The Tottenham Thread 12/13

[alky313]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

wtf are you trying to say?

An oil barons plaything. Living well outside of their means. It's bad for football and I'd hate to see it happen to a club I love. My interest would diminish considerably to the point where football will become something I used to enjoy.

Clearly you are uneducated in how business and finance operate. You are clearly ignorant to the amount of interior investment Manchester City have made to the infrastructure. You are by far, the most deluded of all Spurs fans who congregrate on this board.

Your club is a media darling only because of their managerial appointments and purchases of overrated players like Scott Parker. They are constant balkers in the market and will be living off of a trip to the quarterfinals in the Champions league for the next 5 years.

Personally, I hope your club does get taken over. Perhaps you'll find something else to do and leave this forum and football the fuck alone.

 

[Mark - TheBlue]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

wtf are you trying to say?

An oil barons plaything. Living well outside of their means. It's bad for football and I'd hate to see it happen to a club I love. My interest would diminish considerably to the point where football will become something I used to enjoy.

I just don't get why you would slag of the way we are run by saying we are a plaything when we are ran better than Spurs are? Hence why we are champions and about to build a huge new training complex.

 

[ranchblue]

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.tottenhamhotspur.host56.com/club-announcement-13072012.page.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.tottenhamhotspur.host56.com/ ... .page.html</a> avb is doing some great deals there . i reckon there defo top 4 if they get a top quality striker in<br /><br />-- Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:33 pm --<br /><br />its bloody fake

 

[The Bish]

First post, so bear with me. But I've lurked for way too long.

Gotta say despite AVB, I really detest Spurs...........from 1981 and before, Through Pleat to Klinsmann. And Redknapp tipped me over the edge in my dislike.

Hope they churn in neutral

 

[MC ID]

It's Redknapp I always hated and I felt AVB was treated harshly at Chelsea so I actually hope he does well, the few spurs fans I've met have always been nice blokes so I got no problem with them, I'd prefer them in the champions league over Arsenal.

 

[more lazy than useless]

I'm the opposite, I love the way the club is run but that will only get you so far. Football has changed dramatically.

It's already been 50 years since a league win, it could easily go another 50, 150 years.

I want a huge medal before I die

I know what you mean. I fell out of love with footie when the Prem came along, and liked it less as the years went by. It was about 10 or 11 years in that I finally just accepted that that's just the way it is. I began to enjoy the game again even though I still think it's not quite as good in some respects as it was in 'the good old days'. The way the game was didvided by money was annoying. Obviously though, I just couldn't give a toss anymore!!!

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

You've only become disillusioned with football now you've not got to the top of the pile, but you were happy ignoring the fact that money would have been what got you there, even if it was 'sustainable'? And happy that other clubs wouldn't be able to compete with your new level of 'sustainable' income? That statement says an awful lot more than I think you meant it to.

An oil barons plaything. Living well outside of their means. It's bad for football and I'd hate to see it happen to a club I love. My interest would diminish considerably to the point where football will become something I used to enjoy.

Are you gulible enough to believe what you read in tabloids, or do you just want to believe them? Pointless replying on the stupidity of this quote.

 

[The Bish]

It's Redknapp I always hated and I felt AVB was treated harshly at Chelsea so I actually hope he does well, the few spurs fans I've met have always been nice blokes so I got no problem with them, I'd prefer them in the champions league over Arsenal.

Think I go further back than Redknapp in my irrational dislike...though he and his barrow boy management style turns my guts. Bassett, Warnock, - huff and bluster but media darlings. Good luck to AVB. They need a good start to the season or things could get tough for him quickly.....

 

[alky313]

I'm the opposite, I love the way the club is run but that will only get you so far. Football has changed dramatically.

It's already been 50 years since a league win, it could easily go another 50, 150 years.

I want a huge medal before I die

I know what you mean. I fell out of love with footie when the Prem came along, and liked it less as the years went by. It was about 10 or 11 years in that I finally just accepted that that's just the way it is. I began to enjoy the game again even though I still think it's not quite as good in some respects as it was in 'the good old days'. The way the game was didvided by money was annoying. Obviously though, I just couldn't give a toss anymore!!!

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

You've only become disillusioned with football now you've not got to the top of the pile, but you were happy ignoring the fact that money would have been what got you there, even if it was 'sustainable'? And happy that other clubs wouldn't be able to compete with your new level of 'sustainable' income? That statement says an awful lot more than I think you meant it to.

An oil barons plaything. Living well outside of their means. It's bad for football and I'd hate to see it happen to a club I love. My interest would diminish considerably to the point where football will become something I used to enjoy.

Are you gulible enough to believe what you read in tabloids, or do you just want to believe them? Pointless replying on the stupidity of this quote.

Richie should go back to Glory Glory. He has lost all standing as a knowledgeable football supporter.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

I'll look forward to reading all the backtracking from spurs fans if they get a huge investment. I've had a quick look and it's already started, apparently it's ok for them to spend money because we did it first. What about it not being fair on all the other Prem clubs ? They don't seem arsed about that now. Bunch of fucking hypocrites.

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

Is that the same Spurs who over the last five years had only been outspent by Liverpool and City? Why haven't you already stopped supporting them? You've bought all but King in your strongest XI, and most of your bench are bought as well. Pull the other one, mate. You look at City's spending and say its a disgrace, yet do you hear fans of about 80 other English clubs banging in about how Spurs' spending is a disgrace? Because you've been "blowing teams out of the water" (remember that peach of a line?) for a number of years. Your football club is no different to City's, it's just not quite got the same ambitions or spending power, but the same principles all the same: spend big, aim high, challenge on a level other clubs can only dream of. Do you get many Sunderland fans harping on about having won more league titles than you and how they wouldn't follow their club if they spent money like Spurs did? Because I'm sick of fans of clubs like yours coming on here year after year lettin us know how many cups your won and how our spending is a disgrace!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

An oil barons plaything. Living well outside of their means. It's bad for football and I'd hate to see it happen to a club I love. My interest would diminish considerably to the point where football will become something I used to enjoy.

Plaything you say? Let's hope for your sake he doesn't start taking it seriously.

Spurs fans make me piss. Your club was in the vanguard when the Premier League was created, to generate more wealth for themselves at the expense of others. There appeared to be little consideration about the wider interests of the game at that time.

It seems that because things haven't worked out as you were expecting, the game is broken and replete with corruption. So here's a thought. Perhaps your club could suggest a return to a situation where gate receipts are shared more evenly, very much like in the other sports to which you refer in another post.

We both know they won't do that though, because all they are interested in is themselves, which is fair enough, but spare us the "I love the game" crap. Your club should have thought about that when they were consumed by greed 20 years ago.

 

[squirtyflower]

for all those responding to RichieTHFC kind words about the club and the owner you may as well wait awhile as he has taken a month's leave

 

[VOOMER]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

I'll look forward to reading all the backtracking from spurs fans if they get a huge investment. I've had a quick look and it's already started, apparently it's ok for them to spend money because we did it first. What about it not being fair on all the other Prem clubs ? They don't seem arsed about that now. Bunch of fucking hypocrites.

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

Dude, how selfish are you? I'm not supporting them because they are getting bought out by someone, who has way more money than me, who will likely( if they follow our owners strategy), set the club up for life, build a superb stadium, enhance the youth system and keep season tickets (in relation to say domestic fuel bills!), cheap and with few increases for years to come. Its not about you and its not about me. People like Colin Schindler are all about them and the sympathetic ear he always got because he supported City, plus he is a self serving opportunist, making money out of the misplaced belief of people that they some how had a say in the running of a successful football club, or that their ticket money was the true driving force behind big signings. As has been show by many other posters, all the successful teams who won league's, had benefactors who pumped money in. Why wouldn't you want a responsible and benevolent owner for you club?

 

[Speaker]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

I'll look forward to reading all the backtracking from spurs fans if they get a huge investment. I've had a quick look and it's already started, apparently it's ok for them to spend money because we did it first. What about it not being fair on all the other Prem clubs ? They don't seem arsed about that now. Bunch of fucking hypocrites.

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

Is that the same Spurs who over the last five years had only been outspent by Liverpool and City? Why haven't you already stopped supporting them? You've bought all but King in your strongest XI, and most of your bench are bought as well. Pull the other one, mate. You look at City's spending and say its a disgrace, yet do you hear fans of about 80 other English clubs banging in about how Spurs' spending is a disgrace? Because you've been "blowing teams out of the water" (remember that peach of a line?) for a number of years. Your football club is no different to City's, it's just not quite got the same ambitions or spending power, but the same principles all the same: spend big, aim high, challenge on a level other clubs can only dream of. Do you get many Sunderland fans harping on about having won more league titles than you and how they wouldn't follow their club if they spent money like Spurs did? Because I'm sick of fans of clubs like yours coming on here year after year lettin us know how many cups your won and how our spending is a disgrace!

actually, we're fifth. Behind you, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Sunderland. So yeah, Sunderland not a great example.

 

[M18CTID]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

I'll look forward to reading all the backtracking from spurs fans if they get a huge investment. I've had a quick look and it's already started, apparently it's ok for them to spend money because we did it first. What about it not being fair on all the other Prem clubs ? They don't seem arsed about that now. Bunch of fucking hypocrites.

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

Dude, how selfish are you? I'm not supporting them because they are getting bought out by someone, who has way more money than me, who will likely( if they follow our owners strategy), set the club up for life, build a superb stadium, enhance the youth system and keep season tickets (in relation to say domestic fuel bills!), cheap and with few increases for years to come. Its not about you and its not about me. People like Colin Schindler are all about them and the sympathetic ear he always got because he supported City, plus he is a self serving opportunist, making money out of the misplaced belief of people that they some how had a say in the running of a successful football club, or that their ticket money was the true driving force behind big signings. As has been show by many other posters, all the successful teams who won league's, had benefactors who pumped money in. Why wouldn't you want a responsible and benevolent owner for you club?

Opposition football fans that have been guilty of vitriolic abuse of our owner and the way our club is run don't half make a rod for their own backs with their laughable "If a cash-rich Arab took over our club, I'd renounce my support for the club" comments.

Forest are a classic case in point. A large number of their 6,000+ following delighted in singing, en masse, such wonderful ditties as "You have no history" and "Owned by a terrorist" when they played us in the FA Cup at our place in January 2009. Fast forward to this week's Kuwaiti takeover of their club and their forums are full of overwhelming support for their new owner and any dissenting voices are very difficult to find.

 

[spurspinter1]

It's not taken long for the new spurs thread to get shrouded in a cloud of takeover arguments, who'd have guessed?

Back on topic (ish), has anyone seen Adrian Lopez play? Seem to be heavily linked and I watched a bit of the U21 champs last year in which he was good, but what about in the domestic league?

Seems like a good option, versatile and young, and not on too high wages at the moment either.

 

[Speaker]

It's not taken long for the new spurs thread to get shrouded in a cloud of takeover arguments, who'd have guessed?

Back on topic (ish), has anyone seen Adrian Lopez play? Seem to be heavily linked and I watched a bit of the U21 champs last year in which he was good, but what about in the domestic league?

Seems like a good option, versatile and young, and not on too high wages at the moment either.

Havent seen him play to be honest, but his goals to game ratio doesn't fill me with optimism.

 

[Blue Hefner]

It's not taken long for the new spurs thread to get shrouded in a cloud of takeover arguments, who'd have guessed?

Back on topic (ish), has anyone seen Adrian Lopez play? Seem to be heavily linked and I watched a bit of the U21 champs last year in which he was good, but what about in the domestic league?

Seems like a good option, versatile and young, and not on too high wages at the moment either.

Havent seen him play to be honest, but his goals to game ratio doesn't fill me with optimism.

From what I've seen he appears a bit lightweight and flatters to deceive. Decent but not top 6 in England material

 

[Dj1979]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid761333525001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAAnV5Z0~,xyoxShbYDLGSh2yu4XruBQh1N8XmHpc9&bctid=1723291307001

Sky Sports News undercover; Starts around the 17th minute, Apparently Modric and Rafa are staying with Ade coming.

Keith James - Sky Sports News Editor.

to me it sounds like spurs are trying to fuck us over and if duncan castles reports us subsidizing adebayor wage is right they are doing a good job of it. I suspect spurs will low ball us with this 5 mil offer for somebody who scored over 15 goals for them last year then after getting that done get big money in for modric so we are to late to ask for a decent fee for adebayor

 

[malg]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

I'll look forward to reading all the backtracking from spurs fans if they get a huge investment. I've had a quick look and it's already started, apparently it's ok for them to spend money because we did it first. What about it not being fair on all the other Prem clubs ? They don't seem arsed about that now. Bunch of fucking hypocrites.

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

Fucking hell, get over yourself. You just aren't that important, and no one, absolutely no one will give a shite if you start following rugby union, cricket or some other non-sport. Football has been about money since Sky came in. Christ, get off your high horse.

 

[samharris]

Re: The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

You're wrong. Theres a thread on Glory-Glory where a large portion of us hope it is avoided.

Personally if Spurs became a club like City, I'd cease to follow football with the kind of dedication I do now. I'd keep an eye out for the scores and watch Match of the Day, but that'd be about it for me.

I'm fairly disillusioned with football now anyway because of the inability to compete on a financial level and my interest is trending towards other sports, a buy out of Spurs would be the final nail in the coffin.

wtf are you trying to say?

An oil barons plaything. Living well outside of their means. It's bad for football and I'd hate to see it happen to a club I love. My interest would diminish considerably to the point where football will become something I used to enjoy.

Dont knock it til you have tried it.. Its really great. :)