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Is that how fucking desperate we've got for a signing? People fingering their parts over signing 14/16 years olds?
Jack Clarke
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freeeki
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Hey I never claimed I fancied them. Gaycist.
razzmaster
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-Afri-Coy-
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Fingered ourselves to much worse in the past so this is actually a step up.
Fidget
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Is there even a step up to fingering?
SlotBadger
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Always start with something smaller.
Namely, my cock.
If you don't have that to hand, try an eyelash.
dagraham
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Does it really matter?
fletch82
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Fredo
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Nope, its just in terms of after a year without signings would be nice if the big signing was announced first. But yeah of course it doesn't matter at all
THFCSPURS19
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https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...dical-10-million-transfer-leeds-a4177386.html
Leeds United winger Jack Clarke has completed a medical ahead of a £10million move to Tottenham, with the deal set to be announced before the end of the week.
Leeds United winger Jack Clarke has completed a medical ahead of a £10million move to Tottenham, with the deal set to be announced before the end of the week.
King of Otters
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Article from The Times on The Boy Clarke
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...urs-think-clarke-can-be-a-wonderkid-cvftpnkrf
Less than 16 hours of football, but Spurs think Jack Clarke can be a wonderkid
Jack Clarke briefly entered the realms of the wonderkid last season, but as he ends Tottenham Hotspur’s self-imposed transfer embargo many at his new club will just be wondering who he is.
He is still only 18 and, as Danny Mills has helpfully pointed out, he is not Phil Foden. In truth he was not even Jack Harrison last season, the Manchester City loanee being favoured on the wing for Leeds United. Yet for a month at the start of the year Elland Road was buzzing with the thought that they had unearthed an academy gem. There was also the belief that with Marcelo Bielsa, that maverick existentialist, at the helm, the club might even forego decades of tradition and not drop their guard at the first fluttered eyelid. This is Leeds and this is modern football. Of course they did. The fee will be worth about £10 million.
Yet the loss of Clarke will not devastate Leeds in the way that the potential departure of midfield bloomer Kalvin Phillips would. Clarke started the season as a peripheral presence, only making his debut in October, and ended it as one too after a worrying health scare. When he was taken ill in the dugout during Leeds’ game with Middlesbrough on February 9 it was a sight that transcended sport as a teenager was given oxygen and carted down the tunnel on a stretcher when he had only been sitting on the bench. The cause was a virus. He did not return for Leeds for more than a month and thereafter lacked the same precocious verve, strength and pace that had raised so many eyebrows at the turn of the year.
The Spurs medical will hopefully be proof of no lasting damage and a full pre-season will help him. However, it is still a curious move, even with the potential to loan him back to Leeds, although that does not seem to be the immediate plan. Spurs clearly have two eyes on the future as a player who played only 23 ineffectual minutes in the two-legged play-off defeat by Derby County is not going to stride into a team that has just been to the Champions League final.
For Leeds the sale is a necessary evil, just as the exit of Ronaldo Vieira to Sampdoria was a year ago and the sales of Lewis Cook and Sam Byram to Bournemouth and West Ham respectively before. Byram is now reportedly being offered to West Brom as part of another £10 million deal, showing that big moves do not always end up dreamy.
The good news for Spurs fans, denied a signing since January 2018 (three months after Clarke turned pro), is that purple patch. It started when he came on at half-time against Aston Villa on December 23 and sparked a remarkable revival, cutting in from the left flank to score his first goal for the club. Three weeks later he was cutting in from the right to cause havoc against Derby and bag a man-of-the-match award plus a name-check from Gary Lineker. It was a brilliant cameo.
West Yorkshire wingers inevitably provoke comparisons with Eddie Gray. He joined Leeds in 1963, says he never played to his potential because of a ruptured thigh sustained as a teenager, but still managed just shy of 600 games before refusing to turn his back when being sacked. He has been yearning for a revival for years and loves the kids as it appeals to the nurturing side David O’Leary saw when installing him as his No 2 the last time Leeds were good.
Gray discounts the comparison with Clarke. “I don’t know about that,” he told The Times earlier this year, “but when he picks the ball up he runs at people, puts defenders under pressure and takes them on. Now you can have all the talent but you need the confidence to try things and that’s in his make-up. That’s what I like about this boy.”
Gray always considered himself a midfield player rather than a winger. “Jack is an out-and-out winger but he can also play off the front man and might well end up there. He has two good feet and often drifts into the middle of the park.”
He is, as everyone says, a “work in progress”. That is reflected by the fact that he completed 90 minutes only twice last season, managed only two goals and has a total fewer than 16 hours professional football under his belt.
Bielsa’s protestations, filtered through the slightly eccentric translation service on offer at Elland Road, have been literally hard to read. “Imagining the future never showed you are smart,” he said when the subject of Clarke came up last season. “In something like football it is very typical at the end something happened totally different than people sometimes think.”
He then segued effortlessly into a hymn to Louis van Gaal. Those at Leeds remain sure Bielsa is a genius but not for nothing is he also known as El Loco.
Before Christmas Clarke’s agent, Ian Harte, the former Leeds left back, said: “The manager will decide what is best for Jack. Who are we to question Bielsa?”
Indeed, Bielsa has proved a decent judge of youth. Fellow teens Jamie Shackleton, Tyler Roberts and Leif Davis were all given chances last season. And we should not forget the time he turned up to the Pochettino household to ask if he could look at young Mauricio’s legs. The 13-year-old looked like a footballer and so Bielsa signed him in his sleep. We assume Pochettino satisfied himself with the tapes.
Bielsa appears to be taking this phlegmatically. He has signed on for another term but this is surely his last shot at promotion. Many will feel Clarke would have been better served joining him and establishing himself as a first-team player before a premature move to the elite. The wonderkid may feel he might as well warm a better bench.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...urs-think-clarke-can-be-a-wonderkid-cvftpnkrf
Less than 16 hours of football, but Spurs think Jack Clarke can be a wonderkid
Jack Clarke briefly entered the realms of the wonderkid last season, but as he ends Tottenham Hotspur’s self-imposed transfer embargo many at his new club will just be wondering who he is.
He is still only 18 and, as Danny Mills has helpfully pointed out, he is not Phil Foden. In truth he was not even Jack Harrison last season, the Manchester City loanee being favoured on the wing for Leeds United. Yet for a month at the start of the year Elland Road was buzzing with the thought that they had unearthed an academy gem. There was also the belief that with Marcelo Bielsa, that maverick existentialist, at the helm, the club might even forego decades of tradition and not drop their guard at the first fluttered eyelid. This is Leeds and this is modern football. Of course they did. The fee will be worth about £10 million.
Yet the loss of Clarke will not devastate Leeds in the way that the potential departure of midfield bloomer Kalvin Phillips would. Clarke started the season as a peripheral presence, only making his debut in October, and ended it as one too after a worrying health scare. When he was taken ill in the dugout during Leeds’ game with Middlesbrough on February 9 it was a sight that transcended sport as a teenager was given oxygen and carted down the tunnel on a stretcher when he had only been sitting on the bench. The cause was a virus. He did not return for Leeds for more than a month and thereafter lacked the same precocious verve, strength and pace that had raised so many eyebrows at the turn of the year.
The Spurs medical will hopefully be proof of no lasting damage and a full pre-season will help him. However, it is still a curious move, even with the potential to loan him back to Leeds, although that does not seem to be the immediate plan. Spurs clearly have two eyes on the future as a player who played only 23 ineffectual minutes in the two-legged play-off defeat by Derby County is not going to stride into a team that has just been to the Champions League final.
For Leeds the sale is a necessary evil, just as the exit of Ronaldo Vieira to Sampdoria was a year ago and the sales of Lewis Cook and Sam Byram to Bournemouth and West Ham respectively before. Byram is now reportedly being offered to West Brom as part of another £10 million deal, showing that big moves do not always end up dreamy.
The good news for Spurs fans, denied a signing since January 2018 (three months after Clarke turned pro), is that purple patch. It started when he came on at half-time against Aston Villa on December 23 and sparked a remarkable revival, cutting in from the left flank to score his first goal for the club. Three weeks later he was cutting in from the right to cause havoc against Derby and bag a man-of-the-match award plus a name-check from Gary Lineker. It was a brilliant cameo.
West Yorkshire wingers inevitably provoke comparisons with Eddie Gray. He joined Leeds in 1963, says he never played to his potential because of a ruptured thigh sustained as a teenager, but still managed just shy of 600 games before refusing to turn his back when being sacked. He has been yearning for a revival for years and loves the kids as it appeals to the nurturing side David O’Leary saw when installing him as his No 2 the last time Leeds were good.
Gray discounts the comparison with Clarke. “I don’t know about that,” he told The Times earlier this year, “but when he picks the ball up he runs at people, puts defenders under pressure and takes them on. Now you can have all the talent but you need the confidence to try things and that’s in his make-up. That’s what I like about this boy.”
Gray always considered himself a midfield player rather than a winger. “Jack is an out-and-out winger but he can also play off the front man and might well end up there. He has two good feet and often drifts into the middle of the park.”
He is, as everyone says, a “work in progress”. That is reflected by the fact that he completed 90 minutes only twice last season, managed only two goals and has a total fewer than 16 hours professional football under his belt.
Bielsa’s protestations, filtered through the slightly eccentric translation service on offer at Elland Road, have been literally hard to read. “Imagining the future never showed you are smart,” he said when the subject of Clarke came up last season. “In something like football it is very typical at the end something happened totally different than people sometimes think.”
He then segued effortlessly into a hymn to Louis van Gaal. Those at Leeds remain sure Bielsa is a genius but not for nothing is he also known as El Loco.
Before Christmas Clarke’s agent, Ian Harte, the former Leeds left back, said: “The manager will decide what is best for Jack. Who are we to question Bielsa?”
Indeed, Bielsa has proved a decent judge of youth. Fellow teens Jamie Shackleton, Tyler Roberts and Leif Davis were all given chances last season. And we should not forget the time he turned up to the Pochettino household to ask if he could look at young Mauricio’s legs. The 13-year-old looked like a footballer and so Bielsa signed him in his sleep. We assume Pochettino satisfied himself with the tapes.
Bielsa appears to be taking this phlegmatically. He has signed on for another term but this is surely his last shot at promotion. Many will feel Clarke would have been better served joining him and establishing himself as a first-team player before a premature move to the elite. The wonderkid may feel he might as well warm a better bench.
spursfan77
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Cheers for posting that article @King of Otters its the first time I've read that he collapsed because of a virus. Thats good to know that its nothing long term serious that could hurt his career.
chrissivad
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We have already signed 2 youngsters. Would it matter if a 3rd was done before Ndombele?
ValenciaYid
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As far as i know it is
doctor stefan Freud
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Beer timeAs far as i know it is
dagraham
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To be honest, after so long without a signing I doubt it matters who is announced. I reckon the majority of Spurs fans on SC will behave like clucking smack heads seeing their dealer turn up.
I think we could announce the first signing as a masseuse to join the physio team and someone somewhere will say he's one of the most highly rated young masseurs in Europe, and with Poch's coaching ability could be become one of the greatest masseurs in the world and be the key to us winning the league.
dirtyh
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