why. Comolli must deliver not just try. Another thing is that comolli seems to be in the media a lot more than he was at Arsenal.

 

[dontcallme]

Unfortunately we've left it too late to buy Barry. Before last season Villa didn't seem to be going anywhere and it was rumoured Barry was prepared to leave, we could probably have picked him up for quite cheap.

He's now playing regularly and playing well. His recent appearances for England means they can ask stupid money for him and if Commoli scouts properly can find someone just as good for a more reasonable price.

Would be a good signing though although i don't rate him as highly as Hargreaves or Carrick.

 

[General Levy]

Ekotto is no Clichy, Zokora is more like Viera's fart and Wenger didn't sign Kaboul and when you look at how many defensive errors he has made this season, you can see why. Comolli must deliver not just try. Another thing is that comolli seems to be in the media a lot more than he was at Arsenal.

Err, because he has a higher profile job: Director of Football at Spurs. At Arse he was just a scout.

That may be the reason why he is in the media more.:up:

 

[Michey]

Fuck me Michey, you ARE a brainless twat.

Hard to take seriously from someone that want to buy Barry :rofl:

Sorry for the laughter but you're to funny :rofl:

 

[eViL]

Every club has a buisness to run and i'm glad you're not running ours! :wink:

TBH this was what set me off, and you've been chipping away at me in a few other threads Michey..

If you don't rate Gazza Bazza, that's fine, there's just no need to treat people like *most banned word on SC* in the process!

 

[Bonjour]

No chance.

 

[ladi100]

One of Tottenham's problems (hopefully now in the past) is that we buy dozens of players, none of which fit an exact mould but are fairly decent footballers. I was gonna narrow this down to midfielders, but it applies to the strikeforce and the whole left side of the team.
You could take any of our midfielders, and they could all play the EXACT same position as anyone else in our midfield (excl Lennon). We have a team of good players, but we either need to work a system around them, or shift some of them and buy decent replacements. Hudd, Zoko, Jenas, Tainio, Boateng, Malbranque (essentially) all player very similar positions naturally.

Barry doesnt really solve any problems that I personally think that Bale or O'Hara or Jenas couldn't solve on a longer term basis.

 

[striebs]

Admire Gareth Barry a lot , he delivers consistently and is closer to England A than England B .

More complete player than Micah Richards and able to play on the left to boot .

Could he grow into the midfield general we are require ? Alec Ferguson is paid to know the answer to questions like that , not me .

Will never be able to endowe Gareth Barry with Jenas pace but could possibly endowe Jenas with Barry's mentality .

 

[General Levy]

Admire Gareth Barry a lot , he delivers consistently and is closer to England A than England B .

More complete player than Micah Richards and able to play on the left to boot .

Could he grow into the midfield general we are require ? Alec Ferguson is paid to know the answer to questions like that , not me .

Will never be able to endowe Gareth Barry with Jenas pace but could possibly endowe Jenas with Barry's mentality .

More complete player - maybe. Barry has proved that he can play in a number of different roles.

Better: No. Micah Richards will become a world class defender. Barry has never been and will never be world class. He isn't even International Class IMO. Richards will have 2 or 3 times more England caps than Barry when he is 27.

I would rather have Micah Richards than Gareth Barry any day of the week. Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't know much about football. Also, Richards is 19, Barry is 27 in February.

So I would rather us spend £30million on Richards, than £10-£15million on Barry.

 

[striebs]

More complete player - maybe. Barry has proved that he can play in a number of different roles.

Better: No. Micah Richards will become a world class defender. Barry has never been and will never be world class. He isn't even International Class IMO. Richards will have 2 or 3 times more England caps than Barry when he is 27.

I would rather have Micah Richards than Gareth Barry any day of the week. Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't know much about football. Also, Richards is 19, Barry is 27 in February.

So I would rather us spend £30million on Richards, than £10-£15million on Barry.

What an arrogant and unneccessary statement .

Used to rate Micah Richards higher myself but have since seen that he uses the same trick every time - his trademark shoulder barge .

Micah Richards may end up with more caps than Ledley but that doesn't make him better .

 

[brasil_spur]

Ekotto is no Clichy, Zokora is more like Viera's fart and Wenger didn't sign Kaboul and when you look at how many defensive errors he has made this season, you can see why. Comolli must deliver not just try. Another thing is that comolli seems to be in the media a lot more than he was at Arsenal.

Clichy looked fairly average for his first 3 seasons at the arse so let´s give Ekotto some time.

Zokora is a decent player and anyone who says otherwise has not watched him play regularly. Viera - not yet, but he has the potential to be up at that level in a couple of years.

Kaboul - he has made a few errors - he is inexperienced - massively so, and has to fill in when he was not ready in a side who were having a bad spell at a club who were in the midst of a crisis.

Last four games Kaboul has looked solid as a rock. And he will grow as a player much more now he has King alongside him.

It is much easier for the scum to attract great prospects as they have a much much higher international reputation. Barely any player under 20 years old knows who spurs are outisde of europe and within europe it isn´t that high either.

If we can win a cup or two then we can start to attract these younger players easier.