Hack Watch

This is apparently what Levy's counting on with Grealish. He's done it before with other sides who overspend.
Mounting debts and a wage bill that you can't possibly sustain? Here's a lowball deal for one of your best players. Can you afford to turn it down?

 

Didn't he sign Robbo for £1 because Leeds needed to get him off their wage bill?

 

£1.5m. I think that Rose and Lennon were £1m.

 

My brain is getting old and fuddled.

 

It's better than the alternative.

 

And I think when we signed Keane, Leeds still paid a part of his wages though I can't find any confirmation of that now.

 

very true...
Keane, Robinson, Rose and Lennon cost us less than £10m from Leeds
We got Kaboul, Crouch, Kranjar, Defoe and Arry for approx £40m from Pompey
And we got Bale for £5m from Southampton and then bought his 20% sell on clause off them for £1m and a great young keeper

 

Technically it was a lot less than that, as a chunk of the fees we paid for Crouch, Defoe and Kaboul were swallowed up by monies that Pompey owed us for Defoe, Kaboul, Pedro Mendes, Sean Davis and Noe Pamarot

 

Tony Adams has tipped every single Spurs player in the England squad to let the team down this summer

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Internet land has mainly responded with :

1. Only one Gooner in the squad compared to 5 for Spurs,
so statistically far more chance one of them may do as
he claimed.

2. How did the "winning" experience of Adams/Keown etc
exactly help the England campaigns in 1996/1998/2000 ...??

 

The Old Soak must be back on the booze, or was he ever off it?

 

Funny he didn't bring up Lindgard, Young, Jones Cahill, Alexander-Arnold or Wellbeck considering how much bottling they managed last season...

 

The donkey may have inadvertently rcl-ed the Spurs
contingent for every WC game they now play.

 

Exactly why would anyone think to get the opinion of this twat on England's WC chances when his only personal memory of representing his country in a major tournament appears to be the following:

'In his Sun interview, the former Arsenal defender talked about the time he wet the bed on after Holland dumped England out of Euro 88:
During my alcoholism, I often wet the bed and I did so that night. The maid came in to the room holding her nose saying ‘Pee-pee’ and my room-mate, Viv Anderson, told all the lads. I was dying inside of shame and embarrassment.'

Double

 

Funnily enough, his forays into management regularly saw him **** the bed...

 

Exactly!!!

One of the standard pundit cliches that really winds me up is when they always refer to the "experience" of certain players as reasons to keep them in the squad, or even in the team. At the Euros it was all about keeping Rooney for his "experience" in the dressing room, even if he didn't play. Same this time for Hart - and the fact that the keepers thankfully finally chosen had "no experience". Of course one of the main reasons they don't have enough experience is that Hart continued to play well past his sell by date making it a self-fulfilling thing! And even right up to when the squad was chosen a lot of the pundits still wanted Hart as the 3rd keeper for his experience and contribution in the dressing room - where have we heard that before!!! Nothing is made of the poor tournament temperament which Hart demonstrated on several occasions. And now we have Sterling who time and time again shows his inability to play for the international team*, but will no doubt be picked until he's too old to move.

* Note that I didn't say something along the lines of step up to the international level because most of the football isn't a step up from the premier league at all, which is why a lot of the arguments fail about shoe horning the so-called best players into the team. Sterling may be a fine player for ManC, but the WC is different - not better, but different. Which is why someone who demonstrates a lack of ability when playing for England shouldn't get picked on his league form.

 

Some hack 2 + 2 = 2222 ...

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foo...ransfer-news-Anthony-Martial-Tottenham-latest

I wonder if I could panic-bomb bookies by asking
for odds on Bale coming to Spurs by proposing
a 100K wager but not actually putting the money on.

 

https://www.oddschecker.com/insight...slashed-to-become-next-leicester-city-manager

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So about all those articles triumphantly declaring Poch would be managing Los Ladrones next season...

Also, the word their social media bod meant to use is "campeones" - because "champiens" is not a word