The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 30 August 2010

[hughy]

hahah, Sky sources again, Spurs make enquiry into Pienaar!

I can guess the two word reply we'll receive.

 

[ryantegan]

hahah, Sky sources again, Spurs make enquiry into Pienaar!

he is the special player harry was talking about, I told you all that. Would not surprise me if we made a proper bid now!

 

[Michey]

Thats because he is shit.

:rofl:

 

[mabizela]

some people are never satisfied? we have lost to wigan at home and last season had stupid defeats such as the 1-0 vs stoke and wolves.

 

[MilkyBarYid]

With Moyes apparently off to Villa (sky bet odds and ssn wanking over the idea) then maybe he won't give a monkeys and sanction it.

 

[Hitchin_Spur]

Talkshit just reported that we have gone in for pienaar (as mentioned above)

 

[Zimmy]

dzeko modric style anyone?

Yes! I think this will definitely happen!

 

[MilkyBarYid]

Fatty Swanson on SSN cracks me up!

 

[impspur]

The trouble is though Stoof, so many posters take this as a "given", ignore the fact and just press on with negative rants about why X and Y have not been signed, with no conception at all as to what is actually happening behind closed doors. Not so long ago the worry would have been, not who we were going to sign, but how we could hang on to a precocious talent like Bale or a magician like Modric when the "big boys" come knocking. It was ever thus I suppose - some people are never satisfied.

not at all.....simply signing exisiting players up is not progression, when club X, Y or Z sing 3 players and strenghtne then we need to simply to maintain our postion let alone progress. How can you say say that Man City and Liverpool will not be stronger this season?...we just qualified for the CL, Citys squad may not gel this season but it may and if it does we go backwards

 

[Zimmy]

he is the special player harry was talking about, I told you all that. Would not surprise me if we made a proper bid now!

More likely it was Rio as reported over the weekend.

 

[Stoof]

I guess what i'm saying is that every player has a price and I am definately not suggesting going down the Leeds route, but paying for example an extra £3m on Fab (as he has been allegegadly linked) would enhance our chances of qualifying for next seasons CL and whilst it is paying over the odds the return for qualification outways the potential loss if we dont qualify. I am not suggesting this approach for every player and would have been mortified at apying £25m for Milner/Barry but we need a Torres, Van perise, drogba, Tevez Rooney to continue to move forward and they dont come along very often and were not often placed to stand a chance of getting them.I feel as though this season was for the first time our chance to sign an established world class striker (we may still of course) that can provide that edge that I feel we need to step up another level and will also help the devleopement of the Lennons, Bales, Huddlestones. Imagien the benifit Defoe would get playing alongside Brazils No 1? The abilty to sign a 'blue chip' player is the one thing i feel we need to change and until we do we will not make the tranistion to be a consistant top 4 team.

If that all makes sense?

I agree in part. But we don't know if it was "an extra £3 million". From a couple of sources we've had in our direction, it seems Sevilla have been playing silly buggers with us anyway. But there's no point risking future transfer strategy on one deal. I mean, it doesn't make commercial sense does it? If you're always willing to bow to the needs of the seller? We're not in a weak position from a negotiating point of view. Ultimately signing Fabiano would have been a risk, and given how some Spurs fans react to money spent on players (I'm talking the hounding out of Darren Bent just because Charlton put a ridiculous price on him, that we ultimately caved in to), it could have really blown up in Levy's face signing that one big player.

Who knows what tomorrow may bring? I just feel that without knowing everything that's gone on, it's unfair to make judgment either way. It could be that Sevilla said "£25 million" straight away and we pissed about. It could equally be that we thought we had a deal at whatever price, only for them to say, well actually give us another £3m and then did the same again etc. etc.

So what I object to, and this applies to Mr Quinn who obviously got on the end of my pre-caffeine injection post, is that there's no way that Levy and Co haven't made a massive fucking effort to sort this. Because there's no doubt in my mind, given their track record on all projects associated with Spurs (and I mean stadiums and training grounds and community stuff) that they will have gone absolutely balls out to try and get a world class striker.

I just want to see a bit of faith in the management that has got us this far.

 

[smudger]

Piennar ain't the answer, maybe he can be our number 9 ;-)

 

[The Apprentice]

I will cry if we sign Muntari.

Imagine him and Palacios bouncing the ball off each other in Central Midfield...

 

[tony0379]

If worst comes to worse I wouldn't be too gutted about swapping Keane for Carew, offers something different and could be done in a day.

i'd love to be a fly on the wall when carew undergoes his medical

 

[HailKingLevy]

Not a massive fan of Pienaar but if H thinks he can unlock stoke/wolves,

then so be it.

 

[sheringmann]

WE HAVE OUR SIGNING!!!!!

http://www.footballtransfertavern.com/2010/08/premiership/sandro-on-the-premises-piccy-wiccy

 

[kcmei]

I will cry if we sign Muntari.

Imagine him and Palacios bouncing the ball off each other in Central Midfield...

and occasionally putting it out of touch

 

[Misfit]

Imagine him and Palacios bouncing the ball off each other in Central Midfield...

:rofl:

 

[yidotastic]

oh well at least he sandro showed up

 

[wadewill]

Has anyone actually thought about th possibility that for once maybe Harry and levy are keeping something under their hats? ITK's are generally people who get second hand info from inside the club? Which I can guess is "leaked" well surely if the people high in the club wanted to do something special they wouldn't want outsiders knowing about it for the chance of another club hijacking it?!

Obviously been said a million times but Modric.....

I'm just trying to cheer myself that maybe we will get a nice surprise tomorrow. If not I think I'll give it a couple of months to determine if this was a good window or not