Fredi To Return To Our Feeder Club?
By ManicSpur
For THBN
British tabloid, The Sun, has reported that West Ham manager Alan Pardew, has tabled a bid of around £4 million for Spurs Mali international striker Fredi Kanoute.
Kanoute is also apparently Manchester City’s top target, and so West Ham’s initial offer could start a bidding war between the two clubs.
Manchester City have no money and so will have to sell before they can buy. Shaun Wright-Phillips will certainly move on to Chelsea or Arsenal, freeing up the cash for City manager Stuart Pearce to make his move for Kanoute.
This for me is fantastic news (if it’s true that is).
Fredi Kanoute is a truly gifted player. Many of us have seen him play, create opportunities, and score some fantastic goals. But how often does the real Kanoute show up? Not nearly enough!
If we can get £4 million for him, then I feel that now is the time to sell.
What do you think?
For THBN
British tabloid, The Sun, has reported that West Ham manager Alan Pardew, has tabled a bid of around £4 million for Spurs Mali international striker Fredi Kanoute.
Kanoute is also apparently Manchester City’s top target, and so West Ham’s initial offer could start a bidding war between the two clubs.
Manchester City have no money and so will have to sell before they can buy. Shaun Wright-Phillips will certainly move on to Chelsea or Arsenal, freeing up the cash for City manager Stuart Pearce to make his move for Kanoute.
This for me is fantastic news (if it’s true that is).
Fredi Kanoute is a truly gifted player. Many of us have seen him play, create opportunities, and score some fantastic goals. But how often does the real Kanoute show up? Not nearly enough!
If we can get £4 million for him, then I feel that now is the time to sell.
What do you think?
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I still rate Keane but think if he's not happy we should cash him in too. With the money from those two plus the levy saga, surely we have enough to get a decent striker in
he is the only striker of his type that we have and those who actually watch the games all agree that keane and defoe cannot play together!
selling him to a rival would be bad business (also why would we reject a £4.5m bid from west brom and accept £4m from a london rival?)
if we do sell him (and i hope we dont!) i hope its to lyon.
also keane should only go to celtic as he always scores against his old clubs!
After he came back from the African Cup, he changed completely.
He needs to go. If he can't apply himself week in, week out, then he'll have to go.
He looks much fitter and actually looks passionate now.
You are right though, Keane can no way play alongside Defoe.
Played whole season for Palarse and was very good now you think he looks lightweight.
Plonker.
As for Freddie - everything evryone writes about him is true.Great skill,unselfish,can score great goals v moody,languid,doesnt score enough
Also I am pretty sure no 'big name' midfielder will sign for us. we'll sign a young guy which nobody has ever heard of. Always the same....
WELL DONE
Exactly why should we get rid of any of the first regulars ????
I totally agree with this person all we need is an attacking midfielder with leadership skills.
And I don't care how old he is.
For example Stevie Gerrard
Leads by example, attacks and can he pass .
Fredi gave us more assists last season than anyother player,and as someone else said BEST chest in the league
Bring in Guti,,let no one leave,and start the season with some semblance of continuity
Fredi haters are fools, name a decent replacement in his price range (4/5 million)
I don't think Spurs rejected the offer. Kanoute latervstated that he did not want to move to WBA.
We are looking forward to giving you lot a good hiding soon - with Judas in the team. Tottenham is nothing but the dirty smelly armpit of London with Arsenal's brand new development and the East End uprising due to 2012 you lot will have the worst location for a club in London. We're waiting for you lot and Judas - BIG TIME.
Mice
Also, Gatusso is not an attackimg mid - I think you mean Gutti.
Kanoute scored 7 last season. Nowhere near enough what he is capable of.
Defoe can't score more without having a midfielder that can link up with the attack (attacking midfielder).
I think many of you are right though in saying that with the wingers we have now, we may see a new side to the lacklusture Kanoute.
I hope so.
Gatusso is a defensive midfield battler, not an attacking midfielder.
We desperately need an attacking midfielder. Guti would be ok as he can play in various positions.
I still say that we should go in for Rosicky. He may be a little light weight, but he is absolute quality. Mintal would also be another great signing.
Yes he doesn't score enough but he sets up plenty.
I think he just looks lazy with his long legs and lazy running style.
I guarantee we'd miss him if he went
Keep them all. No point getting Johnson, too much like Defoe but less talented. Mido is really unproven, saw his debut and was impressed but the rest has been woeful.
Kanoute will be a lot better this season for us because when we have crosses coming in from the flanks, he will be there to catch them with his chest. Our lack of width in the past forced him to play a bit wider, mostly to the right to find space.
We will see him scoring more goals and getting more assists when he can spend more time in the box.
I thought Arsenal were our rivals ?
Have we really slipped that far behind them ?
Yes we have.....
I'm not sure if I want Fredi to stay or go - or even Keano (who I have always supported) for that matter. I don't know if Guti would be the answer (I'd like to give him a try though). Fredi is talented but he is lazy. Keano is top class but cannot play with Defoe.
What I do know, is that for the first time in 15 years, I'm very excited about the direction the club is going and am quite comfortable to sit back and say "Whatever they do will be for the better of the club" and if we sell somebody it will be an INFORMED decision with a plan to replace them - because they know more than I do!
Levy has proven himself and his ambitions for the club to me, even when he got stabbed in the back! He will find a way to get another top class DOF to buy Martin who he needs to…
Chelsea finished first with their strikers getting a combined total of 27 goals.
Arsenal finished behind them with their strikers getting a combined total of 42 goals.
We had a higher total than chelsea's strikers with a total of 33 yet still finished 9th.
What we need is goalscoring midfielders not to get rid of our strikers. Considering the rotation system the goal tallies for each of our strikers last season was good - and these are only league goals not cup.
Defoe: 13
Keane: 11
Kanoute: 7
Mido: 2
We should be keeping the strikers we have and working on the midfield not trying to get out a strikeforce which rival managers are continually mentioning as a main hurdle when they play us.
Forget Figo he will be lost in the pace of the EPL slow wingers don’t do it hear.
Like someone said earlier now we have wingers and Teemu is in the team we have a better balance we should be able to keep the ball better.
Mido is good but holding up the ball is not his forte, he may be able to score with his head from crosses but the long hoof up field from the keeper he does not win, on the other hand Keane who just ducks under the ball not even giving the defender a hard time. Kanoute is a key element to the team his assists and ball winning is vital.
This season will see more goals if we can get a certain left winger to lose weight and get forward attack on one wing will not cut it.
We are not Champions league and lets be honest with Arse Chelscum Manure Liverpool above us in quality and size we don't have much chance, maybe UEFA if we are lucky.
We are laready a laughing stock don'y make things worse
Why did we buy Routledge & Lennon if in the end we were going after SWP?
SWP can be that attacking midfielder we all crave down at the lane. Did you not see City play last year, he spent half the season playing there for them... and he certainly can score the goals too!!
I personally don't think we NEED anyone, what we would like is an experienced Attacking Midfielder but we just don't have the reputation at the moment to attract anyone near…
We dont want them to pick up any injures as well. i think we should not sell kanoute for that much. if we did it would be for a lot of money.
you really are a tosser.
Gooner I don't think so, I have been going to the Lane so many years now it hurts to think how much I have spent.
You are the type of Yiddo twat that makes other fans think we are a bunch of c****.
Get real we are not a big club anymore the same as Villa,Brum, Boro we are all the same now.
Carrying on my point about needing goalscoring MFs not a new striker here's the evidence:
Chelsea have Lampard (13 not 11 :P), Cole (8), Robben (7), Duff (6) even Tiago (4) Arsenal had Pires (14) Ljungberg (10) and Viera (6) whilst Man Utd have Scholes (9), Giggs (6), Ronaldo (5) Everton have Cahill (11), Osman (6) and Liverpool have Garcia (8), Gerrard (6).
We haf: Marney (2) and Atouba, Brown, Mendes, Reid and Ziegler all on just (1). It's not rocket science what area of the team we need to work on.
Sell Kanoute, he is lazy.
Sign Guti.
Er... yeah, ok.
Freddi is one of the best players at the club. We do not have anything better than him at the moment, and it will be difficult to get someone better than himin the absence of Europe.
The squad we have at the moment is good enough to get us into Europe. We don't need anymore signings. Keep everyone, roll forward to next year this years budget.
Next year in Europe, with one of the most exciting bunch of youngsters, and a formiddable transfer war chest, we will need and be able to attract better players, not neccesarily bigger names, and launch a credible assualt on Europe and the League.
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Give kanoute a chance this season. He started off under Caques Santini last season, not his favorite man im sure,but under jol he seemed to up his game - especially after lpool,carling cup. He has that bit of flair that we severly lack, and he scores the odd screamer. Let defoe bag most of the goals and get the midfield to chip in. Hopefull tis tainio fella adapts quickly and sorts us out. He looks like he could be riise's long lost brother if u ask me.
cant wait till the 13th!!!!!
So let’s keep the first team together, sell the players surplus to requirements (Brown I mean you), keep our fingers crossed for an inspired signing (by this I mean a player who hasn’t been mentioned yet, e.g. not Figo, or Guti but someone completely unexpected, there are a lot of decent creative players out there) and be thankful that none of you guys run our beloved club.
I bet you have not even been to WHL just a little muppet watching teletext on a Saturday afternoon following the scores.
Well you knobhead its people like you that wish your our man had had a wank the night you were conceived instead of making you, still he has produced his own top drawer wanker of a son.
So how long have you been a Spurs fan then, since we bought Defoe or since we secured Robinson?
You obviously never go to any matches
Come on get behind your team and stop whinging.
Time has come for us to Realise we are the Fifth Biggest team in London Behind Arse , Chelsea , West Ham & Charlton. If Someone offers 4m for Kanoute we should bite there hand off
Our strikers are not to blame. Hopefully with increased breadth across the pitch, Routledge and co can provide a better service to our strikers.
Talking of playmakers, I hope Arsenal get rid of Viera - that would be like selling your spine.
Looking at the league table last season, do you seriously think that Bolton, Boro and ManCity will beat us to UEFA again? Definitely not all 3 of them?!
We are already a match for (if not better than) Everton, Liverpool (they have many new players coming in so I dont know how much they have really improved. But dont forget we drew both our matches against them)and the Toons (they will start their traditional infighting by Oct).
So the 4th CL place is not beyond us, although 5th or 6th for UEFA should be our current expected and achievable target.
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On the spurs issue, Jol higlighted during last season that we had no natural wing play and pace, so we bought some.....and i rememeber him saying we had no real creativity in the middle. He aint stupid, and he knows we need sum1 to compliment Carrick. All we be good by the 31/8....trust
top 6 easy next season
When you can put up a valid arguments instead of using such out of date insults as gaylord then people may start listening to you. Talking about speaking English was also quite funny since you spelt 'Because' as cos.
you obviously ain't getting any at the moment, what's up has your boyfriend left you?
I can understand why you are angry though, I would be if I was a total prick.
Now you had your little joke now go back to your gooner friends or chelski mates whereever you crawled out from and leave us real Spurs fans to have s ensible debate or in your language fuck off.
WHY IN THE HELL WOULD WE WANT TO GET RID OF THE SECOND BEST COMBINED STRIKE FORCE IN THE PREMIERSHIP!
Worrying thing I believe is that Defoe will be gone in a year as soon as MU Arse or Chelski come calling. He is not loyal just ask Charlton or West Ham.
God bless
Fredi
KEANE GOT 17 GOALS
KANOUTE 9 GOALS
MIDO GOT 2 GOALS
FIRST TIME SINCE 96 WE HAD SOMBODY WHO SCORED 20 GOALS IN A SEASON!!
NOW TELL ME THAT WE DONT NEED A STRIKER??
I don't think we'll get rid of him and I hope we don't
Last season he made a differance, cause you cant always play our passing game.Skill means little if the other team's tuffer than you.
We know what we have with him,
Unlike some of the candidates mentioned. what works at other clubs doesnt always work at SPURS.
Rebrov, Postiga, and so on.
STILL ALL SUCK DOG'S COCK!!
ALSO AGAIN I SEE PEOPLE ASSOCIATING OUR CLUB WITH NOBODYS!
ASTON AINT NO CLASSY SPURS PLAYER NOWAY WOULD HE FIT THE BILL, VIDUKA WOULD DO A BETTER JOB HAHA
GIVE THAT JOHN CAREW A TRY, AINT GONNA BEAT HIM FOR MUCH IN THE AIR, BOYS GOT GOOD TOUCH, LIKE ANDRE FLO WHEN HE WAS WHITE HOT !!
ANGRYMAN, LISTEN MATE ANDY JOHNSON IS JUST AN OK PLAYER WHO HAD A LUCKY SEASON, THE GUYS ONE PACED, NOT ENOUGH SKILL AND TOUCH WITH THE BALL, MORE THEN HALF HIS GOALS WERE PENALTIES OR HAS EVERYONE FORGOTTEN THIS? DEAN ASTON IS THE NEXT PAUL WARHURST MATE, DONT HAVE TO BUY HIM JUST BECAUSE HE PLAYED WELL IN ABOUT 3 GAMES, OUTSHINING A REALLY CRAP NORWHICH SIDE, AND HAVING A FEW SUPPORTERS WHO SEEN THE 3 MINUTE EDITED SHOW THEY CALL MATCH OF THE DAY!!
START THINKING ALONG A BIGGER PICTURE WE HAVE SQUAD PLAYERS, WE NEED CLASS ACTS, FUCKING ASTON AND JOHNSON ARE NOWAY CLASS ACTS MORE LIKE DUMB AND DUMBER!!!
WHAT ABOUT THIS KUYT BLOKE?? WHITE HOT APPRENTLY BIG GUY ANYONE WATCH CHANNEL 5 DUTCH LEAGUE?? ANY SAND TO THIS TALE
And in front of the toons.
Thats got to be a good thing. Even the statisticians have enough faith in Spurs.
COYS really.
gooner scum gonna win fuck all next season or any other fuckin season!
Henry to go anywhere next, or break his leg. please
i fuckin love tottenham hotspur football club
I think that there is enough at the club to take us further forward than we went last season and the transfers will certainly be coming in although age / potential will probably be the factor rather than current skill level.
Johnson, Crouch, Ashton had flukey season - flash in the pan. Just ask Kevin Philips & Marcus Stewart !
What we need is painfully obvious - goals from the rest of the park, not just the strikers.
All you wankers on this blog not Spurs, fuck off and get blown up
they r the next michael ricketts, an look where that idiot is now!
1 good season coz no one knows who the fuck they r.
we need 1 big signing, an not either of these pumps, an i will b happy.
hopefully an attackin mid
Freaks!
I cannot understand why they sold Vieira? You sell your best players only if you have a ready made replacement or if you are in major financial trouble.
Arsenal look like they have outdone themselves with the new stadium.
They have just shattered their spine for an extra 22,000 seats.
Bad, bad management.
Good for us though!
Straight back down... Ha fucking ha
Is there any players who leave your club that are any good you hate every one who leaves wake up and smell the coffee shit for brains and face facts.
you are a selling club all your fans talk about is how hard you are and we won the world cup in 66.
lets look at the facts have you signed any players from spurs that are any good.
etherington average 1st div player.
zamora shit
tarrico shit.
all the other players from years goen by are all over the hill or can't cut it in the top flight.
remember no player joins west ham to improve they are all past the sell by date.
I see you are after stoke's captain
for £200,000 what a big signing that is
Well, only buy before we sell ie if we get another striker then release one, but don't sell before you buy.