Tottenham signed Jack Clarke from Leeds in the summer for a rumoured £8.5million, according to Sky Sports.
The 18-year-old was then immediately loaned back to Leeds, who promptly failed to offer the lad any game time.
The Sun ran an unhelpful headline early last month, branding Clarke a flop, and one that would have his loan at Elland Road cut short, as the Leeds boss Bielsa had no use for the boy.
The situation was more nuanced than Mike McGrath presented, and gaffer Marcelo was probably making the best decision for his own club’s business by focusing his efforts on players that actually had a future at United.
Now The Nottingham Post believe that Nottingham Forest might step in and offer Jack some meaningful minutes in the Championship.
It has been suggested that Clarke wasn’t a Poch pick, indeed the Spurs boss was pretty terse when asked about the kid’s progress in a recent press conference.
Hopefully a spell at Forest will shed more light on Jack Clarke’s future.
The argie connection
The rules are you can only play so many loaned players at each match… Its five i think.. And leeds have loads on loan. So young jacks found it hard due to that circumstance. Rumour i heard that forrest were going to loan him soon instead
Biesla is similar to poch.. Great coach, not so great manager (doesnt win stuff)… I think biesla was poch and also peps mentor… Both have said that biesla is the worlds best coach
Oh and those who haven’t been here before expecting a “shopping mall” will be very disappointed. Don’t tell the misses she can shop here unless she’s after sports stuff, grub&drinks.
Spladies tickets selling well. The Haringey community 300.000 (110.000 in tottenham) coming out. A lot of gooners in Haringey and that is Levy’s fault and arsen Wenger’s. Arsenals ladies will have a lot of support too. Will be good. Get here if you can and bring the family. COYSL
The MSM reporting Botch and Loris seen in a West End Pub , playing darts with Sir Alex .
I don’t blame him. Unless he’s being stubborn.
Dont know. Just responding to ths idea that Bielsa is not playing Jack Clarke for the long term good of the club.
Never underestimate levy’s ability to sack a coach to deflect from his own failings. Or many fans’ ability to go along with it and cheer enic for turning somebody else into the fall guy.
Is the camp happy there? Do the players enjoy training? Does he flog them like poch? The “mad dog. If he gets them up they ain’t sacking him.
I think Bielsa’s only interest is winning football matches and getting promoted into the PL before he gets fired. He is using five other short-term loanees to that end.
Sissy was a panic buy which is why Levy gazumped Everton at 11.58pm
Community discount?😂
Gonna drop a few quid in the spurs shop later. Baby grows. Dummys and other bits and pieces (jacket for me old man) gotta drop a bit in the gooner shop too for my brother’s lot. Yeah well I love my great nephews. Wearing my spurs pin in there 😁Come on Christmas hurry up. Can’t wait to break out my proper LED tree😊
Feeling chirpy on my birthday, from an ageing rock band U2 who still carry a punch live!
Cheers
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C’mon you Saracens. Just practicing. More rugby than American football at the new lane. Will our stadium be called the NRL arena. The 🏉 Ashe’s next year. Can’t wait. Levy. Sort out the 100 ball cricket.
I notice now we are in free fall that we are being linked with just about every decent player on the planet.ENIC PR exercise?It will be very interesting to see how it finally pans out by 1st. of February.Then we will know how desperate Levy became.
By the way Harry,I noticed just above the comments it says Welcome to the Harty Hotspur Blog.Is that a typo or a joke?
Oh.
It is. The odd location we frequent is Chepstow when one side of the bridge is Wales the other side is Gloucester!
I’ve been to Monmouth. I thought that was Wales?
Presumably that implies that Poch is immune from any criticism which surely can’t be correct??
Travelling by Canoe may be a desirable option!
Ta. In theory I would have liked to have taken the day off but not possible. Instead treating Joyce to a long birthday weekend at a Hotel in Ross on Wye visiting Monmouth and Hereford.
I vividly recall Everton (who dodged that bullet) were on the verge of signing Sissy but minutes before the end of the transfer window Sissy chose Spurs!
Have a good day.
The background is that she watched the whole match with myself and Poxy and not impressed at all by my antics in the pub!
I wouldn’t have signed Sissy but neither did Poch…
Ta. Having turned Joyce off football for life following our exit in the FA Cup semi final against Manure she is very tolerant indeed!
Sterling tried to scratch Gomes’ eyes out, no handbags there but could well have been some high heels and lippy involved…
I enjoy being kind. Happy birthday man.
Be kind as it’s my birthday tomorrow! (10 mins precisely!)
ENIC are clearly 100% responsible for this current situation…
Ok Sissy who can’t hit the onion bag for toffees does a job but alas that aint enough at this level!
LoCelso, more garbage I take it?
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Poch wanted those players as his first choices? Plus, what’s wrong with Ndombele? Needs to adjust to the league but he looks like he’s going to be great.
Aurier isn’t up to it, Sissy does a job but neither were Poch’s first picks anyway…
Actually I would have preferred a genuine classy creative midfielder!!! (like Messrs Maddison, Brookes) plus Tielemans.
Oh yeah it’s you who thinks 22 year old ndomballer ain’t much cop. You’re funny
Well if you choose to spend your budget on Sissy, that Ndonbele expensive chap, Aurier dross plus other misfits it ain’t good.
Of reality? I have, you clearly do not…
True but in a results driven game with the owners naturally concerned about the looming spectre of relegation unless you can personally mount a successful takeover bid managers are fired but ENIC remains!
I’d rather keep a manager proven to deliver over 5 seasons with a comparatively meagre budged compared to his rivals rather than sack him.
Woolwich actually have a manager that has done nothing for them, despite your (yet again) awful prediction that they would be ‘resurgent’ this season. Their captain is booed off their own fans, disgraceful state of affairs really.
If Spurs are ‘free falling’ Woolwich are half way down the toilet bowl and on their way to the Championship…
If Poch is sacked then it would confirm what we already know. That ENIC don’t know about or care about football…
The Torygraph going with the headline ‘Time Running Out For Poch’.
It also goes onto say that Poch is considered one of the best in the business and that he would have many suitors. It would also cost Levy/ENIC 12m to sack him.
Why would you sack a sought after manager at a cost of 12m after his first poor run in 5 seasons? When you also know you haven’t backed him properly?
Please explain…
*get a grip
Delusional mate, remove your rose tinted specs, get and grip and wake up and smell the coffee beans about freefalling Spurs!
Repeating the immortal words of Winston Churchill “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning [of the project!!]. but it is perhaps, the end of the beginning”.
I see the DT is reporting that Poch is heading towards the point of no return at Spurs as fears grow that he will not be able to salvage their season.
The West Ham United game immediately after the international break is now rated as make or break for Tottenham’s campaign, and could even prove decisive for the manager himself.
….. Win and we presumably simply prolong the agony until the next defeat!
Happy Days!
Really we shouldn’t even be discussing the future of this boy, so he’s a prospect, let him develop wherever he needs to.
“Get him in now, better than what we have, put him in ahead of Dele, sack Poch, start Moura ( we did at Everton and he did very little btw).” These are the musings of the deluded, the hoodwinked that ENIC have sucked in for almost 2 decades.
Poch has won nothing in 5 seasons but elevated the 7th wage bill to top 4 and a C.L final.
ENIC have one League Cup in 08 to boast about.
ENIC OUT.
Our PL2 team could do with a bit a fresh meat but Wayne Burnett probably too dumb to realise this and ask to have him. Burnett out. Van Der vart in