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With VDV's arrival Keane is truly surplus to requirements.
With or without Keane our main priority in the transfer window is a striker.
Lets hope we find the right one.
Never a truer word said!
With VDV's arrival Keane is truly surplus to requirements.
With or without Keane our main priority in the transfer window is a striker.
Lets hope we find the right one.
Agree that vdV has effectively replaced Keane, but I think they are very different players.
Keane was a poacher who had some link-up play. vdV in the other hand is a classic #10 with an eye for goal.
If we are properly moving to 4-2-3-1, we actually only need 2 fowards (though maybe also an upgrade on Gio as vdV's understudy).
Basically if we sign another forward this window I'd expect Crouch to go as well as Keane.
I dont think that will happen tbh. I think we'll only sell another striker if we bring in another striker first. I dont think that would decrease our chances of selling either Pav or Crouch either, because we can just pass the new signing off as a Keane replacement. We wont seem desperate to offload a 4th striker, because we've had 4 strikers + VDV all season anyway.Exactly, and Keane's hardly featured anyway this season so it's not like we're going to miss him. Although we need another striker, I don't see the point in getting one until we sell Pav or Crouch - we don't need 4 strikers plus VDV.
He can't even net a transfer to another club... Eek
He always struck me as a player who just loved to play, I don't think wages will be too much of a sticking point in moving him on.
If anything getting clubs to meet Mr Levy's valuation of him would be the problem. He has to go now, he should spend the last few years of his career playing week in week out not sitting on his arse collecting his cheque like a Jeremy Kyle show star.
Good luck to him, unless he goes to West Ham in which case I hope he has a great season....next year in the Championship.[/quote]
I would normally be with you on this one....but west ham go down , and we are off to Stratford...so come on Robbie, keep those ***** up FFS...
There's always next year for relegation:grin:
He always struck me as a player who just loved to play, I don't think wages will be too much of a sticking point in moving him on.
If anything getting clubs to meet Mr Levy's valuation of him would be the problem. He has to go now, he should spend the last few years of his career playing week in week out not sitting on his arse collecting his cheque like a Jeremy Kyle show star.
Good luck to him, unless he goes to West Ham in which case I hope he has a great season....next year in the Championship.[/quote]
I would normally be with you on this one....but west ham go down , and we are off to Stratford...so come on Robbie, keep those ***** up FFS...
There's always next year for relegation:grin:
I think there are enough poor teams down there this year to keep west ham say, they have enough firepower to win games and will probably spend in Jan. I want West Ham to go down obviously as I think it could have a more lasting impact on them this time than relegations past but I think you may get your wish and they will have enough about them to stay up (providing they don't sell Parker)
With his demands for a 4-year contract at high wages Keane is pricing himself out of serious market and we are in danger of having a disgruntled past-it player till the end of transfer window while we are trying to sign a high quality new striker. He really needs to lower his ego levels now.
And I'm sure you'd accept a whopping pay cut to take a job you really don't fancy.
Harry said ( for what that's worth?!) on Christmas Eve;
"Robbie would like to move and he wants to play. He is a boy who has played all his career. He is not used to not playing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/9320151.stm
You'd buy a used car from this man? :grin:
Seriously, Keane may want to play, but we don't know what his demands are. We don't know that he turned Birmingham down. We don't know if Birmingham actually put in a concrete bid. We don't know if anyone has shown interest. And how hefty is a hefty pay cut?
You'd buy a used car from this man? :grin:
Seriously, Keane may want to play, but we don't know what his demands are. We don't know that he turned Birmingham down. We don't know if Birmingham actually put in a concrete bid. We don't know if anyone has shown interest. And how hefty is a hefty pay cut?
You'd buy a used car from this man? :grin:
Seriously, Keane may want to play, but we don't know what his demands are. We don't know that he turned Birmingham down. We don't know if Birmingham actually put in a concrete bid. We don't know if anyone has shown interest. And how hefty is a hefty pay cut?
And I'm sure you'd accept a whopping pay cut to take a job you really don't fancy.