The Tottenham Thread (Merged)

What purpose could posting that on here possibly serve, if not to wind people up?
 
Seriously you post an article by James Lawton on here toshopw how great spurs are and how horrible city are. You post an article by the same guy who also wrote an article saying that bale was making a player to be the best player since george best.

You post an article that while extolling the virtues of spurs as being a footballing superpower and wonderful to watch fails to say that in your last 8 games you have failed to score more than 2 goals and in 6 of those only scored 1.

That sounds like a tottenham fan blog and to be quite frank has about the same credibility as one.
 
The cost of a player doesn't determine how good he is,Kompany only cost 7 million and hes our best defender,if you added up current market value of both sets of the listed 11 i doubt there would be that much difference in the two sums.
 
THFC6061 said:
James Lawton: Cry God for Harry, Spurs and a return of football values

Tottenham, while not exactly paupers, have played their way into contention for the title

If tribal instincts hadn't become so rampant, if undiluted hatred didn't so often appear to be the most persuasive currency in the national game, we might have something like consensus on this weekend of potentially significant Premier League action. It might be expressed in one simple exhortation, the one that goes: "Come on, Spurs."

Manchester City supporters are of course granted exclusion from any such obligation. Understandably, they are proud of a team that in the shape of engaging and hugely talented figures like Sergio Aguero, David Silva and, when he joins us for a little while on Planet Earth, Mario Balotelli, have become progressively agreeable.

However, Tottenham surely demand the affection, and yes, the support, of a wider audience because they so regularly produce beautiful football at considerably less than ruinous cost to the idea that the ability to make a team, to have it strong and creative at every point, is still within the scope of a football man as intuitive as their manager, Harry Redknapp.

City, like Chelsea before them, paid their way with unprecedented resources into the elite which used to be a private club occupied by Manchester United and Arsenal, who provide the second phase of tomorrow's double-header in the knowledge that Arsène Wenger's problems have sharply eroded the old edge of their rivalry.

Tottenham, while not exactly paupers, have played their way into contention for their first title since the one conjured from among the stars by such as Blanchflower and Mackay, White and Jones 51 years ago. If it happens, today's Spurs will not suffer too much in comparison with the team which won England's first European prize and played with a brilliant hauteur that persuaded the young Manchester United player John Giles that they had arrived from another civilisation.

This week Redknapp has been banging on to an unusual degree about the nature of his club's return to prominence, how it has come not from the happenchance of a desert wind bearing undreamt riches but old fashioned nous in appreciating the true value of players.

Yesterday he was again cranking up the pressure on himself as much as City by saying that players like Luka Modric, Rafael van der Vaart and Gareth Bale would be given their heads and their hearts. He said he hated the possibility of returning to London without "having a go". If Redknapp sounds like a man on the edge, it is because he is – and who can blame him after considering the stakes at the Etihad Stadium.

City and Spurs have, after all, formed the habit of breaking each other in pivotal matches. Spurs did it to City the season before last and won themselves a brief but thrilling adventure in the Champions League. City returned the wound last season, though without quite the same impact in Europe.

Tomorrow the City requirement is to slash through Tottenham belief as they did at White Lane a few months ago, soon after United had apparently exposed Redknapp's team as no more than occasionally frisky lightweights. That has been made to look bizarre by the force of the Spurs recovery. If Tottenham's high street had burned, so too had the illusions of the football club – but only briefly.

Now, with just one League defeat since then – and that a dire piece of larceny at Stoke – it is hard to dispute Redknapp's claim that his team represent a force for good.

Apart from putting up the value of their playing staff by upwards of £50m, with Bale on the shopping lists of Real Madrid and Barcelona, coming from under the shadow of Chelsea's assumption that next to City they have the price of anything that moves in English football and retaining the services of one of the game's most creative players in the £16m Modric, Spurs are challenging for the title with a squad that cost only slightly more than half of City's outlay – £153m to £294m.

While City have been stymied by the Uefa financial regulations which will acquire teeth in just two years' time, Spurs operate within comfortable margins.

It is a stunning story in that it represents what has always been the best hope that English football might one day be rescued from a financial death march for all but such recipients of random wealth as Chelsea and City. Spurs have not enjoyed such sudden largesse. Instead they have shaped their own future, with their own wits and their own financial management.

Meanwhile United, defying the downturn of their ability to buy the most expensive players, remain favourites to hold off the might of City. This is mostly a tribute to the extraordinary resilience of Sir Alex Ferguson, whose relatively recent generosity towards the achievements of Wenger is surely evidence that he believes at least one old dispute is consigned to history.

Spurs, though, are a separate story. It is one that tomorrow, surely, will commend itself to almost the entire football nation.


Big Spenders: Cost of tomorrow's teams

Manchester City:
Hart £600,000
Richards Youth
Savic £6m
Lescott £22m
Clichy £7m
De Jong £18m
Barry £12m
Milner £24m
Silva £24m
Nasri £25m
Aguero £38m

Total cost: £176.6m


Tottenham Hotspur:
Friedel Free
Walker £4.5m
Dawson £4m
King Youth
Assou-Ekotto £3.5m
Lennon £1m
Parker £5.5m
Modric £16.5m
Bale £7m
Van der Vaart £8m
Defoe £16m

Total cost: £66m


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-and-a-return-of-football-values-6292518.html
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Yawn,yawn,yawn.
 
the guy is just a statto, stats are wheeled out as a little adendum to keep people amused but the only stat that matters is the one on the score sheet. Yet this guy thinks they are the central part of the game and shows threm ad nauseum to try and prove a point where as in reality all it shows is that he has way too much time on his hands.
 
The post on the spending by THFC in the Independant clearly ignores all the spending done by Spurs over the years and it's hundreds of millions, it began with Ardilles, Villa, Archibald, Crooks etc then Paul Gasgoine etc etc................but the clowns tend to say spending only began with City...........over the years Fergies has spent close to a £billion........
 
Why don't we go the whole way, and introduce each clubs accountants before the match.

We can have a calculate off, and the winning side is the one that has spent the least.

We'll forget that Spurs spent a decade pillaging other clubs academies tapping their best players up so they could sign them on the cheap. We'll forget that Spurs were spending 10's of millions building their squad while we were celebrating getting DaMarcus Beasley on loan. We'll forget that Freidel, Parker, King are all 30+ with little or no resale value. We'll forget that they still have the likes of Bentley at £17m not even in the squad, we're not the only ones.

And we'll forget that football is a sport that involves 11 players on each side and a football.

And then we'll each be as big a **** as James Lawton.
 
kismet said:
The post on the spending by THFC in the Independant clearly ignores all the spending done by Spurs over the years and it's hundreds of millions, it began with Ardilles, Villa, Archibald, Crooks etc then Paul Gasgoine etc etc................but the clowns tend to say spending only began with City...........over the years Fergies has spent close to a £billion........
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No way!! Surely all players were free pre 2007 and
only moved for footballing reasons.
 
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