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May 14, 2011
The 25-man squad rule and rebuilding for next season
We have a lot of work to do this summer to clear the deadwood.
This year's squad
This was the 25-man squad list that we submitted at the start of February:
1. Ben Alnwick
2. Benoit Assou-Ekotto
3. Sebastien Bassong
4. Vedran Corluka
5. Peter Crouch
6. Carlo Cudicini
7. Heurelho Gomes
8. Michael Dawson
9. Jermain Defoe
10. William Gallas
11. Tom Huddlestone
12. Alan Hutton
13. Jermaine Jenas
14. Younes Kaboul
15. Bongani Khumalo
16. Ledley King
17. Niko Kranjcar
18. Aaron Lennon
19. Luka Modric
20. Wilson Palacios
21. Roman Pavlyuchenko
22. Steven Pienaar
23. Stipe Pletikosa
24. Rafael van der Vaart
25. Jonathan Woodgate
Others to consider
Added to our squad this summer will be the returning loanees Kyle Naughton, David Bentley and Robbie Keane, all of whom are over 21.
It is also important to note that the following players will no longer be able to be considered under-21s from next season, and will therefore have to be named in the 25-man squad if we want to use them:
Gareth Bale
Sandro Ranieri
David Button
Giovani Dos Santos
Jake Livermore
That takes us to 33 players – eight of whom would obviously not be able to play in league games.
As an aside, Kyle Walker, Danny Rose, Jonathan Obika and Oscar Jansson all have one more year as U21 players – effectively "freebies".
I imagine that the following will all leave:
Cudicini – contract ending.
Woodgate – contract ending.
Pletikosa – loan contract expiring.
Bassong – allegedly wants to return to France.
O'Hara – likely to make permanent move to Wolves.
dos Santos – likely to make permanent move to Racing Santander.
Even if those players leave, we will likely need to either not include others or sell more players in order to improve the squad, and so it's no wonder that most of the newspapers are reporting that we will be having an end of season clear-out.
The Independent reported on Thursday that offers would be considered for Roman Pavlyuchenko, Niko Kranjcar, Alan Hutton, Vedran Corluka and Wilson Palacios (as well as Robbie Keane, Jamie O'Hara, Giovani dos Santos, and David Bentley). I would personally add Sebastien Bassong, Jermaine Jenas, Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch to this list, as all of them are a level below where we would like to be. I would also put on record at this point, that I wouldn't sell either Corluka or Kranjcar – Kranjcar in particular seems certain to be leaving (with Roma supposedly interested), but I would expect Corluka to stay.
Redknapp's signings so far
My concern for the summer is Redknapp's previous transfer record at Spurs. Below are his signings so far:
2010/11 Steven Pienaar – £3m
2010/11 Bongani Khumalo – £1.5m
2010/11 William Gallas – free
2010/11 Rafael van der Vaart – £8m
2010/11 Stipe Pletikosa – loan
2010/11 Sandro Ranieri – £6m
2009/10 Younes Kaboul – £5m
2009/10 Eidur Gudjohnsen – loan
2009/10 Niko Kranjcar- £2.5m
2009/10 Sebastien Bassong – £8m
2009/10 Peter Crouch – £9.5m
2009/10 Kyle Naughton- £4m
2009/10 Kyle Walker – £4m
2008/09 Robbie Keane – £15m
2008/09 Pascal Chimbonda – £3m
2008/09 Carlo Cudicini – free
2008/09 Wilson Palacios – £12m
2008/09 Jermain Defoe – £16m
Transfer fees taken from the wonderful Topspurs.
Whilst recognising that a number of these players were bought at a time when we were desperate for any improvement (and also some "big characters"), it's worrying how we have paid huge figures for relatively average players during Redknapp's spell. The only players that can be said to have been truly successful signings are Sandro (who, at £6m, looks a real bargain), Walker (who has great potential and is already worth at least double what we paid), van der Vaart, and Gallas. Other than Gallas, rumours suggest that Redknapp was not heavily involved in any of these transfers. A number of his signings have had some good spells (Kranjcar, Bassong, Defoe, etc), but a fair few have been total flops (Pletikosa, Keane, Chimbonda).
In revealing this morning that his scouts suggested that Luis Suarez was, essentially, not what we needed, I worry about whether we are capable of shopping around and finding the appropriate players at appropriate prices. The late bids in January for Llorente, Rossi, Forlan, Aguero, etc etc, suggest more of a scatter gun approach than a disciplined and targeted approach to identifying potential signings.
What type of players do we need?
I would imagine that we will need to sign the following (at least), and probably in this order:
2/3 x strikers
1 x goalkeeper (competition for Gomes)
1 x centre back (to replace Bassong/Woodgate)
1 x left back (competition for Assou-Ekotto)
1 x right winger (competition for Lennon)
Whilst we should make plenty of money with the outgoing transfers, most of these funds could easily be sapped by signing one or two top forwards, and it will be vital that we shop around and look for bargains elsewhere.
Many names have been mentioned, particularly in terms of strikers, and in truth, most would be an improvement on what we have; the difficulty is that we are looking for strikers that are prepared to accept no Champions League football. Of those potentially available, Falcao of Porto would be my preference as first-choice, with someone like van Nistelrooy/Elmander (both available for free) and a younger player that could qualify as an under-21 (Lukaku if that deal is possible, or Wickham if not) brought in as back-up. The difficulty is that these players will not be cheap, and it is important not to be held to ransom. Cheaper alternatives are always there, but making use of the scouting network is crucial.
Including returning loanees and players who are now to old to be considered "under-21", we have 33 players fighting for the 25 squad places next season (before we make any signings). It will be vital to move out of favour players on before bringing new faces in; we don't want to end up with lots of players on big wages who are not even eligible having been left out of the 25-man squad.
We need to strengthen our forward line as a priority and if this means selling all four of our strikers in order to be able to afford one or two top class replacements, so be it.
In identifying transfer targets, it will be important to consider the ages of potential targets. For example, Phil Jones and David Hoilett of Blackburn, or Connor Wickham of Ipswich could represent useful transfer targets as they would not need to be named as part of our 25-man squad.
At last an interesting read that makes sense – I'm sick of paying over the odds for rubbish players and missing out on good players who are hardly any more expensive – Falcao and Hulk in, with Kane on the bench, Cahill in to replace Woodgate, Bassong and King (sorry but we can't afford a place for him any longer), a keeper to push Gomes and replace the 2 that are leaving. Personally I don't think we have been the same team since VDV joined – a great start but poor in the latter part of the season. I would build the future of our team around Dawson, Kaboul, Walker, BAE, Modric, Huddlestone, Sandro, Bale, Lennon, Caulker, Rose and Bostock – give the kid a chance.
Dream squad for next season:
Gomes, Robbo/Stekelenberg, Loach?
Walker, Corluka,
Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul, Phil Jones, Khumalo
BAE, Rose.
Lennon, (new versatile winger as back up)
Modders, Hudd, Sandro, O'Hara, Rafa vdV
Bale, Kranjcar
Falcao, Defoe, Crouch, (New young striker ideally Lukaku or Wickham)
I Agree Vdv can go for me. I would add PinEAR to the list (to stay)and I would also like to see O Hara kept on he is just the type of utility player we need, good left foot as well.
Gomes, Walker, Dawson, Cahill, BAE, Lennon, Sandro, Modders, Bale, Sturridge, A top class striker.
Thud, Pinear, O Hara, Rose, Kaboul, Corluka, Defoe, K Jones, Khumalo.
My concern is not who we need to buy, but who we need to sell / offload.
We all know Dan Levy likes to make a few quid, but with players like Keane, where we know he will never get a game, surely we have to literally give him away. No club is going to match his wages if they have to pay a transfer fee as well, and that goes for a few other players we have on long contracts.
We need to act quickly and firmly – getting all those definitely going out as soon as possible, and making proper serious offers for any players we want and getting the deals done.
We can't end up starting a season again with a situation like the Berbatov saga, damaging the team stability from the start.
Get into the market, make it clear who is going and just get them out and act decisively.
Nice article.
A Suggestion or for LB would be Joe Mattock or Jose Angel.
Both early 20s, and with great potential.
I would like to think for ST we should look to Sergio Aguerro… the only problem would be lack of CL football.
I believe one of the other commenters mentioned bringing in Phil Jones as a CB… not a bad shout, but maybe we could look at Gary Cahill too?
As for Keepers, I had previously had Neuer / Rene Adler in mind… but with their performances, I don't think we'll have the funds.
Perhaps someone along the lines of Stekelenburg or Ochoa? (Mexican International) or maybe even Romero (Argentinian)…
But if these are indeed as unlikely as I fear, why not bring in Alex Smithies to begin to push for the No1 jersey??
Great read. Will be interesting to see what happens when the Tottenham Transfer Window opens on the 30th of August.
The main priority from the board should be to do all, or most of their dealings early in the Market so they're with the team for as long as possible and also not allow redknapp to have anything to do with who we sign. The guy has never been any good in the transfer Market and all this wheeler dealer stuff is ridiculous.
Big summer which I fear could fail with an inability to get rid of the players we no longer need or want.
Windy excellent stats but please don't talk about Defoe and Crouch going because we have done that and they produced 28 goals last year. Crouch his one of only two players at 6ft7 and over playing with in the prem this gives us a big advantage in some games. Defoe showed playing to his strengths he can score some crackers but benching him has not helped his confidants or sharpness Harry has played to Vans strengths and Not Spurs strengths and its this and energy that has ruined our campaign and helped City get fourth. This is down to the missing B sample that Alan Green mentioned on the Radio today and i mentioned it on blogs yesterday. Just look at Liverpool rise up the table with Maxi scoring seven goals when he was rubbish there goals and defence have improved with there tempo and its not just Liverpool who have benefited from this tempoi was told by the very people who caught Toure it was rife. So when you want to get rid of players please factor in your thinking why there was so many shocks and this should help you Danny Caddamateri now at Huddersfield trying to get promoted in the play offs Paddy Kenny promoted QPR Kolo Toure fourth and the Fa cup all have got caught taking drugs that make you play like Liverpool and others fast high tempo with defending and attacking with the same numbers for 90 plus mins . This is why there is a long tale of relegation and it proves other divisions are using it to get promoted and stay up.
Cracking article.
My issue is, if our scouts were decent, we'd pick up quality players on the 'cheap' for competition for key areas in the squad and then spend big on a world class forward and perhaps two more in other areas to consolidate/progress.
The worry (not for some) is that Levy might cash in for Bale so we could have £40M to spend. The assumption of course is whether anyone would pay that amount for him in the first place.
Re: Defoe…if if if..he had not got injured. Who knows?
I just wrote an absolutely mammoth post that disappeared the moment I attempted to post it. Oh well; I shall try to be briefer this time.
I do not understand the growing consensus that Defoe should be shown the door, particularly just when he's starting to show some glimpes of form (2 goals in his last 2 starts, and decent ones at that). He's had a poor season, sure, but not without mitigating circumstances: injury, suspension, and an apparent crisis of confidence and evidenced by his performance against West Ham. What do you expect, though, from a player who's barely been given two consecutive starts all season? Through no fault of his own a lot of the time as well: he scores one match, he's dropped for the next. A collosal man-management misstep from Harry, I think. And it's not like the service to him has been great either; in the time Jermain's been injury and suspension free, we have largely been poor as a team.
You're also apparently advocating replacing our entire senior strikeforce with players who have never played in the Premier League, or even at a comparable level, with the exception of Elmander (who may well be a good signing, but has hardly been a model of consistency during his time in England) and Van Nistelrooy, who'll be 35 by the time next season starts. Other than that, I have no qualms with the particular players you've suggested, but I don't see how such an uncompromising overhaul can ever be wise.
I guess you could argue we have nothing to lose, but I disagree: Defoe is easily good enough to play for a team hoping to compete in the Champions League. At 28, he should be coming right into his prime, and I think some of his form last season, as well as at the beginning of this season (I know he didn't score before getting injured, but he looked very sharp), indicates that that is exactly the case. His teamwork, movement and hold-up play have all improved immeasurably during the last few years – he even seems to be getting over his tendency to hit the ball straight at the 'keeper when one-one-one – so to suggest we get rid is at best reactionary and at worst grossly unfair.
(PS – I wasn't briefer, but I was probably less articulate.)
Anon @ 16:48 – cheers. Certainly like your idea of bringing the young players through but, at 17, Kane is not quite ready yet. He'll have another season in League One next season I'd think (although I'd love to see him play an early round League Cup match). Rose has been great in his two games, and I'm hoping he keeps his place tomorrow – he has done his chances no harm at all.
Anon @ 17:08 – Still think we need to get rid of Defoe and Crouch, personally, and sadly I think Kranjcar's days are numbered. As for Lennon back up – what do you think of Hoilett or Chung Yong Lee?
Anon @ 17:13 – I agree re: O'Hara, but I think he has burnt his bridges. I'd not have signed Pienaar in the first place but now he's here I can't see him going. VDV? Think you're probably on your own there!
Anon @ 17:17 – Sturridge is a fantastic player. I'd be happy for us to go all out for him, as he's worth it.
SpursSimon – glad you got your comment up, apologies for the issues! It's a shame that West Ham aren't staying up in some ways, as we had a £6m deal agreed for Keane. I think QPR are our best hope… Totally agree re: acting quickly. I would seriously hope that we've already started preparing.
Phleanix – cheers. Mattock's a decent player. I don't know Jose Angel – what kind of player is he? Aguero, as you say, is probably out of reach, sadly.
LemonadeMoney – cheers! Hopefully a busy summer.
Drwinston – Agreed. Another benefit of getting in quickly is that we can do our dealings before we are met with competition.
Anon @ 17:56 – IMO playing to Crouch's strengths is, by definition, not playing to our other player's strengths. He's no longer a good fit in our side and, at 30, this is probably our last chance to get shot and be able to recoup some cash.
Spooky – cheers! Tend to agree. I don't want to criticise too much, as I'm sure our scouts DO do plenty of good work (hell, Sandro was a great bit of business, and I really like Luongo, who is an 18 year old that we picked up from an Australian team), but it does seem like they don't find many gems…
Adam – really sorry, the same happened to SpursSimon earlier. I can only suggest Ctrl-A/Ctl-V before posting, just in case. Ruddy Blogger! Thanks for such a long comment, I appreciate it. My own opinion on Defoe is that he's now slowing down (in terms of goals AND pace) but, even in his highest-scoring seasons, he scores a few less than our top striker probably needs to. I must also disagree on his general qualities – I think he's considerably worse than you make him out to be; his hold-up play has improved (there's no doubt about that), but his general awareness and football brain are still badly lacking. Whilst I would usually totally agree with your points re: an overhaul generally (I am a huge believer in continuity), since most of the players that I have advocated leaving have barely played, I'd suggest that it will have limited impact. In terms of strikers, VDV is essentially a number 10, so there's only really one striker place. And Falcao could hardly do worse than Crouch or Defoe of this season…
Good Article!
Firstly, i believe that we are not too many players away form being a top side and the strikers are what let us down this season! You said: 2/3 x strikers
1 x goalkeeper (competition for Gomes)
1 x centre back (to replace Bassong/Woodgate)
1 x left back (competition for Assou-Ekotto)
1 x right winger (competition for Lennon)
1. Marteen Steklenburg- Dutch No 1 and plays for Ajax- has one year left on his contract- could be good for us!
2. Jan Vertonghen- center back- also plays for Ajax and is left footed- which is really good because Dawson has been playing on the left to accommodate Gallas and hasn't been as dominant as he was last season playing on the right – Can also play left back which means he covers 2 positions on the list.
3. Jan Vertonghen and Danny Rose will be good enough cover for BAE.
3. Piennar can play on the right so moving to stikers- Lukas Podolski- who is a German Wayne Rooney- with a left foot and better looks!
Can play up front,Second striker and Left wing/left mid and in the hole. We all saw him against England and in the Euros- the guy is so good and is really underrated!Could be a star for us!
4.Karim Benzema- Striker-He will finally replace Berbatov! Guy is amazing and would probably break our transfer record but he will be worth it!
If we get these players- we will be amazing- just hope we get the right players!COYS!
He's now slowing down in terms of goals? Last season was his highest-scoring season ever, both in the league and overall. And for England. This season, as I've said (as if it needed saying), there have been plenty of mitigating circumstances with regard to his decreased contibrution. Wayne Rooney's so far scored 20 less goals this season than last, having played only 7 less games – what are we putting that down to? A player in decline at 25? Jermain may well now be on the down rather than the up, but to extrapolate that from the fact he's gone from his highest-scoring season ever straight into an injury and suspension-blighted low-scoring one is absurd.
I also never said he should be our top striker (in fact in my initial post, I specifically said he *shouldn't* be the benchmark, but that got lost in redux), but it's not as black and white as that, is it. Say we bring in Falcao, Wickham and Elmander. Falcao needs time to settle and Wickham isn't up to the grade yet (which, having seen him play a fair bit, he almost definitely isn't). You'd rather put your faith in Elmander than Defoe, would you? A player who's only scored 18 goals in 91 appearances for Bolton, i.e. less than Defoe scored last season alone? And it's not like Defoe is merely up to being a squad player either (or my interpretation of what a squad player is, anyway). If he hits a good run of form, he's an extremely potent weapon. Maybe he'll never be able to keep it up for a whole season, but so what? Very few players can. That's part of the reason you have a squad – to increase the chances of having 11 players in form at the same time. Are you saying, even at his best, you don't think Defoe's good enough? Because I think you're asking for a hell of a lot if so.
And finally, with regard to there only being one striker place, there are two really aren't there, it just so happens that Rafa takes up one of them. We could bring in another attacking midfielder rather than a striker to act as cover, but then we're committing ourselves to a system that we only really play so we can fit Rafa in. We could bring Modric further forward if Rafa gets injured or loses form, but then we're stretching the midfield thin. (Having said that, I'm very much of the opinion that Modric *should* be played further forward, but that's getting away from the point.) So even with Rafa in the squad, I don't see how we can do without three senior strikers, of which Defoe should be one. But hey, the grass is always greener…
Anon @ 18:54 – good suggestions. I'm not sure on Podolski – he's a good player but his scoring record is not the best. I think we should aim for a more prolific striker if possible. Massive fan of Benzema, but think he's more likely to go to Arsenal…
Adam – indeed, he scored 18 league goals last season, which I think was his highest by 4/5 goals. However, for over a calendar year he has looked a very poor player. I guess the question is: how long do you stick with a player and hope that he gets back to form? Redknapp stuck with him for the back end of last season, and he barely scored. He had a run of 10 or so games earlier this season and barely scored.
I totally take the point you're making about having a squad that are all capable of coming in and performing but, since Defoe has supposedly already been making noises about leaving if he doesn't get more starts, I can't see how it's going to work – especially if he DOESN'T score many!
I'd be happier giving Falcao 10-15 starts in the hope that he starts producing the goods, than Defoe. Falcao has the potential to be a wonderful player – he offers a lot to Porto aside from goals. Defoe, at best, would bang in some goals (probably some vital ones). But I don't think that Defoe helps to bring the best out of other players and so when he isn't scoring, he's not nearly as effective as others could be.
Essentially, I think Defoe is a good player – not a great player. He is a level below our best players – Sandro/Modric/Bale/VDV are at the level we should be aiming for.
Well I think Jermain has been treated poorly this season and I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to pack his bags, but that doesn't mean he should be shown the door. Also (I assume) Harry's treatment of Jermain this season has largely been short-termist, i.e. he hasn't been willing to give him the time required to build up his match fitness and confidence, and if Defoe's still around next year, with a full pre-season under his belt, the same thing won't happen again. There's also a difference between being dropped for Roman Pavlyuchenko and being dropped for… you know… someone good.
Agree with many of the comments above.On the left side, we may be able to get away without cover for BAE if Rose is given more chances- he looks good at LB. Cover for both Lennon and Bale could be provided by Matt Jarvis, you could pick him up for £6-8m, particularly if Wolves are relegated. Agree that Wickham and Falcoa are candidates up front. We need competition for Gomes. The return of Walker should allow Hutton to leave at RB. At CB Woodgate should leave, with Jones and Cahill as possibles
Excellent article – The bit about Redknapps buys is enough to make you wince, if not get into bed, pull the duvet over your head & cry your eyes out!
I'm just glad that while Harry spent all last summer fluttering his eyelashes at J Cole (what a 'great' signing he turned out to be) Levy was busy sounding out Madrid about Van der Vaart ie. Someone who has made a difference this season.
I agree with the other fans who are bigging up Cahill & Jones as they are good young footballers but we are not that far away from having a future England centre back already.
Steven Caulker might not be ready just yet, but he ain't far away from being an absolutely belting player. I would hate to see us sign a player for loads of money who will then hinder Steven's chances of making it at Spurs (No, I'm not his dad!) A Bristol City season ticket holder I know, says that he has been the stand out defender for them this season and what I've seen of him has really impressed me. We should think hard before lashing out millions on another 'prospect' when we already have our own…
Nice article,
We should release the likes of Pletikosa, King (1 or 2 games a season aint worth it), Woodgate(same as ledley).
We could also sell he likes of Hutton (average at best), Jenas (QPR are welcome to him), Palacios (the poor mans Sandro) ,O'Hara (Wants to leave, we have better),Bentley (No need to say anything), Kranjcar (Id like to keep him, but he's going), Dos Santos (same as kranjcar), Pavlyuchenko (not up to it),Crouch (1 dimensional and even his 1 dimension is average at best), Keane (past it).
Not sure about Naughton.
We should save ourselves a fortune in wages and get in a few quid from these sales.
Sign a new keeper any of the names mentioned (if available, somebody reliable)
Next promote Rose as cover for left back
Promote Townsend as 4th choice cover for our wing positions or sign some competition
New central midfielder (Knowing Harry this could be Parker)
2 new Strikers – maybe 2 of Elmander, Adebayor or Berbatov.
As much as I like VDV and recognise is talent, Its obvious that his arrival has had a negative affect on the team. The thing I dislike the most is the talk that he may have a clause in his contract whereby he must play if fit. If thats the case Id cash him in for and buy another striker. The team is always more important than 1 player.
Think we are only a couple of signings away from improvement mainly upfront and a decent keeper.
Anon @ 20:22 – agree, Rose has looked great. I've based this article on the rumours that both Rose and Caulker will be on loan at lower hahlf PL clubs next season. I would personally have them both in and around the squad, but I can see Redknapp going with more experienced players.
Gosport Dave – thanks! Totally agree re: Cole – thank goodness we missed him. I am a huge Caulker fan too (he was named Bristol City Young Player of the Year yesterday), but I have a feeling that Redknapp won't take a chance just yet. I also think that if we lose Bassong, Woodgate and King (which is possible), we may need two more CBs to go with Dawson, Gallas and Kaboul. Whether Khumalo is good enough to be one, I'm not sure.
Anon @ 01:42 – I tend to agree re: King, but would love to see him kept on in some capacity – rare that you get a one-club man nowadays (even if his hand has been somewhat forced by injury). I'd love to think that Redknapp will include Townsend on the bench for the last two games, just to get him some experience, but I just can't see it happening.
rednapp didn't no where to play modric and Kranjcar, at a time where we played our best football, easily in the last ten years. The toffee literally spills all over Harrys grubby little fingers…at one point last season the football was 'out of this world'. He cannot rotate the squad almost properly..so what if dos santos didn't turn out to be the new Ronaldhino, his football brain and touch is exquisite, Pav Defoe Crouch any body? who have the combined first touches of an over reaching baby delivered from a whom…or naive dear in the head lights of success.
NOw he has to force feed VDV in to the squad, y is this such a struggle, how can you not be able to make it work? but nit struggle to accomodate a player like CRouch or defoe? i realise that having a view makes us idiots, but harry is the clown, the media whore lowering our calibre with every breath of bullshi that he utters. Lets see where he goes from here and if anyone can remember, then please tell this toxic bafoon where it is that he ha sarrived..Not hard to see why players that won us important games last year, cannot get there offerings past his ego.
If you are intent on keeping Gomes, you'll finish out of the top 5 seeing as he costs you around 9 points per season with his clangers. Gomes is just a clown who can't catch. Don't smell his funny flower! Honk!
Couple of points to take issue with here. We reportedly turned down an offer from Bremen for £7.5 for Niko, so if we get anywhere near this price for him, he has to be considered a success.
The other is Connor Wickham. He may or may not be the real deal, but he has hardly been prolific with a strike rate of 1-in-5. I mourn our ability to sign a new striker, but it looks to me like most of those we could have/should have signed are not doing any better than what we have at present.
Regarding a mass clear out of "surplus" players, I have noticed a growing trend for the smaller clubs (i.e. the most likely buyers of our cast offs) just don't seem to have the money to spend and only want to take loan players, where we are probably contributing to their wages.
clear out i think..ie loanies kean,bentley,ohara but keep walker look promising. cash in on some other players ie wilson palasios-how ever u spell his name..need a trusty goal keeper,and a goal marchine oh and i would keep VDV
I'm glad someone has finally noticed Lee of Bolton, who may not have Lennon's pace but is a more skilful player with a better end product at present.
As regards Adam's defence of Defoe, perhaps you could enlighten me as to why he cannot manage to keep himself onside? He would manage to be offside taking a penalty! Watching Bent against the Goons made me wonder why Defoe doesn't actually follow the play rather than ball watch.
Marko Marin would be a great acquisition to take Luca's place in case we lose him season after next if we don't make top four. I also would like either Adams or Parker to replace Palacios, the former being the better player as well as a potential captain; I prefer the captain to be a midfielder.
Next season I would like to see a total overhaul of the squad, but as we have no CL, I cannot see too many superstars turning up at WHL. So my wish list as follows:-
Steklenberg, Hennessy, Loach, Jansson,
Corluka, Walker,
Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul,
Cahill, King, Caulker,
Enrique, BAE, Rose,
Young, Lennon,Townsend,
Sandro, Huddlestone, Hitzelsperger, Livermore,
Modric, Van der Vaart, Parker,
Bale, N'Zogbia, Pienaar,
Osvaldo, Defoe,
Crouch,Van Nistelrooy, Wickham,
I think that this season there should be a total revamp of the squad, with the peripheral players allowed to leave, and new blood to invigorate the team. Also I think that experienced players like Parker and Van Nistelrooy (Who has experience of winning things)to motivate the younger players.
On the way out would be Gomes, Cudicini, Pletikosa, Alnwick, Hutton, Woodgate, Bassong,Naughton, Bentley, Jenas, Palacios, O'Hara, Dos Santos, Kranjcar (sadly), Keane, Pavlyuchenko, as most of these are sometime squad players or loanees.
Whats happening with Oscar Jansson??, an great golie that has not been given the chance since Ramos left, Maybe thats the problem, Oscar did well for Ramos, then Redknapp,,,,,, Oscar is young and he is not an first golie yet, but I think he is good enough to be as nr 3 in Spurs
Well I think we definitely need to get rid off:
O'Hara- Confirmed leaving with a deal with Wolves
Keane- Loss on him, but he's utter deadweight
Bentley- Waste of money, useless in the EPL
Dos Santos- In place to leave as well
Woodgate- Harry all but confirmed it. Can't waste space on a player who hardly plays.
Crouch- Doesn't work with our style of play, waste of space
Palacios- Slow, inaccurate, questionable mind
Pletikosa- Didn't use at all
Alnwick- Haven't seen him play but we need a keeper so we can hardly have another 3 sub keepers
Livermore- Haven't heard of him
Bassong- Not great, out of favour now
That's 10 players gone which gets us down to 23.
Given we need at the very least a keeper, striker and centreback we still need to cut the squad down.
Jenas- Definition of fringe player
Hutton or Corluka- Both can be good when they overperform but are not what we need if we want regular CL football.
I see us having at least:
1. Bale
2. Modric
3. Dawson
4. King
5. Sandro
6. Lennon
7. Van der Vaart
8. Assou-Ekotto
9. Gallas
10. Pavlyuchenko
11. Defoe
12. Rose
13. Huddlestone
14. Pienaar
15. Kaboul
16. Cudicini (honestly he could be #1, could he not? hasn't exactly had enough time to prove himself, but ofc a younger keeper would be better)
wow how the thinking changes when Crouch got us to the promise land and Defoe was banging the goals in it was happy lane. Now fast forward another season and we want a steroid freak to lead us back. One word of causion last year was a special year Citys millions finaly got them a cup and a drug cheat yes a drug cheat harsh words but true . He made the excuse he had weight problems a man who has free gym free conditioner free doctor on hand great medical facilatys and he used his wifes waistline and Masking agents rubbish. I have bean trying to get these cheating drugs banned where teams look dead at half time and come out in a 6th gear just like Wunderland did today. The team they drawn with was the one who first alerted this form of cheating and its also dangerous to your health has a member of the champions can testify you can starve to death or drop die. So when you want Defoe and Crouch out remember this Liverpool forked 55 million out and they still couldn't beat a team that has not won there since the 1970. I no this is controversial but true defences are on top through enegised players and you can see it in there gaunt looking faces and weight loss alresdy. Defoe will score and Crouch if we keep the one person who can bypass this energised closing down Tom Huddlestone who can ping a ball over the blanket defending and get Lennon and Bale away by the time Modric run witht the ball there will be at least eight players waiting in the box to stob us scoring have a look windy like i did we dominated games but suffered from blocks bad tackle and tremendous saves no matter who was in goals, Let me cast you mind back when we faced Stoke at Home we battered them and reserve goalkeeper and we got beat by a sucker goal from Whelan the goalkeeper concede four in the next game in the league cup and was sold.This is why you cat predict any game and the bookmakers are winning . Today no home team won the shocks are already starting especially in the second half we dont need new players just good luck no bad injuries and better testing i no toure never took is wifes slimmers he was a menber and captain of one of the best defences and he was not alone. So if you think Hulk can score the goals Defoe and Crouch cant then spend 30 million because i no he wont and i also no Defoe and Crouch are ready to try and Tom Missile and fit defenders they will.
i read everything i can about how to improve the spurs team,there are so many different views.lets start at the top-i think levy is the best top man i have seen in my very long years of following the spurs.as for the manager i am irritated by his constant toadying up to everyone he comes into contact with,everybody is a lovely fella,or teriffic bloke,in other words he is a total creep arse,so long as it suits his purpose.i doubt his loyalty to tottenham and at the first sign of a few extra pounds in his rocket he will be off.i don't think he is pulling the wool over levy's eyes.as for the team,we need a bit of a shake up or should i say shake out.in all my time following spurs i have never known us to have so many midfielders,HR must have thought he was stacking shelves at tescos with the numbers he has acquired.if we are trying to improve,lets buy the best,quality not quantity.one thing i am glad about is the number and quality of our youth coming through the ranks–KANE-ROSE-WALKER-CARROLL-TOWNSEND-LIVERMORE,this is where our future lies-up at our new training ground.hope i have not bored you too much,bye for now.COME ON YOU SPURS!!


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|Bend, OR – December 9th, 2012 – The Trek US Grand Prix of Cyclocross presented by Greenware and WD-40 Bike wrapped up in Bend, Oregon on Sunday, as day two of the Deschutes Brewery Cup brought out big crowds and spectacular racing. Sunday's podiums looked surprisingly similar to those of Saturday, as the same three riders made appearances on both the mens and women's races, although the races to get there were markedly different than the previous day's.
Bend was once again well represented as Saturday's winner Ryan Trebon (Cannondale – Clement) tried to complete the double, but the race wouldn't play out nearly the same for the lanky Bend resident. A large group of big names emerged on the front early on, with Danny Summerhill (Chipotle Development) leading the charge, spending significant time on the front as he led a long string of riders that included all the heavy hitters in the field. Summerhill battled with Cannondale – Cyclocrossworld.com's Tim Johnson at the front, until Johnson put in a heavy blow to drop the group and move away in a solo effort.
As Johnson steadily gained time on the chase, eventually gaining a 30 second advantage, the original group stayed together as Summerhill continued to lead the chase. Trebon kept a close eye on the group that also included Chris Jones (Rapha-Focus), Adam Craig (Giant – Rabobank), Ben Berden (Raleigh – Clement), Geoff Kabush (Scott – 3Rox) and Yannick Eckman (California Giant – Specialized) among others.
With two laps to go and a surprisingly large group still together, Trebon went on the attack, blowing up the group at two laps to go leaving only Saturday's bronze medalist Adam Craig able to respond. As Johnson rode away for the win, Trebon never looked back as he held on for second, followed by an elated Craig as he earned another podium spot in front of his hometown crowd. A late surge from Jones would earn him a fourth place finish, with U23 standout Yannick Eckman rounding out the top 5 and earning the top spot on the U23 podium. He would be joined by two teammates as California Giant – Specialized swept the U23 podium, with Cody Kaiser finishing second and Tobin Ortenblad in third.
Eckman would finish the series as the U23 series winner ahead of Kaiser in second and Canadian Evan McNeely (Specialized Canada) in third. An absent Jeremy Powers (Rapha – Focus) had already secured enough points to take the overall elite victory, with Trebon ending second overall and his Cannondale Cyclocrossworld.com's teammate Johnson in third overall.
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WASHINGTON — A year after his reelection triumph, President Obama is facing an awkward question from friends and foes alike: Why can't he run the government as well as he ran his campaign?
What with the IRS targeting of tea party groups; the poor security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya; the eavesdropping on close allies; and the botched rollout of the landmark healthcare law, Obama increasingly seems to be battling top-level management failures as much as policy or political problems.
On each of these controversies, Obama has claimed ignorance before the fact and outrage afterward, leaving even some Democrats to see him as asleep at the wheel.
"There's a sort of distance in his style," said Elaine C. Kamarck, who led the Clinton administration's government reform effort and now is at the nonpartisan Brookings Institution. "On the one hand, he's not getting into terrible details like [President] Carter did. But on the other hand, it comes back to bite him because he seems to not know a lot of stuff that's going on."
That perception is growing. In public opinion surveys, Obama's job performance numbers have dropped sharply this year. One poll last week showed his approval down to 42%, a rate comparable to that of President George W. Bush after the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Although unpredictable crises often upend presidents' second terms, some of Obama's worst problems seem self-inflicted.
The iPad-toting president who promised high-tech efficiency in government — even appointing the first chief performance officer, chief technology officer and team of innovation fellows at the White House — has launched his only major domestic policy program with a website that almost feels like a clunky relic from the dial-up age.
"They had a tech-savvy campaign, but that has very little to do with running a tech-savvy government because the presidency really doesn't run in a management way," said William Daley, Obama's chief of staff from January 2011 to January 2012.
"The one kind of surprising thing, since this was the signature" domestic program, Daley said, "and for four years everybody knew this was a complicated, difficult thing to do, that there wasn't a heavier kind of skepticism around the process.... Can the federal government bite off such an enormous thing?"
The underlying premise of the Obama presidency was an affirmative answer to that question. As a candidate, he vowed to restore government competence to earn back trust, and to make a case for expanding the government's role in people's lives.
"We simply cannot afford to perpetuate a system in Washington where politicians and bureaucrats make decisions behind closed doors, with little accountability for the consequences … and where outdated technology and information systems undermine efficiency, threaten our security and fail to serve an engaged citizenry," Obama said in 2009 as he named Jeffrey Zients, a former corporate chief executive, as chief performance officer, a new title that borrowed from corporate culture.
If the name is familiar, that's because Obama tapped Zients again last month, calling him in to consult on the effort to fix the healthcare.gov website.
But Obama did not sustain the zeal for good management, Kamarck said. Initiatives that leaned heavily on updating technology, consumer-friendly interaction and trimming inefficiencies rarely got top billing at the White House.
He hardly discussed his attempt to scale back outside contracting, for example, disappointing those who called for reform. His effort to reorganize Commerce Department agencies that deal with small business stalled when it met resistance in Congress.
In 2012, Zients was named acting chief of the Office of Management and Budget. His previous duties, ensuring the government was setting and achieving performance goals, were shifted to another official. When a new chief performance officer was nominated in September, the post was announced via a news release with a list of nominees.
Inconsistency at the top is part of the problem, said Bob Stone, project director of the Clinton-era government reform effort, which was led by then-Vice President Al Gore. Gore devoted time every day to the project and stayed in close contact with agency heads.
In one of those meetings, during the federal government shutdowns in the mid-1990s, Gore learned that the Justice Department had furloughed its procurement staff, leaving no one to order food at federal prisons. The problem was fixed on the spot, Stone said.
"It seems to be that this White House has no chain to the top, even just the conventional 'protect the boss' standard that ought to be in place everywhere," Stone said. "When something is about to burst, you warn the boss. That's both a management issue and a political issue."
He added, "It's hard to see that the president has really had any interest in actually managing the government."
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Friday disputed that claim.
When it comes to U.S. eavesdropping on friendly foreign leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Carney said, the president is a "deliberate consumer" of intelligence reports. But he said Obama was focused on security threats that "keep him up at night," not a close ally's phone calls.
On the healthcare rollout, Carney said, the president did not know the website wasn't fully functional before it was launched Oct. 1.
"The president expects results," Carney said. "That's the way he manages this White House. That's the way he manages this administration. He believes that smart people ought to bring all their talents to bear to solving problems, but he expects results."
Some past presidents learned the hard way that the mundane work of management can prove crucial.
Bush's popularity never recovered from his slow response to Katrina's devastation on the Gulf Coast. Carter's reelection in 1980 was doomed by his handling of the Iran hostage crisis, when militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 American diplomats for 444 days.
"In both those cases, management issues became the point of no return," Kamarck said.


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More Sanctions Issued Against Team Prenda
from the get-those-appeals-warmed-up dept
- The forged signature of Alan Cooper: "the signature by Alan Cooper appears to have been a forgery, as Judge Wright concluded in his recent sanctions order." Chen notes that Prenda/AF Holdings denies this, but points out that their only argument against all of this is "sheer speculation.'
- The claim against Navasca "was not based on an adequate factual investigation." Chen points out how ridiculous it is that Prenda claimed Navasca was the likely culprit because he worked in tech support, noting "one does not need to be tech savvy in order to download information from a computer."
- "AF filed an emergency motion to compel... even though, at the time it filed the motion, Mr. Navasca's discovery responses were not even due yet."
- Judge Chen notes that Prenda/AF Holdings argued that the reason it tried to dismiss the case and get out of it was because of the Court's "undertaking ruling" against it, but if that were true, you'd think they would have asked the court to reconsider. Yet, as Chen notes: "AF filed an emergency motion to compel, see Docket No. 38 (motion), even though, at the time it filed the motion, Mr. Navasca's discovery responses were not even due yet."
- The whole argument about how Navasca spoliated evidence using CCleaner was a complete joke. Noting that Prenda "has offered no real support for this claim." And, worse, even though Prenda lawyers had been told by a judge to investigate "the purpose and effective of CCleaner" they, of course, did "not appear to have done anything" along those lines.
- The real kicker. Judge Chen notes the real reason that Prenda sought to dismiss the case: the absolutely devastating deposition of Paul Hansmeier in this Navasca case is what pushed Judge Wright over the edge in the central district of California, after Hansmeier put on a ridiculous performance and more or less cemented the clear point that Prenda was up to no good.
AF's motivation to bring suit is problematic given its apparent lack of standing. Furthermore, even if AF did have standing, the fact that someone may have illegally downloaded the copyrighted work does not justify AF's decision to sue Mr. Navasca specifically. As discussed above, the factual investigation done by AF prior to identifying Mr. Navasca as the alleged infringer was inadequate. Furthermore, as indicated by the findings made by Judge Wright in his case, AF does not appear to have been motivated to file suit in order to protect the copyrighted work at issue. Rather, AF's business model was to sue people for downloading pornography in order to coerce settlements.As for Prenda swearing up and down that the Neville declaration is wrong, Judge Chen isn't buying it. If Neville is wrong, he points out, you'd think that Prenda would present some counter-evidence. But they don't, other than to try to attack Neville's reputation.
For the above reasons alone, the "motivation" factor weighs strongly in favor of Mr. Navasca, and against AF. However, one final consideration has been offered by Mr. Navasca, which raises even more concern on the part of the Court with respect to AF's motivation. More specifically, Mr. Navasca has offered evidence – the Neville declarations – which indicate that persons affiliated with AF used the alias "sharkmp4" to post links on the Pirate Bay website to many of the copyrighted works in order to induce users to download the works so that they could then be sued for copyright infringement. This evidence corroborates Judge Wright's finding that the motivation for this and similar suits is to sue and coerce settlement.
The Court acknowledges that AF has in its brief attacked the Neville declarations as unreliable on various grounds – for example, because the opinions contained therein are offered by an individual who has not been qualified as an expert; because the original declaration was secured by an attorney of purportedly questionable ethics; because the methodology employed is problematic; and because the opinions are qualified (e.g., finding it probable or likely that persons affiliated with AF were responsible). But notably, what AF has not done is offer any counterevidence such as a declaration from Mr. Steele in which he denies that he is "sharkmp4" or other evidence that AF did not take steps to induce users to download the subject works. This evidence could easily have been offered by AF as a part of its opposition brief. AF's failure to submit any factual denial under oath is telling.The end result:
the Court grants Mr. Navasca's motion for fees and costs and awards fees in the amount of $19,420.38 and costs in the amount of $3,111.55. The total award is $22,531.93.This is slightly lower than Navasca asked for. The court cut 5% off the amount requested, because of the possibility of some slight overlap with the work done by Navasca's lawyers, Nick Ranallo and Morgan Pietz, on other similar Prenda cases. Still, the bill for Team Prenda keeps rising.


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Sunday, 10 October 2010
The cat's meow
It was the first time that I got to ink up the Cattitude stamps from There She Goes, and they're a bliss to play with. Luv me some TSG stamps!
Supplies: cardstock: Stampin' Up!, American Crafts; paper: Jillibean Soup, DCWV; stamps: There She Goes (Cattitude); ink: Versafine (Onyx Black), Versa Color (Sky Blue); Copic markers; border punch: Fiskars; half pearls available here; Nestabilities Circles, Scalloped Circles
I followed the TESC131 sketch, and the colours of Curtain Call 51 (love these!)
I'm also entering the card into Perfectly Placed Pleats Challenge in the Moxie Fab World :)
Thank you for looking :) I hope you'll squeeze the best out of what's left of the weekend! Hugs,
13 comments:
this is adorable, I really luv the background on the kraft, not sure if it is paper or stamping...very pretty!ReplyDelete
enjoy *~*
Oh so cute! Love the way you colored that darling kitty, and the ruffled paper strip is fabulous! Thanks for playing the Curtain Call again this week!ReplyDelete
What a darling image. My DD would be all over it as she loves cats :) Great DP and I love how you folded the dp as ribbon.ReplyDelete
Hahaha! What a darling stamp, she is soooo finicky! Perfect fit for these challenges, I love it:)ReplyDelete
My... are you sure that you don't have just 24 hours in the day like the rest of us?! You are awesome with your productivity!! As always, inspiring - love the blue, brown and yellow combo here. Pleating is too cute too!ReplyDelete
What a perfectly perfect pussycat!! Gorgeous card!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 October 2010 at 12:14
That pleated banner is so cute! and I love cats :) All the best on the Moxie fab challenge! :) Hugs from a fellow contestant :)ReplyDelete
Cute card, great job with the colors this week!ReplyDelete
What a cute card Chupa. Love the image... great stamped background... great use of the Curtain Call colors and the TE sketch. Thank you for playing along with us. :o)ReplyDelete
So very cute!! I love it!!ReplyDelete
Just gorgeous, love love love the pleated paper, really packs a punch!! :)ReplyDelete
Hey Chupa! Thanks for entering the Perfectly Placed Pleats challenge in the Moxie Fab World! I'm so glad you joined in on all the fun! :)ReplyDelete