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By: colver

colver — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:11:39 +0000

Wow if we don’t already have belief that the quadruple is on how about Liverpool losing to Boro!!!!! Boro just ripped through them and if their strikers could actually finish it could have been four!

By the way I really fancy Tuncay as a player. If we do not sign Tevez, Tuncay might be a nice signing. Very experienced, smart enough to appreciate being at a club our size without expecting too many games and
very intelligent in his play.

Keane did end up being good business for Tottenham but they may find later in the season that the £12 million was better spent on a quality central defender without an injury record.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:12:18 +0000

Im surprised no mentioned the fact that is Gibson were to become are sponsers poor gibson could get confused as to which way round to put his shirt on, be funny to see though me thinks, he could have the logo on the front and on the back of his shirt

By: Redrich

Redrich — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:43:17 +0000

@NicoQB: I don't think Spurs are a "big team" anymore. They act is if they were like Fulham or Bolton!!

By: Redrich

Redrich — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:30:18 +0000

Spurs have always been a club that cashes in when they get the opportunity! They have always sold their best players, and usually at a huge mark-up.
Levy seems to understand his fans loyalty and consistently pisses in the face of it because he knows they will always wear his colors!!
Tottenham is another club that could use better/different ownership and, of course, because of that, they are constantly flirting with their own demise.
The staggering number of their players that are ineligible for the CC Final illustrates the desperate and radical way they handle their player roster. I just can’t imagine a team that has rolls over it’s portfolio more than the Spurs!!

By: NicoQB

NicoQB — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:05:33 +0000

@JB: From the little I saw Campbell play he’s not only proved his pace but also his goalscoring, his natural striker’s instincs (he got into good goal scoring opportunities when playing with United only to be unlucky not to score on a few occasions); plus has good distribution – rmember his MOTM performance where his scored one and provided two for Pavlyuchenko I think. Plus during the same period he turned a motm performance for england youth, something Welbeck has yet to achieve.
While I also rate Welbeck’s undeniable talent, for me he does tend to drift in and out of games and sometimes didn’t look invovlved. I hope this is only a matter of making his mark and getting used to first team opportunities.
In addition I’d also like to point oput that for any team that Campbell has played for on loan for a sustained period of time, the lad always ended up doing very well, which truly can’t be said to all of our loan youths. youths loans ionly really work when small teams take them in. Big teams like Tottenham have to deal with egos, scrutiny of fans and press and sometimes the most deserving player does not always start. I’m not saying that Campbell should have started automatically ahead of Bent, but asking why he received so few minutes when he’s done well when he played.

By: Redrich

Redrich — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:34:16 +0000

@colver: Sorry Clover, I misread your post. You actually said 30mil for Keane and Defoe combined.

By: Redrich

Redrich — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:25:24 +0000

@colver: Well if buying Keene doesn't give them more goals, then you're right. But at 12mil (not the 30mil you reported) Keene was a good sell/buy act in profit taking that they just couldn't resist.

By: colver

colver — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:14:10 +0000

Tottenham are a mess. With the money they’ve been given over the years they should be a top four side. But their record in the transfer market is almost as bad as Liverpool’s.

Harry is a good man manager and is very good at operating on a shoe-string budget. But give him a big budget and he wastes it. He also likes to create his own teams, which isn’t really practical considering he rarely lasts more than two years at any given club.

He’d have done better to play with a 4-5-1 or a 4-4-1-1 and spennt the 30 million he blew on Keane and Defoe on a couple of defenders and a defensive midfielder

By: Redrich

Redrich — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:07:27 +0000

@colver: Very good points, Clover!! With the Berb coming in during preseason it could have made a difference in his "indifferent" season, so far. Then with Campbell's lack of playing time, it does seem that it all backfired a bit. Selling Campbell would not be that advantageous to the club though, and would not effect the decision on Tevez(who in my mind Is as good as gone!!). If he could handle a reserve role or even another loan deal it would give us the look-see that we wanted in the first place.

By: colver

colver — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:46:06 +0000

Yeah I also think that if Campbell was that good he would have forced his way into the Tottenham line-up, even with the loan status. He does need games but I guess as Tottenham are in a relegation battle they are too scared to give youth a chance. Well, also Harry always seem to be biased towards senior players maybe because he never intends to stay at a club more than a few years.

That whole Berbatov deal was so stupid. We’d have done so much better to have paid the 35 million they wanted, got Berbatov integrated into the team quicker and loaned Campbell out to Hull where he’d have gotten regular games in the Premiership and the chance to show us what he can do at this level. At the very least it would have pushed his value up so we could have sold him for a decent fee.

I think Welbeck is probably as good as Campbell and with age in his favour is going to overtake him very very quickly. At the end of the day there are only so many first team opportunities and Id rather they went to Welbeck than Campbell. So if we don’t sign up Tevez, we should sell Campbell to Hull or whoever, and buy a target man who can play a role for us.

Then we would have
1. Rooney….energy, power, and scorer of great goals
2. Berbatov…silky skills, fantastic control, creativity
3. Target man…great in the air, useful for games when we want someone to lead the line. Not good enough to get upset about being third in the pecking order and happy to accept a squad role.
4. Welbeck….pace, great movement, potential lethal finisher

It would be the perfect foursome!