The Great Gareth Bale Transfer Game by Playtell, simple to play, you just fill in the blanks. Kids will love it, hours of fun, sure to be a hit at Christmas.Bale to [INSERT CLUB] for [INSERT FIGURE] with [INSERT PLAYER] and [INSERT PLAYER] going the other way, Daniel Levy is [INSERT EMOTION].Three Spanish papers, three different angles today, take your pick.Marca, Madrid based rival to the Sun for quality, take the angle that Jonathan Barnett 'stormed' to Spurs offices to demand to know if they had turned down a €98.5m bid, which they say...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Zinidine Zidane has crawled out from under his rock once again. The man, who had the quality and class to headbutt an opponent in a World Cup Final in front of a worldwide TV audience, said in Los Angeles:“It is not unusual when a player knows that Real Madrid are interested in them that they get excited. There is nothing more prestigious for a player to wear the white of Real Madrid.“If he has expressed a desire to join Madrid then Tottenham should...
Monday, July 29, 2013
I thought it might be a good idea to give everyone a quick insight into the system of football we will be playing next season as many of the sides I see put forward by fans are in my view, not how we will play.Before I get into it, for all of you wanting your Bale fix here is this mornings 5am article:Gareth Bale and the ring of truth.The system Tottenham are expected to play this season is a tactically flexible 4-3-3 system. It is the system that Andre Villas-Boas used well and had success with at Porto. It takes only minor adjustments to transform...
Sunday, July 28, 2013
It's 5 o'clock in the morning and the Bale situation rankles so I'll post my initial uncoordinated ramblings, which not having had enough tea yet may not flow but leap about a bit.Let me start by thinking back to last summer and what I was posting on my Facebook Fan page, Tottenham Memorabilia.I wrote that the minimum requirement was top 4, without which Bale would leave. For AVB to be considered a success he has to finish in the top 4, that is the target Levy has set, nothing else will do.That basically summed it up.After 3 games I wrote a very...
All the rumours are suggesting that Roberto Soldado is a Spurs player, that everything is agreed and he just needs to put pen to paper after a medical.The version of events from ITK this side has not always matched the local journalists, who know everything about Valencia. For those of you who have been following my posts of the Soldado saga, you'll have had an insight into this transfer from the Spanish side.A club that simply leaks information...
Saturday, July 27, 2013
At the end of last season Tottenham went on a post season trip to the Bahamas for a friendly against Jamacia.Several important things happened out there. Firstly Gareth Bale agreed a new contract in principle, we agreed a wage with him, what is happening now is just the fine tuning. Spurs plans for the new season were outlined to him and improving the striking department was certainly a part of that. Bale, Soldado +1 sounds exciting, especially...
The pitch in the first game of the Asia Trophy was a nightmare, a quagmire that claimed a victim in Jan Vertonghen.Andre Villas-Boas has admitted Spurs didn't want to play for that very reason and how right they were proved. There have even been stories of Spurs wanting to pull out of the competition, the only Premier League sanctioned competition outside of England.The tournament is all about taking the game to the huge Asian market, it's basically a giant PR exercise. There is a 48,000 sell out crowd and million of TV viewers who will be disappointed...
Friday, July 26, 2013
Good evening fight fans, some of you are probably to young to remember that, anyway it's rather appropriate to what you are about to read, as you'll see in due course.In the blue corner we have players agent Alberto Toldrá and in the red corner Amadeo Salvo. Now let's have a good clean fight gentlemen, fat chance of that.First though if you missed the delayed article (which should have gone out last night) then you might want to catch up with...
The Madrid based paper Marca fresh from inventing a story about Gareth Bale agreeing a 6 year contract, when he probably doesn't even have permission to talk to Real Madrid, today move into slander territory.They claim Gareth Bale had a meeting with Daniel Levy last Wednesday and they claim to quote Gareth Bale telling him "I'm not interested in Manchester United, I only want to play for Real Madrid."It is of course their front page news.They say...
Thursday, July 25, 2013
This article was due last night, it was scheduled to auto publish so I must have made a mistake along the way, apologies, but it's here now.In the world of football only a fool believes what a player, a manager, a chairman, s president says. What he must always to is think for himself, read and ask himself what does it really mean? Put a quote in context and ask yourself, does he mean that or is he just saying that as a bit of public relations to...
The goal of the season you didn't see.Here's a goal to send to your friends, probably the best volley you are ever likely to see and it's from the manager standing in his technical area.Former Serbian international Dragan Stojkovic, now the manager of Japanese powerhouse Nagoya Grampus, showed everyone his incredible skill in a J-league match against Yokohama Marinos at the Yokohama International stadium.A Yokohama Marinos player was down injured and the goalkeeper kicked the ball out towards the half way line to stop the game so the injured player...
Brad Friedel who was in goal for the second half has spoken of the defeat against Sundeeland by what was almost a Spurs second XI.He made a series of terrific save in the second half and came out of the game with credit. He said:“You are never happy to be on a wrong side of a result but getting minutes under the belt in pre-season is always a positive.“No-one likes losing, but the thing about losing in pre-season is that it’s not the end of the world.“You...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Soldado and the 6 million fee.The story so far. Once upon a time there was a football club called Valencia who had a goalscorer called Soldado.Valencia had a president who did his best to cut costs but time came for him to leave so he made sure his friends all got long contracts and left to let a new guy take over.This new president wanted to raise money so he decided he could sell his striker and put a €30 million price on his head. He told all the football club fans Soldado will not be sold for under €30 million.With €6 million agents fees as...
Tottenham continued their pre-season against Premier league rivals Sunderland in the Asia Trophy for which teams have to qualify each last season, they are not selected on a random basis.You may think of heat and sun in Hong Kong but the game was delayed by 30 minutes because of torrential rain and reduced to 40 minutes a half. The pitch was muddy with surface water to really give the players a fitness workout. It was like watching a game from the 70's, the ball getting stuck in the water, a heavy pitch, passing a problem, dribbling a problem,...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Valencia president Amadeo Salvo, has been speaking to the local media about the negotiations for the proposed transfer of Roberto Soldado to Tottenham, which have broken down over the fee.Salvo is insisting on €30 million (£25.76m) in two payments with no add-ons, either €15 million (£12.89m) up front + €15 million later or €20 million (£17.18m) now + €10 million (£8.59m).At the moment Spurs are not happy with that having offered €26 million...
Andre Villas-Boas has spoken in Hong Kong ahead of tomorrows game against Sunderland in the Asia Trophy and confirmed that Sunderland target Danny Rose, will stay at Tottenham Hotspur next season.“Danny has had an excellent season. He’s one of the players that we all want for our future,” Villas-Boas said.“It was one of those occasions where it’s all worked out extremely well for him and he will definitely be part of our squad this season.“Credit...
Just a few more snippets from the story we broke last night over the Valencia board meeting to discuss the Spurs bid for Soldado, who looks to have chosen Spurs over Liverpool. The story for anyone who missed it:Soldado - Valencia board to discuss Spurs offer tomorrowOver the Spanish radio and the Spanish press today is the news we brought you last night, that formal negotiations were taking place and our offer would be discussed by Valencia at a...
Monday, July 22, 2013
Tottenham have made their push for Soldado to lead the line next season. Franco Baldini was in Valencia today meeting his agent and Valencia to put our offer to them.The local press had pictures of Baldini and Toldra, Soldado's agent, arriving for their meeting at the Melia Valencia Palacio de Congresos, earlier today.They confirm the two have met and spoken, that Soldado wants to leave and that Baldini is now meeting Valencia president Amadeo Salvo....
AVB - Chadli and transfers."We will continue to do our market and we have not stopped yet, for sure."Chadli’s a player we’ve been following for quite some time and we managed to strike a deal in the last few days."He’s a player who is extremely versatile and can play in several positions up front."We look forward to having him on board with us."- - - - - - - - -Reports in Spain say Franco Baldini was meeting with Alberto Toldra, Roberto Soldado's agent, today.- - - - - - - - - Michael Dawson has been speaking to Sky Sports about Gareth Bale."All...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
The David Ginola interview."He [Bale] knows the team really well, he can rely on the players and the players rely on him."He's got importance and I think he likes to be important in the club. If he signed for a club abroad like Real Madrid, or if he goes to Manchester United, he's going to have to work everything up again. It's a big challenge."In the future, because the money on the table is so big, for [Spurs chairman] Daniel Levy, it's going to...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Spurs may have dodged a bullet when Christian Benteke signed a new 'double your money,' contract if reports of the figures are correct, with Aston Villa.Nobody denies he may go on to be an excellent goalscorer over time but he divides opinion, for many the jury is still out.His only season in the Premier League produced 16 goals from open play, we discount the 3 penalties as they are handed on a plate to anyone who wants to take them and you don't pay £25 million for someone to take a spot kick.Now we have to be a little careful with games because...
Andre Villas-Boas handed youngsters Shaq Coulthirst, Laste Dombaxe, Nabil Bentaleb and Zeki Fryers some 1st XI game time in the second half in last night's 0-0 draw with Colchester.It was also a chance for Danny Rose, Yago Falque and Ton Carroll, who were able to get 90 minutes under their belts to show what they could do again. Andros Townsend had 63 minutes whilst back from the Under 20 World Cup Harry Kane had 45 minutes. He was unlucky not to...
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