Off the top of my head... Jamie O'Hara --------------------------------------------------------- Off the top of my head?...you must be!...O'Hara was a goon.
Doesn't that count as France? When it came to signing prospects, Arnesen was hit and miss (Dawson, Lennon and Huddlestone were hits, while Mounir El Hamdaoui, Callum Davenport and Wayne Routledge weren't), Commolli signed a couple of good players (Bale, BAE and Kaboul) but threw a lot of money off a cliff on youngsters (Berchiche, Boateng, Bostock, M'Poku, Alnwick, Taarabt, Pekhart, Dervite, Gunter), whilst since 'Arry came in we've signed Sandro, Walker, Naughton, Khumalo, and now Cebalos and Coulibaly.
Souleymane Coulibaly made quite an impact on his first appearance in a Spurs shirt as our Spurs XI team drew 2-2 with Brighton in the Algarve on Tuesday night. The young Ivory Coast striker scored the equaliser within minutes of entering the fray as a second half substitute and later hit the post and forced a fine save out of Brighton goalkeeper Peter Brezovan. Our team included David Button in goal, Jake Livermore, Andros Townsend, Ryan Mason, Tom Carroll and Harry Kane. Livermore lined-up at centre-half with Jake Nicholson. Brighton took an early grip of the game at the Estadio Municipal in Albufeira and took a 2-0 lead inside 40 minutes through Will Hoskins and Torbojrn Adgestein. We were back in the game within a minute though as Andros Townsend hit a thunderbolt into the top corner. Coulibaly - pictured above in Ivory Coast action - replaced Jonathan Obika at half-time and took just 10 minutes to make his mark, firing home the equaliser. Harry Kane then forced a fine save from Brezovan, Coulibaly struck the post and Brezovan completed a hat-trick of saves to deny Coulibaly late on. "Andros scored a 'worldy' to get us back into the game and there was only one team that was going to win the game in the second half," reported Technical Co-ordinator Tim Sherwood. "Souleymane did well. He scored, the goalkeeper made one outstanding save out of the top corner from him and he also hit the post. "He has a one-track mind and that's to go for goal, he gets the ball out of his feet and smashes it. He did well. Massimo was the pick though, he was our man-of-the-match." The team beat Forest 3-2 on Saturday and Tim has been pleased with the group's work in the Algarve. "The lads have trained well and applied themselves well in the matches," he added. "They’ve held their own and outplayed two Championship teams. In the first half against Brighton we were under a bit of pressure because they keep the ball very well, but we bounced back in the second half and took over the game. "The important thing is they’ve all got something out of the matches."
If Taarabt goes for anywhere near the rumoured amount, surely our share will mean we will be taking a net profit on the otherwise unsuccessful Commolli ones. If for every twelve youngsters we sign we get three like Bale, BAE and Kaboul and more than break even on the rest, I'd say we were doing really well.
Ah, him. Of course. http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/players/reserves/massimo-luongo.html That's just poor!
...he'll have to wait until he's 19 to get into our squad, so we can take advantage of the ruling that anyone player under the age of 21 will be considered "English" if they spend three years in our youth team?
