It would be a pity to lose him, but he's not irreplaceable and Ben D is more than capable. Another £50m+ into the pot but not to be sold to Citeh or United. If he really wants to go North then offer him to Celtic!!!
I understand your pain and it is a pain because this is a sport that we all love, we grew up with it and we played it for fun. In a world full of **** our games and pastimes are very important in helping to keep us sane. Sadly in this money run world the greedy bastards were always going to target the peoples game. Where there are lots of people there is lots of money. I don't get involved in transfer talk too much because it involves this business side of the game and that's not why I want to watch football. Playing or watching sport for me is about getting away from business and everyday concerns. As Shankly said football is not a matter of life and death it is more important than that. It is precisely that because it should take us away from daily concerns. **** them and their money from football if that's what it is about for you then it's goodbye from me. Come Sunday I will watch the game, Rose? no mate this is football not Gardener's bloody question time.
So two former players and a former Spurs chairman are in agreement with each other, and my thoughts on the matter. Will be very interesting to see how team Rose handle this sh*t-storm now.
You must separate Man Utd (the recent empire) from the Sugga Daddy FCs in that remark, as the means by which they have the money is very different.
I wish Dave Mackay was alive today to hear Rose whine about the nightmare of being a Spurs player out with injury for a long period of time.
Football has died a bit more today for me. Can I honestly be bothered to invest in a glorified circus full of cheats, mercenaries, arrogant a-holes and the terminally stupid. I don't think a single person on here would have foreseen Danny Rose's incredible rise to full England International given his bang average, and sometimes, woeful performances under various previous managers. While he had started to show promise before under the likes of Harry, it was Spurs and, more importantly, Poch have made him the player he is. He bought into that ethos, committed himself to what Poch has asked of him and then been continuously rewarded with ever better contracts WHICH HE WERE HAPPY TO SIGN. F*ck him! Worth more than £65,000 a week? Well, sure given today's market. Does he realistically need it? Like f*ck he does. It will take me just over 2 years to earn what he does in one week and he has the gall to moan about his wages. If I was off sick for 6 months (and counting) I wouldn't get full pay for that period either. Just eff off you greedy, pathetic streak of piss. I'm going to be spending the season watching Eastbourne Borough struggle to stay in the National League South as their players do it for expenses, £50 a week or just for the love of it in some cases. Rose doesn't know he is born......... And breath.
Can one of the mods please remove the 'Danny Rosebud' bit from my profile asap please? It was a nice pun while it lasted and tribute to one of my favourite players, but quite frankly I now prefer the sound of 'well known member' over 'back-stabbing deluded serpent'. Ta.
Somewhere in the Spurs academy, a LB prospect with great ambition is thinking : F*ck Rose !!! Has my opportunity now come ??
The Pereira rumour has resurfaced today, with claims that we sent a scout to watch him last night. Porto beat Estoril 4-0 and he played the full 90 minutes.
And what pray tell do our scouts think they'll notice now that wasn't apparent back in June? If after all that has been said and done we sign Pereira for £25m or similar, our transfer policy will have been exposed as a fraudulent farce and I sincerely hope that my fellow posters who defend it to the hilt will think again about our approach and its supposed 'benefits'.
His command of Portuguese? He was playing in France for the last couple of years... He is from there though, obviously.
I'll defend it because you are not making real decisions you are just behaving like a fan, which you are entitled to do. In the real world you have to ask who built the current fantastic squad on amazing terms without spending 90 million on players like Pogba . Spurs have easily EASILY been the most effective club in the transfer window over the last two seasons building a squad second to none without spending fortunes. In my view that makes Spurs management team far better equipped to make these transfer decisions than you or me or anyone else on these pages.
While I largely agree with you, they've still made some mistakes and should be questioned over some decisions. Sissoko was a particularly poor one, for example. We've also bought a series of rather questionable wingers. Failing to replace Walker quickly could be this season's mistake. We've done very well overall, but there's always room for improvement.
Of course. The point is how well things have recently been done overall even though we doubt the method is close to perfect.
I largely agree with this. Here is my problem: what you are describing is the bigger picture. The issue is that we seem incapable of translating that bigger picture into the smaller ones without it falling in our laps a la Wanyama, Toby or VDV. The smaller picture in question in this instance is a certain Ricardo Pereira, a player who we were heavily linked with as early as June, but those links went eerily quiet almost the moment we sold Walker and actually had money to spend. And why was this? Trippier clearly isn't as good as Walker and KWP has zero experience so it couldn't have been that. No, the only explanation we've heard concretely from both chairman and manager has been the oft-repeated tripe that the longer you wait, the cheaper they get. And so my point was simply: If we now go ahead and sign Pereira for a similar amount to the prices that we touted back in June, we will have pulled the rug out from under our entire philosophy and will have rendered it indefensible. To have saved no money and deprived a player of an entire pre-season only to sign them anyway after the season has started indicates in no uncertain terms that for all our talk about the sensible big picture, it unavoidably seems to translate into smaller picture madness. I'm not asking for £60m marquee signings. I'm asking for common sense. Currently the club appears to have neither. And as for Rose, well he clearly stores his common sense in his kneecap and lost it all against sunderland.
