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Berbatov - If you're going, I'm going.

Winchy85

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May 22, 2006
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Easily said. We all know this is Berbatovs last season with us, and most of us didn't think we would keep him til the Summer either.

Berbatov has now made himself a well known striker and the top teams have noticed him, he has the ability to win matches for the top teams and think how many he could bag if he had the balls played into him that the top 4 give their strikers.

Might have a bit of Jol in it, I think he has massive respect for Jol for what he has done for his career and how he has done with Spurs, so it would be easy to put this link in, but I think it's more of the frustration that with a midfield like ours Berbatov isn't going to be playing the football he wants to.

Hopefully he bags 10 goals between now and January when we flog him, leave on a high.
 

SpursOldBoy

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Perhaps the statement attributed to Berbs were meant to show us the fans that he didn't have anything to do with Jol going and wanted to stay "onside" with us?

Personally, I'd love him to play out his career with us, personality issues aside on the pitch he is a class act and we need to build our team around these types of players if we are ever going to achieve things.

Sometimes you need to accept that these things happen with the top class players (Henry by all accounts was a prima-donna at the Scum). It is the mediocre players that we have, who have delusions of grandeur, that I have more of a problem with!
 

phil

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I believe Berbatov did say this but the report is not entirely accurate. What he actually said:

If you're going, I'm going.....to buy a case of vintage champagne to celebrate.
 

Paxtonite

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Nov 28, 2004
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So according to the BBC, this is what Berbs said to Jol after the game last night.

I'm interested to hear anyone's take on this, but especially ivo & Berbati, as they both seem to have follwed Berbs for much, if not all his career.


If true, it's very worrying, and implies that despite the dummy spitting on Monday and the supposed bust up on Tuesday, Berbs still wanted to work under Jol.

Sounds like the excuse Berba has been waiting for! Loved the guy last season. Most gifted player we have had at WHL for many a year. But looks like the realisation (to himself) that he really is that good has made him yearn for different pastures.
 

DC_Boy

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May 20, 2005
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Let's see how he plays, he's played well in his last two starts v Pool & Getafe -

It was a big mistake by Jol to drop him for the Toon, that was bigger than the Getafe game, and while Jol was probably gone anyway that result was the clincher.

I assume he'll start v Rovers, here's hoping he scores and we win :)
 

Legend10

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Jul 8, 2006
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I think the situation with Berbs is now very interesting, contrary to the reports I think that replacing Jol with Ramos has given us our only chance of keeping Berbs. If things had stayed as they were I believe he would definitely have been off. But I think that Ramos may just take Berbs to a level that even he hasn't been to before.

Reason why is that I look at how incredibly well Kanoute has done and played for Ramos, and then I think....

Berbatov, a rich mans Kanoute!
 

Real_madyidd

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I believe Berbatov did say this but the report is not entirely accurate. What he actually said:

If you're going, I'm going.....to buy a case of vintage champagne to celebrate.

Oddbins?
 

Kendall

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Feb 8, 2007
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I'd hate Berbatov to go because the guy is class, but I cannot stand players with bad attitudes.

Hopefully Ramos will be able to turn him around.
 

LSUY

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Point one. Grow up Teemu, Jol is a premiership manager and more to the point a grown man. Last time I did a job I didn't like, I quit. Martin says he comes from a family of Marines, do you think they'd come home after a days training complaining the Sergeant Major had been too hard on them. The board handled it poorly but they didn't act terribly. They had doubts about Jol's ability (doubts you apparently share) and ambitions to reach the top four (ambitions which you don't share) and so they looked to see if they could get a world class manager instead of the average manager you agree he is.

Point two, they didn't allow him to spend so much money, as you know it's the club which has a transfer policy and the coach only plays one part in it.

Point three, is the same as point one.

Point four, because when you're dealing with a feral media honesty is not always the best policy.

Point five. You're dead right about your village.

1. They 'didn't act terribly'? How would you describe their actions then? Our boards actions are very similar to Chelsea's when they decided Ranieri wasn't good enough. Levy aspires to make Tottenham as good as Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool - now tell me, have any of them sacked a manager hours before or let it get leaked during a must win game? Of course not because they understand all the problems it causes.

As for the marines, yes they do come back from a days training complaining about their COs.

2. But what happens if Ramos doesn't rate Bent? Or thinks Kaboul and Boateng are what he needs? That's a lot of money down the drain.

3. Actually I've never said Jol is an average manager, I believe that given time he will become a top class manager. If you see my post about the Telegraph article you will see that I stated that. They were wrong to seek a manager so soon. If they felt Jol wasn't good enough then they should have done it in the summer instead of letting it drag to the point where the entire season has become a write off.

4. But it also gives the media and pundits something to grab hold off to criticise the club. Levy's statements have shown that the board have been lieing. If Ramos runs into problems two years down the line and Levy says he has the full backing of the board are we suppose to believe him this time?
 

Krafty

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Fact is if we pick up under Ramos, start performing well and maybe even start competing and beating the top 4 then I dont think anyone will want to leave.

If we dont then I'll thank berbatov for his efforts and wonder if we blew a big opportunity to step up.
 

Berbati

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Aug 20, 2006
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That comment is fabricated. Berbatov is not stupid and knows Ramos could help him to realise his enormous potential. i.e., to become the best center forward in the world. The chance to leave in January has dropped from 90% to 30%. There is still a chance to leave because Man U want him and he is not cup-bound. Some journalists try to help Man U to sing him on the cheap. :wink:
 

lilywhitecurtis

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May 2, 2005
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Huddlestone? our best midfielder this season who is still only 20?

I disagree massively, although he does need a workhorse next to him imo, someone in the Cahill mould.

Agreed, I know Huddlestone is at times slow on the ball, but the Getafe match he was exellent. I've always liked the Hudd but he gets alot of stick on here, and i just don't understand it, give the lad time. All the ingredients are there in the lad, he just needs the time 2 adapt!
 

gregga

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Aug 22, 2005
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Agreed, I know Huddlestone is at times slow on the ball, but the Getafe match he was exellent. I've always liked the Hudd but he gets alot of stick on here, and i just don't understand it, give the lad time. All the ingredients are there in the lad, he just needs the time 2 adapt!

Huddlestone was awful in the first half against getafe, and second half he was only marginally improved. At the moment his mind does not move quickly enough to keep up with the modern game IMO.
 

TheVoiceofReason

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Hasnt he got like the best A-Levels or GCSE's of any prem footballer or something of the like?

His mind should be FAST.
 
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Haven't been on here for weeks, and coming on here tonight reminds me why I don't bother anymore. The majority of comments on this thread about Berbatov come from people who are the reason why Spurs fans are pretty much universally detested - it's like listening to a load of hormonal teenage girls talking about why they've gone off their latest crush.
 

Yiddo1982

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Haven't been on here for weeks, and coming on here tonight reminds me why I don't bother anymore. The majority of comments on this thread about Berbatov come from people who are the reason why Spurs fans are pretty much universally detested - it's like listening to a load of hormonal teenage girls talking about why they've gone off their latest crush.

No Dan, you're missing the point . . . I'd still shag Berbatov.:wink:
 

TopSpurMan

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Huddlestone was awful in the first half against getafe, and second half he was only marginally improved. At the moment his mind does not move quickly enough to keep up with the modern game IMO.

If his mind is slow his body is about 10mins behind so what does that make his body? A traffic violation?
 

beshko

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Nov 24, 2006
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Berbatov loves you all, and loves Tottenham, but he want cups and big matches. The start ot this season is a tragedy. Our keeper is not in a shape, defence - poor, no service for strikers. I want King, Lennon... We didn't really needed Bent. It's some kind of boss's plans...
 
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