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Noticed it again last night that he is often given the ball to initiate the first phase out of defense. Roams with a good reading of the game almost like a "back in the day" sweeper. His balance and poise are very good and as an added bonus can hit a long pass. I think we have finally found that dominant CD we have been looking for.

Yes because that would offer us loads of protection away at Arsenal. Loving your new av 2Jeeps.

Erm, no.

Hopefully the on - off exit is back on.

My only saving grace has been picking Arteta and Deco early and sticking with them. With those two their price will rise and it gets to the point you can't really afford them if you buy them late. Biggest fuck up so far was going with Barry instead of Elano...Duh... -8 on transfers so far. Must have given up about 50 points last year.

Last year I went one tier down and had a mix of Villa and Pompey def with one perenial which was Toure, but Arsenal don't look right yet, hence I've already dumped Clichy for Cole. 3-5-2 delivered a top 10 and top 20 league finishes. Midfielders have various chances of getting points that def don't. ie assists and even 1 for a clean sheet. Again with the striking Adebayor doesn't look right this year. *I would keep Young, a consistent point scorer. I need to get to a mf 5 of: Deco Ronaldo Elano Guti Arteta at some point, which will mean having to sacrifice in other places.

He's still in that no man's land... always class for the U21s or against Championship sides, we rarely see the Milner we saw tonight against Prem teams sadly. Exactly. A few dances round a couple of no-hopers, a few scuffed shots and a flukey cross/shot doesn't convince me. He's also at a disadvantage cause soemeone pays people to jump in front of all his shots.

Get the predator on.

Had all the chances we should have needed. We want a finisher like Owen on, preferrably before they haul back another. Not sure who's on the bench, might be the time to get a couple on.

Think we need one more just to wrap this up.

To be fair they got shat on by Bristol City this weekend....I wont comment on the quality of both your goals. I'd save the comments till you get your first league point fella.

Michael Owen will disagree. He seems to read the runs Owen makes anyways. Although I agree they aren't that good all of the time, especially his corners. Nice work from Milner btw. Geremi has no consistency at all and thats his problem. He'll have one good ball for about 5 or 6 complete holocausts. He's good at spotting runs but then again Owen must be one of the best players to cross for in the world because his positional play and instincts are world class. I don't like the way Geremi waddles around the pitch. It just looks like he's holding a shit in.

Some nice insight on Omar.. "It's a very dark place"..

Nigger, please! Fuck off man! Marlo is a little cunt with no respect. Omar should have just shot him during the card game hoist.

excuse me for not being soopafanofthedecadelike but who is Nile Ranger when he's at home? He's a massive predator looking geezer.

The Wire is class. Hard to break it down against Twin Peaks and Sopranos.

FYP.

Most would have said the same about Boro and Sunderland tbf Why not? It happened here with us sacking Souness, Roeder & Allardyce within a 2 year period. By doing what he did to Jol (who'd single-handedly put them in the elevated position that they were in), Levy proved beyond doubt that he's fickle. Ramos is anything but safe. Entirely agree Craig, there are few easy games in the PL especially in the first third of the season when promoted and smaller teams still have a fit and fresh squad and the winter hasn't taken its toll. The thing about Spurs is they still have a soft center and once a side gets into them they tend to fold. I wouldn't count Wigan as an easy game these days either.

Might as well get a couple of kicks in while we can mate.

Modric anonymous at the weekend apparently. Lucky guess on my behalf iih I'll take your word for it mate. I quite spuriously and over-confidently claimed that Modric would have a shit season to Danny a few weeks back. Am not saying i've been proved right, obviously. Best way.

Press are warming up... By Paul Doyle, Guardian.co.uk's chief football writer. The Premier League may have barely begun but it's already clear that for several teams this will be the most important week of the season. Without significant movement over the next seven days, the transfer window will come down like a guillotine on the ambitions of sides such as Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton and, most of all, Tottenham. It seems strange that a manager who has signed 10 new players since taking charge 45 games ago should still be short in so many positions, but Juande Ramos has been improvising cack-handedly since the start of the campaign. With a slew of new signings Spurs can be forgiven for lacking fluidity so far; similarly, trying two different, and equally ineffective, formations against Middlesbrough and Sunderland need not be alarming, but several other factors cannot so readily be attributed to teething trouble. Oddities include omitting Tom Huddlestone when the midfield is chronically weak, sticking Didier Zokora at full-back in place of the injured Alan Hutton after paying £2m for Chris Gunter; removing David Bentley from the wing where he has thrived in recent seasons; and, of course, indulging Dimitar Berbatov's brooding. Refusing to deploy your best player because he's "not in the right frame of mind" can be laudably compassionate in some circumstances but not in Berbatov's case. It is the manager's job to get the best out of his players when they're healthy - if the Bulgarian possesses a brain that Ramos cannot wash, then he must be sold and replaced. The decision-deficit has been undermining Spurs' season since before it even began. Character is crucial. It's unlikely that denying Robbie Keane his dream move and letting Berbatov go would have been so destructive. By choosing to do the reverse, or just by plain dithering, Ramos has called into question his character judgement and man-management. This would not be so worrying for Tottenham if the doubts weren't deepened by the instability in the centre of the Spurs defence (injuries can't fully explain the persistent lack of organisation) and the fact that since lifting the Carling Cup last February Spurs have won just three competitive matches; for the final months of last season most of the team seemed to be in the wrong frame of mind. In addition to finding players to fill the positions where Spurs' first-choice or cover is ropey, Ramos must recruit characters with whom he knows he can work. Otherwise Ramos and Spurs could prove to be incompatible. Gone by christmas??? *Runs off to check odds*

Welcome back Danny. Keep it sweet and remember why you ousted in the first place. Then again I doubt you are unlucky enough to get banned twice. No probs mate, TBH I have zero banter at the moment anyway......not that I ever did. Berbatov is looking like he is on his way like and I think Levy is making a hash of it. I'm not sure who you could get in to play up with Bent. There is talk of Arshavin coming in and playing behind him and also talk of Heskey - however I think the Heskey rumor is a tabloid piss take. I can't see you getting anything against Chelsea and Aston Villa will be a challenge. Anyway what you were saying about Newcastle having a bad start We should have set a deadline for Utd to shell out. We cant give him the heave-ho until we have a replacement but the russians are fucking us over, its a total shambles. Thanks for the update I have been at reading festival all weekend so I have been out of the loop. I think your lot are after over £30m for Berbatov and to be fair - he isn't worth that. £18-20m would be a decent price for him and as much as I can understand Levy holding out for top whack he has left it too late in the game. Basically no matter what you get for Berbatov you need to strikers and any club that sees Tottenham approach for one of their players is going to take the piss something rotten. You were rumored for Pavlyuchenko but I think he is staying where he is for Champions League football. Think they're looking at Falcao. Circa World cup 82??

Welcome back Danny. Keep it sweet and remember why you ousted in the first place. Then again I doubt you are unlucky enough to get banned twice. No probs mate, TBH I have zero banter at the moment anyway......not that I ever did. Berbatov is looking like he is on his way like and I think Levy is making a hash of it. I'm not sure who you could get in to play up with Bent. There is talk of Arshavin coming in and playing behind him and also talk of Heskey - however I think the Heskey rumor is a tabloid piss take. I can't see you getting anything against Chelsea and Aston Villa will be a challenge. Anyway what you were saying about Newcastle having a bad start Wonder what the odds would have been on played 5 lost 5 ?

That's almost an admission that Ashley is doing a good job not yet he isn't Long way from matching the old mob yet In terms of running a business he has long since surpassed them. In footballing terms it is yet to be seen however... No he's not, business is all about the numbers and NOTHING else. Season ticket sales are down and therefore on absolutely any assessment of the business, its doing worse on its number one metric. There are of course reasons for this but lets not confuse paying debts off with business success, got fuck all to do with each other. Good post.