The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 1st August 2014

FreddieYid said:

Apologies chaps... The 'ever so hilarious' Paulinho comment was posted by a comedic Leeds fan... Yes Leeds while I was at the bar.

It's been removed

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THFCSPURS19 said:

Of course he did...

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FreddieYid said:

Haha! I wouldn't mind, but I was buying him a pint...

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$hoguN said:

I'm quite surprised we haven't had more ITK on players leaving.

With us currently having 3 GKs + Archer, 5 CBs + Milos, 2 RBs + Fredericks, 2 LBs + Fryers, 4 CMs + Bentaleb, Mason and Carroll, 5 to play in an attacking 3 + Ceballos, 2 Strikers + Kane

That is a huge squad (32 players), especially if we are looking to add another CB, Schneiderlin and J. Rodriguez

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$hoguN said:

I'm quite surprised we haven't had more ITK on players leaving.

With us currently having 3 GKs + Archer, 5 CBs + Milos, 2 RBs + Fredericks, 2 LBs + Fryers, 4 CMs + Bentaleb, Mason and Carroll, 5 to play in an attacking 3 + Ceballos, 2 Strikers + Kane

That is a huge squad (32 players), especially if we are looking to add another CB, Schneiderlin and J. Rodriguez

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HappySpur said:

So what really happend with POTL

As part of an article I'm about half way through concerning the best moments of ITK during SC's first 10 years, I have completed the draft of Blue and Yellow



5) I See a carnival of colors.....all grey and brown and grey

Phantom of the Lane or POTL was a stalwart of a fellow forum, COYS, for a number of years. Rumored to be Levy himself or a Donna Cullen stooge or the tea lady at QPR (by me) or any number of people in-between, he was considered one of the best ITK for a stretch of time. But chinks in his armor appeared in 2011. It started with a quick reference to rumors about Joe Cole and Jamie O'Hara, where he ended his post with the now infamous "blue and yellow".

It was a cryptic and cryptics, which you will see occasionally, tend to cause meltdowns among ITK consuming fans.

Those two colours would come to dominate the summer transfer window of 2011 and even blight the summer of 2012 and would become synonymous with POTL on a handful of internet forums. The speculation on who the cryptic refereed to spiraled out of control.

Do you combine them to make green so that it had to be Muammar Khadaffi's son Al-Saadi? Was it a Swedish player, when Sweden only produces shitty furniture and shittier pop-bands? Was he racist and referring to an Asian with one of them, even though it was so not-PC to refer to the fact that Asians go into violent rampages when the see the color blue? Were we signing a smurf? Was yellow a reference to Coldplay and maybe Apple was going to be our next sponsor?

Despite this, he would reference the colours nearly a dozen more times that summer and countless times more in the 27 months that followed that initial post.

It would lead in August of 2011, to his now infamous showdown with Peanut, a fellow ITK at COYS. Peanut claimed that POTL was using blue for any player that suited his needs and POTL politely disagreed. Nothing happened that required the COYS staff to get involved.

For the next two years, due to blue and yellow, he would suffer from credibility issues, despite a pretty good record during that time. But his posting took a more defensive tone.

Then last summer, it all ended when Willian was forced by Anzi, at gunpoint some say, to go to Chelsea as part of Abromovich's need to overpay for washed up legends that had once played in Italy. This time it was Samuel Eto'o, who wouldn't come without Willian, the only person that listened when Eto'o would go on one of his rants about supply-side economics.

POTL last logged on August 22nd of last year. At that time, he was seeking to assure people around the Chelsea derailment story surrounding Willian

As well all know, Chelsea did end up hijacking our bid for the Brazilian. And the response by fans was to hang POTL in effigy, as if he had lied. In fact, as the story was revealed later, it was quite obvious he was telling the truth. Everyone at Tottenham felt very strong about the signing, specifically because he was having his medical with us when everything went tits up. But POTL never returned.

Links i need
http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/update-339-the-itk-fight-of-ol-coystown.76907/
http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/update-86-potl-qpr-cole-and-ohara.74637/
http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?threads/update-318-potl-re-ssn-willian.101040/

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CockOnBall said:

The abuse POTL got after Willian was disgusting. People want those in the know to give them information before a transfer is finalised yet cannot accept the uncertainty that comes with that. Transfers involve many parties and therefore several obstacles. One being competition.

If you only want info when it's "done", go on official site. In Willian's case, it was blatantly far advanced. Fee was agreed, terms were agreed and the player was undertaking a medical. 99% of transfers are completed from this stage so those in the know, acted on more than good faith. The idiots who couldn't accept this have hounded out a decent person who was kind enough to supply information.

I hope he/she is kind enough to return.

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Matrix said:

I thought Depay would have been on the radar. Looks like Townsend and Lennon till Jan then.
Not the end of the world but hopefully Rodriguez will be fit by then.

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THFCSPURS19 said:

I doubt Townsend or Lennon will be starters for us...

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$hoguN said:

I'm quite surprised we haven't had more ITK on players leaving.

With us currently having 3 GKs + Archer, 5 CBs + Milos, 2 RBs + Fredericks, 2 LBs + Fryers, 4 CMs + Bentaleb, Mason and Carroll, 5 to play in an attacking 3 + Ceballos, 2 Strikers + Kane

That is a huge squad (32 players), especially if we are looking to add another CB, Schneiderlin and J. Rodriguez!

The only players we have been told may leave are Dawson, Naughton, Rose, Chirches and one of the CM4.

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SpurSince57 said:

I seem to recall that Pottle wasn't exactly averse to dismissing other people's information, so it's hardly surprising that there was a degree of schadenfreude when he came a cropper.

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Blake Griffin said:

i think lennon will start vs west ham. sorry people.

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DiscoD1882 said:

Tasks for the day:

1) get schadenfreude into a post. Tick

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Essexyid07 said:

Just home from hospital after having a minor op! First thing I've done is turn iPad on & go straight to SC ITK & great to read that Verts is about to sign new deal

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