Tottenham Hotspur

I just can't see how West Ham are affording all this

They spent 11 million pound on Mark Jarvis didn't they? And that guy's like Championship quality. They are like Liverpool except they are not any good.

Let's hope he gets right on it! We have an early NLD this year, don't want any excuses and for our best team to be out there destroying the gunners!

i hope not. i hope we can actually hold our 7-10 point lead this time. we have shot ourselves in the foot way too many times to arsenals benefit

hopefully it will be a last day finale for the title instead of 4th spot with us there as well ofcourse (what a season that would be)

For once, we seem to have a definite plan. :P

i am excited for this news

Woohoo!! I'm hoping Baldini's appointment will mean we get our transfer business done in a timely manner now. First port of call is Brazil to tie up the contracts of Paulinho, Bernard and Damiao!

@ Hatmundo we would become baby brasil/belgium

lloris
walker kaboul verto rose
sandro dembele paulinho
bernard damiao bale

Haha that will be the only port of call... I doubt we'd spend any more than that... I wouldn't want to, to be honest

I said we would get Palace,lol

rogue please tell me you put a bet on it cuz you definitely did predict palace!

congrats australia! please keep your fingers crossed for my mexico to qualify...right now theyre not doing so hot =(

I watched that yesterday on the way to work on the bus,we both had t in a bet,but when he took Cahill off i thought that was it,but i said to my mate maybe he wants to just lump some bame balls into this guy to nick a goal,and it worked so fair play to him!

Btw i dont think England will be qualifying,lol

Another youngster who will most probably fail at Liverpool,loo

I know,its a bit of a conundrum to me too,id love us to keep him and hope that he has an immense season and we can go onto massive things,but at the same time we are building a stadium,and need the funds.
I want him to stay and it would make my year (football wise) if he did stay,no dount ill do backflips,but if he leaves ill probably pissed off for a few days for the s**t i will be getting but will eventually get over it..

I'd be guttered, but I guess at the end of the day it's a win win situation. He either stay's and we have a world class player at Spurs. Or he goes and we get a s**t tun of money for him! I hope he stays though. .

I worry that if he leaves without us having champions league then we won't be able to attract the talent we need to replace him... without overpaying like Monaco.

@Hatmundo, I kind of agree but it's not like we don't have great players on our team already. Dembele, Vertonghen, Lloris, Kaboul, Sandro are all very recognizable names.

@SS I agree. But think we would still be in a better situation to get players next season with champs league to offer. So hold Bale for one more season at least I say.

We cant attract the top tier names anyway because we cant offer the wages.

Trust me lads, we need to keep him.... He is the one secret weapon that gives us an advantage over Arsenal, someone who can get a draw or a win out of nothing... If Arsenal and Spurs both have similar squad quality, Arsenal will somehow manage to beat us (as history shows). However, a game-changer like Bale is worth so much for a team with so much ambition as tottenham...

Arsenal have the money to spend. Their finances are completel y booming. If we strengthen with Bernard and Damiao, they'll get Eriksen and Higuain... We need to have Bale to give us the edge.

Why are we bothered about Arsenal?
We need to stop focusing on Arsenal,thats what fucks the team up every season,sayin in quotes that we can "finish above Arsenal",how about us trying to finish as high as possible and not watching what they are doing.Of course we all want him to stay,but we all know how Levy can be,and the way real are talking they have the money to get him they are just getting the funds together,Levy wont be turning anything down anything above £60m imho,and i think they will offer that,i think the only reason we are looking at Bernard (who has only had 1 half decent season in a pretty shocking league with the most skilful player ever at his side) is because he might be planning for life without Bale.

Bloody hell WHR, its not even during the season and you still manage to be negative and pessimistic! Wow I just don't know how you cope with it all!

In all seriousness though, I would also be very interested to know your perfect world ending to this transfer season, and what you realistically think will happen.

I'm quite simply saying that the massive competitiveness of the Premier League means that a game-changer in a team of quality will always beat a team of similar quality but without a game-changer. We need to do everything to hang onto Bale. If he goes, try and get 70 plus million for him.

I do think you should try optimism haha. You seem like you're trying to deny the obvious concrete evidence that we have in Paulinho and Bernard.

Bernard's Agent;

“Dortmund have not submitted a proposal,” Moyses told O Jogo.
“Therefore Tottenham are the only contenders.”

Paulinho:

"We know that Tottenham is interested, even if there is nothing official yet

"We expect that in the next few days we will be talking about something more concrete and official."

An article about Paulinho...

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/tottenham/id/923?&cc=5739#

In AVB we trust. If he wants to get someone, then he knows a lot more about them than we do, through scouting. Damiao may be worth all the hassle, Bernard may become as effective as Hazard and Coutinho, Paulinho may rotate with Dembele, Sandro (both injury prone), Holtby and Carroll in order to form a fit, fluid, strong midfield that can compete on all levels.

Life is Good.

How can we "not attract the top tier names"? Ajax Captain Vertonghen, sought after by many. Lloris, Lyon and France captain, one of the best goalies in the world. Dembele, destroyed United in the last game of the season, massively wanted by Real Madrid ("I do not know [if I will leave]," he told the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. "Actually I can say nothing about it.

"There was contact between Real and my agent. They wanted information, but that was it. Everything is still.")

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/aug/14/moussa-dembele-real-madrid-fulham

Doesnt mean AVB said no,but i hope its true,funny how a lot of us didnt want him last summer,but weve grown to really like him.

I really like to believe that he has a long term plan here at Spurs, he wants to make his name the hard way!

Didn't he name his dog Totty?