Rossi and Llorente back on our list?

Either would be great! Llorente would suit our 4-4-1-1 formation the best though!

is Llorente THAT good? No idea.

If i had to choose i would take Llorente over Rossi, he's more of a spurs type of player.

this whole thing of not being able to attract the top players annoys me. There are so many exceptional top class players in the world to go around. yes we wont sign messi but we can get quality.Quality is crap if they dont fit the team.Tarrabt for example.all the names that are linked with us are obvious and are down to lazy journalism if you ask me. when we signed modric not many people saw that coming, van de vart- nobody saw that coming.klinsmann, eh did anybody see that one. There are players and they are out there , we just have to find them. and i dont believe that for one second Levy and harry are just waiting for somebody to call them up and ask them "hey ive a good player that i dont want, do you want him". we are a very organised , well run club with a few quid to spend. turn on sky news on the last day and you will find out we pulled off a major coup.

Ideally getting rid of Pav and Keane and getting these 2 in would be perfect but very unlikely to happen - especially Rossi. I can see Llorente joining as he would fit in perfect ......

jimmy-yid, I don't know why you're ruling out Rossi he is an extremely clinical finisher something which we lacked. While I would accept either of these two, Rossi seems more like a DIY striker, not relying as much on those around him for goals. Brilliant little goal I saw him score once---------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dnkq8v9888

Llorente is an awesome player. Can lead a line he's physical, but he's mobile as well. He is only young so will only get better. The guy who asked if he's any good. He is. I've watched him a lot due to the fact the Spanish football always being on sky! He'd work well with rafa or Rossi playing off of him. But realistically it would be one or the other. I can't see us splashing around £50m for both of them. It's unlike spurs. Rossi is a finisher. A 20/20 man. Both score goals. But I can't see defoe getting a look in if you sign Rossi. And crouch will be embarrassed by llorente cos he can actually head a ball. So keane, crouch and defoe maybe out. Or at least keane and crouch. And then have one of the youngsters whether that be Kane, pedroza or niang (altho niang will probably be loaned back to them). It's looking better tho! These two are the people we should be after.

Howellyido - 26 is not "young", but it isn't old either I guess...

dont think we're in a position to be overly choosy,everyone wants champs league...both these strikers are good and its down to the manager how he sets out the team with them.....harry should be taking a tactical course with the army or whoever for the coming season

Rossi is quality, he's a technical striker that can dribble and finish. he got pace, can create chances and can play in the vdv position too. he's something that defoe can only dream of. Llorente is also quality, he may be older than Rossi, but at 26, he's a proven scorer for Athletic Bilbao and is the top scorer for the past few season. If we can get both of them, i would sell Keane, Crouch and Defoe and use their wages for Rossi and Llorente. if we cannot get Rossi, go for Aguero then, a more explosive striker, wonderkid and proven scorer.

llorente and vdv wud be sumthin special alright...we had a great run in chmps lge last year and just missed out on 4th...we have great players like modric and bale...why wud players like this think they are above us...levy needs to grow a set and pull players in like llorente and assure them of our ambitions

bernio3000 - Rossi is a class player but his price is ridiculous. Everyones warming to the idea of Llorente but what about Adebayor? 12m for a guy who has proved his worth in the premierleague and has gained some La Liga experience with Madrid.

llorente's a beast, he eats people like Crouch for breakfast. Only problem with signing a player like him is that, Harry may not be able to resist over using the long ball tactic..

The two obvious stumbling blocks are whether or not City would sell him to us and whether or not Adebayor would take such a hit on wages. Otherwise yes, but I'd still like a Rossi figure, a small, unselfish striker who can get goals and assists. van der Vaart can to an extent, but he'll never be a striker.

For KENFISH - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIFRX8yf4qs&feature=player_embedded

He's like a morph between Crouch, Drogba and Torres. Tall, strong and technical. Very complete striker. With wingers like Bale and Lennon and midfield visionaries like Modric and Van der Vaart this guy must have plenty of supply. He could be a very good option as central striker in a 4-3-3 formation.

Llorente's biggest strength is that despite his height, he can finish very well, better than Crouch+Defoe. maybe we can get Llorente and Iker Munian from Athletic Bilbao as a package?

And this is nothing to do with transfers, but simply a really enjoyable post (for us atleast ;-) )

01 Jul 2011 16:07:23 RE: Spurs Guvnor

Looking through yesterday's postings I noticed that Spurs Guvnor got a lot of grief for daring to suggest that Tottenham was traditionally a bigger club than Chelsea or Man City and would probably still be if it wasn't for the mega-funding by Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour.

Rather than just add my own opinion I decided to check if he was right, using the most visible measure - attendances at games.

Up until the Second World War, Spurs was just a Second Division club. They only entered the First Division in 1950/51 season so I took that as my start date. My data source stops at the 2001/02 season. however, this is a useful break point because it roughly coincides with the start of the Abramovich era.

In 52 seasons Spurs had the highest average gate of the three clubs on 32 occasion, the second highest on 17 and the third highest on just 3.

The three poor seasons include the year they were relegated, the year they spent in the Second Division and the year they were building the new West Stand and the stadium capacity was reduced to just over 20,000.

Chelsea had the highest gates in 9 seasons, the second highest in 22 and the third highest in 21.

Man City had the highest gates in 11 seasons, second highest in 12 and third highest in 29.

Over the whole period Tottenham's average gate was 35, 292, Man City's was 30, 135 and Chelsea's was 29, 594.

Consequently, Tottenham's support was 19% bigger than Chelsea's and 17% bigger than Manchester City's.

Nor is this just ancient history. In the Nineteen Nineties (a decade Spurs fans would rather forget) they had the highest average gate in 8 out of the 10 seasons.

I think that Spurs Guvnor is vindicated KM

You know what? I could see this happening!!.

01 Jul 2011 18:51:05 giovani dos santos going to man utd as SAF thinks he would be great along with chicharito like in gold cup.he can come cheap as well

Off topic but just met a director at Swansea. Seems Stevie is in good hands :)

soumds good alexspur...but its this august not next

Alex - Thanks fella :-)... Mix - Sounds promising mate?

coopsie, if we do sell gio to manu, we better have to add a 50% next transfer clause, because if it turns out that sir alex bring the best out of gio, we can get 50% of 80 million, that sounds fantastic!

rovinella62spurs, yes this august (2011). My mistake.

I think we lack a really good scouting set up to be honest. You dont have to look at just house hold names (although i'd be happy with either of the 2 mentioned in the post) to find a potential star. Asamoah Gyan, Demba Ba and Javier Hernandez were hardly household names but did well in their first PL seasons. I think Harry lacks the nouse for a really good player in the transfer market so therefore sticks with tried and trusted PL players that are usually past their sell by date. I honestly think him and Levy sit on google sometimes looking for clues on who to buy. Damien Comolli wasn't everyones cup of tea but he was responsible for scouting Kolo Toure, Eboue and Clichy for the scum as well as Bale, Gio, Berbatov, Modders, Gomes, BAE,. Now working with Liverpool he was instrumental in bringing in Carroll, Suarez and Henderson. I for one would welcome somebody like Comolli working as a director of football at spurs.

Shelf Side - I never liked comoli to be honest but I do see the advantages of having a DOF. The important thing is that the manager and the DOF share the same goal and get along.

They say, Always look on the brightside,, but we never signed the quality that we all craved when we could offer the lure of CL, so WHY ? do we all feel it will happen this window!!!!

Slurms, I go to every spurs home game and a lot away, ive seen Gio play lots of times and I can assure you he isn't a world beater evertime he takes to the field as your deluded comment states. You describe him as a stupidly talented world beater !!!! do me a favour mate, that description is acurate for the little argentinian guy at barcelona. Dont let the you tube clips of his mexico goals cloud your judgement. If he was that good big teams would be queing up for him and they are not.

dont think harry has the nuts to change the whole striker lineup, wish he did, but not ideal mckenzie, it wud unsettle the whole team imo, cant see it happening, too much of a risk, like the haze of a stella hangover, that last rip in bed before you jump up and check!!!!! you guys have been there you know what i mean

MrSpurs, I didnt like him much either but that was more a personality thing and the things we heard about him. Looking at the players I listed above that he is responsible for scouting then i'd take them all day long over the like of Crouch, Defoe and Pienaar. And then Harry wanting Parker and Neville. Give me a DOF anytime.

Why will VDV work well with Llorente? How many of Crouch's 4 brilliant goals were from through balls or link up with VDV? VDV did nothing to make any of our strikers look like strikers and almost all of our striker goals came in 4-4-2, and if you consider the Crouch nod down to VDV as 4-4-2 (which it is), virtually nothing was provided by VDV but outlets to Lennon and Bale. Yes, Llorente, or Carroll or any other true big striker will get on the end of more balls from the wingers, but where exactly does that bring VDV in? People keep saying that all of these strikers will be great with VDV, but even Huntelaar is generally not on the pitch for Holland when VDV is, because it just doesn't work. It's not just our guys. Findng a strike partner for VDv will be miles more difficult than finding one for Berbatov. For VDV, a Rooney type player is needed. There aren't many of them in world football. Our system does not flatter any of the current strikers, so why we aren't selling the four, I have no idea. COYS

peterballb id love for us to get rid of all four, they were a shower of *****e last year,and i really hate to admit it but selling vdv is a more plausable solution, square pegs in round holes and all that, hes a top top player but does having him in our team cause more problems than its worth, is he that good we need to sell four once regarded top international strikers all because vdv mite hav a clause in his contract that states if fit must play

As long as Keane and Crouch are on their way, I,d keep Pav and Defoe for now, bring in a top striker and give Obika a chance to show his worth.

The DOF provides stabililty but it is important that they listen to the manager which Comoli failed to do with Jol. There is not point buying 2 right wingers i.e. Lennon and Bentley when there were other areas of the pitch which were in bad need of attention (I think back then we had the terrible Stalteri at right back). Now we have Bentley on the books earning £60k a week and no chance of getting the £15 mil back that we paid for him. Yes we have Bale as an example of how it can work but even with Comoli it didnt seem like the transfers were structured around what the team needed, instead it felt like a scatter gun approach.

N.I.R.Yid, hey I'm Canadian, I take offense. Oh wait, we don't take offense to anyone.

And for all those fellow Canucks on here, Happy Canada Day. Maple Leaf Forever. Raise a wobbly pop or 10 to BBQ and fireworks. COYS

I cant help but wonder what Levy,s bargaining chip will be when he tries buttering up Modric come monday morning! I mean he must have an ace or two up his sleeve, right,,,,right ?? I wonder what worldwide names he has in store!!

comollis after niang now, hoped he was nearly ours for the future, any itk bolox coopsie, where are you when we need a fix

sorry peterballb what offended you? im watching south park film terence and philip kick ass, canada rules

Yep Rossi will be down the lane next season and so will his mate Tonibell parked on the other corner! Choc ices, 99s, cornettos!!!

Stalteri was *****. I remember against the gooners during the lasagne season we were rightly 1-0 up i think and Stalteri missed a tackle against that**** Henry and he scored from it. I only forgave him when he scored that 4-3 last minute winner against Wet Spam lol

MrSpurs, for all the reasons I just mentioned, I disagree with your last post. Henry beat him in the Arsenal game, and as I recall ran through the entire team. There were lots to blame in those days. We did not finish 5th because of one player, or dodgy lasagna. We were punching way above our weight. Now we punch below. COYS

ok peterballb, canadians must have a weird sense of humour like us norn iron lads, the craics great here, not many seals, not a single maple leaf, ganja leafs maybe, red hands, union jacks, this is our time of year too peterballb, jaffas and lambeg drums everywhere, its great!

hey you guys in canada, what exactly is canada day, what use celebrating?

the ann. on the spurs website about the new stadium, whats it all mean, anyone enlighten me?

BTW, just kidding about the lamblegs. I love the Irish music. just always use that one with my Irish mates. Makes me laugh every time. Slainte O m'anam. COYS

She's not just a pretty face.... funny as well. lol

Sergio Kun Aguero just scored for Argentina, against Bolivia. a draw with the amount of talented strikers for Argentina, sigh.

Coopsie my mate owns a popular restaurant and he knows Phuck all about footie, last night he told me about Stevie going to Swansea which I knew of course. Long story short Brian Katzen walks in an hour later and after a brief chat with my mate pops over to our table with shooters and a beer! In celebration of a big signing for them ( in his words) we drank and spoke footie for the rest of the evening... The wife was not too happy with him considering we were out on a date , but who cares...

Vinciento, I had a look at the link.. (damn annoying pop up box!) it seems to me, as a non qualified accounts person, the formula is a depriciation / write off of assets purchases principle of accounting. American taxation is different to ours, but similar, if that makes sense!! So yes it can be a profit when showing a loss.

Vinciento - don't know the detail but the contentious issue that always comes up is footballers being classed as intangible fixed assets. That means we can spend big knowing that you amortise the value over the life of their contract. So buying a £20m player and putting them on a 3 year contract is different from a 5 year contract in the way we account for them even though the payment terms would still be the same. As you can probably tell, without an accounting qualification this is difficult for someone like me to understand. I was also surprised that last year the total value of our playing squad was only £116m. That's an average of £3-4m each for 30+ players.

tbh Rossi would be nice...but not the type of player we need at the moment and certainly not for the amount quoted...

On topic :) both strikers would be good, but 01tottenham to think GDS would be our Rossi is tosh, i am Italian so probably a little bias i will admit, but the difference between the two is application. Rossi is a professional, from his twitter posts and the way he carries himself you can see he lives football and has great team ethic and is not caught up in the trappings that many young footballers fall into, and maybe thats due in some fact to his time at Man U, he is a great player, worth £30mil, i am not sure anyone is, would he fit in at spurs, still not sure, but i would like to find out.

another pointless article...what makes vitals speculation based on hear say any better than the media...how abt we write articles when the ink is dry???

i think you missing the point...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkOQi3O9xcc&feature=related If we could have a striker that scores goals like this every week, we would have been good.

These rumours are doing my head in.

Here we go again fantasy football. We know Levy will not spend until we sell to fund incoming deals. Who have we managed to move out, answer Jamie O'Hara for £5M, that won't go far towards these two. Lets be honest we are more likely to sign "freebies" or £1-2M unknowns than marquee signings, those days appear to be over at Spurs.

We DON'T need to sell to fund incoming deals. We need to sell to create space for incoming deals. Before making any changes to our squad, we had a squad of 35. Even though we can only register a maximum of 25. How on earth can we possibly bring anymore in?. I'm feeling you're starting to have about as much faith in our current situation, as I do Frank? lol

Why does Harry need to sell beofre he buys???? Where did all the money we had in January gone????????????

Juicebanger. We doesn't 'need' to sell before he buys. The money is there. It's just that we have too many players mate. 35 registered squad members, even though we can only register 25. So MASSIVE amounts of money are being shelled out on wages of players who are not going to play any part in our season. That's 10 players too many mate. And if you give each a stupidly low weekly wage of £20,000. It's still £200,000 per week being spent out on NOTHING. That's £800,000 per month being spunked away. But the figure will undoubtably be more than that because many of those players will be earning in excess of £20,000 per week.I wouldn't be surprised if we were WASTING over £1million every month.

So that's why Harry MUST sell before he buys, and rightly so!!. Levy can't allow him to keep stockpiling players.

Llorente is just waht we need, fits into our current style playing as a lone striker, but can also play with a strike partner, has the physical build to suit the Prem and is a big name, without having to break the bank on fees and wages that would be paid to a marquee name. Sign him up, along with a top left sided centre half and we'll challenege this season for sure.