Regular readers will recall we tried to sign Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Karl Darlow back in January. Brad Friedel is 43 today, happy birthday Brad, hardly a spring chicken so Spurs have been searching for an understudy to Hugo Lloris to take over the number two duties from the American. Darlow is a 23 year-old Englishman, although he has a grandfather who played for Wales and was in their 1958 World...
Brad Friedel has been a brilliant goalkeeper in the Premier League and is currently the Tottenham Hotspur number two. Today is his birthday, happy 43rd birthday Brad, and he appreciates at this stage of his career contracts get shorter and shorter. While he has a contract until the end of June, his future has been assessed on a monthly basis this season. Ability diminishes with time and the older you...
Neil Warnock has waded into the debate about the merits of Mauricio Pochettino taking the Tottenham job. The 42 year-old Argentinian is the choice of owner Joe Lewis and Tottenham have been discussing a potential deal with his agent Jonathan Barnett. In most online polls Frank de Boer leads Pochettino or Benitez 2 to 1 with fans concerned over his inexperience. Andre Villas-Boas was a similar young...
One season over, a World Cup, a pre-season tour and an early start to a Europa League campaign, not much of a summer off this year for players or fans. This summers pre-season tour is in July to the United States and Canada with three fixtures arranged. We start on Saturday July 19th, just a couple of months away in what will be our third visit to the US in five years. The States affords excellent...
Will Manchester United sign Arjen Robben, will Tottenham get Romelu Lukaku? Check out your club's plans here Click here for Arsenal to Manchester City Plan for the summer: With Louis van Gaal incoming, the club are fully focusing on the rebuilding needed on the crumbling squad. A central defender Borussia Dortmund's Mats Hummels is a target a left-back almost definitely Luke Shaw and central midfielder...
Spurs' former head of development regrets manager role 'I thought if I had 18 months I would take the club forward' Tim Sherwood has said that in hindsight he would not have taken the role of manager at Tottenham Hotspur. The 45-year-old was sacked after five months in charge despite achieving the highest win percentage of any manager in the club's history since he took over from André Villas...
Jermain Defoe is back from injury and has reminded Roy Hodgson that he was wrong to leave him out of the squad for Brazil. Defoe was absolutely gutted by that decision and is not happy that he was picked for every squad leading up to the tournament but not the tournament itself. All he can do is continue to score goals and he did that again last night as Toronto FC beat New York Red Bulls 2-0. Speaking...
Paulinho is back in Brazil training with his former club ahead of the World Cup and ahead of the Brazil squad meeting up on May 26th. He was a key member of the Corinthians team who won the 2012 Copa Libertadores and went on to win the FIFA Club World Cup. "It's a great pleasure to train at Corinthians and even more so because I'm preparing for a World Cup. "I was fortunate to have one...
Napoli are the latest Italian club who want to sign Erik Lamela and Rafa Benitez also wants Sandro to join him as he prepares a squad for the Champions League next season. In return they want to offer us a 30 year-old attacker who doesn't fit with our buy youth policy, Goran Pandev. The Macedonian played 29 Serie A matches but came on as a substitute 12 times and was substituted off 15 times which...
Tottenham Hotspur will enter the UEFA Europa League in the play-off round leaving 17 matches before our victory in the final at the Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland. Other teams already confirmed for the Play-Off Round include: Borussia Monchengladbach (Germany) Internazionale (Inter) Estoril (Portugal) FC Rostov (Russia) Lokomotiv Moscow (Russia) PEC Zwolle (Holland) FC Twente (Holland) KSC Lokeren...
Emmanuel Adebayor insists he has no plans to leave Tottenham and has rejected claims that he is a football mercenary in his approach to contracts. Many Tottenham fans had expected the striker to depart White Hart Lane after being frozen out of first-team plans under AVB, but was given a fresh opportunity to impress under […] The post Adebayor insists he will be a Tottenham player next season...
Sky Sports have confirmed the story I reported yesterday, that Tottenham are discussing the finer details of a contract for Mauricio Pochettino, whose agent is none other than Jonathan Barnett. Jonathan Barnett is well known to Spurs fans being the agent of Gareth Bale. The Argentinian is the choice of owner Joe Lewis, quite how much our owner knows about football I don't know, but he knows about business...
A second unsettled player has now come out to say he is haapy and Spurs and intends to stay, Brazilian summer signing Paulinho. He has followed on from Emmanuel Adebayor and Sandro who have both told the press they are happy to stay. The players wanted Sherwood out and would have left had he stayed, now that he is gone they are refocusing on next season. He complained during the season when he wasn't...
If Tim Sherwood has stayed at Tottenham it would have been a summer of massive upheaval, there would have been a player exodus from White Hart Lane. Early in the season Andre Villas-Boas lost the dressing room and after a couple of months Tim Sherwood had lost it to. The Spurs dressing room has not been the happiest of places this season and that has shown on the pitch with a host of poor performances....
Emmanuel Adebayor insists he will be a Tottenham player next season unless he is told he is not wanted anymore. There has been interest in Adebayor again after his exploits under Tim Sherwood reminded everyone of what he can do when he is happy and confident. "I will be a Tottenham player. "At the moment I have got two years left on my contract. But what happens if I wake up and what has happened to...
Andros Townsend is the subject of interest from Newcastle but not Everton have joined in wanting the England winger next season. With Spurs having no manager nobody will be leaving just yet, not until a new man arrives and he decides who stays and who can go. He was linked with Manchester United when David Moyes was the manager but all that talk died with the departure of the Scot from Old Trafford....
The internet brings diverse corners of the world together in one shared interest, Tottenham Hotspur. We should all remember that we all want the same goal for our shared love, even if we all look at achieving that goal in different ways. We all want Tottenham Hotspur to be winning and entertaining us as they do. Lets hope our new Head Coach will bring back some glory times to White Hart Lane, they...
Ledley King has spoken to the two Spurs players who have missed on on a World Cup spot through injury. It is the first time in 60 years that no Tottenham player is going with England to a World Cup, which tells you about our season. Every cloud has a silver lining and while fans don't consider playing for England to be the pinnacle of the game, the players do. It was bad news for England that Walker...
Chas and Dave joined the Spurs squad to sing about 'Hot Shot Tottenham' but unfancied Coventry City pulled off one of the great giantkillings in FA Cup final history to win 3-2 in extra-time This piece follows on from previous blogs on the first , second , third , fourth , fifth , sixth rounds and semi-finals of the 1986-87 FA Cup. "Seven times we've won the Cup, and number eight is coming up"....
It's a three horse race between owner Joe Lewis, part owner and chairman Daniel Levy and technical director Franco Baldini. Joe Lewis is represented by his rumoured choice Mauricio Pochettino, Daniel Levy by his rumoured choice Rafa Benitez and Franco Baldini by his rumoured choice Frank de Boer. Tottenham have their strategy in place and have their management structure in place, neither of those are...