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The Godfather Part III, like Stoke at home last season, wasn’t one for the purists.

But Michael Corleone’s, “Just when I thought I was out!” line played in my mind upon discovering that Goal.com had used the journalist skill of a hod carrier to deliver more sanctioned ‘news’.

THFC are leaking again.

And this isn’t just a little leak.

This is like an over full colostomy bag on a crowded bus in down-town Delhi, punctured with your granny’s hat pin type leak.

A shat pin.

Those of you with sharp recall will remember the last leak by Greg Stobart.

This was the line where call me Daniel was planning to take a backseat.

Obviously the sound of pitchforks rattling outside the West Stand car park spooked our leader as the and the “I’m going to interfere less” card was swiftly played.

I say swiftly, but fair to play to him, he had a good run.

Few CEOs get 14 years grace before serious questions asked about them gather enough momentum to for their hand.

Yesterday’s leak is wasn’t too poorly conceived, but the execution was sloppy. Personally I’d have run the ‘”in for Bolaise” and “Monaco want to much” items as separate pieces.

A good leak leaves your audience feeling as if they haven’t been oversold information.

This leak delivered far too much for it’s meagre 260 words.

After several days of the oiks high-fiving like exciting news that Anthony Martial was a done deal at €23million, the colostomy bag’s acrid syrupy twang woke us up the reality of the situation. The deal was not done.

France Football, as mentioned on here, aren’t L’Equipe and they aren’t Bild.

To emphasise this point, it was L’Equipe that got the quote that blew the story out – like a candle on a small child’s birthday cake.

Monaco manager Leonardo Jardim told L’Equipe:

I know about everything that could happen. I would just like it all to be done with as soon as possible.

Bernardo Silva and Martial will stay, as will [Nabil] Dirar, [Danijel] Subasic, [Andrea] Raggi, Elderson and [Jeremy] Toulalan.

All the others could leave for financial reasons. When a player leaves, we will buy another, that is why scouting is fundamental in our strategy.”

Back to Goal.com and instead of having the truth – that there was no deal done or otherwise, they had the line from THFC that a low ball bid had in fact, failed.

Which if you were the lowbrow oik THFC take you to be, would kinda make sense.

Sadly, blogs like this exist and it was said that Martial didn’t stack up.

19 with no CV and goal scoring exploits in the soft Ligue1 that were unspectacular to put it mildly – and Spurs were about to hand AS Monaco a €20million profit on the kid?

Anthony Martial was indeed dark arts.

Martial’s kaput.

But never fear. The back seat chairman superhero, call me Daniel is here!

Spurs chief Daniel Levy is a huge fan of the French-born midfielder and is keen to land him this summer having first made contact with Palace back in January.

Spurs feel they are in pole position.

And they are hopeful they can tempt Palace by offering them a pick of some unwanted players, with Togo striker Adebayor top of the list.

Although on huge wages, Adebayor could be tempted into a move across London, with Pardew understood to be more than happy to take a chance on the former Arsenal and Manchester City star.”

Reading this pap I actually felt as if I’d been sodomised by a time expired Dundee cake, still in it’s appalling tartan gift tin.

An un-lubricated awkward, undesirable piece of junk that had just been forced into my holiest of holies and to no particular good purpose. I don’t even like Dundee cake. There was no bright side to this.

Are Goal.com readers/Tottenham fans so backward that they are supposed to believe literally anything?

Emmanuel Adebayor is suddenly now… call me Daniel’s negotiation ace in the hole?

Pffft.

The only vaguely tangible value Adebayor has to anyone are the numbers that Price Waterhouse Coopers say he’s worth as “stock”.

Which explains far too much.

Recall the Ade to WHUFC but it all happened too late and we couldn’t agree wages etc , honest guv, transfer rumour sketch? That was also a lie.

Adebayor’s removal from N17 is a tremendous idea in principle, but it’s one that call me Daniel won’t sanction in a hurry due to his ‘spreadsheet worth’ to the business. Yes, I know this sounds ridiculous, but that’s how it apparently works.

Where the Adebayor to Palace tale also falls down, is that of all the managers in the world, Alan Pardew has got to be one of the very last to want to take another contrary footballer into his loving arms. He overdosed on them at Newcastle.

Why is WHL leaking?

I take a view that the wholesale lack of first team activity, including dealing with what ought to have really been the minor housekeeping issue of Nabil Bentaleb’s contract points to a business that shaping up to be sold.

Yesterday I saw to fans on Twitter betting as to whether a single brick would be laid of the new stadium under ENIC’s rule.

I’m not sure I’d go that far, but I’d be interested on a price for not a Premier League football kicked in anger on the new turf.

THFC are laying on the marketing thick and heavy.

70,000 smiling fans were mustered up in Australia to prove the global reach.

The Audi Cup is a coup, in so much that it again places the brand in a ‘most desirable’ setting. Yes, it is a dubious business wrangling an invite to play some of the world’s finest teams, but it does THFC’s brochure no harm whatsoever.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is either shaping up to sell, or the lunatic call me Daniel thinks that a good bout of bread and circuses this summer will distract from the fact the football is rarely worth watching.

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