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lily_lane

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Comolli is extremely well regarded in the club and throughout European football. The most likely way he'll leave is the way Arnesen went - poached by a bigger club. The real Comolli and his value just doesn't tally in the slightest with the views of the washed up alcoholic tv pundits and the 'but he sacked huggy bear' brigade on places like COYS.

How about gobby git journos, who know nowt about Spurs, like Gab Marcotti?

On 5Live at Lunchtime today talking about how he has info that Ramos is distinctly unimpressed with the Medical team at the club, especially as to why "Ledley King is always injured".

Does the muppet that is Marcotti know it's the same fecking knee injury all the time? :roll:

Needless to say the same tripe about Comolli being the first to go and "being the source of friction" was repeated by that other muppet Claridge.

Can't misinformation like this be corrected by the club?

DA for DM NOW! :razz:
 

yanno

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Needless to say the same tripe about Comolli being the first to go and "being the source of friction" was repeated by that other muppet Claridge.

Can't misinformation like this be corrected by the club?

Yes, but it's Levy who said, on the record, that:

Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli could lose his job if Juande Ramos is a failure at White Hart Lane.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has revealed that it was Frenchman Comolli who recommended the former Sevilla manager take over as successor to Martin Jol at the end of last month.
And he told The Times: "He has recommended Juande Ramos, clearly he will have [to take] responsibility if it doesn't work, but I have every confidence it will."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ose-job-Ramos-fails-Tottenham-warns-Levy.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article2951051.ece
 

VegasII

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They'll all be off then...I guess the £50m for Berba & Keane coul come in handy in the eventuality of payoff time.
 

lily_lane

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Yes, but it's Levy who said, on the record, that:

Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli could lose his job if Juande Ramos is a failure at White Hart Lane.
Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has revealed that it was Frenchman Comolli who recommended the former Sevilla manager take over as successor to Martin Jol at the end of last month.
And he told The Times: "He has recommended Juande Ramos, clearly he will have [to take] responsibility if it doesn't work, but I have every confidence it will."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ose-job-Ramos-fails-Tottenham-warns-Levy.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/tottenham/article2951051.ece

Thanks for those quotes, but the inference always in the Media when criticising Comolli is that he and Ramos are at loggerheads, and players are bought over Ramos's head, as Comolli has sole responsibility for buying, which ofcourse is total nonsense. They never mention that the 2 men get on well and speak in Spanish together. Comolli is not responsible for Ramos's failed tactics and inability to coach our squad to play effectively on the pitch so far this season.
 

Rupstoh

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Of course not. Only one man's words can change things and it certainly aint mine.

Ramos is undoubtedly very clever and at times both brave and brilliant. However at the moment a lot of his plays are just not coming off at all. The mark of him will be if he learns from his mistakes or keeps repeating them. Jol's death nail was definitely his persistant inability to address recurring failings.

Hopefully we'll have our 'Capello Croatia' moment soon when everything will suddenly fall into place and make sense.

That sounds suspiciously like an American statement to me.

I don't think you have anything to do with the club at all other than drink out of a THFC mug at work like me.

Congratulations for fooling a lot of people if I am right.
 

yanno

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Thanks for those quotes, but the inference always in the Media when criticising Comolli is that he and Ramos are at loggerheads, and players are bought over Ramos's head, as Comolli has sole responsibility for buying, which ofcourse is total nonsense. They never mention that the 2 men get on well and speak in Spanish together. Comolli is not responsible for Ramos's failed tactics and inability to coach our squad to play effectively on the pitch so far this season.

Very true. Juande seems to have lost the plot as badly as Bentley.

However, ignoring those ITKs who seem to dislike Comolli, the club statement about transfer deadline day did suggest we missed out on at least one major target. Elements of the press then suggested Levy was furious with Comolli and had gone off for a couple of days to cool off before deciding whether to sack him or not.

From Ramos' perspective, I think it must be frustrating that we signed only one striker - Pav - permanently (plus a largely untried kid, Fraizer C, on loan) to replace effectively Berba, Keane and Defoe.

As a professional journalist, my suspicion is that the "Levy has gone for a cooling off period" story was probably leaked to the press by off-the-record sources. That's relatively common. Of course we have no way of telling how close to Levy those sources were, nor whether they were correct.
 

Roberts84

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I still think the squad should be (or should have been) good enough to be top 6 at Christmas where we can address the DM and striking shortcomings. It's just not clicking at the moment though.

I can't see it myself. Don't want to be negative but if we don't get max points out of the next two games we will really be up against it for the rest of the season.
 

Bobishism

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Very true. Juande seems to have lost the plot as badly as Bentley.

Because he picked a team you don't agree with? That's pretty stupid. Who knows the reasons why he never played so-and-so. I'm sure he had good reason to do so.
 

yanno

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Because he picked a team you don't agree with? That's pretty stupid. Who knows the reasons why he never played so-and-so. I'm sure he had good reason to do so.

I wrote before the match that we were set up solidly in CM, but with the wrong balance: no playmaker in Modric.

I wrote before the match that we had no pace on the wings which meant we would counterattack at the pace of Brian the Snail, and I expected to see Gio and/or Lennon on for Gilberto asap unless the Brazilian played a blinder.

I agree that it's impossible to know how fit Modric is. However, he was fit enough to make the bench, and I'm truly astonished that Ramos left him there.

There's no suggestion that either Lennon or Gio are carrying injuries or tired due to playing too much though. So, yes, I think Ramos got his selection wrong.

I'm sure that won't stop you insulting me though.
 

Dan Ashcroft

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That sounds suspiciously like an American statement to me.

I don't think you have anything to do with the club at all other than drink out of a THFC mug at work like me.

Congratulations for fooling a lot of people if I am right.

I don't have anything to do with the club - I work as a journalist. Definitely not American and I've actually never been further west in my life before than Dublin.

Very true. Juande seems to have lost the plot as badly as Bentley.

However, ignoring those ITKs who seem to dislike Comolli, the club statement about transfer deadline day did suggest we missed out on at least one major target. Elements of the press then suggested Levy was furious with Comolli and had gone off for a couple of days to cool off before deciding whether to sack him or not.

From Ramos' perspective, I think it must be frustrating that we signed only one striker - Pav - permanently (plus a largely untried kid, Fraizer C, on loan) to replace effectively Berba, Keane and Defoe.

As a professional journalist, my suspicion is that the "Levy has gone for a cooling off period" story was probably leaked to the press by off-the-record sources. That's relatively common. Of course we have no way of telling how close to Levy those sources were, nor whether they were correct.

Levy often takes some of his annual leave at the beginning of September. That's regularly booked in. I think Comolli has the same time too. It's an obvious time to take it after the intensity and workload of the summer.
 

DJS

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Dan, do you know if Lukas Podolski's name has ever cropped up during discussions about new striking options?
 

Rupstoh

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I don't have anything to do with the club - I work as a journalist. Definitely not American and I've actually never been further west in my life before than Dublin.

If you are Journo, why make the statement: 'However at the moment a lot of his plays are just not coming off at all'?

Plays?? That isn't a footballing term in the United Kingdom and certainly not one a journalist uses.
 

monkeytastic

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Very true. Juande seems to have lost the plot as badly as Bentley.

in fairness to Juande, he did preserve the core of the team that beat newcastle, I'm guessing to keep continuity and there is some logic in resting lennon and GDS. and keeping modric on the bench may have been a forced decision as we needed the pace up front.

not that i'm sayingi agree with the starting line-up, just that there were decent reasons for it
 

Dan Ashcroft

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Dan, do you know if Lukas Podolski's name has ever cropped up during discussions about new striking options?

Not especially.

Because of the type of player he is and we are after (a number 10/LM), I strongly suspect he is option two after Arshavin.

If you are Journo, why make the statement: 'However at the moment a lot of his plays are just not coming off at all'?

Plays?? That isn't a footballing term in the United Kingdom and certainly not one a journalist uses.

Because this is a messageboard, not something my editor reads to decide if I get paid at the end of the month.

I was also using it quite particularly because I know Ramos makes his tactical decisions after very detailed and thorough analysis - perhaps akin to an American football coach with a play book (think the Paulo in The Waterboy). Ramos is a master tactician and has very good reasons for his selections. That they are not being effective is the issue, not that he doesn't know what he is doing.

Sorry if you don't find much subtext in the Daily Star Sunday sport section.
 

Rupstoh

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Dan - sorry, you are a fool for thinking that people are going to believe you by making analysis akin to American Football and also try to con us that you are are linking us to the Paulo.

I personally believe that you are a con artist, especially with the 'play book' thing and links to "think the Paulo in The Waterboy" which has Yank written all over the statement.

You are a fake that many people on here have fallen for. Well done.

Keep it uppy.
 

sweetness

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Dan - sorry, you are a fool for thinking that people are going to believe you by making analysis akin to American Football and also try to con us that you are are linking us to the Paulo.

I personally believe that you are a con artist, especially with the 'play book' thing and links to "think the Paulo in The Waterboy" which has Yank written all over the statement.

You are a fake that many people on here have fallen for. Well done.

Keep it uppy.

Whether you want to believe in Dan's posts or not is up to you. However, your acidic post makes you come off as a prick. If you want to refute Dan's information, then please do so constructively, and based on sound arguments. If not, you're not really adding anything of worth to this thread.

Why are you so much against the idea of "plays" anyway? Most managers try to instill patterns and variations into teams. In my view, your remark comes off as ignorant at best. Please prove me wrong in the future.

I for one would like to thank Dan for sharing. It's always nice to read his thoughts and insights about Spurs. Not everything comes off, but then would anyone really expect it to? There is far too much uncertainty surrounding the club, and too many differing voices for us to ever really know the truth behind the scene. Keep up the good work Dan!
 

Petyr

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Dan - sorry, you are a fool for thinking that people are going to believe you by making analysis akin to American Football and also try to con us that you are are linking us to the Paulo.

I personally believe that you are a con artist, especially with the 'play book' thing and links to "think the Paulo in The Waterboy" which has Yank written all over the statement.

You are a fake that many people on here have fallen for. Well done.

Keep it uppy.

True IMO.
 

knilly

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i like reading what dan has to say, whether its true or not doesnt really matter, pinch of salt and all that. but his postings are always a good read.

i am convinced that Dan Ashcroft is none other than Claire Tomlinson,
 

Rupstoh

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Whether you want to believe in Dan's posts or not is up to you. However, your acidic post makes you come off as a prick. If you want to refute Dan's information, then please do so constructively, and based on sound arguments. If not, you're not really adding anything of worth to this thread.

Why are you so much against the idea of "plays" anyway? Most managers try to instill patterns and variations into teams. In my view, your remark comes off as ignorant at best. Please prove me wrong in the future.

I for one would like to thank Dan for sharing. It's always nice to read his thoughts and insights about Spurs. Not everything comes off, but then would anyone really expect it to? There is far too much uncertainty surrounding the club, and too many differing voices for us to ever really know the truth behind the scene. Keep up the good work Dan!

Read the above in BOLD and you will see that Dan Ashcroft has been involved in a lot of that uncertainty.

It doesn't help when Dan Ashcroft uses the phrase 'plays' which is quite obviously an American Football term.

I could write a lot of the crap he has come out with and get 50% right. There are a lot of mugs, particularly during the transfer window, who believe anything and just because this so-called journo (I can't believe he even admitted he is one as that it the first rule of journalism that he has broken by admitting it) comes out with stuff, everyone believes it.

A lot of people have been :bowdown: to you Dan Ashcroft but you haven't got any history with THFC, you've proved it.

You can't beat a club statement IMHO.
 

arnoldlayne

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Sorry, nothing good to say.

Playing Dawson over Gunter just baffles me. Ditto Gilberto over Lennon or Dos Santos.

Very very negative formation to play against a team with such a fragile defence.

Midfield defensively is poor - we are effectively playing two and a half lesser players (Zokora, O'Hara and half of Jenas) to make good for not having one good one, thereby significantly hindering our attacking capabilities.

Midfield attack wise we have the quality but the players (esp. Modric, Dos Santos and Bentley) are just on really poor form at the moment.

I still think the squad should be (or should have been) good enough to be top 6 at Christmas where we can address the DM and striking shortcomings. It's just not clicking at the moment though.

:bang:
 
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