The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 11th December 2011

[Archibald&Crooks]

Day 4 of the thread and still no ITK. Maybe some of you need to get out and start whoring for it. Or perhaps POTL is struggling to come up with a combination of colours. Who knows?

In the news this morning:

According to the Evening Standard, Harry Redknapp has sent a defiant message to Chelsea and Manchester United that Tottenham will not be ­selling midfielder Luka Modric or any of his other top players.

I wonder how he sent it? Courier? Firing an arrow with the message attached out of his office window? An ashmatic Sherpa on Yakback?

Meanwhile, Talksport have it that Redknapp has insisted that striker Roman Pavlyuchenko will not leave Spurs until a replacement has been found.

A replacement has been found? Their still looking for the real Pavlyuchenko never mind the bloody replacement

The Metro say that Tottenham winger Andros Townsend could be ushered out of White Hart Lane in the January transfer window after a training ground bust-up

Ooooh juicy! I wonder what happened? Who with? My guess is Professor Plump (aka Tom Huddlestone) in the Lounge, with the Lead Pipe

And finally, this is fucking hilarious from The Sun: Chelsea's players are believed to be under orders to involve manager Andre Villas-Boas in their goal celebrations :lol:

You couldn't make it up. Well, its The Sun so they probably did. However, I prefer to believe that this is true

You've all heard what God said when he created women right? "OK, run out of brains. Tits might look nice."

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[Coolpudge]

According to the Sunday People Spurs, Sunderland and QPR are leading the chase for Bobby Zamora after he fell out with Martin Jol.

 

[RichieS]

According to the Sunday People Spurs, Sunderland and QPR are leading the chase for Bobby Zamora after he fell out with Martin Jol.

Every time I've seen him this season he's looked very good. Able backup for Adebayor, much better than Pav and would probably link up well with Defoe. I would not be opposed to signing him at all.

 

[CJMurray]

Every time I've seen him this season he's looked very good. Able backup for Adebayor, much better than Pav and would probably link up well with Defoe. I would not be opposed to signing him at all.

Don't want Zamora at all. Firstly he's getting on and will have no re sale value, secondly, he's only ever had one good season and thirdly, I think he's shit. I watched him closely against us and all he would do is try and knock the centre backs about and i remember him literally handing off Kaboul and pushing him in the face. Very overrated.

 

[Snuzzy]

Would expect/demand to be first choice. Also, old.

 

[Chimbo!]

I would be surprised if we signed anyone of note this January.

The only possibility is selling Bassong and buying Cahill. But even that's a long shot considering the latter will be free in 6 months and our chairman is Daniel Levy.

Things have been going well so far so let's just aim to keep it as it is. This is the first time I have not really cared about a transfer window.

 

[Rogmeister]

After redknapps comments the other day, I think that if anelka is available we should bring him in. If adebayer gets injured then we would have to change our style of play. With anelka we have a ready made player to step in and it also allows our current big man a rest now and again.

The chances of Chelsea selling him to us are quite slim I would say though

 

[Dan Ashcroft]

Zamora > Andy Carroll.

Still wouldn't want him back though.

 

[gibbospurs]

jesus..............anyone allowed on the OTHER site? Anything going on over there??

 

[beats1]

Are we allowed to talk about transfer targets atm or is it strictly ITK

 

[gibbospurs]

Are we allowed to talk about transfer targets atm or is it strictly ITK

Yes please!! its so boring in this place. Shit what happened yesterday but jesus lets move on now. nothing will change it, if i was in charge i would close the threads, but im not so.:grin:

 

[PT]

Anelka is allegedly off to China in January on £175k weekly, or the number of pigs equivalent to it. In fact he's even changing his name to make it easier for the locals to chant it........Ka Ching.

 

[beats1]

Anelka is allegedly off to China in January on £175k weekly, or the number of pigs equivalent to it. In fact he's even changing his name to make it easier for the locals to chant it........Ka Ching.

See, are we allowed to talk about this because we don't want a temporary ban like in august, though it did get crazy at that time

 

[rsmith]

Zamora in jan please. Ade plus zamora is almost unplayable. If it doesn't work out we can move him on in the summer as he'd grace most epl sides

 

[Super Tottenham]

Linked with a loan move for Kaka

 

[RuskyM]

Two things I've heard from a guy on another forum (knows his stuff usually)

1: Pienaar will be back to Everton on loan in January,
2: We're looking at a winger from DC United, Andy Najar. Wikipedia page states he was on trial here a few weeks ago.

Two things that'd get discussion

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

That'd be Blue and Yellow then

 

[RuskyM]

Not another B&Y, if I wanted something ridiculously open and rather disappointing I'd just watch Arsenal's defence.

 

[Darrkespur]

Two things I've heard from a guy on another forum (knows his stuff usually)

1: Pienaar will be back to Everton on loan in January,
2: We're looking at a winger from DC United, Andy Najar. Wikipedia page states he was on trial here a few weeks ago.

Two things that'd get discussion

Najar's meant to be a pretty good prospect, 18 years old and has already got 13 goals in 64 games for DC United. Was MLS Rookie of the Year last year and is considered one of the best players in the league despite his age apparently. Honduran. 6 goals and 6 assists this year. Seems like he could be a big talent in the future, definitely worth having as the backup to Lennon and Bale, could potentially be a good insurance policy in case we have to sell Bale for big bucks in two or three years time. The DC United fan site below gives his performances in 2011 a 97% approval rating!

http://www.blackandredunited.com/2011/12/11/2627308/d-c-united-approval-ratings-andy-najar

 

[Mr Pink]

I personally think Zamora would be a fantastic back up for Adebayor but could not see him wanting to come for the odd appearance, basically he would be relying on Adebayor picking up a hefty injury to get regular playing time.

That's a non starter.

However I do think that we seriously need to get somebody in who can hold the ball up effectively and at least partly fill the void if Ade gets injured. If he picks up a serious injury and we have no replacement I don't think we'll get fourth, its fine lines at the top.

We need somebody to come in who is prepared to be second choice and wait for there chance. That rules out most good players in their prime etc, either an older head who is quite happy to come in and out of the side or a youngster with big potential who is willing to settle in gradually.

I think it would be remiss of us not to address this situation in January.