Despite the fact that they never give you any good shit anymore, I've renewed my membership with the club. Not that I need another scarf, tiny clock, or tie tack, of course ... but it was nice to know they cared. And it'll be weird when my annual Harry Kane-signed (OK, signature-stamped) birthday card has him in a Bayern kit. I love Spurs, me. Edit: not really 'newswire' stuff, is it? Slow day.
Here is the 25-man squad registered with the PL: Non-homegrown list Rodrigo Bentancur Yves Bissouma Eric Dier Emerson Royal Bryan Gil Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg Dejan Kulusevski Hugo Lloris GK Giovani Lo Celso Ivan Perisic Pedro Porro Richarlison Cristian Romero Manor Solomon Heung-Min Son Micky van de Ven Guglielmo Vicario GK Homegrown Brandon Austin GK Ben Davies Fraser Forster GK Brennan Johnson James Maddison Ryan Sessegnon Oliver Skipp Alfie Whiteman GK
Our chief scout, Leonardo Gabbanini, has left the club. The Italian, who was brought in by Fabio Paratici, had a big hand in our summer signings. My reading of this is Gabbanini fancied the vacant director of football role and the club has someone else in mind. Elsewhere, Levy has said that he would be willing to lower his stake in the club if there were investors who could take the club to the next level. Interesting. This is the first time I have heard him say anything like that. Usually he bats away that kind of speculation. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...bbanini-leaves-with-new-sporting-director-due
Hey! Spurs have a new technical director! BREAKING: Tottenham announce Johan Lange as new technical director with start date confirmed - football.london
Somewhere in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Daniel Levy is enjoying a glass of brandy, smoking a cigar, and emitting one of those evil movie-villain laughs.
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/ne...eptembers-premier-league-player-of-the-month/ https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/ne...ve-premier-league-manager-of-the-month-award/ spurs becomes the first club ever to win 2 consecutive POTM and MOTM awards COYS!
Not Spurs, but definitely news ... RIP Sir Bobby Charlton. Folks of a certain generation will still say he's the finest footballer England's ever produced. He's certainly on a very short list. When he was young, he looked just like my cousin Gary. True story.
Bale on Arteta wanting him at Arsenal. “Nope. Never. Impossible” How did @GarethBale11 respond when asked… Would you have ever played for Arsenal?Gareth’s appearance on brand new #ALOTO is available On Demand now!#THFC #AFC pic.twitter.com/FVDnZUxUC6— A League of Their Own (@ALOTO) October 27, 2023
Then we lose two consecutive matches. I was a bit concerned after last match that we'd lose momentum. I just hope we don't fall too far behind the leaders because I feel all we need is a win to get going again.
Yeah but why is your name Phillyspur and not Daveyspur You're making it seem like you have got something against Dave's
Tottenham are facing serious allegations of breaching transfer rules during Jermain Defoe’s move to Portsmouth in 2008. The Times claims new evidence shows Spurs dealt with an unlicensed agent while agreeing to sell ex-England striker Defoe to Portsmouth for £7.5million in January 2008. AFP 3 Defoe’s move to Fratton Park is under scrutiny 15 years on No action was taken by the Football Association at the time, but it is understood the governing body are prepared to review the allegations. Breaches of FA agent rules have previously resulted in point deductions, transfer bans, and suspensions for club officials. “The case was heard by an independent arbitration panel 15 years ago,” a spokeswoman for the FA said. “The FA was not a party to the arbitration. It is unclear how much information was shared with the FA at the time, and no disciplinary action was taken. If there is new evidence which was not available at the time, and which suggests serious breaches of our rules took place, we will review it.” Luton were docked ten points for breaching agent regulations in the same year, while Tottenham finished three points above Manchester City to qualify for the Champions League in the 2009/10 season. The allegations over Defoe’s move to Fratton Park were first raised by agent Sky Andrew after he was dropped by the former striker, who claimed to represent himself in the deal. The Times claims: “At the arbitration hearing over the Defoe transfer, the panel found that Mitchell Thomas, the former West Ham United and Tottenham player and an unlicensed agent, was a central figure in the deal. Thomas was named by the FA in 2008 on a list of agents who had been operating in football without a licence. “It was also heard that Levy enlisted the services of Stuart Peters, an agent who was licensed, to act for Tottenham but that a representation contract — required under FA rules — did not appear to be in place. Levy agreed to pay Peters about around £1 million for his role in the £7.5 million transfer.” GETTY IMAGES - GETTY 3 Defoe scored 91 Premier League goals during his Tottenham career Tottenham and Portsmouth both declined when asked for comment. Matt Lawton, chief sports correspondent for The Times, joined talkSPORT to provide background on the story. He said: “At that time, Defoe had a representation contract with Sky Andrew. It led to an arbitration because Sky was of the view that Defoe was in breach of his contract, because a footballer cannot use his agent if he basically does a negotiation himself. “But the view was he’d used a guy called Stuart Peters, a licensed agent, and the assistance also Mitchell Thomas, the ex-Tottenham and West Ham footballer, who was an unlicensed agent. “So there was a private arbitration and there was some reporting around this at the time but we don’t get to hear these arbitrations, what’s happened, we don’t get to hear the outcome or anything. Actually what we now know is that the outcome of this, Sky won the case and the panel, three QC’s at the time concluded that Mitchell Thomas, an unlicensed agent, had been a central figure in this negotiation. “He basically helped broker the deal and had been involved in dealing with Tottenham, with Daniel Levy the Tottenham Chairman, had dealt with Harry Redknapp the Portsmouth manager, had dealt on countless occasions on the day of the transfer with Defoe himself. This was all detailed in phone records that had to be acquired through a High Court application and once the panel had these phone records, they then realised that there were potential breaches of FIFA agent rules and FA agent rules. “These rules are in place to protect the integrity not just of football but of the transfer market, they’re are very serious rules that have to be complied with.” Lawton added: “There was a further issue raised by the panel that the agent that Tottenham did enlist, there was no evidence in the hearing that there was a formal representation contract in place. You have to have one of those as well, so two potential breaches. GETTY 3 Defoe is the ninth highest goalscorer in Premier league history with 167 goals “When Luton Town, in the same year, were found to have paid agents without representation contracts, they received a ten-point deduction. When Massimo Cellino at Leeds was found in 2017 to have dealt with an unlicensed agent, he was banned from football for a year, received a £250,000 fine and the entire Leeds board had to go on an education course on how to deal with football intermediaries. So again, I want to emphasise, these are serious breaches. “Now, at the end of such an arbitration, the arbitrators send the file to the FA. We don’t believe that the FA did anything about this case. We don’t believe that there were any charges issued, there weren’t any sanctions, no one got punished for this. “Defoe was an England footballer, he played in the World Cup that summer, by the time that this award was given in early 2010. “The FA have confirmed that no action was taken. They also, based on the statement they’ve given us, they are not clear that they received all the relevant information and now what they’re saying is if the full detail of this case comes to light, which we are revealing in The Times now, then they will review the case.” Meanwhile, Defoe’s former agent Andrew questions the lack of action from football’s governing bodies. He told talkSPORT: “Arbitrations need to be taken seriously, it’s supposed to be a serious process where people get evidence and people get to the truth. “Once that happens, I think that the governing bodies then have to look at it and see if there’s anyone that’s done anything wrong or anything like that because otherwise, what’s the point of an arbitration? “The whole point of it is to be a court of law, outside the court of law and a confidential process which comes to a conclusion and once it comes to a conclusion, then it has to go to the next phase. “What Matt tells me is that it did go to the next phase and the governing bodies… well, I can’t say that they haven’t done anything because I don’t know that process, but it does seem that nothing’s happened.” Read the full Times investigation here. TOPICS JERMAIN DEFOE PORTSMOUTH TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR