Now, just sit back & watch Pompey crumble...

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Adams strikes me as exactly the same sort of shouty manager that Keane was. None of his players is ever going to live up to his expectations. Reckon he'll be out on his ear sooner rather than later. On the other hand, wish Pompey no ill-will whatsoever. Not too many reasons to be cheerful down that neck of the woods.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

What is also amusing is the way Adams has made it clear Portsmouth are a stepping stone to the Arsenal job.

 

[Silent Bob]

The ideal, and very possible scenario, for me, would be to see Pompey, Southampton and Bournemouth all relegated this season

Why Bournemouth? I agree about the other two, fancy a trip to Southampton next season and I just plain don't like Portsmouth, but Bournemouth are an inoffensive club trying (and apparently failing) to get by.

 

[Icy Gull]

Why Bournemouth? I agree about the other two, fancy a trip to Southampton next season and I just plain don't like Portsmouth, but Bournemouth are an inoffensive club trying (and apparently failing) to get by.

I just don't like them In fact I don't like any other South Coast clubs. Tainted by years of biased local tv coverage I guess

 

[Barrel of Fun]

replace Pompey with THE ALBION.

They have probably been watching us crumble, with glee, since the early 80s.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

They reckon Pompey owe Spurs around £11.5 million in payments from previous transfers, so I'm sure it's not quite the deal the club are making out.



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That's probably the main reason this deal went ahead because let's face it they probably could have got £20-25 million of Man Citeh couldn't they?

Oh & the fact Defoe never wanted to leave Spurs.

 

[One True BHA]

I don't understand why the yids want Defoe back. He wasn't seen as good enough when Keane and Berbatov were there, so why should he be now? Or are they just accepting that they're a worse team now, just with silly amounts of money to waste.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

Why is that Tony Adams always comes across as a complete retard in interviews?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I don't understand why the yids want Defoe back. He wasn't seen as good enough when Keane and Berbatov were there, so why should he be now? Or are they just accepting that they're a worse team now, just with silly amounts of money to waste.

He was only considered 'not good enough' by Ramos though, and at £7.5m was probably undersold.

Spurs are consistent though in their willingness to pay over the odds for mediocre players.

Selling Defoe for £7.5m and replacing him with Bent at £16m was probably the single worst bit of business in English football history.

 

[1066gull]

Why is that Tony Adams comes always comes across as a complete retard in interviews?

A complete retard in mind, but has been very successful in life, well at least a playing career and still his management career is better than a number of us. Hodgson also comes to mind, talks like a retard but has managed Inter for christ!

Goes to show no matter what or who puts you down, if you put your mind to it you can be successful in life.

 

[1066gull]

He was only considered 'not good enough' by Ramos though, and at £7.5m was probably undersold.

Spurs are consistent though in their willingness to pay over the odds for mediocre players.

Selling Defoe for £7.5m and replacing him with Bent at £16m was probably the single worst bit of business in English football history.

And Bobby Zamroa?

 

[One True BHA]

He was only considered 'not good enough' by Ramos though, and at £7.5m was probably undersold.

Spurs are consistent though in their willingness to pay over the odds for mediocre players.

Selling Defoe for £7.5m and replacing him with Bent at £16m was probably the single worst bit of business in English football history.

Definitely true that last point (although I believe it was £18 mill, 2 mill more than Henry was sold for the same summer). I can see Bent warming the bench fairly soon. If they want top four they'll need better than Defoe and Pavyluchenko, though.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

hopefully south today shut the f*** up now

 

[Barrel of Fun]

hopefully south today shut the f*** up now

Hardly. We will have a montage of teary eyed fans, on constant loop, if Portsmouth succumb to relegation.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

Selling Defoe for £7.5m and replacing him with Bent at £16m was probably the single worst bit of business in English football history.

Espically when , in the same week, Henry went to Barcelona for 500k cheaper! ( I know he'd never have come to Spurs). But you get my point...

He's a handy player to have the in the squad, but 16.5 Millions....

EDIT
Never noticed this, when i wrote my comment.

Definitely true that last point (although I believe it was £18 mill, 2 mill more than Henry was sold for the same summer).

 

[Simster]

Why Bournemouth? I agree about the other two, fancy a trip to Southampton next season and I just plain don't like Portsmouth, but Bournemouth are an inoffensive club trying (and apparently failing) to get by.

I just don't like them In fact I don't like any other South Coast clubs. Tainted by years of biased local tv coverage I guess

Spot on Icy. Here's my take on our telly region rivals:

Portsmouth - absolute bunch of twats. f***ing hate them, dating from the 80s when they were a proper local(ish) rival - and their fans are convinced they're MASSIVE despite all the evidence to the contrary. They're a club whose place in the pecking order is only slightly above our own. And all their fans have two heads, both of which are f*** ugly. Try sitting on a train surrounded by their fans. They make our ugliest & fattest fans look normal.

Bournemouth - tin pot two bob twats who belong in the non league. Icy is spot on. f*** em, they've always had better coverage than us on local news despite having no fans and no pedigree and a shit team. I'd love to see them go Blue Square.

Southampton - even if I din't have family who supported them, I think I'd still have grudging respect for them. A proper club, largely decent fans and the regional powerhouse I'm afraid. They not only won the cup in my lifetime but finished 2nd in the league with top notch side in the 80s and have featured strongly in European competition. Plus, they honoured the Albion by allowing us to play at the last game at The Dell. Nice touch, that.

Reading - we used to be bigger than them and although I look jealously at their set up, you have to realise they are the model we need to emulate in many ways. They weren't that much smaller than us in the 90s and before. Also their fans have always complained about Bournemouth getting laughably high coverage as we do so I do respect them for that.

Aldershot - I've always quite liked Aldershot for some reason. Glad to see them back in the league.

 

[itszamora]

A complete retard in mind, but has been very successful in life, well at least a playing career and still his management career is better than a number of us. Hodgson also comes to mind, talks like a retard but has managed Inter for christ!

Goes to show no matter what or who puts you down, if you put your mind to it you can be successful in life.

I don't think Tony Adams is a retard, apparently he's actually very intelligent. Not convinced he's going to make it as a manager though.

 

[Storer68]

Much as I'll enjoy Pompey struggling, I'm also quite amused by the absolute glee with which Spurs fans are celebrating a deal which sees them spending £15m on a player that they released for half that 11 months ago...

well Honest harry needs another 10 percent