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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 18 August 2011

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Good morning ITKers.

The Adebayor stuff seems to have dried up and tensions will soon be rising unless it's put up on the OS sharpish. A&C's personal prediction is for a double signing to be announced anytime between now and Friday night, assuming what we've been told is correct.

Im not saying my wife is hairy 'down there' but my daughter was born with carpet burns.

Anyway, on with yesterdays ITK such as it was.........

First up was BEN with news on Modric
BEN said:
Date 17th August
Site FTL
his not going but until window ends his head not in right place he obviously wants move still
Meh.

Then POTL with Kranjcar news..........
Phantom of the Lane said:
Date17th August
Site COYS
Niko aint going
Straight up.

Then BEN returned with a few titbits
BEN said:
Where:FTL
When: 17/08/2011

gallas out for 6 weeks, we need a centre half
next few days should be few bits done for sure
Bentley and Hutton in with the kids Traning at the moment, attitude and application not there at moment
The next few days bit excited a few people.........

Then some Fox chappie chimed in with a few more bits
Grey Fox said:
Where:SC
When:17/08/2011
Just some bits that I am hearing and back up other people's info.
The plan is to play King in both Manchester games, but Gallas is a real concern and could be crocked for a while.
Been told 3 more to come/lined up in addition to Ade 2 of those down the spine. Expect something unexpected is also what I have been told. I haven't a clue who and I don't think my source does, just a feeling something is brewing.
None of this is cryptic and apologies for lack of detail, but its all I have got at the mo.
Expect something unexpected. Well, I can think of two names we're traditionally linked with that we haven't heard mentioned this summer.

Then a new name for you all.
Hoddle_Ledge said:
Where: SC
When:17/08/2011

Spoke to my newly acquired source this morning.
Adebayor is complete, when I said I haven't seen any confirmation he said he said doesn't know what the hold up is, most probably the Premier League looking into the deal with all the part wages/fees etc that is always the stumbling block.

I said I'd like to see Rossi at Spurs, he said well they were serious about him back in January but if nothing has happened in 8 months then it's probably unlikely.

I mentioned I read about Diarra in the press, he said that's new to him but there is definitely money to spend, last few weeks are always busy, loads of people popping in and out round the training ground, expects it to be even busier this season.

Not exactly anything earth shattering but undoubtedly true. Hopefully there might be an announcement over the weekend so I can use it to gleam some more info when I see him again next week.
He went into detail surrounding some revelations regarding Gareth Bale (not transfer related don't panic) which may be posted at some point in the future.
Some interesting stuff too :up:

Our final piece of ITK comes from Noodles who said
Noodles said:
Where: FTL
When:17/08/2011

In a thread called: "next fourteen days many transfers will go thru"

apples and "pairs" ..
Pairs. Two to Villa? Adebayor and Diarra? We could guess all day. But lets not.

And that was all of it.

And now for something completely different............

Reservoir Flogs

The Date:
2nd September 2011 The transfer window has not long closed and the fans aren't happy. Spurs beat the deadline by 22 seconds to secure the signature of former Real Madrid striker Hugo Sanchez, now aged 53.

The Scene:
The Boardroom at White Hart Lane. Shouting and chanting can be heard from outside as police and stewards battle to contain an unruly mob from breaking down the gates to the ground.

And so we begin.............
Spurs Chairman Daniel Levy strides briskly into the boardroom and sits down at the head of the table.

"For fucks sake!" he shouts as he disappears below the level of the table. A secretary rushes to his side and places two large books and a cushion under the Chairmans arse so that he is seated at the same height as everyone else.

"Right.............I've gathered you all here today to find a scapeg....erm to find out who is to blame for all of this"

His snake-like eyes flickered around the boardroom. Matthew Collecott was eating a McDonalds Happy Meal and playing with the Papa Smurf figure that came with the meal. Sir Keith Mills was idly picking his nose, he withdrew his finger, examined what he'd dug out with idle curiousity and flicked it across the table at Donna Cullen who was absent mindedly leafing through an Ann Summers catalogue. To his left, Kevan Watts was sat playing Fruit Ninja on his iPhone and Harry Redknapp was doodling on a pad of paper, Kevin Bond was sitting staring at the ceiling, whistling.

Suddenly the huge plasma TV on the wall flickered into life as the satellite link with the Bahamas kicked in and Joe Lewis appeared on the screen sat in a chair stroking a cat with more than a little of the menace of Ernst Stavro Blofeld about him.

"So" he began."Have we decided yet?"

"No Uncle Joe, we're just about to start" replied a smug looking Daniel Levy. And he had every right to be smug. He'd just finished a report in which he'd investigated the clubs canteen finances during which a switch he'd instigated from PG Tips teabags to Tesco Value ones had saved the club £14.33p per month. The new stadium wasn't going to pay for itself was it?

"Get back to me when it's done Danny" said Lewistapping the side of his nose and then the screen went blank.

The sound of the crowd was drifting into the boardroom and the chant 'we
want Levy out say we want Levy out' was getting louder and louder as more and more fans arrived to protest.

"I think you dropped a massive bollock this time Danny" said Redknapp, "the boy Sanchez was a top top player but that was in the 80's when he was 25, they ain't 'aving it this time"

He went on......

"164 goals in 207 games for Real Madrid is a triffic record but he's in his 50's now, what the fuck did you think you were doing?"

Donna Cullen looked up from her catalogue and asked "Do you think it inappropriate if I bought a Red teddy?" Levy rolled his eyes and replied to Harry "Look, it's about saving money. He's got a great record and comes cheap. He assures me he's fit and its the best I could do given the time we had"

Redknapp laughed. "You had three bloody months, not to mention last January and not to mention the summer before that. In a whole year the best you can come up with is Hugo fackin Sanchez?"

"No wonder they want your head" He laughed, pointing out the window toward the fans. "You done it this time Danny, you and your last minute games, you've well and truly done it now"

Levy smiled."Well they aren't getting my head are they. Now lets cut to the chase. Who are we going to blame? Who do we have who can take one for the team?"

Keith Mills looked up and said "What we need is a DoF" then resumed excavating the contents of his nose. "Not all the time I got a hole in my arse" said Redknapp.

Suddenly the noise of the crowd got appreciably louder. A secretary with extraordinarily large tits burts into the room and said that the crowd had broken through the gates are were now trying to break through the very doors of the office complex.

"right.....that's me out" said Redknapp, "Here's my resignation, i'm off to manage England" Before he could get out of his chair a crowd burst into the boardroom. The occupants backed away into one corner as the room rapidly filled up with what appeared to be almost exclusively spotty nerdy looking teenagers.

Redknapp pushed Levy to the front of the group who were by now huddled at the end of the desk by the windows. "Who are you and what do you want?" said Levy.

"You've made us look like a proper bunch of bullshitters Levy and we've had enough" growled a guy who looked like a cross between the Milky Bar Kid and Joe 90.

"I can explain everything, signing Hugo Sanchez wasn't my idea" replied Levy, who by know was sweating his bald tits off.

"Sanchez Schmanchez, that isn't what we're here for......grab him boys!"

Several of the crowd lurched forward, grabbed Levy and tied him to a chair.

"What's going on? What are you lot playing at?" Asked Donna Cullen "You can shut it treacle, keep your gob shut and you might get out of here in one piece" He went on........."My name is BEN and i've got every Spurs ITK here with me. For far too long now you've made us look bad and now you're gonna learn your lesson"

Daniel Levy squirmed and struggled against the rope, if only he hadn't spread so many falsehoods, led so many people up blind alleys and went to such great lengths to hide Spurs real transfer targets."I promise to go back to how it was" he said, panic starting to set in.

"All the names we gave out, all the clues, everything was for nothing and you ruined us Levy. You couldn't flog any of the shite we had on the books and now we're looking like right proper shysters. Well now it's time to meet a couple of friends of mine"

BEN took out his iPod and selected a track. He looked at Levy and smiled as he pressed play.

The song Stuck in the Middle With You by Stealers Wheel broke into the otherwise electric silence, the assembled ITK's parted as two men dressed in black suits, white shirt, black tie and sunglasses walked in each holding a cut-throat razor........

Mr Levy, meet my friends..........Mr Blue and Mr Yellow.

Mr Blue and Mr Yellow stopped in the centre of the room and danced around Levy, whose eyes were wider than Danielle Lloyds legs at a Spurs end of season party. Every few seconds one of them slashed at him with their razor, missing him by inches. You could cut the tension with a knife as the song played out and Mr Blue and Mr Yellow continued their macabre dance.

"I hope you lot are watching this" BEN asked the assembled board members.

"Watch and learn what happens when you mess with ITK....and you Harry, enough with the fucking interviews OK?"

Harry nodded furiously. He was twitching so much that his face looked like his eyeballs were plugged directly into the mains power supply. The big titted secretary stared on in erotic fascination. She reached into her pocket for her compact roger rabbit and silenty slipped into the executive slash house.

Suddenly a window broke and a canister rolled into the middle of the room and exploded, giving out a searing flash of light which blinded everyone in the room. The lights went out as the doors to the boardroom were blown off and several SAS Troopers rushed in. Shots were fired and confusion reigned as the room became a hellhouse of shouting, screaming and shadowy figures flitting across the room.

What seemed like hours later but was in reality only a few minutes, the smoke cleared and all of the ITK's were lying on the floor, dead. One of the SAS men untied Levy and asked if he was OK.

"Yes, yes I am thank you, but you cut it fine didn't you?" The SAS man winked at Levy "Knowing how much you like to do things at the last minute we thought you'd appreciate the irony"

"Whaddya mean they cut it fine?" asked Kevin Bond. "You mean to say you knew this was going to happen?, you actually planned this whole thing?"

The big titted secretary emerged from the bog, looking rather flush in the face and weak at the knees. "Have I missed anything?" She asked, looking furtively about her to see if anyone had guessed what she'd been up to.

Levy smiled. "How else was I going to finally rid us of this ITK stuff that has been undermining what we're doing for so many years? Now we're free of it, we can get on with our business without the need for so much secrecy, for today, for the first time in many years, ITK is dead!"

Everyone stood and applauded Levy. They even gave out three cheers and sang 'for he's a jolly good fellow'

Everyone except one man. One man, whose head was covered with a black floppy hat. The shadowy figure wrapped a black cape around him, covering everything but his eyes which glinted at Levy as he whispered to himself

"That's what you think Danny boy" He turned, his cape flowing around him as he did so.

And like a Phantom, he was gone................

And now for a message from a certain ITK

A certain ITK would like to see you make a donation to help keep Spurs Community running. He said.....

Red and yellow and pink and green
Purple and orange and blue
I can sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow,
sing a rainbow too.

A CERTAIN ITK SAYS HAVE YOU DONATED YET? WELL HAVE YOU?
EVERY LITTLE HELPS!

BLUE & YELLOW WATCH

Brad Friedel formerly of Blackburn Rovers, whose kits include B&Y
Robbie Keane signs for LA Galaxy whose kits include B&Y​
 

ealingspur

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fully expect more headway on diarra deal (if it is in the pipe line - harry basically confirmed it) and maybe even ade confirmation today.

this modric malarky is a little tedious, some fresh itk will inevitably emerge about how harry pissed DL off by undermining his stance/authority and turn this into yet another harry vs DL thread.

oh - and finally some spurs on a football pitch! yay.
 

ComfortablyNumb

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Nice one.

Interesting that POTL didn't say "Niko ain't going anywhere", which would be the natural phrase, he just said "Niko ain't going" as in "ain't going to Sunderland".
 

Gbspurs

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Poor POTL, cant say anything without some crazy fool thinking it's cryptic!
 

CAS_GG

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As I'm now just about to leave for Bonny Scotland and won't be back till tomorrow night you can guarantee it will all kick off with transfers and other news.

Wonder if Levy is going to Scotland :think:
 

spud

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Wow! Just.....wow!

I never expected that with this morning's round-up. So we're just left with POTL now? Nothing but cryptics ahead then......
 

SpursSvedala

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Nice one.

Interesting that POTL didn't say "Niko ain't going anywhere", which would be the natural phrase, he just said "Niko ain't going" as in "ain't going to Sunderland".


Maybe he just meant "Niko ain´t going" as in "Niko ain´t going"... :wink:
No need to mystify all of POTL:s quotes...
 

talkshowhost86

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Great stuff A&C. Hopefully we'll get a spin off about Donna Cullen and her red teddy at some point.

I think it'll be quiet today. Match day so hopefully alot of prep is going into that.

Tomorrow is the day....maybe.
 

JJetset

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Great effort A & C had me spitting my coffee out!
 

Stoof

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Modric Stuff in Modric Thread.

It's fucking obvious. Let's not start like this. Please.
 

InOffMeLeftShin

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Seriously...'I don't want to post Luka stuff in here because I don't want to get banned from this section BUT' when there is a thread with more than 3000 posts on Luka Modric which you can discuss it to your hearts content?

All of that Modric crap has now been moved to where it belongs.
 

Archibald&Crooks

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How do you come up with that stuff? And so early in the morning?

I started it yesterday. Ten minutes here, half hour there and finished it off this morning when I got up for my early morning 'old mans' slash.

Thanks for the kind comments guys.
 

$hoguN

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Great round up A&C as per usual.

I'm hoping for some positive news before the game tonight in regards to signings.

Has anyone found out if noodles was actually trying to be cryptic or just cannot spell pears yet?
 
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