In relation to Hugo's new contract the story on Sky Sports uses the expression "Hugo Lloris insists the three-year contract extension he signed today shows he is excited by Tottenham's trophy prospects." Insists? Really? Didn't he just say it the once? I've noticed that the 'insist' word is used rather a lot in relation to our players and committing to the club. "Harry Kane insisted he had no interested in signing for Utd." "Mauricio Pochettino insists he has no current desire to be Argentina manager." If we were one of the media darlings then wouldn't our players and managers just say things like normal people?
So within half an hour of Vorm signing his new contract there was an article up titled Killing his career: Why Tottenham ace has made a huge mistake on Football Insider's page - which I didn't bother reading, not because of the title, but because within five seconds of opening any Football Insider page you are greeted with a faceful of sponsored content clickbait, which is something which pisses me off and makes me close the tab when it happens. Just so we have it straight, Vorm is killing his career by extending his contract with us in spite of having limited opportunities to play in the first team - yet the dozens of players who have signed for Chelsea, Man Utd or Man City to spend a couple of seasons sat on the bench before being sold to a mid-tier club apparently haven't done their career any harm at all? And that's not even taking into account the volume of youngsters Chelsea and City hoover up only to loan to the footballing wastelands year after year.
This is a sort of non-hack watch comment. The fact that since the end of September we've heard little (nothing?) about the bungs that had the Telegraph kind of holding the football world to ransom over what they'd reveal next. Answer: nothing. The only things we really found out about were the entrapment stories they set up and everything else was (malicious?) rumour, for which they appeared to use the "generosity" of the gullible toward a down on their luck ex-player (I think he was a player anyway) who set up these meetings, who has presumably been ruined by all this. http://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/pagliara-claims-he-lied-telegraph-over-bungs
A report in Italy has suggested that Napoli are hopeful of bringing Tottenham Hotspur defender Eric Dier to Italy in the winter. BlastingNews is reporting that Dier’s representatives have been contacted by Napoli sporting director Christian Guintoli with regards a potential loan move, with a buying option of €12 million (£10.25m) included in any deal. It is definitely time to throttle back on the blue cheese and red wine.
The idea that we'd sell Dier (who has played in most of our matches this season) for £10.25m is a joke. When you consider how much we got from Norwich and Hull for Pritchard and Mason (who could not get a game) it becomes a piece of terrible journalism imo.
Loan with a buying option for £10m? BlastingNews must be the Italian equivalent of The News of the World. Hopefully it will die, too.
I'm sure Dier would like a free of charge winter vacation in Napoli. Sadly the English domestic season is so busy at this time of year that he won't be able to take up off the offer.
The BBC are saying their gossip page is bollocks: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37975118 So why run one every day if you admit the stuff in it is mostly garbage - let alone the repeated failure by their writers to spell Atalanta's name properly?
Remember the headlines about how Vorm was KILLING HIS CAREER by extending his contract with us? I'm still waiting for similar articles about Gael Kakuta: six years alternating the Chelsea bench and loans to the footballing wastelands (i.e. Bolton's bench, Vitesse Arnheim, Dijon, Lazio's bench, Rayo Vallecano) and now he's playing for the mighty...Heibei China Fortune. That move to Chelsea did wonders for his career didn't it?
As far as Vorm goes, I wish Pochettino would have the courage to rotate GK because early in the season when he got a run in the team with Lloris out, it made little difference to the defensive prowess of the team (still as good - no GK howlers etc) .
Talksport drive show with Quinn and Danter..."spurs win 4-1 away at Southampton but can they match Dele Allis ambition." Quincy "Spurs are a selling club ... dunno why they sold them (Modric, Bale, Berbatov, Keane) but Alli is their latest saleable asset and big clubs want him". They really really hate us having good players
Google translate ( "football pundit" to English) ... done. 1. We hate that Spurs have such good players who ensure Spurs usurp our PL darlings from the CL. 2. We can only hope at best that they regularly lose their key talent to La Liga apex clubs etc so that occurrences of #1 is few and far between.
I had the misfortune to hear that too. He said that Spurs had a history of selling their young players as a selling club. even his co-presenter, Ian Danter, baulked at that one - "Like who Mickey?" "Errr, Gareth Bale.........Luka Modric.........Berbatov" "Mickey, Modric was 25 and Berbatov was 27. Not exactly young." "Well, they're a selling club. Levy's always selling their best players." "Mickey, nearly every club is a selling club. Liverpool sold Suarez and Sterling." "Yeah, but we got a lot of money for them and I'm only talking about Tottenham." "Thanks, Mickey."
