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Richard Keys makes a worrying comment about Spurs

sunnydelight786

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Ranks up there with Sinclair saying on Sunday that we needed to be more competitive in the transfer market like City were. Some issues with that one Trev.
Being competitive/ambitious in the transfer market doesn't = Spending big like City. As you know full well yourself the team in your profile pic showed ambition and ended up with the biggest talents in Europe without spunking the sum we did on Sissoko per player!!!
 

THOWIG

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Being competitive/ambitious in the transfer market doesn't = Spending big like City. As you know full well yourself the team in your profile pic showed ambition and ended up with the biggest talents in Europe without spunking the sum we did on Sissoko per player!!!

Can't disagree.
 

THFCSPURS19

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Being competitive/ambitious in the transfer market doesn't = Spending big like City. As you know full well yourself the team in your profile pic showed ambition and ended up with the biggest talents in Europe without spunking the sum we did on Sissoko per player!!!
Yep, selling Hummels and Mkhitaryan was very ambitious.
 

FreddieYid

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We know he didn't get exactly what he wanted in the transfer window, as by all accounts he and Mitchell both wanted Batshuayi, but that doesn't mean he is unhappy with what we did get.

I'm sure he knows that we can be financially outmuscled on any transfer of the wrong clubs are interested. U less he feels we're missing out because we're dragging our heels in getting things done.

Levy certainly broke our policy to give him what he wanted with Sissoko.
 

Nigel Spinal

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Keys is good mates with Sherwood

Remember when Sherwood used Keys to try to undermine AVB the day before we won at Old Trafford

#justsaying #bitterpoisonouswanker
 

KingKay

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Looks Like the Telegraph just made some 'worrying comments' about Richard Keys.

Disgraced former Sky presenter Richard Keys has ‘affair’ with daughter’s friend

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...-presenter-richard-keys-has-affair-with-daug/

Sports presenter Richard Keys is divorcing his cancer-stricken wife of 34 years – after she found out he was having an alleged affair with one of their daughter’s friends.

The 59-year-old, who previously admitted behaving in a ‘prehistoric way’ towards women, is said to have had a relationship with a 27-year-old lawyer.

Keys has moved to the Middle East since leaving his job at Sky Sports in disgrace after making sexist remarks.

And his wife Julia, a mother of two, had moved into a luxurious villa in Qatar with her husband.

But Mrs Keys, who has thyroid cancer, has returned to the UK amid accusations her husband had an affair with Lucie Rose, who was believed to have been friends with their daughter Jemma, 31.

The 56-year-old is said to have confronted her husband before deciding to file for divorce on the grounds of adultery.

Keys and Miss Rose are understood to have been introduced by a mutual acquaintance on the expat social circuit in the Qatari capital Doha.

Pictures on social media of the lawyer – often in low-cut tops and figure-hugging skirts – suggest she was a regular on the party scene.

Last night sources told the Daily Mail it was ‘particularly cruel’ for Keys to behave like this while his wife was having treatment.

One said: ‘This is the most appalling behaviour.

‘He knew that Julia was very ill but carried on anyway. It has knocked Julia for six and it has had an adverse effect on her health. She is absolutely devastated.’

Lawyers acting for Mrs Keys submitted divorce papers to a British court in August.

They have sent the papers to Keys and Miss Rose.

The presenter is understood to be returning to Britain next week for a showdown with his wife.

But Mrs Keys, who is a psychotherapist, feels her husband has ‘run out of chances’ and wants ‘closure so she can rebuild her life’. A source said: ‘When Richard made those sexist remarks at Sky Sports there was a lot of bad feeling towards him.

‘Despite the outcry, Julia stood by him and made a highly public show of her support for him.

‘She was his rock back then and now when she needs him the most to help her fight her illness, he does this. It is despicable.’

Keys presented Sky Sports’ coverage of Premier League football for 19 years, before resigning from his £500,000-a-year job in disgrace in 2011.

He and co-presenter Andy Gray had made disparaging off-air remarks about female match official Sian Massey, claiming she did not know the offside law.

In another studio conversation, which was filmed but not transmitted, Keys asked pundit Jamie Redknapp about a former girlfriend. The presenter asked him: ‘Did you smash it?’ – slang for: ‘Did you have sex with her?’

At the time, Sky Sports insiders revealed that Keys and Gray had been dubbed the ‘Axis of Evil’ by colleagues because of their abrasive style. One who had worked with the pair for many years said: ‘That was a response to them being a law unto themselves and notoriously difficult to control. Basically they thought they ran the operation – and treated the producer as just a necessary lieutenant.’

Keys then presented a Saturday football show on TalkSport radio, before being lured to Qatar.

He is now the face of the BeIN sports channels and has a lucrative contract until the end of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022.

Friends fear the alleged affair with Miss Rose will have a devastating impact on Jemma, who starred in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks from 2004 to 2007, and the couple’s son Josh, 27. Jemma is believed to have become friends with Miss Rose in Qatar before the alleged affair developed.

Miss Rose worked in the legal department of the Qatar Investment Authority for almost two years before returning to Britain to live with her sister in a flat in Hackney, east London. She now works as private equity lawyer at the London branch of international law firm Baker & McKenzie.

Last night Mrs Keys, who lives in Berkshire, failed to respond to requests for comment about the divorce proceedings.

Keys and Miss Rose also refused to comment.
 

dudu

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Being competitive/ambitious in the transfer market doesn't = Spending big like City. As you know full well yourself the team in your profile pic showed ambition and ended up with the biggest talents in Europe without spunking the sum we did on Sissoko per player!!!

Its one player.....

What on earth do you think we are trying to do with signing the likes of Janseen and Ali?
 

THFCSPURS19

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But then they replaced them with Marc Bartra, Emre Mor and Ousamane Dembele
Dembele was a very good signing, but Mor seems very raw (but talented) and haven't there always been question marks about Bartra?
 

eddiev14

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Dembele was a very good signing, but Mor seems very raw (but talented) and haven't there always been question marks about Bartra?

That's the point the guy was making though. You can be ambitious in the market without paying top dollar for the finished article. If you sell high and invest in top talent you can stay competitive. Dortmund are experts at it.
 

Col_M

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Pictures on social media of the lawyer – often in low-cut tops and figure-hugging skirts – suggest she was a regular on the party scene.

It says PICTURES and doesn't show PICTURES. I want pictures!!
 

gilzeantheking

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Pictures on social media of the lawyer – often in low-cut tops and figure-hugging skirts – suggest she was a regular on the party scene.

It says PICTURES and doesn't show PICTURES. I want pictures!!

Here you go

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THFCSPURS19

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That's the point the guy was making though. You can be ambitious in the market without paying top dollar for the finished article. If you sell high and invest in top talent you can stay competitive. Dortmund are experts at it.
I can't even remember the point he was making TBH :LOL:
 
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