I would have been more than happy with Owen! The bloke is a born goal scorer and is world class.

Unfortunately all we got was Frazier C and his "BFH"

You missed out Kevin Doyle! the lightweight, pikey tinted oaf!

Or to put it in a Bullseye context; less of the speed boat more of a souvenir crystal ashtray.

HH

Any chance you can find that interview with J2S and put a transcript up??

I wouldn't of wanted any of the three mentioned above. Owen perhaps, his injury record is quite ominous but his goalscoring record for the 'car'toon is quite impressive when fit. Maybe in January we can nip in with a cheeky bid of say £6m-£8m?? With his contract running down and the turmoil at St James' then they would more than likely look at selling.

I hope you haven't copied any of this of the Spurs Odious site? Although judging by the lasck of spelling mistakes & the correct syntax structure, I doubt Paul Smith wrote the original.

Interesting Story (I know its from the mail) but would you really want to work for a boss that forced you to go somewhere? Maybe Fraizer will end up at Spurs after all.

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I'd be happy with Owen for £6m... and for the record, I quite like Ashton. He was on his way to becoming a real class act before that ankle business and he might just be in the way back. £16m is well over the odds though.

Who's responsible for the eleventh hour cock up?
Comolli? I hope he's shown the door.

Why do people not like Dean Ashton, apart from his injury list, this boy is excellent, he would have been fantastic alongside Benty/Pav/GDS/FC all those players posses pace and Ashton would have been the perfect partner for them, would have definately liked him at WHL!!!

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Why do people not like Dean Ashton, apart from his injury list, this boy is excellent, he would have been fantastic alongside Benty/Pav/GDS/FC all those players posses pace and Ashton would have been the perfect partner for them, would have definately liked him at WHL!!!

he's not bad, but when you have a strike partnership leave netting 50 mil in revenue, you'd expect the director of football to aim higher and deliver more quality ffs.

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Reply to Simon:

Why do people not like Dean Ashton, apart from his injury list, this boy is excellent, he would have been fantastic alongside Benty/Pav/GDS/FC all those players posses pace and Ashton would have been the perfect partner for them, would have definately liked him at WHL!!!

he's not bad, but when you have a strike partnership leave netting 50 mil in revenue, you'd expect the director of football to aim higher and deliver more quality ffs.

I agree with you on that, but I'm really dissapointed that we waited until the last few hours to try and secure another striker, I am thankfull that we didn't end up signing cole,doyle or heskey, that would have been the ultimate embarrasment!

Comolli's days must be numbered, surely. Levy took charge of the Berbatov debacle purely so DC could set about finding and securing a replacement - do his job, in other words - and he failed

Still we're in better shape mentally now and the more I think about Corluka the more I like our chances. He's going to be a vital cog in the machine filling in for Hutton/King/Woodgate as and when the injuries strike. I wish we had a game tomorrow so we can get all this gloom out of our system. As it is we have to watch England roll over Andorra in a disappointing 2-0 win and listen to John Terry tell everyone how we'll win the World Cup as a result

These three would be worse than useless to us-and would have been proof positive of our lack of ambition. We've made good quality signings-includin Campbell-and got an excellent return for Keane and Berbatov. Yes we'll miss them, but life goes on.
We'll have more money to spend in Jan, and I for one am glad that we kept our money in the bank rather than spend it on these plonkers.

I'm liking the sound of our Russian assasin Mr Pavlyuchenko>>>

"I can't really say much about Berbatov leaving. Let him go and then I'll play. It's good for me."

Good for us too Pav! Cant wait to see him star against the Villa.

Lets not keep fretting about the Window. Yeah, it wasn't good but its closed now. We can't do anything about it. We are left with overall, a stronger squad than this time last year. Lets get behind the lads and push on with the season.

"You can't beat a bit o' Bully!" It's such a shame that that's all that seems to be coming out of the THFC spin department at the moment; Comolli bemoaning those nasty ol' agents for ruining his Monday? Always good to have a pantomime villain to hang your excuses on. "Let's have a look at what you could have have won." someone to inspire a touch more enthusiasm than training up a future Man U starlet for return back oop North. "I'm afraid you've been Bully'd' out" - MOOOOOO!

COMOLLI LAST CHANCE

Dear Mr Comolli

Following your futile efforts to bring in a striker to compliment Pavlova and Benty we (the board) have been gettin pelters from JGM and his chums, so much so that they are calling for my head.

I refuse to carry the can and you know i insisted on 4 strikers IF that greasy haired bulgarian fuc*wit goes to Manure. What the hell happened?

Anyways, i think we all know Mr Comolli that we live for the now so i task you this and expect a result by the time we play Aston Villa;

Scour Europe; Neigh, The Fuc*ing world for Out of Contract strikers (try that fat bloke in sth america or that aged swede, no not sven you cnut) or see if it is financially viable for Spurs to buy out their contract via some underhand deal...............basically Mr Comolli we need one more striker...............off you go......oh wait wait, dont forget; he cannot be cup tied (you muppet)

End of the day this is all hot air and we have to look at what we have at the moment. I think this team could achieve Europe and it would take some consistent over performing for us to get top4. But looking at the team we are set to take europe by storm and we have to be one of the favourites for UEFA Cup. We will struggle in the league as we still dont have that midfield enforcer but I think if we can mould Huddlestone and Zokora into a DM partnership then we maybe wouldn't need to buy anyone. What does the rest of you think this squad is capable of?

I like Ashton & Owen and think they both could have added something. The problem is their injury record as someone mentioned before. As such its not worth paying decent money but if you could get either for £5-6m I would go for it, I think there's more chance with Owen as he's out of contract soon. Maybe we could get him in Jan on a pay as you play deal (or heavily based on appearence money & goals type salary).
Right off to a wedding just a few hundred yards from Rooney's house. With any luck i'll see that Bulgarian c*ck house hunting and run him down!
ps Ossie (aka Fickle Oz) must be back at school now.

I dont understand why we aren't trying to bring in Stephen Appiah. He has to be the best player available on a free transfer at this moment in time.

Where's dusty bin when you need him?

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I would have been more than happy with Owen! The bloke is a born goal scorer and is world class.

I could not agree more. Moreover, we would probably have got him on a cut-price deal because Newcastle wanted to get him off their wage bill (at least at a certain point in time) and he only has 1 year left on his contract. However, I doubt that he'd have come to us because he is reportedly on something like 120k a week and we reportedly only pay a maximum of about 60k a week, maybe we could have increased this to 80k for him but would be take a 40k a week wage cut to join us?

The important question is: if we are taking a player on loan from those bastards: why the FUCK do we not have an option to buy him? It may not be Commolli's fault that we could not get Garcia or anyone else (although I still hope he gets sacked) but what was the harm, at that late hour when ManUtd were obviously desperate to buy Berba, on insisting on inserting a buy-out clause of, say, 4-5m? Worst-case scenario was that he would be crap and we would not exercise the option; best-case scenario would be that he'd blossom at WHL and we'd have a bargain on our hands. THIS is where Commolli has really fucked up beyond doubt.

Hi HH,
Long time reader and first time posting on here. Yes, the signings could have been much worse. The club has spent a lot of money this summer, but we never seem to be content. I miss Robbie but I do think that without him and Berba we will play more like a unit, as I thought we did against Chelski. And regarding replacing the goal rate, we could win more games if we let in less goals too. We scored a lot last year, but we shipped way too many. I do wish we had a midfield general, and I wonder why we play Jenas, but let's get behind this team and let's stop moaning.

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COMOLLI LAST CHANCE

Dear Mr Comolli

Following your futile efforts to bring in a striker to compliment Pavlova and Benty we (the board) have been gettin pelters from JGM and his chums, so much so that they are calling for my head.

I refuse to carry the...

Here Here toddspur!

Perhaps would add the following:

"PS: After which kindly take your muppet Gooner ass and f*ck right off"

Lets be honest with ourselves. The only deal that would have kept people happy was the Arshavin deal. It did not happen. Throwing money at it would have clearly helped. For all the hype over the Berby deal, the thing that made it happen was Man Utd upping their bid by £10m (£20m original to £30.25 final). W did not do that with Arshavin. For that alone, serious questions need to be asked as to the lack of foresight of the Commolli / Levy / Ramos of the need to bring someone else in.

Commolli was relying upon Garcia / Milito as back up. The logical thing would have been to bring one or other of those in early last week (like we did with Pavlychenko). They were not particularly expensive and would have done a job. It did not happen because we did not want them enough and they knew that if Spurs were buying Arshavin and Pavly that they would be well down the pecking order.

That gave us the last minute run around. Levy and co faced with a stark position having messed up on the other three deals (Arsh, Mili and Garcia). Too late to bring in a foreigner and very few options to pick from.

Contary to rumours, Spurs clearly did not go for Doyle - Nick Hammond has said as much.

We clearly went after Owen, but Keegan killed it.

Ashton and Heskey were our back up back up plan. Both Wigan and West Ham knew Spurs were desperate and slapped overpriced fees on them. Spurs, quite rightly were not willing to pay over the odds for players who were only going to play till Jan.

Fair enough, Spurs could have paid the money but seriously £10m for Heskey or £16m for Ashton - Both would have been shit investments at best.

So, what did that leave us with. Campbell as a third choice striker. 4 months to navigate with Bent and Pavly before Jan when we can try again to get the players.

Whats the message from all of this. The problem was not that we were chasing players at the last minute but that we left it to the last minute.

I would have taken any of those three to warm the bench and add to the selection options for Ramos.

1. Heskey would give us point man/target options.
2. Ashton would have been made fitter than he's ever been in his life working under Ramos and Alvares. Obviously he'd be on a sauce-less diet, and would be told in no uncertain terms to move away from the pies!
3. Would Owen have taken a pay cut? What I do know that with a different side to his game as displayed at the end of last season for the cartoons, he would have fit well into an unpredictable attacking line up.

My money for the Jan window is Lukas Podolski. Interview in Die Bild (german red top - is that he still isn't happy there and has been slagged off by the Bayern chairman). Fitter than Arshavin will be, pace and a eye for goal.

Greekos - Team will do ok till Jan, by which time Comolli's replacement will have lined up the targets properly and picked them of the transfer shelf for the right price and with the right motivation. COMOLLI OUT! COMOLLI OUT! COMOLLI OUT!

In reality we do not have just the three strikers.

On the official site, J2S is listed as a striker. Maybe JR has got big plans for our mexican friend. I can see him forming a little large partnership with Pav or Bent. At present he's just acclimatising to the PL and once he has I'm sure big things will come of him!

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COMOLLI LAST CHANCE

Dear Mr Comolli

Following your futile efforts to bring in a striker to compliment Pavlova and Benty we (the board) have been gettin pelters from JGM and his chums, so much so that they are calling for my head.

I refuse to carry the...

Toddspur, buying out someone's contract does not help, we can only bring in players who were out of contract as at transfer deadline day. It's not even possible to do this 'underhand' since players who were not out of contract would have been registered with the appropriate league organisations. A pity, but brillant letter and hope that Commolli goes pretty soon. Given the track record of transfers since Ramos came in (all good except selling Malbranque and keeping Jenas and Dawson), I hope that Ramos is put in charge of all transfers.

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In reality we do not have just the three strikers.

On the official site, J2S is listed as a striker. Maybe JR has got big plans for our mexican friend. I can see him forming a little large partnership with Pav or Bent. At present he's just acclimatising to the PL and once he has I'm...

Jamie: while I agree that big things are expected of Dos Santos, I have the following concerns: if Dos Santos is to play as a forward:
(i) who do we have for LW? We have to play Bale at LB because Assou-Ekotto is useless, unless we give Gilberto another chance;
(ii) why did we sell Malbranque, who was making a decent fist of it at LW and could have covered other positions as well?
(iii) When Sevilla made clear that they did not want to sell Capel to us unless we over-paid (and why not overpay if the boy is genuinely good), why didn't we pursue someone else? Why, e.g., were we not in the race for Ben Arfa, a French international who's young and will improve and who moved for less than GBP10m?

Something is seriously wrong at our club. We do great in getting in players like Modric, Dos Santos and Gomes but we always fall short of addressing all the issues and we then struggle. Let's hope that my predictions are wrong but I cannot see us finishing near top 4 this season and it'll be much harder next season when City splash the cash.

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Funny story>>

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Salient points from Sami Gypsie:

“Everybody speaks French, with the Swiss pla...

Give me another excuse to hate them why not. Don't they understand that this is the ENGLISH Premier League??? As such they should try and speak English with the squad - THE International Language that it is. At least Ramos speaks English with the players if not to the press and McClaren tried to sound Dutch!

Funny story>>

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Salient points from Sami Gypsie:

“Everybody speaks French, with the Swiss players, the Africans, the French lads and Arsene Wenger all in there,” Nasri, who joined Arsenal in a £12m move from Marseille said.

The boss talks in French when he has