Kaboul: I respect Arsenal, but even if they doubled my wages I would never have gone there

[Casparian]

He did side with the 3 I've mentioned already. Wasn't involved in the physical stuff, but was blaming the kids.

To be fair the thought of Azza squaring up to Kane,reminds me of Noble to Sissoko in that pic.Guess you nailed it in fewer word's,tbf I did suggest Lennon felt his comfy status was under threat.

 

[C0YS]

Adebayor doesn’t seem to have been as negative an influence as some might believe, going by Pochs biography.

On Lennon, who I know as a matter of fact was a fantastic trainer as a youth team player. I think there was a lot going on there. I mean he had a serious breakdown a few years later but it clearly started earlier.

On the youth vs senior team split I think Poch handled it correctly, but I’m not going to make too many judgements. Ultimately we don’t know the full story and there is always more than one side to it. Now the side that ended up being ostracised may well, and probably was, in the wrong, but without hearing the reasoning behind it it’s hard to make to much of a judgement.

Particularly as bullying culture between seniors and youth players was a pretty normal thing when you hear statements by past players and often was seen as pushing towards a higher standard or ‘toughening up’.I’m not making an excuse for it, or saying what the motivation was or wasn’t. I’m just saying it’s hard to say exactly what was going on at the time. Though backing the Younger players, from a footballing perspective, seems like it was absolutely justified.

 

[whitesocks]

Kaboul was the captain. If Adebayor had a serious complaint (and we can all guess the nature of it) then Kaboul was right to take that to Pochettino, and I seem to remember it then went up to Levy.
Kaboul risked his captaincy and career, so he must have been fairly certain.
Lennon is no hot head and he too was prepared to risk his future by also coming forward.
Sorry but the simplest conclusion is that Adebayor wasn't making it up.

That Adebayor was let go was no loss as he should never have been at the club in the first place.
But I was sorry that Lennon was driven out, as we lacked width and for years he provided the only excitement at games when he rocketed up the wing.
Also Kaboul who was a flexible defender and liked to go forward. Scored some important goals too. Both proper Tottenham players, although Kaboul's game rapidly deteriorated afterwards.
Capoue wasn't here long enough to feel one way or another.

PS Kaboul was actually linked with Arsenal at one point.

 

[sebo_sek]

With very few exceptions, English commentry is simply the most boring on the planet.

 

[spud]

With very few exceptions, English commentry is simply the most boring on the planet.

I have no problem with that.

If they only said the name of the player who had the ball I'd be happy. Can't stand Peter Fucking Drury and his screaming the player's name when a goal is scored; and thank god we don't have that ridiculous 'goooooooooooooooooooooooooool' lasting for what seems like five minutes whenever somebody scores the way they do in spanish language commentaries.

 

[sebo_sek]

I have no problem with that.

If they only said the name of the player who had the ball I'd be happy. Can't stand Peter Fucking Drury and his screaming the player's name when a goal is scored; and thank god we don't have that ridiculous 'goooooooooooooooooooooooooool' lasting for what seems like five minutes whenever somebody scores the way they do in spanish language commentaries.

Nah. A passionate commentator can add a lot of emotion to a game. If if it's in arabic, uzbek or some other suahili.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I don't think there was any danger of that, Kab.