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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by humanbeingincroydon, Sep 21, 2016.

  1. I was thinking of that other famous sporting cheat....Dean Richards.....

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    Clinton Hunter?
     
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  3. humanbeingincroydon

    humanbeingincroydon Well-Known Member

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    Guillem Balague has reissued his Poch book with an additional chapter to include last season that doesn't have a single word from Poch, but it has plenty from Balague - those words mainly involving the words "another" and "club" in close proximity

    Funny how, just last week, Balague was mouthing off about how other managers apparently ask Poch why he hasn't moved to another club yet...
     
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    Keegan has a book out and has written about how (when he rejoined the toon in 2008) the club signed 2 players as a favour to an agent...he says he was told he did not have to play them after they were signed... it was being discussed on Talk sport tonight and Danny Kelly and the sports journalist Shaun Cuspus (excuse spelling) who is also a toon fan were laying into Ashley.
    Up popped Simon Jordan who took on the role of Mr Kettle by claiming Keegan was simply interested in self publicity and claimed it was no big deal that Ashley signed players not wanted by the manager as a favour to the agent as it was his money... <doh>
     
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  5. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Jordan and Custis don't like each other...

    https://talksport.com/football/4167...palace-chairman-rant-british-press-talksport/

    Jordan can be a twat but Custis is in a whole different league.
     
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    Did they mention the players or the agent? Two windows:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Newcastle_United_F.C._season#In
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008–09_Newcastle_United_F.C._season#Transfers

    The first list looks dodgier, to me.
     
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    They played 480 games for Newcastle! <laugh> Maybe they should've signed more players as favours?
     
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    My bad ... Xisco and Gonzalez...nearly right...one began with a G and the other had letters in the name <whistle>

    My dumbassery impresses me sometimes <laugh>
     
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    There's a quick way to find out a pattern...

    Viduka - Pasqualin D'Amico Partners
    Barton - Willie McKay
    Rozehnal - Lars Baumgarten
    Geremi - Joel Essomba
    Smith - Alex Black
    Cacapa - Marketing Services Monaco
    Enrique - Football Management Sanchez
    Faye - Alister Veerasamy
    Baye - Willie McKay
    Tozer - ?
    Baheng - Blanc Meslin Sport Football
    Kadar - Base Soccer Agency
    Zamblera - ?
    Soderberg - Jonas Svensson Management
    Diatta - not sure about his agent, but the amount of club-hopping he did and the fact he faced prosecution in Senegal says a lot...
    Jonas - Pedro Bravo
    Guthrie - Fortitude Player Management
    Bassong - Christophe Henrotay
    Coloccini - Marcelo Lombilla
    Xisco - Pedro Bravo
    Lovenkrands - ?
    Nolan - Sports Player Management
    Taylor - ?

    It's probably worth mentioning that Willie McKay's name featured several times in the Stevens report, namely for the following deals...
    Aliou Cisse (Birmingham to Portsmouth, 2004)
    Jean-Alain Boumsong (Rangers to Newcastle, 2005)
    Amdy Faye (Portsmouth to Newcastle, 2005)
    Benjani (Auxerre to Portsmouth, 2006)

    On the other hand Mark Curtis is another likely candidate as Nolan was one of his clients while Andy Carroll was represented by Direct Sports Management, which lists Curtis as its sole director (and it's worth pointing out that Sam Allardyce is a Curtis client, as were several players he signed for West Scam including Nolan, Carroll, Matt Jarvis and Jussi Jaaskelainen)
     
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    Xisco would make sense, as he rarely got a game and looked pretty crap.
     
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    Xisco and Jonas do happen to have the same agent, although the most likely culprits are Barton, Nolan and Baye
     
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  14. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    From this article...https://www.footballtransfertavern....witter-still-hold-ryan-mason-in-their-hearts/

    "Mason was always one of football’s good guys and anyone who knew him will remember him for being a classy professional both on and off the pitch. The midfielder was lucky enough to represent his childhood club, wear the famous number 8 shirt, previously donned by the likes of Jimmy Greaves, Steve Perryman and Tim Sherwood, and play on the biggest stage as he received one England cap during his career."

    Tim Sherwood.........Tim '****ing' Sherwood?

    Gazza?...................Nah, not him.

    Archibald?..............Nah, not good enough.

    Tim Sherwood...........:steam:
     
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    :)

    I assume Timmy has produced the stats showing he has the
    best win stats for any Spurs no 8 to date.
     
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    Our number 8 sure is a mixed bag

    The Good
    Paul Gascoigne
    Steve Archibald
    Steve Perryman
    Scott Parker
    Allan Nielsen
    David Howells
    Pedro Mendes

    The Bad
    Paulinho
    Tim Sherwood

    The Ridiculous
    Helder Postiga
    Danny Murphy
     
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    Where does Jenas fit into this? or does he start a category of his own for the almost good but generally underwhelming?
     
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    I remember him getting an equaliser against the goons in the last few minutes, probably 2005/06/07. That puts him into the good to fekking excellent department whatever else that he did or didn't do in his career. Nothing worse than losing to the goons.
     
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    They're all here and there a few memorable ones
     
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    "The bottom line of everything when it comes to being a football player is you look at yourself and somewhere along the line, I didn't do enough." - JJ.
     
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