Hands up if you're bored of this transfer window
Friday, July 17, 2009 at 12:22AM I’m about to disappear for a week and hope that all our transfer dealings take place when I’m away so that I have something substantial to write about when I get back. News Now has been littered with stories and rumours and suggestions in this past week, with no end in sight. And I’ve grown a little weary of summing up the latest rotten ITK info falling from the grapevine. However, at the time of writing, this is the latest hack news:
Young to Spurs. Or Chelsea.
Bent to Villa. Bentley to City.
KJH is still a target.
Vieira practically signed.
Robben still being flitered with.
Negredo a done deal for £13M.
Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker allegedly doneth and dustedeth.
Medical for Young today apparently, yet that appears to have been quashed by Martin O’Neill who has stated he is not going anywhere. Bent and Bentley have been eternally linked with moves away yet other than Sunderland (who are now looking at Crouch) there is no other movement for the two unloved stars. Robben won’t happen. If it does I’ll happily eat humble pie, but I just can’t see it. His ego, his wage demands, his dad. Nope, won’t happen. As for Vieira, that’s cooled a little mainly because everyone is talking about Negredo being a done deal and Klass-Jan Huntelaar apparently taking time-out to decide between us and Stuttgart.
It’s all very muddled. Defoe is obviously going nowhere. Bent must be. Pav is an uncertainty. And Keane also remains a mystery. If we do sign two strikers then that can only spell the end of the three mentioned above, with Jermain remaining a Lilywhite. Do you see why I’m weary? Theorising over the much criticised ITK leaked info and tabloid exclusives is a redundant idea considering there is no real way of knowing who it is we are aiming to sign until said player has been signed. Practically all of the ITK whispers have been reactive to what you may have read already. The papers mention Robben, suddenly there are several pieces of leaked info relating to ‘talks’ with the player. All signed off with the usual textbook, don’t shoot the messenger get out clause.
As for the Sheffield United pair, apparently we've stolen them from the grasp of Everton for a peachy £8M. If this has happened, there's a fair chance both players will remain at United for another season. If they joined us and did not return to Sheffield on loan, then what that means for Gunter and Hutton and Chimbonda is another wonderful conundrum, as our right-back collection grows and grows. Some fetish.
Damn it, I’m doing it again, aren’t I? Summarising.
I’ll be following the latest by browsing the back pages of the English newspapers whilst I sun it and hope that my consistent record of being abroad when Spurs open the transfer floodgates continues.
Only other thing I want to mention before signing off is our 3-0 win against Exeter last night. Defoe, Modric, Lennon and Huddlestone all looked sharp. Pav and Bent were solid and Dervitte (our young French centre-back) wasn’t too shabby alongside Corluka. Bentley also did well and The Prince lined up impressively with Palacios in the second half. At least in his head he did. He looks the part, but just don’t think he plays the part. Pre-season should allow Harry to decide whether he is adequate cover for the central midfield.
Danny Rose played ok. I expect the young lad to play some part in the season ahead, a cameo here a cameo there. Shame there was no Adel. Not sure whether this is due to injury, but that’s wishful thinking.
Gio not present, but that might have to do with International duty. Keane wasn’t all there. Still looking a little broken after his Liverpool mis-adventure.
But let’s chill out, it was Exeter and it was our first pre-season game. It’s going to be interesting to see who plays a part as the week’s progress. I guess we can start talking about breaking the Top 4 after we thrash Barca 5-0 at Wembley.
Anyways, see you on the other side. By the end of next week here’s to an England Ashes victory and one or two brand spanking new players unveiled at the Lane.
COYS.
Reader Comments (21)
Graham Hunter reckons the KvH deal is practically done.
Apparently, Walker will return to United 'on loan', whilst Naughton might go in to the first team straight away - if you believe what's proffered on t'internet. BTW, I've been reading your blog for a while and I love it. In return I give you a piece of music, since that's what I do. I apologise if it's not to your taste!
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:humbled:
wondererd who the hell KVH was until i realised you were talking about Klaas Jan Huntelaar.
for the record id love to sign him
i'm not sure if bored is the right word...with 890347859 new leads everyday its hardly boring...another word you used 'weary'...i'd take that instead
now i'll get back to watching beckham's US return....for about 4 more minutes...god MLS is boring
"Vieira practically signed"
What a load of media.
The fact that no one connected with Spurs, or Vieira's agent or Vieira himself have said anything says it all
Do not swallow what a bunch of arsehole lying journalists have to say without question.
As a Forest fan - delighted that you can 'spare' Gunter. Thanks very much!
I guess part of me loves it all, but I do get annoyed throughout the day, and today (yesterday, whatever) I was very frustrated but didn't say anything. What I mean is it felt as if the newsnow boards had really sunk to their lowest for Spurs. It's bad enough the tabloids playing games with the fans we're used to that, but the ITK shit has trumped the whole thing and we're that stupid we're just doing all this crap to ourselves now. With all that godawful ITK horseshit polluting and scrambling everyone's heads we then get a long list of various irritating bollocks from blogs (not this fine one of course!) who to get hits by posting misleading titles just asking for the usual parade of pessimists, people desperate for any news to fulfill their habit, and Villa fans telling us we're a small club. It just goes on and on every day without any "truth" being known or anything even happening.
Ironically on the day that I go into newsnow meltdown and just cannot read anymore from the majority of our internet fans it seems we may have actually signed some players.
It's hard to be bored by alot of it, but it's easy to want to hunt down some of these people making it happen.
I mean it comes to something when a Daily Mail article actually seems quite reasonable compared to what we write ourselves.
So if I never heard ITK ever again it would be to soon and that is BORING in the extreme. I could happily see several Spurs blogs wiped off of Newsnow and never to return, and various other stuff that bores me to tears.
But saying ALL that.....we may sign Young, Huntelaar, Robben and the rest of the world come the morning so I'll still take an interest!!!
Have a good vacation Spooky however know that when you come back, we will still be reading ITK's stories on who we will sign and who will be leaving the lane without any activity actually taking place.
I've had the bullshit filters cranked up to the max and will only believe any of it when I see players unveiled by Harry wearing the shirt. Someone needs to take a sawn-off, and kneecap these ITK muppets, they're a f*cking virus, and they're spreading faster than swine flu.
I live in hope that Harry will buy in better players, in areas that need strengthening.
Have a good holiday Spooks, I'm sure you'll love Torremolinos.
You actually called the two Kyle deal yesterday on RW .""Harry 2 Everton ". You know it's great to spend millions just for the hell of it .Eat your hearts out West Ham fans
When alleged ITK's start spouting their tosh it needs to be taken for what it is. A load of old cobblers. Granted, sometimes it's amusing, especially when they merely pick up the latest Daily Mirror and simply add a little personal story to whatever Spurs news is in there that day to try and seem genuine!
KJH, Negredo, Robben and especially Ashley Young won't wear a Tottenham shirt at any point next season, nor at any point in their career I suspect.
If and when that turns out to be true, I will be proceed to proclaim myself as the greatest ITK in the land!
My only advice is, don't EVER take any notice of the latest ITK story and just read them for amusement.
Too many times these guys have got it massively wrong for them to have any credibility at all.
anyone know the story behind Jenas and Bale not going to Exeter pre-season?
Bale is injured but nt to sure about jenas
Ok , enough of this excrutiating waiting around, hoping for snippets of inofrmation linking us to world class players who have decided that spurs is suddenly the best club in the world and they want to join us - I have a solution. basically instead of two very large french windows- we have 4 or 6 transfer peepholes. 4 2 day periods throughout the year. Imagine it, everything happens quickly, we dont have this ridiculous situation of cloak and dagger. and if you miss out on someone you get another opportunity in a few months. either that or just open up the whole system so people can go whenever. or maybe keep it the same... i think im addicted....arggggghhhh
'anyone know the story behind Jenas and Bale not going to Exeter pre-season?'
One was captured by a London Zoo keeper, the other went under the number 9 bus (hopefully).
Just because you didn't notice JJ on the pitch doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't play
LOL!
Hello my fellow supporters:
Where has Gomez been ? No sign of him in Exeter and also throughout all the pics @ the lodge. International duty?
COYS!!!!!!!!
Fantastic article. Would read again.
P.S yid cunt. Fancy a row son, I'm all for it