voxy28
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Come on you got only 8... i have got almost 40 and I dont understand why...
The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Willian Edition 22nd August 2013
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Come on you got only 8... i have got almost 40 and I dont understand why...
Real_madyidd
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I think everyone has to retain a sense of perspective. I remember when Chris Waddle was sold to Marseille for a then record £4.5million and how gutted I was. "Don't worry," I was told by my Dad, "think of all the players we can sign with £4.5 million"
The result - Steve Sedgeley
What is happening now is completely opposite!
Back to lurking
Waddle and Hoddle broke my heart as a kid, I just couldn't understand. From then on I knew to only admire the players we would keep: Mabbutt (at the time), Edinburgh (later) and Dawson now. Yeah they weren't the very best, but they were / are truley ours.
Greenspur
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And Ossie/Ricky? That's a tough call.
HobbitSpur
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I knew that Mark Yeats would be of some use in the future, he did F*ck all for us when he was with us!
WestBelfast Spurs
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but the money we are getting of Real for Bale comes from Arsenal which lets us buy Willian & Lamela swings and roundabouts plus rumours di Maria wont come to England also
See what your saying here when people say that these players will easily replace bales 20 goals.
They ate 6 players so collectively they will have to replace the goals that Defoe, Dempsey, bale, Lennon and siggy (for example) scored.
Also as a direct replacement for bale, is ONE of these players gonna not only score 20 goals but do it when the team isn't performing as bale did.
Think this is the point
TheChosenOne
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Doing the Times Jumbo cryptic last week one of the clues was something to do with jumping out of an aeroplane, 4.3.
I in advertantly put in "Bale Out" instead of "Bail Out" Lolz.
However I digress - My Bale moment was the same as Orkney Spur & gilzeantheking - When Jimmy Greaves went to West Ham plus a few shillings with Martin Peters coming to us - I was shook. To the very foundations, for the previous five years
my role model was JPG - Every kickabout in the local park was spent emulating my hero.
I got on with supporting the team (the only team) - like a bereavement - The memories are always there - But then further down the line there were many more - The Hoddles & Waddle, Clive Allen and Gazza - plus many more from recent times.
With regard to young Bale - He has served his time with us - Yes he is a hero and I'm sure a superb professional and pin up boy for football in general - He can win games and all the other stuff posters have said - But when he is missing - there may be a plan "B" but it need not be that way - He is (God forbid as religious folk say) only one Muamba or otherwise tackle away from missing half or even an entire season.
Just my take, I think I know what I am saying most of the time - I hope I got my point across - If not - Bite me.
I in advertantly put in "Bale Out" instead of "Bail Out" Lolz.
However I digress - My Bale moment was the same as Orkney Spur & gilzeantheking - When Jimmy Greaves went to West Ham plus a few shillings with Martin Peters coming to us - I was shook. To the very foundations, for the previous five years
my role model was JPG - Every kickabout in the local park was spent emulating my hero.
I got on with supporting the team (the only team) - like a bereavement - The memories are always there - But then further down the line there were many more - The Hoddles & Waddle, Clive Allen and Gazza - plus many more from recent times.
With regard to young Bale - He has served his time with us - Yes he is a hero and I'm sure a superb professional and pin up boy for football in general - He can win games and all the other stuff posters have said - But when he is missing - there may be a plan "B" but it need not be that way - He is (God forbid as religious folk say) only one Muamba or otherwise tackle away from missing half or even an entire season.
Just my take, I think I know what I am saying most of the time - I hope I got my point across - If not - Bite me.
theShiznit
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Sad thing is though.
The majority of the fans will feel like Maskeg2
And to those, Levy's statement (if as expected is an excuse for sale) will just sound like hollow words, just as the Joe spendathon to make that final push before FFP will sound like hollow words.
Bale for me has been built up into something he is not, he is no world beater, we saw him get marked out of many games. He is in the top three at what he does (dribble with pace and shoot) but what he does is not exactly good for team goals/football.
With the better players all around the front 6 positions now we will create better chances and score more team goals, maybe with not so many spectacular individual goals, but i'm a sucker for a team goal anyway.
Hopefully though a negativity will not seep into the crowd if/when the Bale sale is announced, and you know that Wales B (Swansea) will certainly be rubbing it in about Bale at the weekend. That's another good thing though, in that so many new players will not have negative expectations of the crowd in the way say a Hudd or JJ would, so this should allow them some leeway for errors until bedded in.
Just wish we could skip to 1st Sept now...
LeSoupeKitchen
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Long Time Reader and First Time Poster,
Unsure whether I should have messaged a mod first but here comes some ITK (maybe)...
I was having a birthday chat with my father last night who works in Law and he told me that from a discussion he had the previous day with a certain solicitor and clerk he became privy to the fact that the money we are spending is NOT BALE MONEY, but is actually a loan with a view to buy the club from a Kuwaiti family- he was told that this families thinking behind this is, with FFP on the horizon it is simpler and faster to inject money in the team this way and then can formally buy the club at a later date.
I did not have this conversation so take with some salt but I know who my father was talking to and he is a very reliable source and would not invent this on a whim. Just passing on in good faith, enjoy
Thanks for the info. Doesn't make much sense to me though. Surely they would just buy the club now? If they are going to run a club at a massive loss isn't it purely for the joy of splashing the cash and the fans loving you?
PeeEyeEmPee
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that is just cherry-picking whichever attributes appear to support your viewpoint. anyone thinking Bale is 3rd-5th best player in the world just doesn't watch enough football.
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So we should take chances. But not chances on players we aren't 100% certain will be successful?
I'm glad I don't work for your business...it sounds confusing.
I think everyone has to retain a sense of perspective. I remember when Chris Waddle was sold to Marseille for a then record £4.5million and how gutted I was. "Don't worry," I was told by my Dad, "think of all the players we can sign with £4.5 million"
The result - Steve Sedgeley
What is happening now is completely opposite!
Back to lurking
I remember that, was also gutted to see him go. Pretty sure we signed Lineker shortly after, would have loved to see those two plus Gazza playing in the same Spurs team.
HailKingLevy
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Man i feel your pain and i get what your saying, but as has been pointed out He wants out, one tackle from CA, or him not performing does us no good in the long run, you need to look at the bigger picture IMO.
SonicSarr
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Totally agree. There are 2 very good scenario's. Each scenario may be better than the other depending upon personal opinion. Either way we are in a win-win situation provided we do get the targets we appear to be after or similar. The 3rd scenario is that Bale goes and we do not get our targets but the noises from AVB are that we will be doing business so I can't see that 3rd scenario transpiring.
Kendall
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Interesting view mate, I don't disagree.
For me, every season we had him was essentially "borrowed time" as they say. Basically a gift. He has been a level above us for at least 2 seasons now. If this year is the year, so be it. I just hope the money is invested into a suitable replacement like Lamela.
HobbitSpur
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I agree with you on Hoddle as a sad day, was a bigger loss for us then than Bale will be now.
I also hated it when Roberts left (although lost my respect when he went to the other lot down the road) and Gascoigne going was a very dark day.
We sold more players
As it stands everyone is happy and we have invested in the squad. Bale goes and we have taken a badly calculated risk IMO.
I'll reserve more judgement on the new boys until I watch them in a spurs shirt numerous times.
Experience just tells me that the wave of optimism and expectation on the new boys is misguided. We've seen it all before.
If it happens, so be it. Professional football is a food chain. Our place in it is near the top. But not (yet, at least) at the top.
Better to have players who are coveted by Madrid and Barca than players who are coveted by Stoke or West Ham.
Enjoy the players while we have them. Reinvest the profit wisely. Grow the club relentlessly.
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