Anybody else satisfied...

[Tottenham Dave]

That helicopter story has got to be BS.

Probably!

[Goaters 103]

Question:

I wondered now with you guys having the mother of all money behind you, whether some of you actually miss, even just a little bit, being in with the rest of us also-rans?

Nope. Having sat through 30 odd years of winning sweet fa, in fact not even getting close to winning anything, I dont miss one single bit of it.

Lincoln away, Wycombe away, York City away - losing all three - is a very overrated experience. City fans have served their time watching some absolute dross over the years, maybe perhaps fate is paying us back with The Sheikh coming in and bestowing his riches upon us.

Fair enough.

I suppose when drawing parallels with Spurs, it's easy to forget you guys have had it pretty tough (much tougher).

Well, good luck, it'll be good to have a new side shaking things up at the top.

Enjoy the CL too, I know we did last year (Europa League :( )

Thanks for the good wishes. With a decent centre half and reliable goal poacher Spurs could easily finish top 4 again, though Modric leaving would be a major set-back as he's a class player.

Got a couple of mates who are season ticket holders on the shelf, and they were over-joyed that the Stratford move never happened - am assuming you are the same? Good luck, except when you play us, obviously.

[ashton287]

Question:

Legend (down here) has it that Roman Abramovic was in a helicopter flying over London shortly before he was going to make a bid to buy Spurs. Apparently, he saw Chelsea's Disneyland stadium and changed his mind just like that and went in for them.

So it seems, if that's true, that we were very close to being bought out all those years ago, and things could have been very different over the last few years.

With that in mind, I've often wondered whether or not I would have liked to have Spurs pushed to the top of the table by a money man, instead of being the 'nearly' team that I've always loved. Truth be told, I quite like Spurs being on the edge of success, it's never boring, often painful, but it keeps you hooked in because the hope kind of carries you through, keeps the fans singing etc There's something quite unifying about failure.

I wondered now with you guys having the mother of all money behind you, whether some of you actually miss, even just a little bit, being in with the rest of us also-rans? Or whether you completely embrace the new money-men and all the great players you're signing at the minute?

I'm not making any sort of judgement, like I say, I've wondered myself whether I prefer things the way they are at Spurs at the minute, or if I would have liked Roman to splash his cash down at the Lane. Part of me would love us to be signing Aguero and looking forward to challenging for the title next year.

Imagine seeing your team lift the premier league trophy for the first time. Just thinking about seeing city do it makes me all happy inside. Because of the sheikh that dream will come true in the next few years.

So no chance would i change it back to how it was.

[Tottenham Dave]

Question:

I wondered now with you guys having the mother of all money behind you, whether some of you actually miss, even just a little bit, being in with the rest of us also-rans?

Nope. Having sat through 30 odd years of winning sweet fa, in fact not even getting close to winning anything, I dont miss one single bit of it.

Lincoln away, Wycombe away, York City away - losing all three - is a very overrated experience. City fans have served their time watching some absolute dross over the years, maybe perhaps fate is paying us back with The Sheikh coming in and bestowing his riches upon us.

Fair enough.

I suppose when drawing parallels with Spurs, it's easy to forget you guys have had it pretty tough (much tougher).

Well, good luck, it'll be good to have a new side shaking things up at the top.

Enjoy the CL too, I know we did last year (Europa League :( )

Thanks for the good wishes. With a decent centre half and reliable goal poacher Spurs could easily finish top 4 again, though Modric leaving would be a major set-back as he's a class player.

Got a couple of mates who are season ticket holders on the shelf, and they were over-joyed that the Stratford move never happened - am assuming you are the same? Good luck, except when you play us, obviously.

I'm not sure we'll be having a good season in all honestly.

I don't think Modric will be going anywhere, but the whole saga has put a bit of a cloud over things and pre-season has been drab.

We are desperate for a finisher, ok Defoe can't have as bad a season again, but we need someone else up there. Come on, you lot don't need Adebayor, we'll give him a start every match.

Stratford would have been a disaster. It's miles from Tottenham. That said, it's going to be worse for West Ham, the crucial part of their bid was that they'd keep the running track around the pitch. They were shit when they had their fans on top of the pitch, God knows what kind of atmosphere they'll have when the fans are 30 feet away.

[Alioune DVToure]

Question:

I wondered now with you guys having the mother of all money behind you, whether some of you actually miss, even just a little bit, being in with the rest of us also-rans?

Nope. Having sat through 30 odd years of winning sweet fa, in fact not even getting close to winning anything, I dont miss one single bit of it.

Lincoln away, Wycombe away, York City away - losing all three - is a very overrated experience. City fans have served their time watching some absolute dross over the years, maybe perhaps fate is paying us back with The Sheikh coming in and bestowing his riches upon us.

Fair enough.

I suppose when drawing parallels with Spurs, it's easy to forget you guys have had it pretty tough (much tougher).

Well, good luck, it'll be good to have a new side shaking things up at the top.

Enjoy the CL too, I know we did last year (Europa League :( )

Thanks for the good wishes. With a decent centre half and reliable goal poacher Spurs could easily finish top 4 again, though Modric leaving would be a major set-back as he's a class player.

Got a couple of mates who are season ticket holders on the shelf, and they were over-joyed that the Stratford move never happened - am assuming you are the same? Good luck, except when you play us, obviously.

I'm not sure we'll be having a good season in all honestly.

I don't think Modric will be going anywhere, but the whole saga has put a bit of a cloud over things and pre-season has been drab.

We are desperate for a finisher, ok Defoe can't have as bad a season again, but we need someone else up there. Come on, you lot don't need Adebayor, we'll give him a start every match.

Stratford would have been a disaster. It's miles from Tottenham. That said, it's going to be worse for West Ham, the crucial part of their bid was that they'd keep the running track around the pitch. They were shit when they had their fans on top of the pitch, God knows what kind of atmosphere they'll have when the fans are 30 feet away.

What I'd be doing now, were I your horrid ballsack of a manager:

1) Get 30 million plus Benayoun for Modric.
2) Sign Berbatov (10m), Adebayor (8m), Barton (free) and Jagielka (12m).
3) Give more game time to Kranjcar.

With those three steps I reckon you'd trump Arse and the BinDippers and bag 4th.

[Tottenham Dave]

What I'd be doing now, were I your horrid ballsack of a manager:

1) Get 30 million plus Benayoun for Modric.
2) Sign Berbatov (10m), Adebayor (8m), Barton (free) and Jagielka (12m).
3) Give more game time to Kranjcar.

With those three steps I reckon you'd trump Arse and the BinDippers and bag 4th.

You may be right, but:

Levy has already stated Modric isn't for sale, so he'll look a prize knob if he sells him now, Berbatov won't come back to Spurs as he'd have to admit abject failure at United, Barton wouldn't get in the side before Sandro or Huddlestone and Jagielka, well, he'd fit right in but Everton will want a lot more than 12 mil for him, and rumours have it he's on his way to the filth.

I ain't too worried about Liverpool, I don't think they'll be much (s'cuse pun) kop this year, but Arse, City, United and Chelsea are better than us. 5th at best this year.

Meh.

*edit - Kranjcar is class and deserves more of a look in, agreed.

[carl_feedthegoat]

What I'd be doing now, were I your horrid ballsack of a manager:

1) Get 30 million plus Benayoun for Modric.
2) Sign Berbatov (10m), Adebayor (8m), Barton (free) and Jagielka (12m).
3) Give more game time to Kranjcar.

With those three steps I reckon you'd trump Arse and the BinDippers and bag 4th.

You may be right, but:

Levy has already stated Modric isn't for sale, so he'll look a prize knob if he sells him now, Berbatov won't come back to Spurs as he'd have to admit abject failure at United, Barton wouldn't get in the side before Sandro or Huddlestone and Jagielka, well, he'd fit right in but Everton will want a lot more than 12 mil for him, and rumours have it he's on his way to the filth.

I ain't too worried about Liverpool, I don't think they'll be much (s'cuse pun) kop this year, but Arse, City, United and Chelsea are better than us. 5th at best this year.

Meh.

*edit - Kranjcar is class and deserves more of a look in, agreed.

If you dont fall in line with the top 4 wages then you wont have a prayer of getting back in there....its not like you lot have no money is it !.

[Tottenham Dave]

If you dont fall in line with the top 4 wages then you wont have a prayer of getting back in there....its not like you lot have no money is it !.

You're right of course, sign of the times.

For a while there I was proud of the club's stance, but we're getting left behind now.

It's bad though, I mean, how much money do people need? £40,000 a week is enough for anyone.

[Rag_hater]

Question:

I wondered now with you guys having the mother of all money behind you, whether some of you actually miss, even just a little bit, being in with the rest of us also-rans?

Nope. Having sat through 30 odd years of winning sweet fa, in fact not even getting close to winning anything, I dont miss one single bit of it.

Lincoln away, Wycombe away, York City away - losing all three - is a very overrated experience. City fans have served their time watching some absolute dross over the years, maybe perhaps fate is paying us back with The Sheikh coming in and bestowing his riches upon us.

Fair enough.

I suppose when drawing parallels with Spurs, it's easy to forget you guys have had it pretty tough (much tougher).

Well, good luck, it'll be good to have a new side shaking things up at the top.

Enjoy the CL too, I know we did last year (Europa League :( )

The actual fact of being shit did have its pain.However all these hero's who turned up to watch us then I think did it simply because they enjoyed doing it.I think they had nothing better to do and going to the match was the way quite a few thousand enjoyed passing the time.
Some of our fans like having a fight,some like getting pissed some go to meet their friends and sing songs and do things that you can only get away with at the football.
I'm sure the pain of being relegated was far outweighed by the enjoyment that was attained out of being loyal.

[Rae4685]

What I'd be doing now, were I your horrid ballsack of a manager:

1) Get 30 million plus Benayoun for Modric.
2) Sign Berbatov (10m), Adebayor (8m), Barton (free) and Jagielka (12m).
3) Give more game time to Kranjcar.

With those three steps I reckon you'd trump Arse and the BinDippers and bag 4th.

You may be right, but:

Levy has already stated Modric isn't for sale, so he'll look a prize knob if he sells him now, Berbatov won't come back to Spurs as he'd have to admit abject failure at United, Barton wouldn't get in the side before Sandro or Huddlestone and Jagielka, well, he'd fit right in but Everton will want a lot more than 12 mil for him, and rumours have it he's on his way to the filth.

I ain't too worried about Liverpool, I don't think they'll be much (s'cuse pun) kop this year, but Arse, City, United and Chelsea are better than us. 5th at best this year.

Meh.

*edit - Kranjcar is class and deserves more of a look in, agreed.

Berbatov would cost more than £10 mil and Barton is mch better at the moment than huddlestone, seriously all he does is score a long ranger every now and then

[Grob]

If Hart gets injured, i would not be satisfield with our goalkeeping situation.

[leewonpen]

Question:

Legend (down here) has it that Roman Abramovic was in a helicopter flying over London shortly before he was going to make a bid to buy Spurs. Apparently, he saw Chelsea's Disneyland stadium and changed his mind just like that and went in for them.

So it seems, if that's true, that we were very close to being bought out all those years ago, and things could have been very different over the last few years.

With that in mind, I've often wondered whether or not I would have liked to have Spurs pushed to the top of the table by a money man, instead of being the 'nearly' team that I've always loved. Truth be told, I quite like Spurs being on the edge of success, it's never boring, often painful, but it keeps you hooked in because the hope kind of carries you through, keeps the fans singing etc There's something quite unifying about failure.

I wondered now with you guys having the mother of all money behind you, whether some of you actually miss, even just a little bit, being in with the rest of us also-rans? Or whether you completely embrace the new money-men and all the great players you're signing
at the minute?

I'm not making any sort of judgement, like I say, I've wondered myself whether I prefer things the way they are at Spurs at the minute, or if I would have liked Roman to splash his cash down at the Lane. Part of me would love us to be signing Aguero and looking forward to challenging for the title next year.

My dad died 5 years ago and was buried in his city top. So when we won the cup I thought my dad would love to see this. We will enjoys this run and long may it continue. But we have to enjoy while it last ,as history shows football goes in cycles.CTID

[dazby]

All we need is a back up keeper plus a prospect attacking mid. I'd like us to scout a player from the U20s world cup and make them Silvas understudy.


Re the money thing. It has taken a bit of getting used to for a lot of us. There was a noble glory in supporting a crap team but I'd take what we have now any day of the week. As long as the fans and the club remain humble and respectful, all will be tops.

[Green & Blue]

If Hart gets injured, i would not be satisfield with our goalkeeping situation.

Agreed just would not be at all confident in Taylor if Hart was injured.My major issue with him is that he has never made the effort to be a first choice keeper at any stage in his career, he could have dropped a league or two and madeago of it.That does not bode well with me, he really has very little first team experience to call upon for a player who has been in the game since the nineties.

[Ted Hughes]

All we need is a back up keeper plus a prospect attacking mid. I'd like us to scout a player from the U20s world cup and make them Silvas understudy.


Re the money thing. It has taken a bit of getting used to for a lot of us. There was a noble glory in supporting a crap team but I'd take what we have now any day of the week. As long as the fans and the club remain humble and respectful, all will be tops.

We'll attract more & more knobheads with each season, until eventually we'll be outnumbered. It's inevitable. We've got plenty of time for enjoyment before that kicks in though. I had enough of misery in the dark days. Competing for trophies is much more fun, if not as passionate/desperate.

Backup for Silva, wide player who can cross, backup for Tevez if he goes, backup keeper needed imo.

[Dameerto]

More Argies please - I'm into Argies at the moment.

[sandman]

I understand that we could use some addition players and we do not have the best player in the world for every position, but I feel we have one of the top 5 squads in the world and I believe we have the most potential in world football.

I am satisfied as I believe that our current squad can win the League and with a bit of luck maybe even Champions League.

[Mase]

I'm sure the pain of being relegated was far outweighed by the enjoyment that was attained out of being loyal.

It wasn't.

[Rag_hater]

I'm sure the pain of being relegated was far outweighed by the enjoyment that was attained out of being loyal.

It wasn't.

Yeah OK
I believe you

[Rae4685]

I'm sure the pain of being relegated was far outweighed by the enjoyment that was attained out of being loyal.

It wasn't.

Yeah OK
I believe you

I agree it definitely was NOT!