Robbie Keane

[brasil_spur]

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!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

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.

You're absolutely right, I phrased my post wrongly

VDV plays the role Keane kind of ended up playing. He's not as good as Defoe on the shoulder, and as such, turned into this kind of drifting, deep lying forward

But yeah, Keane was a more natural poacher than VDV, and in his younger years quicker, but that's where it ends

Good player though when alongside Berba

 

[mil1lion]

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.

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.

 

[Yid-ol]

its reported brum dropping intrest in Keane and going after Jo

 

[McArchibald]

He can't even net a transfer to another club... Eek

 

[Mr Pink]

He can't even net a transfer to another club... Eek

It will be the wages issue...Brum wont be offering him 65k a week.

The Pikeys might of done a year or two ago, might not now.

There will be plenty of interest in Keane but his wages are going to put many off and if he doesn't lower his personal terms we are going to find it hard to sell him.

 

[EastLondonYid]

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:

 

[Berglad]

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_6640917,00.html

Hughes interested...seems more likely than West Ham

 

[AngerManagement]

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)

 

[spurs_viola]

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.

 

[SpurSince57]

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.

 

[Mr Pink]

And I'm sure you'd accept a whopping pay cut to take a job you really don't fancy.

Hold on a minue though, he wants to leave (apparently) to gain first team football. Given that he hasn't done much in over a year he's not exactly in a strong position to be attracting the Clubs who are going to meet 65k, or as close to that as they can.

In short beggers cant be chosers. He aint going to get big wages. I mean West Ham a few seasons ago would of done it - they still might but its probably not as likely now.

Given that he hasn't really been in form for a considerbale amount of time he could be viewed as a risk. The teams who are looking a him wont be able to afford big wages, so I am not sure what his expectations are exactly.

If you want more first team football you'll probably have to accept a pretty hefty pay cut in all honesty.

 

[SpurSince57]

As you say, 'apparently'. We don't really know what the score is, do we?

 

[drthfc]

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

 

[Mr Pink]

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

I rest my case.

 

[SpurSince57]

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?

 

[Dougal]

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?

Are you doubting internet hearsay? Do you not know that every thought we have is controlled by what we read here!

 

[Mr Pink]

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?

True - none of us are privy to the exact details but reading between the lines...

 

[nuttynoah]

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?

fairly hefty I imagine

 

[spurs_viola]

And I'm sure you'd accept a whopping pay cut to take a job you really don't fancy.

"Normal" world of living does not have much to do with the world of top level football - and I think you know that yourself. This argument of "what would you do in his shoes" is rather absurd - because none of us would ever have been in top earning Premiership footballer's shoes who are paid more in a couple of weeks than most of people are paid in a year.

What I decide to do affects just my family and myself. Someone like Keane demanding to leave the club and then coming back as damaged goods when the dream move did not work out for him affects tens of thousands of Spurs fans, the team, managers and the club. As is his refusal to lower his egotistic demands now when the club really needs to move him on after paying him handsomely for several years and rescuing him from the Liverpool nightmare.