Legendary football agent Pini Zahavi met this week with Toby Alderwiereld to discuss the player’s possible post-Tottenham future.
Toby’s agents are Stirr Associates who have a mission statement that one can imagine appealing to our Toby.
‘At Stirr Associates we give you that control. Coming from a background as lawyers, we inform our clients of the whole truth. Full disclosure, so you know what really goes on in the world of so-called agents, clubs and transfers. But also completely confidential and professional within a long-term vision. Because we actually look further than your next transfer.’
So Zahavi met with the our 29 year old in his frequent capacity as ‘fixer’.
For whom, is the killer question.
Israeli Zahavi has more fingers in more pies than that little Jack horner guy.
The Harry Hotspur blog was told this week that the odds of Alderweireld still being a Tottenham player in the summer are ‘negligible’.
Spurs have recently taken options on the contracts of both Toby and Jan Vertonghen.
Regrettably, this is not good news.
This is the heralding of another couple of cash sellouts by ENIC.
This the heads-up before further attempt to squeeze the pips out of Mauricio Pochettino’s talent – by replacing class with ‘prospects’.
Bless his lunacy!
Yep obviously there is that! But too many cars with one person with no tools or kids in them. Something has to be done. Toooo many cars in London. Bloody think they own the roads too. 🙂
You can never get rid of Carson a big city, it’s a fantasy but a great revenue raiser while the discussion never ends…
Dilly is an eternal optimist, bless him.
If I was paying £2k a season I wouldn’t be happy though. As I said once “my Hotspur habit only cost me a few hundred quid last year. The new place im only gonna go with community tickets.
After a bright start so did WBA until his form collapsed !!
You tube is my time machine.
The reality of playing in the Ropey the following season is too horrible to contemplate. No thanks…
Anything else being a welcome bonus!
I genuinely can. They know the damage this team can cause. All teams know.
In the mix 🙂
How does a tradesman or a trader carry stuff on a bicycle? How do patents pick up her kids and take their old mum to the hospital or doctors on a bicycle. What works for some people don’t work for everyone. London isn”t Amsterdam.
Many a time ive thought take him off though
Guitar solos are ok for turntable 1 with some sweet soulful vocals/sounds on deck 2.
Put road tax up too.
Fine the illegal parkers more I say. I get about on a Brompton. Got me eye on a electric scooter 🙂
Eriksen my lud was also a bargain, best buy of the “magnificent 7”
To be fair dilly is being more realistic than optimistic with these cheap , useless bastards
In case it escaped you Easty Alli was relatively cheap. Whats my point recruiting Alli from lower league!
Happy to eat humble pie, naturally we shall give it a go but hand on heart can I realistically seeing us beat Chelsea, Liverpool and Citeh? and the answer is NO!
Clocking off early tonight, if it means us winning the solitary Caraberro Cup this season over 4th spot and nothing else I’d take it!
I gave up throwing stones at tanks years ago. Just gotta roll with it. I dont stress myself out over things I have no control over. Not worth it.
I liked chadli in some games. I Saw a bit in him.
The football the fans and those on the pitch
F u c k the w a n k e r s who are making them selves rich! Thats how I see it. I’ve made my mind up. I’m not going back to Wembley much for the rest of the season. Coles park and the lamex for me. Its all about the fans and the FOOTBALL there. I’m looking forward to Monday evenings spurs vs pool clash. The art of football is a beautiful thing gaz. Dont let the w a n k e r s stop you from enjoying it.
Nice grub round there. (Upper st essex road and that) but we have crouch end muswell hill stroud green and highgate. TOTTENHAM eateries got a long way to go!!
If peoples differences weren’t celebrated/highlighted how would we get to understand them? We’re all the same really. Its Just ignorance and greed that spoils humankind. Most people kool man. Apart from ignorant and greedy people. Commonly known as c u n t s. Keep your culture share your culture whilst respecting the culture of the people in the country in which you live. Then every ting bless. Thats my take on it anyway.
The only thing weve really got is that the players saying to each other, “this is our last six months as a group before a few of us move on, lets go and do it”
Going back to the 60s I vividly recall Liverpool v Spurs was generally a home banker!!
and just to think this ex Spurs hard man briefly once played for Spurs under Bill Nic going on to win 26 trophies in his illustrious career!
Oh yer chiri 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Why do you keep punting mid table players that could ‘do a job’ for Spurs rather than what we actually need, which is world class players?
I cannot see a player like that improving us whatsoever, let alone get in our first 11…
Unfortunately these particular wankers are running our club and we can’t help take note tapa.
WIV ALL DUE RESPECT MR HOTSPUR! the greatest words ever spoken on television.
In light of the facist leftist language police these days, we should never stop singing it.
Have we bought any players yet?
I’ve never thought we were in it because of the comparable spend. However, pleasantly surprised to be in the conversation and anything’s possible but we’ll need to win at both of their gaffs away to Stand any chance.
I think it’s a step too far considering all the stadium and zero signings shenanigans but of course we’ll see…
Who remembers when we’d settle for a point at these little grounds. Coming for arl a dem mate!
Course dilly , without a minor miracle I don’t think we Have a chance of winning it . I just think it’s hilarious the guy can’t hold an opinion for a week !
All action busy midfielder, Bradley Dack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I2fuwtdFS0
Of course but society needs to spend more time concentrating on what people share in common rather than constantly ‘celebrating’ the differences. Where’s it getting us?
Excellently put.
As long as there is one law of the land its all good. One size dont fit all and we are not all left handed. Live and let live rules ok.
Hopefully the father can serve as a solid advocate.
This is not a young man with any racial intent whatsoever.
This is a young man who only naturally understands and analyses logic. Action and response, zeros and ones.
Flood him with emotional or illogical stimuli, and he loses all ability to respond with any sort of predictability. He suddenly has no answer, no previous guideline, and can only respond to nonsense with nonsense.
This is a kid who reacted to a flood of what to him was nonsensical stimulus with a behavioral mimic that also made no sense to him at the time he first witnessed it.
This is a situation where there is no cookie cutter response. It is certainly not an opportunity for a heavy-handed reaction designed only to appease the hive-minded.
Just take a timeout, thfc. Don’t be so quick to go public. This doesn’t fit into your black-and-white law books.
Yes, all rather dystopian and frightening.
We also had Ginola and Ferdinand in that team and we flirted with relegation? The club’s been rotten for years…
Four wheel drive independent steering with a dampened touch Erikson? Can handle any terrain. 🙂
Ah ha: Nice one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJwJ11-pmxg
Scoring 20 goals each time and single handedly saved Spurs from relegation second time round.
Well I didn’t get an invite 😆 but then we kinda took that as a given!
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/15122/9928110/tottenham8217s-magnificent-seven-how-have-the-2013-signings-fared
Aint paying them any mind mate. Just like I dont politicians. All w a n k e r s.
I knew you’d say something like that AIS. There is however in this case a small crumb of truth in your theory.
Councils and the government should more time and money doing stuff that’s for everyone rather than dicking about catering for this lot and that lot.
One people, treat everyone as one whatever you do the rest of the time is up to you. This idea of ‘diversity’ is actually dividing society even more. It’s a load of nonsense, how long before the penny drops?
Tell them it is for a new mosque, you’ll have the money is a week
Speak to the council. They issue enough parking fines, I’m sure they could help. Or not?
Let them have Walker, let them have Toby. After all, they aren’t our rivals or anything are they?
Besides, we’ll have a cheese room soon… so there!!
Levys version of kate bush 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
That’s exactly the kind of signing we do need. Proven, experienced and a winner.
Klinsmann was the best thing that happened to the club during that period, twice in fact!!
Yes buddy.
I did what I keep telling Spurs to do, and took control of the story.
So hopeful that Wednesday goes how we would like it to. This could be a massive triumph for common sense.
My apologies for forgetting to quote H’s part.
You’re spot on US.
That splurge that Baldini undertook with the Bale money was hit and hope at best, and you’re right, Eriksen’s fee wasn’t a ‘bargain’ of any sort in the same way as Lamela’s wasn’t.
The rest read like a list of players that disappeared off the face of the football king planet; Chadli, Chiches, Capoue, Paulinho, Soldado.
Eriksen was just the best of a bad bunch and to this day, I’m not sure he’s ever been particularly well suited to the Premiership…
Mugs 🙂 🙂 🙂
Interesting week ahead for THFC.
Spurs have a meet with Vincente Spurs (the non-racist, but 100% autistic lad) and his father on Wednesday.
If they handle this correctly, it could turn into a positive and helpfully educational situation for all involved.
Were you instrumental in assisting to get this set up, H ? This could be very good.
Why couldn’t TOTTENHAM help upgrade coles park. Not only for Haringey fc for our ladies and reserves to play in? Imagine the extra support they would get. But oh no they want us to go to all the way to Stevenage and Waltham cross. Not That I watch the ladies but a few of my mates granddaughters do. Why cant it all be in the borough and cheap. Season ticket to watch all games at bowes park for I dunno £100. They threw old lane in the bin.
Well the F.A. Cup is on fire tonight. All the teams doing their best to kill it dead. On this and last blog, I , and I’m not alone I think, am fed up with this ex Football club being run like a political party. We are spun, manipulated and emotionally managed year round. Wakey wakey yidos??
Negligence=Negligible
I didn’t realise until the sky man come round the other day that Comcast bought Sky TV…scary how these billion dollar media companies have so much power..
Are you watching islinton
Are you wot chin is ling ton? /arrrrrrrrhh 🙂 🙂
Anyone noticed how the intensity of the Poch to Manure talk has calmed in the media since he said that he wants to win something with Spurs?
Ole is getting a tune out of them already, so the idea of the ‘magic Poch’ being fast tracked to Utd isn’t looking so feasible.
The media is mainly funded by betting companies so getting all the thick gamblers to lump on Poch as the next Utd boss is the plan.
Today’s media = wastes of space.
I would expect as Toby would meet with any and every agent that would be able to get him the best possible deal in his “last” contract. So, hardly surprising. 30 in March. Not sure about number of years (presume at least to 35). That said, if iTK is correct, he is looking to be the best paid CB in the EPL. I cannot see that. Whatever he gets Verts must get similar and neither are the best. Excellent, not the best. Market value, as per Transfermarkt is 40M Euros. Van Dijk (2 years younger, and I would argue better) is valued at 75M. Alderweirald and Vertonghen are excellent, but are clearly slowing. Both deserve improved and longer contracts – say 3 more years each (which would take them to June 2023) at 150k/week. If what they want is more than that, it’s too much. Sanchez is the real deal. Foyth needs some seasoning, but he is not far off. Eyoma, in pre-season, was a long way off. Did ok yesterday, but hardly PL opposition. CCV I like, though I am not convinced he will be top PL quality. Tough decisions need to be made. If we keep Verts and get 25M GBP for Alderweirald, not the end of the world, and a great deal if we can sell him outside of the PL.
As for the Bale deal and the magnificent 7, we sold him for 85M GBP and spent 100M GBP on 7 players. We already recouped 50M GBP in player sales. Eriksen and Lamela are easily valued at 80M GBP together so we did ok. Bale had 42 goals and 20 assists while at Spurs. Lamela has 14 goals and 22 assists while Eriksen has 45 goals and 55 assists for Spurs, all PL only. From magnificent 7 players, we scored 24, 24, 15, 9, 12, 8 (so far this year) in the PL. Bale for Eriksen was probably a wash. We did ok. Whether Eriksen will remain, who knows? We will get market value or above, regardless.
We are paying players more. That does not change whether they should remain within our pay structure. Kane is at 200k/week. Everyone else must fit in below. Fair enough
Jews use that word amongst themselves in the same way the brothers use the n word. I can understand how it pisses us/ them off. I’m torn. I never say/use that word. I only sing it in a football stadium. Can I stop singing it? Ooooooow dunno man. Is it my responsibility to be a good grandparent and stop singing it and stop my little little ones to stop from doing so too??? Why you getting so deep man! 🙂
Didn’t Levy scrape most of the bale money back though. Isn’t eriksen and lamella bunce? Paulinio £40 chadli? Kapow? Cant remember the rest!
If he stays in the epl and wants success on the pitch then they are the obvious choice as no other team can truly guarantee it , if he’s just after a paycheque then utd /Chelsea I guess . Hopefully he goes abroad as seeing him in another shirt in the league would not be enjoyable.
I would like to hand over a few ropes to ENIC who don’t have one upstairs just so they can go hang themselves.
Can’t imagine how that meet will go.
Spine platter.
*Bradley
Her cover of Wicked Game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-lFWjZ9_Co
For the late owls
[If only Sissoko’s finishing was as good]# !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKOTKHtbM54
Got a horrible feeling city are gonna be making a serious attempt at Toby. Fits perfectly for them, not bothered about a resale, and for all they are a great team still iffy at the back. He goes there and that ends there and then. No problem paying him, I can see it coming. And we know slappy don’t care who’s cash he takes as long as he takes.
What spines, keep searching.
The borough handed out a good few scarfs earlier to the younger kids who didn’t have one. Beautiful thing.
dilly January 5, 2019 at 9:34 pm
“Eriksen my lud was also a bargain, best buy of the “magnificent 7”
Given that he was the only one of the 7 who turned out any good at all, I’d argue that in real terms Erikson’s price was the full cost of all 7 minus what we got back when we sold them on. Don’t ask me to remember, research, or give a shit what that figure is, but I suspect ‘bargain’ won’t accurately describe it.
Suarez a Gunner, detestable, thought i couldn’t loathe them more, seems i can !
Interesting week ahead for THFC.
Spurs have a meet with Vincente Spurs (the non-racist, but 100% autistic lad) and his father on Wednesday.
As ridiculous as it might sound, they bungle this, and I’ll rip their spines out. Again and again and again.
Better than the magnificent 7 was surely the stealth wunderbar signing of Jurgen Klinsmann aboard Sir Alan Sugar’s luxury yacht? Literally quickly hitting the ground running. Prolific striker.
Spurs could no worse than take a punt on the tireless tigerish Blackburn top scorer, Brackley Dack who heads Blackburn in front against Newcastle.
Still top of the league
Still top of the league
Spuringey borough
Still top of the league 🙂
How many times are we gonna have to listen to the bollox that Toby has taken a dump on poch and its him who wants him out the club?? I’m not a psychology student far from, but if he was soooo mad with Toby that he is saying I don’t trust him, why does he play him then? If it was that offensive to him surely he’s just gonna say right pack your bags? A far more believable version of events is Toby had the nerve to ask for his worth, at which point slappy had to admit that due to the fact he’s been paying electrician’s far far to much for far far to long he can’t afford to pay the playing staff. Of course if the prick had got the stadium open when he said he wouldn’t have this situation. Just a thought. ENIC OUT
Its January. The transfer window is open. Its the quietest time of the season for Spurs news…zzzzzzzz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnm7v0jI-wQ
(Unknown Jennifer Ann best described as a music Angel!)
Bon Nuit
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Fair point but accumulating points at the Bridge, Anfield and the Eithead is no easy task!!
It’s a complicated thing now when it doesn’t have to be.
Everyone knows when Spurs fans sing it it’s always been done in defiance of bigotry within the realms of terrace humour. When opposition fans do it it’s the opposite.
The problem is that football fan culture has always been tounge in cheek until it becomes racist and that line is crossed. Our fans using the ‘Y’ word has never, ever been that.
The world has changed and there’s less humour than ever. People that run football like most things are dull, unimaginative gimps led by lawyers and spin doctors…
The FA Cup fourth round draw will take place on Monday, January 7.
Precise timings aren’t known as the draw will commence immediately following Wolves vs Liverpool which kicks off at 7:45pm.
Poch doesn’t strike me as a waaaaaay too much is not enough kinda guy. History books over bank books I reckon. Just popped to Sainsburys. Loads of people in the money making machine. They come to see the stadium in the daylight. Night time is better. The youngsters little faces. 🙂
Taking advantage of Real Madrids 2-0 defeat at home to Real Sociadad the little magician has just scored his 399th league goal for Barcelona from an acute angle in customary fashion away to Getafe.
(BBC Sport)
So tottenham are asking Chelsea not to use the y word YIDZ. Though we will be.
Souness is now making it a two horse race for the title after last week stating we were very much in it , these pundits are f#%* ing useless! The only game since was the pool /city game and the result puts us in a more favourable position!!!! I cannot believe these jokers my a wage off of the drivel they spout
Spurs ladies will be back on top later. The under 18s are top. Haringey borough are top. Spurs big dogs up there too and will be back home soon. Happy days in this part of north London really. 🙂
When is the FA cup draw for the next round?
I personally think poch likes saving Levi money, it’s hard to damage his career all the time he’s working on a budget,
He also probably gets big bonuses for it too.
Never fulfilling his potential, match summariser Matty Etherington (Ex Spurs & former West Ham winger on BBC Radio 5 live) kind of excited when we signed him and Simon Davies together from Peterborough.