New look Spurs, same old Gio
Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 9:49PM Gio
What a shocker. Apparently we've priced Gio out of a move to Sevilla. It's the story of every transfer window since the young Mexican signed for us. Beginning to think there is no way out of the club for him. Like Steve McQueen, he's caught in the barb-wire. Doesn't matter how many times you re-wind, he's never going to make it. We signed him for what, £4.7M? The Spanish club claim we want a exorbitant amount. Ten games, two goals. In four years. Levy mathematics deem him to have gained value rather than lose any. He's twenty-two. I've stuck a fiver on him finally making a move away by the time he makes his fifteenth appearance for us, at the grand age of forty two.
New Spurs site
Is it finished? Doesn't look finished, but it's live. Still propagating perhaps. Content looks the same, no revolutionary new features (I might have missed them) so it's pretty much a cosmetic touch up we've got. Plenty of white and player images as backdrops which is fine with me although could do with more consistency in how they're used. The new-look profiles (I guess that's revolutionary) gave me a scare when Bentley and Jenas stared back at me all proud in Lilywhite. Continuity error there. It is an improvement on the last site but it's a shame the club didn't look at perhaps truly redefining the platform in its entirety.
I guess the main crux for most will be the account management for season ticket holders and purchasing tickets on-line. Probably the main reasons for using the site. Best to wait until tomorrow whilst they sort out the problems with logging in (I can't seem to do so at the moment). Will say this, the more you browse around it, the better UI experience it is compared to the one it's replaced. But still, the layout is not as crisp and clean as it could be. Just don't expect to have your mind blown. There is also no Man City tunnel-cam feature, probably best to avoid the legalities and embarrassment that Chirpy will cause when he's caught smoking crack at half-time. Allegedly.
Gareth Bale
Fantastic player. Still a kid. But an absolute beast of a player. Enjoy whilst we have him playing in our colours rather than bemoan his evolution because you think football is straight forward and obvious. Just wanted to reiterate what I said in the post-City write up.
That's all I've got.
Reader Comments (8)
Gio has brought this entirely upon himself.
Udinese made a very good offer for him - he refused to go because he only wanted to go to Sevilla. That meant that Sevilla could seriously undercut Udinese or any other bidders. Why on earth should THFC accept that?
don't know if this has been picked up before either here or on the fighting cock, but I've only today noticed that the NDP plans were tweaked just before christmas with the plans for a hotel shelved for new housing units, and a change to the roof of the supermarket. not really exciting but good to see that the ball is actively rolling with regards to the NDP. new site or not, that new stadium looks awesome, whether it will maintain, improve or kill the atmosphere who knows?
No, haven't noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out.
Nice - the new os is linking to your article spooky! Levy is watching indeed...
It was shelved for flats and a college, reason being that only 2star hotels came forward but Spurs wanted 4star.
The swap for a college premises and more flats seems good to me.
Ad men's problem was clear
'5 star football club with a 2 star hotel in a 1 star location.
of course no 4 star hotle companies made an offer - why would anyone want to stay in a hotel in tottenham??
not exactly a tourist hotpost/financial centre or at the very least an area with good transport links into town.
no offence meant to any locals.
What a boring game at Vickerage Road. Modric looked uninterested, VDV was uninterested, Parker was shite, Dawson was shite, Rose was shite, Ade was shite and Watford couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo. Never thought I would see the day (under Harry) where the team looked as though they thought they were too good to be there. Better have their act together for Tuesday night.