On March 04 2012 23:35 meatbox wrote: Mourinho isn't going to join Chelsea, looks like poor Chelsea will have Rafa.
He might, he was looking for a house in London a few days ago. Either Tott or Chelsea. And Spurs have a shit wage budget so unless they increase it he will probably come to Chelsea. We have loads of Portuguese speaking players which Mourinho seems to like, also we might have a pretty high transfer budget. It's been rumoured we're interested in Hulk for 100m.
If anyone wants to see some sick football then check out Fulham raping Wolves right now, Pogrebnyak got 3 goals!
Fulham is in a really good place, just fantastic young players and a team playing great attacking football on the rise.
hulk is good at playing pub teams in the Portuguese league but dunno if he is worth 100 mil when he hasn't played at that lvl yet
Hulk isn't worth 100 mil. The only players you can realistically slap such a high price on are Ronaldo and Messi simply because of the amount of cash they generate on shirt sales alone.
On March 05 2012 20:09 Twisted wrote: Insane foul. They should get 10 match bans for insane shit like that.
The most stupid one is in our little league though. PSV-Twente. Twente is 4-0 up (which was a record in 1 half against PSV) and Twente's central defender Douglas does this (watch from 35 seconds):
Just beautiful (the goalkeeper luckily wasn't hurt). Too bad Mönchengladbach lost this weekend
Reminds me of good old FIFA 97 where you can foul the keeper and get instant red card xD
What you wrote reminded me of FIFA 98 where you could turn off fouls completely and then go and punch and kick the shit out of their goalkeeper which allows you to score into an open goal.
On March 05 2012 06:35 mememolly wrote: and to think people were saying spurs were genuine title contenders, lol, modric seems to majorly under perform against the big teams
Anyone who understands football could see that Tottenham dominated that game; they didn't underperform at all. United underperformed, but nicking a goal before half time has a huge psychological significance especially when you're the champions and you're playing a team that you just always beat. If you're looking at the result and going "pff easy" you've completely missed the detail. On another day it goes the other way.
Spurs were way too naive. Theyve gotten too good too quickly, the way they played this weekend would have destroyed most teams in the league, and frankly theyve been so used to dominating and winning that way this year that they tend to switch of against teams that have the quality to hit them at the back even if they arent playing well.
Like someone said it was schoolboy stuff they were messing up on the second goal, and well there was the Ashley Young stunner and Rooney just doing what Man U does. I dont think it goes the other way on any other day either, not at the moment Spurs have alot to learn being a good team while playing good teams and they will, atleast I hope so and that is the transition you need to make to being a real contender. Its not like they dont have the players to do it either. As well as they played they also lack a bit of depth the way top teams do but theres nothing you can do about that Redknapps done way more than anyone could have imagined with the resources at his disposal. and it really didnt affect things to much for them that particular game. I think this season will be a good experience. Whats important is that they keep playing the way they are playing while ensuring they maintain concentration and focus throughout. The midfield is way to gung ho and frankly even with Scotty Parker sometimes its like hes trying to play 3 on 1. Modric needs to learn to defend as good as he is on the ball, Adebyor needs to start running a bit more. I think signing Saha was a brilliant move to and he will probably do well in this system. if he hangs around.
On March 05 2012 06:35 mememolly wrote: and to think people were saying spurs were genuine title contenders, lol, modric seems to majorly under perform against the big teams
Anyone who understands football could see that Tottenham dominated that game; they didn't underperform at all. United underperformed, but nicking a goal before half time has a huge psychological significance especially when you're the champions and you're playing a team that you just always beat. If you're looking at the result and going "pff easy" you've completely missed the detail. On another day it goes the other way.
how is not creating any chances and not defending a corner dominating the game? spurs had more possession as the home side is generally expected to have, they created nothing and scholes (lol) bossed the midfield, spurs had no ideas without bale and modric was yet again poor against a top team, united played bad but they were hardly on the ropes as people are making out
Interesting start I must say. I will not be angry if we fail to go on through to the next round but I certainly won't be sad if we win this game if we continue the way we are playing right now of course.