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They need to be and enough to not be picked for their national teams, but also good enough to beat the top 6
Basically we need to find world beaters who come from tiny countries like panama... oh wait, Costa Rica... nope... damn it’ll get harder next tournament as well!
Victor Wanyama is this
I'm actually in CR right now and watched a bit of local football on the tv.
I think it was between two universities in CR and Panama.
The skill level I found to be surprisingly high! I thought it was much better than any MLS or Mexican League games I've ever watched.
I found myself thinking "I sure hope we have some official scouts watching these games"!
Is it true that Lewis has put his own funds in to help pay for the stadium?
He's personally guaranteed the loans
Its even reaching the lower level ITK:
I am a passionate fan, which exceeds 50 years, and I have seen a lot first hand. You can put it on a biscuit tin Poch was given assurances, to which I won’t recycle, as we know what they were.
I understand the comments about not paying what we deem OTT in players like Zaha. I stated that our kitty is what it is, but inflation is seen nowhere like our sport. Now if Palace want 65m for him, and 1 or 2 players are thrown in, with us paying say 40m, then pay the farking thing on instalments agreed. And that is how Parish operates.
We have been farting around too long. Announcement/s Monday-Wednesday still stands. I wait with baited breath. Yes! I was optimistic earlier, but less so now. I am not going to bs anybody. You deserve to know the truth.
Hopefully this leaks, and club gets wind, and up there game. And anyone who believes that a certain person is ‘belly happy’, you are then deluded. Many things I would love to say but can’t
I am a passionate fan, which exceeds 50 years, and I have seen a lot first hand. You can put it on a biscuit tin Poch was given assurances, to which I won’t recycle, as we know what they were.
I understand the comments about not paying what we deem OTT in players like Zaha. I stated that our kitty is what it is, but inflation is seen nowhere like our sport. Now if Palace want 65m for him, and 1 or 2 players are thrown in, with us paying say 40m, then pay the farking thing on instalments agreed. And that is how Parish operates.
We have been farting around too long. Announcement/s Monday-Wednesday still stands. I wait with baited breath. Yes! I was optimistic earlier, but less so now. I am not going to bs anybody. You deserve to know the truth.
Hopefully this leaks, and club gets wind, and up there game. And anyone who believes that a certain person is ‘belly happy’, you are then deluded. Many things I would love to say but can’t
Yeah, I was being sarcastic that nobody would make him happy
I doubt Wanyama will fit the guys criteria though because of African nations or something
Ben Pearce is a cunt
Donna Cullen is a cunt
And most importantly anyone who says "Levy time" and "getting Levy'd" is a massive cunt.
Levy however is the cunts, cunt.
Sounds to me that Levy has fucked up by playing his my dicks bigger than yours game he likes to play, it's backfired and now he's hiding behind Donna Cullen for damage limitation should he not make amends for his mess generated purely by his own ego.
The disappointing thing is that this Donna Cullen, whoever she is has hit something straight back at our manager to have to deal with, which if is the case is richly undeserved.
It all looks a bit amateur, set up and short sighted. If Pochettino has been asked to adhere to a script like it does initially seem to be, it smacks of small club mentality and could do more harm than good.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong and everything is good and moving along like a well run club behind the scenes, but I smell a rat with this one in case the shit hits the fan
The disappointing thing is that this Donna Cullen, whoever she is has hit something straight back at our manager to have to deal with, which if is the case is richly undeserved.
It all looks a bit amateur, set up and short sighted. If Pochettino has been asked to adhere to a script like it does initially seem to be, it smacks of small club mentality and could do more harm than good.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong and everything is good and moving along like a well run club behind the scenes, but I smell a rat with this one in case the shit hits the fan
I guess it's just kinda tough to square Poch's bravado about competing to win the league and Champions League, with total disregard for the cups, his loyalty to Levy, and Levy's approach to running the club. Any two together make sense, but then the third seems to render it incoherent.
A club whose objective is to win the Premier League is going to blithely put out a ramshackle mess of a side against Newcastle, once again inviting the slow start which has scuppered multiple title challenges already?
or
A club with a commitment to youth development, intelligent transfer market arbitrage, and sensible budgeting is banging its head against the wall in competitions it can't win and ignoring multiple others that it can?
or, frankly
A manager whose ambition points toward the absolute apex of the sport is hitching his wagon to a chairman who is categorically unwilling to give him the financial firepower necessary to achieve those objectives?
One of those paradoxes is true.
A club whose objective is to win the Premier League is going to blithely put out a ramshackle mess of a side against Newcastle, once again inviting the slow start which has scuppered multiple title challenges already?
or
A club with a commitment to youth development, intelligent transfer market arbitrage, and sensible budgeting is banging its head against the wall in competitions it can't win and ignoring multiple others that it can?
or, frankly
A manager whose ambition points toward the absolute apex of the sport is hitching his wagon to a chairman who is categorically unwilling to give him the financial firepower necessary to achieve those objectives?
One of those paradoxes is true.
Or could it be that both parties are completely on the same page...wanting to improve the squad...understanding how hard it has become...and not being willing to overspend?
I believe the money is there - the new contracts indicate that - but I also believe that neither Levy or Poch will pay silly money for a transfer.
Poch says that he wants player a, b and c. Levy says ok but then returns and says that the selling clubs want x, y and z. Both Poch and Levy agree that is too much so look around for different targets which takes more time.
There can be disappointment with business in this window without tension between them.
I believe the money is there - the new contracts indicate that - but I also believe that neither Levy or Poch will pay silly money for a transfer.
Poch says that he wants player a, b and c. Levy says ok but then returns and says that the selling clubs want x, y and z. Both Poch and Levy agree that is too much so look around for different targets which takes more time.
There can be disappointment with business in this window without tension between them.
Exactly. I think Poch probably understands that the money for a Foyth or Gazzaniga (or improved wages to retain a Kane, Son, Alli, etc.) basically comes from the savings Levy generates by being a tough negotiator in the high profile deals.
It's ridiculous to believe Poch suddenly thought he was renewing his contract with Real Tottenham Citeh, or that Levy thought he could pull the wool over his managers' eyes and all would be ok.
If there’s any truth in this , which I highly doubt as Levy knows that Pochy-boo boo is the best thing to happen to this club in a generation , but IF there’s any truth then Poch will be gone next season.
That’s why I think it’s tosh
That’s why I think it’s tosh
If what is true?
That Danny Boy has made promises that he can’t deliver to Pochy
Haven't seen that anyway. Just seen Poch saying the club is doing everything it can
Has Levy ever not actually delivered what he said he would?
- new training ground
- consistent CL football
- new stadium
It all just takes him longer than it probably should