The Official Tottenham Hotspur thread [Vol 14]

[mickk]

TEKNOPUG said:

I know we'll never hear the end of it if England win without any Spurs players

Ah but we supplied the training venue. I'll take that.

[Terry Winks]

Oh great!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/...

I tell you what mate, just take the whole club out there and do the rest of us a favour! Maybe give Liverpudlians what they want and be their own republic! Move them to an island off of the east coast whilst you’re there.

Jesting aside, stuff like this really annoys me more than any of the financial doling stuff.

[Guvernator]

American's, what do you expect? Always trying to fk things up.

However in this instance I'm all for it, bye bye.

[Wonderman]

Terry Winks said:

Oh great!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/...

I tell you what mate, just take the whole club out there and do the rest of us a favour! Maybe give Liverpudlians what they want and be their own republic! Move them to an island off of the east coast whilst you’re there.

Jesting aside, stuff like this really annoys me more than any of the financial doling stuff.

Surely the 'merican soccer franchises would block that?

[48k]

The buffet counter has a huge sigh of relief as the club announces the termination of N'Belly's contract by mutual consent, effective 30th June.

TFFT.

[TEKNOPUG]

48k said:

The buffet counter has a huge sigh of relief as the club announces the termination of N'Belly's contract by mutual consent, effective 30th June.

TFFT.

So they paid him the remaining £5m of his contract? What a waste.

Imagine being that talented and quitting as soon as you sign your first big contract, not even reached your peak yet.

[martinbiz]

TEKNOPUG said:

48k said:

The buffet counter has a huge sigh of relief as the club announces the termination of N'Belly's contract by mutual consent, effective 30th June.

TFFT.

So they paid him the remaining £5m of his contract? What a waste.

Imagine being that talented and quitting as soon as you sign your first big contract, not even reached your peak yet.

I think he was on close to 10m a year (190k per week?) so I guess they agreed on 50%

[Guvernator]

He's taken us for nearly £50m, more than enough to live on for the rest of his life. I very much doubt he was ever in it to become a footballing legend, he just wanted one big pay day.

[dmulally]

Guvernator said:

He's taken us for nearly £50m, more than enough to live on for the rest of his life. I very much doubt he was ever in it to become a footballing legend, he just wanted one big pay day.

He comes across as the type of moron to have about 50 hangers on bleeding him dry whilst fetching him burgers.

I predict within a few years he'll be broke and wobbling round the pitch on a pay to play contract in Latin America.

[272BHP]

I think I might have been his biggest critic on here since his first game for us.

I saw quite a few red flags from watching him straight away. I can forgive a lot of things but any lack of effort on the pitch or inability to get in match shape and I put the boot in straight away.

Any player on any team who's head drops when he has to run back and defend should be out on his ear in double quick time.

[Byker28i]

Agent? talk that Newcastle want him but only on a free

Or as the Sun puts it, Tottenham’s record signing wakes up unemployed
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/28459459/tottenham-...

[Byker28i]

Striker Albert Gudmundsson from Genoa a possibility or Lille forward Jonathan David...
https://theboyhotspur.com/tottenham-make-their-mov...
https://tbrfootball.com/club-president-says-28m-st...

Ar we just getting linked to everyone again?

[Guvernator]

272BHP said:

I think I might have been his biggest critic on here since his first game for us.

I saw quite a few red flags from watching him straight away. I can forgive a lot of things but any lack of effort on the pitch or inability to get in match shape and I put the boot in straight away.

Any player on any team who's head drops when he has to run back and defend should be out on his ear in double quick time.

I do remember you being quite vocal in your dislike for him. I just don't understand how someone with the talent he obviously has, doesn't want to do anything with it. Such a weak minded mentality.

[48k]

Guvernator said:

272BHP said:

I think I might have been his biggest critic on here since his first game for us.

I saw quite a few red flags from watching him straight away. I can forgive a lot of things but any lack of effort on the pitch or inability to get in match shape and I put the boot in straight away.

Any player on any team who's head drops when he has to run back and defend should be out on his ear in double quick time.

I do remember you being quite vocal in your dislike for him. I just don't understand how someone with the talent he obviously has, doesn't want to do anything with it. Such a weak minded mentality.

That's the thing that is so disappointing. Super talented footballer, but just can't be arsed. I thought perhaps he just didn't settle at Tottenham and would move on and become world class at his next club but he seems quite content to just pick up a wage and do the bare minimum for it.

[President Merkin]

I was a fan of disco Benny. I remember him getting pelters for saying it was just a job to him, although tbf, he usually put a shift in. Point is they're all just a microcosm of us. I've never bought into the equation that the sheer level of reward & privilege automatically translates into dying for the badge. Plenty of players over the years went a bit too human & burnt through their careers. Who was that Man City kid, Michael Johnson? Threw it all away & ended up an estate agent I think.

I've known a couple over the years too & while it's not being down the mines, I've been told it can be a boring life. Travel, hotels, huge amounts of self denial while your mates live it up in their twenties, relentless training. All of which I would take in a heartbeat by the way but just pointing out some kids experience it, without seeing the other side of life, as a dull existence. We know this too from all the gambling & bck in the day, drinking that went on.

[48k]

President Merkin said:

I was a fan of disco Benny. I remember him getting pelters for saying it was just a job to him, although tbf, he usually put a shift in.

Peter Crouch tells a great story of how Benny used to rock up on a Saturday at 1:30 for a 3pm kick off with a croissant, a hot chocolate, a bag of salt and vinegar crisps and a coke as his pre match meal and ask who they were playing that day.

[President Merkin]

The addendum to that is he'd been in the team meetings all week long & none of it registered in his head

[272BHP]

This Dragusin fellow looks some player.

Could do well in the PL if someone gives him a game.

[TEKNOPUG]

Unless we go 3 at the back, he's gonna be out of luck.

[272BHP]

TEKNOPUG said:

Unless we go 3 at the back, he's gonna be out of luck.

With the propensity of one our guys to miss games through red cards and the other to miss them with pulled hammies he should get 20 games in next season