THFC probability-o-meter

Current order of probability for this week (1 being most probable, 10 least likely):

1 - Andre Villas-Boas announced

2 - Jan Vertonghen signs

3 - Gylfi Sigurðsson signs

4 - Ledley King announcement (re: retirement, future at Spurs)

5 - Investment / Naming Rights finanical injection

6 - Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior signs

7 - Chirpy sex and drugs scandal

8 - Director of Football return

9 - dos Santos to be sold

10 - Harry Redknapp to not have an opinion on any of the above

Yes I know, it's not technically an o-meter, it's just a bog standard list. Deal with it.

New look Spurs, same old Gio

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.

Brand spanking new Spurs kits...

Love the white. Not keen on the blue. The third isn't too shabby. I'd still prefer to spend my hard earned cash on the white training top (which resembles the white home shirt). Something about no sponsorship turns me on more.

Photo found via the SI Football Manager forum, via Spurs Community (edit: sponsor appears to be photo-shopped onto the images, but I guess you could call them 'official mock-ups').

Massive King photo for you to drool over, click here. And some kit discussion if you're interested in some banter.

Oh, and yeah, the red dot is with us, at least it's not of Mansion proportions.

Update on Friday, July 16, 2010 at 12:12AM by spooky

New kits on official site, click here to go to the OS article. Looks like the blue on the Autonomy is a different shade to the blue on the rest of the kit. So meh it still looks photo-shopped. Regardless, the home kit is far far better than the yellow-streaked one of last season. The shorts however are genuinely shocking. Training track suit top all the way for me.

Spurs site self-pwns itself

Out-sourcing content for cheap web design cost and implementation.

Works everytime.

First yellow streaks on the white home shirt. And now this. Paul Barber is destroying the very fabric of this great club.

Heads will roll.