Gary Neville - ‘I think Chelsea… they will be worried about Tottenham a little bit, but they will be more worried about Manchester City. I'm not sue what motivated him to say something that stupid. Even if Citeh beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and that's an IF of walloping great proportions, they'll still be 8 points behind them with a massively worse goal difference and only 8 games left. Anyone catching Chelsea is a real outside bet. The team that threw away a lead against that Arsenal team TWICE doesn't scream out Champions at me but then again I've not got Neville's insight. Thank god.
[ Courtesy of The Day Today ] Eminent medical science researcher Dr RDBD, identifies new medical condition. Dr RDBD, whose achievements include the discovery of the mental condition now known as HIAGnation, today presented his research results on the visual impairment he has provisionally called "Spurslexia" . Spurslexia (or 'Spurs blindness' ) occurs when the sufferer also has been afflicted by Pundit syndrome, and affects the ability to see certain words. In his research paper, Dr RDBD presents the ground-breaking Spurslexia table, a zero-cost means of identifying sufferers. For example, Spurslexia suffers see the following table : Chelsea 69 Spurs 62 Liverpool 59 Man City 58 Man Utd 52 as : Chelsea 69 Liverpool 59 Man City 58 Man Utd 52 Dr RDBD, although not hopeful a cure for the condition is possible in the near future, believes that both identifying / devising a test for the condition is a major breakthrough in improving the human condition for the better.
I'm fine with the pundits ignoring us. Takes the pressure off. Something tells me that they'll start noticing us again if we **** up, though.
When the Mousers sack you because your delusion is even too much for them to stomach, that is the time you seek professional medical treatment.
They'd do well to make the top six in League One (which, incidentally, is where many SPL players are recruited from).
Like many of the 'grand old European clubs' their future is as a footnote of the success of clubs from Spain, Italy, Germany and maybe, just maybe, England once again. Clubs like Ajax, PSV, Feyenoord and clubs from Portugal, Belgium, Austria, Russia and its satellites and all the others have little prospect of holding on to their best players. These clubs may have great histories and be able to fill sizable stadia but their TV rights are worth very little and that's their lot, unless something truly extraordinary happens to the world of football.
The Celtic question is irrelevant without qualifiers. Would they compete with their current players or current financing? No. Would they compete if they were to replace a current Premier League team? To some extent, I think that they would. Now that's not to say that they'd win anything or even finish in a European place. Even their attendances don't say anything about that, as Newcastle get 50-odd thousand and they got relegated. It depends on how they would be run and how their fans would deal with having genuine competition. We simply have no idea about either of those things. Thankfully none of this is particularly relevant. They're not in the English system and probably never will be. Judging by the mess they've made of their own, I'm going to say that's a good thing.
The issue isn't holding onto their players, after all Ajax were still a force in the 90s even though they regularly saw large chunks of their squad heading to Serie A, the issue is their players are leaving so much sooner than they used to. For example, in the 80s Ajax kept hold of Bergkamp and van Basten for a good five or six seasons before they headed to Italy, in the 90s they kept hold of Davids and Overmars for five years while van der Saar remained for the best part of a decade, while in the early part of the last decade they kept hold of Sneijder and van der Vaart for a good five years - but more recently players either leave much earlier,for example Eriksen was there for just three years, or they don't even make it to the first team such as Man Utd signing Fosu-Mensah straight out of Ajax's academy before he'd even made his debut.
By my own count, Chelsea has gotten three to six points more edge from the calls than we have. But, not having seen every game Chelsea has played, and having just possibly a bit of bias, I don't think my opinion counts for much. In any case, Chelsea's 13 game winning streak will be what people remember if they do win. Wednesday's a pivotal day, I think. If Spurs pick up points on Chelsea, there's a race. If not, not. As you say, may the best team win. As long as it's Spurs.
It would be nice to see a race for the title. And for the top four places. I suspect that we won't see either, but here's hoping.
The race for both is still on. I suspect that settling who is in / order of the top 4 may go to the last game of the season (the PL champion will probably be decided well before then) .
Bayern Munich manager Carlo Ancelotti has played down talk of a possible reunion with Gareth Bale, calling rumours linking the 27-year-old Real Madrid and Wales forward to the German side "a myth". (Daily Mail) It's more likely to be true than all those "Bale To United" fairy-tales!
Tottenham and England midfielder Dele Alli, 20, would be a huge hit at Real Madrid, according to Swansea manager and former Real assistant coach Paul Clement. (Daily Star) Yeah, on Real's bench! Who would he replace in their current starting XI?
Quite ****ty behaviour, this. He wouldn't like it if Pochettino suggested that Llorente or Sigurdsson should **** off in the summer.
If he really said it ... Is this an old quote or has this been said in the past week ?? If the latter, what an utter c**t (perhaps Spurs will review future loans of players etc while he is Swansea manager etc) .
Quotes - and you lot are not excluded Clement, who coached some of the world’s best players during his time alongside Carlo Ancelotti in Madrid, said: “Why can’t he make the step up? He’s still so young. “All the best players get linked with Real Madrid, Eden Hazard is another one who is being linked at the moment. “But if these teams want to do well and challenge for trophies, they’ve got to try and keep their best players.”
Presumably he's been asked about Deli Alli from how he responds rather than randomly plucked him out and tried to "unsettle" him. Obviously the sensible thing is to say no comment, but managers being probably fairly egotistical thought he'd give his honest view. I don't really see anything wrong with what he's said. He hasn't said he should move on, just said he's a great player and is linked because he's a fantastic player. Then he said the club should keep its best players. Not sure where the outrage of him telling alli to move to Real has come from based on spursdisciples extract. Apologies if i haven't got the full quote at hand.
