Who the hell does Joe Cole think he is?
Monday, July 19, 2010 at 9:28PM Who the hell does Joe Cole think he is? Not only has he rejected his father figure and original mentor (Harry) and a chance to remain within the pinnacle of civilisation (London, obviously) with a critical role in a side that has qualified for the Champions League qualifiers, he's chosen instead a mid-table club on the slide, living off the past, where he will earn untold thousands per week to prance about in front of held-up scarfs and humourous red banners. Gutless for him to select guaranteed first team football at a smaller club than fighting for his place and overcoming squad rotation at the superior one.
What a mercenary, selecting the option of more money and a far more comfortable ride. These modern day players with their agents and their long term contracts and lack of ambition. Obviously knows he has little self-confidence, hunger and focus for the Champions League and prefers the less pressurised arena of the Europa League.
Cole obviously harbours dreams of dicking us (and his family of Spurs supporting fanatics) in said competition when we crash out of the CL and face the might of Anfield. Marquee signing for Liverpool. Torres, Mascherano or Gerrard and Cole...fourmid(t)able.
But don't fret, we have goal-keeping cover with Pletikosa on its way.
Dark days for THFC. We are down to the bare bones now with only Modric, Bale and Kranjcar vying for the left hand midfield position. We might even have to experiment again with Lennon there.
RIP, The dream is over.
Let's all pray we succeed in signing Craig Bellamy. I can't be having two knock-backs in the space of a week.
All this is allegedly:
Arsenal offered 80k - 2 year deal.
Spurs offered 65k - 3 year deal.
West Ham offered 100k per week - 3 year deal.
Liverpool signed him on 90k - 4 year deal.
Although there is a whisper that the Liverpool deal Cole accepted was 110k per week and £8M signing on fee.
MONEY GRABBER !!!111
WHERE WAS THE GUARANTEED FIRST TEAM FOOTBALL AND WAGE-STRUCTURE-DESTROYING WEEKLY WAGE OFFER?
First Duff, then Petrov...heads will roll at Spurs HQ. Never rated Cole anyways. One trick pony.
Anyone know a decent tattoo laser removal service?
Reader Comments (106)
Jacob and other Liverpool fans. Spooky is taking the piss out of Spurs fans not Liverpool fans. Read the article again. Stunned I have to point this out to you. Considering how comically astute you are meant to be.
I have read spooky article. very good . I wander what it would have read if cole signed for spurs. personally I think levy has mugged Arry right off by not signing cole. Harry must feel like a right bell end right about now. it almost reminds me of rafa. going on and on and on about Gareth Barry and then not signing him and losing alonso at the same time. listen lads your forgetting 1 thing you never have and never will be bigger than lfc. I really hope you qualify for champs league . I said you deserved to get there all day long last season. but a Liverpool you will never be.
Watch out for Levy's real secret signings to be announced soon......Heskey, Bellamy and Anton Ferdinand, although Bellamy might not want to take a 300% pay cut.
As back-up over the summer, Modric has been with the SAS in Hereford learning how to shoot, Hudd has had the latest laser-technology added to his boots so that he can work out where the crossbar is so that he can keep the ball below it, and DeFoe, Crouch and Pav have had to watch 5 hours a day of Jimmy Greaves greatest goals in an attempt to show them how to move up-front.
As all funds are concentrated on the new stadium I understand Levy has done a deal on naming rights with a major midlands furniture company and the stadium will be called Mid-table lane.
Am I P****d off with the total lack strengthening action with just 3+ weeks to go before the start of our most important season for years.....just a bit!
The only reason we would be interested in Cole is because he was seen as a bargain, but not at 90K a week. If he was under contract at Chelsea and for sale I doubt we would have been interested. I just feel that sometimes getting a player just because he's free isn't necessarily because he's needed.
It would have been a good signing but not at that wage level. He's no Gazza, though, and this move indicates he seems content to spend his injury downtime at the races with Michael Owen, playing for an underperforming team in transition for at least the next season currently reliant on two crocks, one of which is nearing the end of the road.
By the time Liverpool recover from this slump he'll be the wrong side of 30, and that's assuming Hodgson can do a job. This is the man who paid £7.5m for Kevin Davies over a decade ago and nearly got Blackburn relegated. Can he do the same for Liverpool as he did for Finland? After all, he did emulate the mighty Steve McClaren in getting a bunch of mid-table huffers into the UEFA cup final.
Footballing decision? Nah.
I am glad he didn't sign for us, although i would have preferred it not to have been Liverpool.
For him to play regualrly in the squad, it would either be at the expense of Modric or Bale, or Modric would have to spend a lot of time in the middle, which is not a position i much like him in. I am glad we keep faith with our young stars, dropping them in favour of Cole would have been a step back
Alternatively Cole plays behind the striker. This requires a striker who can play up top on his own...and we don't own one.
A midfield 4 which contained Lennon, Cole, Modric would be very attacking....too attacking unless we were pressing for late goals.
I am happy with Kranjcar. He seems happy with the amount of games he played last season but I am not sure Cole would be.
Unfortunately he has boosted LFC, and a starting berth on the left gives them more balance, although he will provide little cover to the left back that they don't actually have at the moment...i heard SSN mention Knochesky to LFC...now there is a player they are welcome to!
DaveK....relax man...anyone would think Spurs underperformed last season the way you bring down our players.
Sure we need signings but if we started this season with the same lot we ended last season then it would not be a disaster.
Gomes
Corluka King Dawson Bale
Lennon Hudd WP Modric
Pavlyuchenko Defoe
Who would you honestly want to be replacing out of that lot. No one stands out. Maybe we need some more options coming from the bench but unless we get that marquee signing, I cannot see us having to buy to strengthen that starting XI
Calm Down, Calm Down
Devonshirespur,
If we do start the season with Defoe and Pav upfront we must put everything into the CL because there's not a hope in hell we'll be in it the season after.
Andy you must feel a bit of a bellend right now. Scousers only seem to be able to joke when things are going right - all of a sudden you've lost your sense of humour preciscely because an ickle club like Tottingham have finished above you for the first time in 143 years. Get over it. You've won. You've got your skillful (read knows how to do a stepover) player and have paid rafa to piss off finally. When you bid for Barry, you were in desperate need of him after Alonso couldn't wait to leave you. When we bid for Joey Cole, it was a spur of the moment idea, and thankfully we failed to land him as we've frankly got as good if not better already.
And don't forget. You'll never walk to Mecdonia or Armenia alone.
Chris. "Totally floored"? Love it.
would the money be better spent on new emerging young talent anyway......
from all corners of the globe and especially english if possible
isnt that the future.....for spurs........cole may prove to do a keane at liverpool and return to home base of london
as liverpool reshape the squad .....
liverpool are a bigger club then the spuds. end of.
incidentally..
Liverpool FC is in net debt to the tune of £351 !!; an increase of £52m from last .season
trembly. fair play mate, you deserved to finish above us last season, and yes I'm totally gutted that we are gonna be watching Liverpool on a Thursday night in Europe. I have always admired spurs and I can't talk for every lfc fan but I was happy you got into 4th and not city. rafa forced alonso out by going on all the time about Barry. All I'm saying is if Harry was going on about cole and how much he wanted him then levy should have gone balls out to get him. At the end of the day your manager wanted him big time . Liverpool had a poor season last season but that's all it was. we will bounce back this season and it's not just about cole coming. players where off form and it was pretty evident that rafa lost the dressing room. so relax my friend . This signing is good for Liverpool coz it probably means that the top players will stay. we where linked with Paul scharner for f**k sake. I don't think Stevie would have hung around with a player like that coming.
Dodged a Joe Cole shaped bullet there.
biiliospur. where do you get your facts that we are 351 million in debt.
lol andy u can always spot a scouse... LFC are dong m8 .. harry only knows cole from 7-8 fkin years ago .. Cole hasnt gone to a big club ..lol i mean all the top 5 clubs ..manu manc arse chels spurs .. had the ability the have him . none of us promised him a start . the fkin england manager didnt even pick him .. liverpool promised something no other club could ... a promise of a central position and a promised start .. LFC used the same thing stoke,bolton,blackpool use to lure half decent players... we promise you will play every week.. when your performing like a mid table club.. and are using contract tekkers of a mid table club .. then you are a mid table club .. spurs are by far now the biggest club out of the two!!. plus you dont have a pot to piss in .. your new stadium is....wait....there is no new stadium for you is there loool!! and your desperate to stop a mass exodus for your club... that isnt the structure of a big club !!
Spurs have passed you
Man city have passed you & not for a bad start to the season Everton are about to pass you ....
what ya gunna do now?? wave a shankly scarf at me or give me your fluke of a CL win preview.. start chanting youll never walk alone??? lol
LFC = Joke
LFC Fans = Joke
As someone once said...
"I hate that Joe Cole's tongue is never in his mouth, the downsy spacker."
Agree with this article whole-heartedly. He's bypassed the chance to play Champs League football for a side who this year will be behind at least City, United, Spurs, Arsenal, and Chelsea, not to mention Everton who could possibly regain the title as Merseyside's best.
mas. just give us a sec.............................hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahagagagahahahahahahahahagagahahahagahgagaghghahahahahahahahahahaha WAT A BELL END YOU ARE!!!!!!
sorry about that mas. I have just composed myself after reading that shit you just wrote . I think your getting ahead of yourself here mate. by the sounds of it you are really upset that cole chose the biggest club in British history over a team that has done fuck all since I've been alive. sort it put mate stop talking rubbish. the only reason you lot finished 4th is coz we had our top striker out for most of the season. calm down lad. you ain't got a chance if ever being a bigger club than us. you boys have strived to be like us for years. ao do yourself a favour and stop embarrassing yourself in front of other spurs fans who actually do have a clue about football.
also mas my new friend . Arry ain't stopped going on about cole since 2 weeks before the world cup started. so what you on about you didn't want him. your fans where dying to sign cole so you can say " see we just signed a top player" don't deny it mate . you are gutted. hahahahahaha
Joe Cole done the right thing for Joe Cole. He will get more minutes at Liverpool than he would for Spurs and he is getting paid more money.
He hasn't gone to Pool, because of History, he's gone because he will be the 4th name on the teamsheet for L'pool every week. The only other team that could guarantee that out of the four mentioned in the article is WetSpam. Now if he went there it was for the money.
I personally think we have dodged a bullet, he's been injury prone and he's best days could be behind him. I hope he regains some form, so he can play well for England. Hopefully he won't turn up when he plays us though.
As for Liverpool being the biggest club in Britain, your not, live with it, it sucks, but it's the Mancs.
We haven't got a past as good as yours but we have the same amount of Premiership league titles as you do!
Also on a smug note, 9Yrs ago I had a bet with a mate for £1000 that Liverpool will not win the title for 10Yrs. I've not been saving for the last 5Yrs, my mate who I have the bet with has! Hope Roy doesn't change your fortunes too much.
Should have put £50 on it with Ladbrookes too.
lol ur massive use of hahaha!! shows you think that might really upset me .. as if were 9 years old and in a playground .. again son your livin in the past .. if joe cole is that good you red scum where are the madrids ?? the barca the milanos?? lol your fkin retarded sonshine..
the chances torres cole and gerrard play in the same team at the samme time?? fkinell son more injurys in there than a week in helmand ..
another thing im not your friend ( your northern )
i didnt want cole for the same reason i dont want forlan or fabiano..
who the fk wants to pay over the odds for 3 grandads??? loool what a great signin u have with cole .. by the time you finally get round to playin CL again he will be what?? 32-33?? good luck with that
we have better players than liverpool we have a better team than liverpool we have a better structure..
wtf have you got?? oh a CL medal and the 80's n 90's enjoy you history whilst im watching a wealth of young talent .. tommorows legends takin on the best in europe ...
chelsea are winnin doubles and man utd just make you look silly year after year ....
we have closed the gap on our rivals to a single point over 38 games... your gap has widened as big as you gob .. your gap is sooooo big u can squeeze villa city and everton into it ..
lol i cant wait till u finish 17th and still banging on about your 3 goals in 6 mins against milan looooool!!!
quick quick get ya king kenny hat on .... its possible you wernt even alive when liverpool were good!!
Mas ok I'll give it to you straight. your a mug mate and you ain't got a clue about football. I'll leave it at that coz I think you really are embarrassing yourself . your right about 1 thing though you have got some great youngsters coming through. but you will probably be selling em to scum utd. you are after all there feeder club. laters muggins
Huddlestone = tomorrows legend?
delusional YID
love the two gems about Blackpool and "you'll never walk alone to Macedonia" by Trembly, brilliant mate.
This is bad even for a football fansite. Talk about bitter and clueless, Cole would have been the best player in the Spurs team and to compare Masch, Gerrard, Torres & Cole with second rate amatuers at White Hart Lane is just laughable.
Sadly you won't see what real competition is like - as Spurs won't make it past the qualifiers. And if, by some miracle, they fluke into the group stage -they'll be the whipping boys.
Harry, being the excellent manager that he is, has once again got a bunch of lower league players and rejects punching well above their weight. (see Portsmouth and West Ham). It won't last, and the extra European competition will take it's toll - costing them in the final league placings.
I can't believe I just read all of those comments. Jesu Christo I must be bored today.
lol andy ill take that as a massive victory ... run ya muppet... lol and which youngsters was that ??
32.5 million for berbatov?? hmm he did great for them
or
16.7 million for carrick?? hmm also what a signin for them eh ?? looooooooool
jog on ya mug!!!
Chelsea fans really don't rate Cole do they?
JB, Liverpool are on the decline, the club is fucked at board level, concentrate on Everton before you worry about us cockneys.
mas even your fellow fans are slating you . what a twat you are. propa band wagon boy I'd say. one of these fans that watched spurs play v city last game of the season I bet. go and crawl back into that closet you been in for the last 50 years you mug
I read this up until the point where you said he has chosen to go to a 'smaller' club. Wow you muppet.... My guess is you get Fenerbahce in the CL qualifiers, get knoocked out and have to settle for watching the 'smaller' clb in the Europa League. PMSL.
mas has really embarrassed himself . I am mates with alot of spurs fans and I've never heard one of them call spurs a bigger club than Liverpool. I'm back mate bring it on you mug . 18 league titles 5 European cups. rest my case . I'll tell you what give me your shirt and I'll sow a few stars on there for you.
Gooner4life,
Although you probably think the expression 'tongue in cheek' means licking out your boyfriend's anus, there is actually another meaning to it.
Now fuck off and look it up but don't come back.
Same for any of the thick scousers that don't get it either.
I thought scousers were supposed to be up on humour.
Oh well, let's have a minutes silence to commemorate missing out on "our Joey laa".
It's enough to drive you to smack.
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frontwheel I'm actually having alot of humour listening to your fans calling our club small. I think you lads are biting coz you missed out on your certainty to sign for you JOE COLE. never mind , you got modric anyway you didn't need cole. but I sense alot of spurs fans are gutted
Honestly how the fuck do some of you goon/scouse cretins read the blog post with a straight face? If you happen to browse around some Spurs forums, you'll see plenty of what the blog stats in discussions about Cole. The author is basically mugging off the Spurs fans who went from wanting Cole to then saying they are glad we haven't signed him. Fuck me will crayons do you for next time?
Glad to see you managed to steal 50p for the meter at last.
We're sooooo gutted.
(That'll be why we're all having a little blub on this here Liverpool website then?)
Forget about it Jep. If they can't work it out from the final few sentences then let them drown in their knee jerks.
Evening all.
I'm not shocked that the goons wondering in fail to grasp the article, because we all know they are completely without humour and don't quite grasp the concept of self deprecation. But surprised to see the famous Liverpool supporters who seem to prefer to bite rather than just shrug and laugh. I guess the Reds fans who post on-line are not the same who wave their banners in the Kop, all smiles and the like.
FAO Mick Thomas who sent me an email.
It's an expected occupational hazard of writing articles for a particular audience that is then read by others who don't quite get the joke because the joke isn't actually meant for them. But then the by-product is you get all defensive and loopy.
Nobody is disputing Liverpool's history. Calm down calm...etc etc
spooky I did get your article mate. and I was only commenting on other spurs fans comments. I even wrote you a message earlier on saying I understood your article. so calm down lads. you basically got a fellow fans that ain't got a clue what they are talking about. like I wrote before and I'll write it again spurs where worthy 4th place finishers and I even believe they probably could of finished above your rivals. but don't ever discount the mighty reds. one bad season does not make your team better than us as sone of your fellow clueless fans have written on the message boards.
Thing is Andy, there are plenty of Liverpool fans who still persist in believing that Liverpool are bigger than Manchester United. Delusion is shared amongst the many.
Andy - my comments were not aimed at you.
it's all good lads I'm up for a bit of banter before the season starts. that's what it's all about lads.
I know what ya mean. Without cole we're proper fucked !! Modric, kranky, bale and Lennon at a push with assou overlapping with Rose Waiting in the wings. We're relegation fodder !!!
we're relegation fodders ... when you take into account that we have to play in europa league, relegation is guaranteed ... oh noes, the lot of us might as well change our allegiance to citeh ...