twp vs bale

Over the last season is a fair answer

Yis. I would be lying if I hadn't been Debbie-Doubting on Bale until about 4 months ago. Was quite convinced that he was a good winger with electric pace who'd been made to look world class one night by Maicon not doing his homework properly. Needless to say, I'm a now Bale-iever. GB11 eh? I fucking hope and pray that he doesn't move to Real.

GB3 at real tbf

ive probably said this before but the short form of rm is just 'madrid' even atleti fans understand this

he was referring to sociedad

snore

Serious answer? Probably this season, if only because he was so unbelievably frustrating in the second half of last season. But really I'm voting with my heart and going for the Inter game.

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ilxors that have notably doubted g bale iirc

james mitchell
a hoy hoy
matt dc

One thing is certain, Gareth Bale is not among the world's elite central defenders.

― boxall, Friday, November 11, 2011 11:24 AM

but I also said he was closer to Krasic (wtf happened to him btw, knew he was shit) and Valencia than Ronaldo, so I guess I was wrong.

krasic was the most similar player to bale-as-winger and he looked a very fine player a couple of years ago

juventus was completely the wrong team tho and once the 3-5-2 took shape he was finished there

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I don't really understand why he couldn't cut it in the new system though, Juve play attacking wing-backs, he wasn't better than Lichtsteiner? xxl

Did he have the defensive chops to man a flank more or less single handed though? I know that it never quite works like that in the system in practice, but I've always thought playing as a wing back must be a seriously tough job

Lennon, walker, ekotto all better at wingback than bale,

i don't think krasic has the defensive aptitude for wingback, he was at his best wide rw in a 4-2-3-1

I have never doubted Gareth Bale as an attacking force, with the exception of late last season when he was being a dick. My early posts are full of praise, even in the dark days of the Ramos era.

posterity is for dull twerps, be proud of crap kneejerk vehemence and terrible predictions imo

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Otm tbf

Still proud of my Torres-will-bomb-at-Liverpool clanger.

so can sunderland find the cash for rooney?

Seems like we'll offer bale 150k pw rather than selling him to a club good enough for him

don't believe that for a sec but if twere true i'd rather 50m and 75k pw freed up for a lw replacement and top four striker than wrecking the wage structure in order to continue relying on one player's form/fitness

Surely there'd still be money for a top-four striker if they were paying Bale ££££££? It's probably not an either / or.

Lord knows who'd take Rooney for £40m apart from Anzhi.

feel like twp (plus cash) for Bale is where this narrative is currently heading

ideally adebayor starts playing and we qualify for cl without any business required in summer, including not negotiating a raise for someone who signed a new deal last year.

Who's twp

Seems like we'll offer bale 150k pw rather than selling him to a club good enough for him

That really seems to go against what we think we know about Levy, unless he's suddenly decide to go all in to level-up the club.

Bring in £50-60m for Bale and recoup his current wages and get rid of Ade and you've got a budget there to bring in three or four top players (for a given value of top).

ideally adebayor starts playing

that phrase gets transferred between fans a year after each of his transfers

twp = The White Pele = Wayne Rooney

lol.

otm

In fairness, he is white. Completely white.

Very white.

And the 'the' is not incorrect

Didn't realize that Bale has ensured his kid has the same initials as Villas Boas. That's commitment.

Its a souvenir tbph

I bet he doodles those initials in the shape of a little heart™

I saw someone else celebrating by turning their fingers into a heart at the weekend and now I can't remember who it was.

Yermans stepdad

?

I mean a footballer who scored a goal.

Ilx memes rip

ah right gotcha - you'd think I'd have got that considering I deliberately made the reference

Second most confused glaswegian ive seen this week

I heard Ally McCoist was back on Question of Sport.

levy may correctly see that spurs are kinda at a tipping point now that a balesale would thwart

think it was vertonghen saying the other day that standing up to the big boys and extracting maximum value from modric caught a lot of eyes and sparked a few imaginations, it's all smoke and mirrors of perception as the big homie mark hughes would say

if you can get another 2/3 years champions league out of keeping bale and really establish the club in top 4 then it's worth the hit, not like the money's not there for a striker right now as it is

plus as we all know £50m is so easily pissed up the wall and especially so when you'd be looking for immediate replacement and not gradual investment

the shape of a little heart™

Jesus, I wish stop fucking doing that

I think Suarez has his daughter's name tattooed on his wrist.

now excuse me while i go post this darling little hat i knitted for jake livermore

http://shop.tottenhamhotspur.com/prod_images/thumbnails/46075.jpg

Lennon strikes me as the bobble-hat wearer in the squad. Bale too probably.

levy may correctly see that spurs are kinda at a tipping point now that a balesale would thwart

On matchdays you can see him girding his loins in anticipation of a summer of impassive hardmanning.

If Damiao doesn't work out should take a look at Kiessling imo. Might mean Bale might have to start crossing the ball a bit again mind you.

If he's not too traumatised by all the Crouch/Adebayor missed assists due to not getting in the box.

Not setting up a strict either/or but the nebulous greater effect of having one 150pw superstar in a team that's played once in the cl

Actually now that I think of it the commentator on the Bayern game I watched on Sunday reckoned Mario Gomez had been expressing his admiration for all things Hotspurs via social media. I couldn't find evidence of this when I looked mind you.

gtf

mildly plausible if spurs have the readies, pep will probably want rid

more likely benteke or maybe that aubemeyang

Was wondering about Gomez but assumed he'd break the wage structure. I guess if it's already broken...

madrid might fancy him too tbf

Kiessling is too old for Levy to buy I think
will Pep want rid of Gomez and Mandzukic?
rtc otm re Benteke and Aubemeyang
Di Maria does the heart thing

hm i mistakenly thought kiessling was 27 but he's actually 29 so point taken.

if lewandowski arrives bayern will sell gomez i think.

Aubemeyang has been v good whenever i've seen st etienne this season, probably the player who has impressed me the most other than dmitry payet in ligue 1. Then again Aliadiere has looked v good this season in ligue 1 so..

from what i've seen of him pressing like a nutter i think mandzukic would be fine in a pep side, excellent squad option at very least

AVB's been pretty open about the Benteke thing.

still looks a complete lummox sometimes

Yeah I'm not sure about that one at all, unless it's as a Sigurdsson-style squad player.

can't see adebayor being partic fucking bothered by inferior competition, so anyone we bring in would almost become first team by default

This reminds me, Spurs fans have started popping up in my local, previously there was only two brothers and one old geezer... oh and there used to be a barman who was so fanatical he refused to wear anything red

BIG CLUB

The leading club in the nation's capital, for sure

One Chelsea fan by the way, an Irishman, no-one can understand it

these are the moments to cherish imo

there needs to be more discussion of tfwp itt today

I reckon Fergie about to get his revenge on Spudface by selling him off in the summer cutrate, "Fuck off, ye're fuckin' shite noo"

He's been patient this time round before sinking the blade between the shoulder blades

i spose they're less reliant on him now than then

Just bullshit speculation, TWP will still be there next year.

there's nowhere for him to move to, for all the cutprice talk it's not feasible to sell him for less than 30m and nobody's gonna pay that

By rights Rooney, at 27, should be peaking now and while he's still got 14 in 20 appearances, that's not really what's happening. He doesn't really have the build of a player who's going to last well into his 30s. Chelsea might still go for it.

Fucking hell, Wayne Rooney is 27. I feel old.

fuckin hell wayne rooney is still playing top flight football at that weight. i feel harshly treated.

already covered this, sunderland can't afford/don't want, so he'll stay at man u.

Arsenal should buy him

I'd consider a swap for Wilshere

The ref should step in here, the fat lad is gonna get hurt if this continues

just a note to myself not to acronymize the tune was space in future

who has contributed more net worth to culture, rooney or matmos

a chance to cunt is a chance to cure

callypygia rooniplasty

tutwp

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greeful expression there

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