Hack Watch

BBC website also repeats the nonsense that Barcelona are now going to fight Los Ladrones for Dele - AND also want Poch!!

 

He's having one of those weird careers where he pops up in charge of a lower league team, then vanishes into the footballing wastelands - as his CV for the past ten years demonstrates
2006-7: Crystal Palace
2007-8: Stevenage
2008-9: Wycombe
2010-11: Bradford
2011-12: Bahrain
2013-14: England U21s
2013-14: Gillingham
2015: Kerela Blasters
2016-: New Zealand (assistant)

 

Cheers for that
Such a shame and mostly the fault of that **** Wilkinson - and his close association with Hoddle at a time when the Hod was persona non grata.

 

He was a pundit on BT the other day for the Maidstone v Dover game.

 

I believe amongst other things that he still scouts both players and opponents for Gillingham

 

"Peter, Peter Taylor, Peter Taylor on the w - ing!"

Got one game in charge of the national team and would probably have done better than many who got a permanent contract for it. Did well with the U-21s too. Could he have been the manager exception that does better with a national team than league?

 

I think Bob Bradley is well-established in that regard...

 

The following is the full quote from Eric Dier following yesterday's FA Cup match: “Football is about winning trophies...If you asked us later on in life and we had not won a trophy with the squad we have now, and the basis that gives us to do that if in five years’ time that had not happened then everyone would be disappointed. We have got to keep working hard and improving as there is still a lot we can work on before we reach that level, and the whole squad is desperate to win trophies."

This is how the Daily Mail "interpreted" the same quote: Eric Dier warns Tottenham to win a trophy soon or regret it

The former is Dier clearly stating that the Tottenham squad want to win trophies WITH SPURS
The latter is some hack ****bucket implying that, if we don't win a trophy soon, Dier will be off

It's almost as if they're upset that Poch casually dismissed their weekend's bullshit story about Poch heading to Barca in the summer to the point he didn't even give them a soundbite to twist into the next week's worth of clickbait trash.

Talking of clickbait trash, I saw the following headline: Tottenham loan player has outstanding display for loan club; Levy's £2.7m mistake?

The player in question was Federico Fazio, after a superb individual display where he won one tackle and four headers in Roma's 1-0 win over mid-table Genoa. We're more happy with Alderweireld, thank you - and we appreciate being asked...

 

Here is the full quote from Poch from today's conference when one of the muckrakers brought up how Dele Alli's contract: "It is not now the moment to talk about that. He is happy. I don’t like to talk about rumours...It’s not a question of improving his contract and salary every few months. He is happy, he is performing well and that is the most important thing....He is performing well, scoring a lot of goals and helping the team achieve their objectives....People have been talking about him a lot in the last few weeks and that is fair, because his performances have been fantastic every time he has played."

Here's how The Sun interpreted that quote: TOTTENHAM UNLIKELY TO OFFER ALLI A NEW CONTRACT

What this tells us is that...
i.) These morons apparently don't read their own papers, as if they did they'd know Alli signed a six-year contract back in September
ii.) These morons don't remember the last time they tried this ****e, with Kane and Lloris, within a fortnight both signed lengthy contract extensions
iii.) These morons seemingly forgot to constantly hound Ranieri about new contracts for Vardy, Mahrez, Kante etc at every press conference last season

As I said a few months ago when the papers were pulling the same ****e with Kane, clubs shouldn't be throwing lucrative contracts at players based on what players are earning elsewhere, we'd soon have Burnley paying Michael Keane the same weekly wage that City pay the gift that keeps on giving that is John Stones - or to look at it another way, Leicester are currently paying Vardy and Mahrez three times what they were paid a year ago to be half as effective as they were last season, all because the club reacted to a combination of Vardy openly flirting with Arsenal and the press banging on about how both needed to be signed to bumper contracts.

Clubs should not throw improved contracts around left and right just because hacks are making stories up about their players moving elsewhere, because if those rumours are false (as they usually are) so many problems can arise, be it several members of the squad all demanding new contracts to having a black hole on the wage bill because you doubled the wages of a one-season wonder to fend off quote-unquote interest and their form turned to **** and now it's impossible to shift them because nobody wants to match their wages.

 

The BBC devoted a chunk of the Six O'Clock news to Sunday's match between Man Utd vs Liverpool, describing it as a potential title decider between the two clubs.

Last time I checked, something those publicly-funded morons obviously didn't, when a team five points behind the leaders play a team ten points behind the leaders it genuinely has **** all to do with the title race - especially because the latter is in sixth place. SIXTH!

 

But remember, should ManU win, they'll get a chance to move up to.... sixth! (unless there's a major turn round of goal difference compared to City)

 

Less than a week after invention of a story that both Manchester clubs were going to sign our first choice full backs, Danny Rose and Kyle Walker, the Sun suggest that Ben Davies is a target for Citeh. Whether Citeh intend to sign him as well as the other two or instead of one or both of them is not made clear. Maybe we'll do a 'Buy 2, Get 1 Free' deal for them?

However it is suggested that "if Vertonghen faces a lengthy spell out, City’s hopes of pulling off a deal for the Welshman could be scuppered." That's a real shame for them. Although the wisdom of selling a player to a direct rival is mooted, the utter lunacy of such a deal and the fact that Ben has said he's happy at the club, we don't need the money and aren't interested in selling our players, aren't seen as good reasons to label this 'report' as complete nonsense.

Oh yes, I nearly forgot, it's complete nonsense.

 

Reports in Spain claim that Adidas want Dele Alli to be the face of their brand - but will only allow him to do so if he signs for Los Ladrones.

Based on that quote-unquote logic, here's a few hints to Los Ladrones' summer transfer plans...











Pogba, Firmino, a chunk of the Milan and Man Utd squads and a couple of Seattle Sounders players have all featured prominently in their branding in the past month, so does that mean they'll be buying every single one of them?

 

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Who's that bloke on the left?

 

Daley Blind

 

Isn't he the bloke on the right?

 

Why do they all look constipated? Or are all United players just naturally full of ****.

 

Dammit, spent too long playing Fez last night...

It might be James Wilson - but Wilson has brown eyes, the one in the photo has blue eyes.

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Now I'm not one to say that Adidas might be making footballers appear more Aryan, but...

 

That's John, the bloke who fixes the fax machines.

 

Isn't the player on the left Luke Shaw ?