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Why is the Media Intent on Selling Tottenham's Best Players?


By Jaymes Marsh

For THBN


For some time now, the media has played a key part in football; on and off the field.

Agent's have always been leaking stories to the tabloids. In turn, the papers release articles about the player in question. The higher the profile of the player, the more papers the article appears in.


Tottenham Hotspur seem to be one of the clubs that are constantly in the papers. Spurs are either 'selling their best player', or 'are about to make an audacious bid' for a world-class individual.


It seems the media vultures are circulating around the departure of Dimitar Berbatov, Tottenham's prolific striker; a player that scored 23 goals in all competitions within his first season.


Manchester United are the likely candidates the media agents have targeted as Berbatov's new club. Today, I have personally read more than three articles, claiming that Jermaine Jenas has stated that Tottenham Hotspur would show a serious lack of ambition if they were to sell Berbabtov.


I would have thought that was obvious? Only a club with serious financial problems would want to sell their assets. I beg the question, wouldn't it be better for the club, if they banned the players from speaking to the media?


After all, the Berbatov story went away for a week or so until our midfielder spoke to The Sun. It is clearly evident that some big-wig(s) controlling the media mainstream consortium are out to unsettle Tottenham's players, for reasons only they can answer.

23 comments

  1. I wouldnt think its the players that unleash the stories, most of them are just made up speculation or out of context quotes churned up from old interviews! for example just because berbs said utd would be a great team to play for doesnt mean he wants to move there! 9/10 players would play for utd given the chance! its just spin by the papers to sell more, i read these articles but always have a pinch of salt standing by!
  2. Dont be so paranoid mate, Berba is staying, and the papers are just making stuff up cos the football season is over and they need to fill up the back pages. They are just worthless shites writing worthless crapp on poor mans bog-roll.
  3. Its our own fault, we started it by selling Carrick. Unfortunately at the right price i am sure we would do it again with Berbitov
  4. Sory to be pedantic but vultures "circle". Media Hacks "circulate" at parteis and so forth in order to get their made up stories.
  5. Its all because the Media all favour Arsenal, Manure and liverpoo. They will always try and unsettle teams that rival them.
  6. I doubt Manchester United have that much cas left in their summer budget.

    They have already spent £17 million* on Hargreaves, £15 million* on Nani and a further £18 million* on Anderson.

    Prizing away Berbatov would cost them at least £35 million. They don't have that much cash.

    *Reported transfer figures.
  7. The funny thing is the Jenas story is also about 2-3 months old!
  8. Exactly!
  9. ITS VERY WELL STATED THAT THERE ALOT OF HATERS OUT THERE WHEN IT COMES TO SPURS. TAKE SKY SPORTS COMMENTRY. EVER NOTICED THAT ANYTHING WE DO IS ALWAYS BAD OR BELOW STANDARD, BUT IF THE TOP FOUR DO THE EXACT SAME THING ITS WORSHIPED OR GIVEN THE COMMENT GGOD TRY. THEIR ATTEMPTS TO SWAY BERB IS SHORT LIVED. HE'S A SPURS BOY THROUGH AND THROUGH SO PAY NO MIND TO THOSE WHO OBVIOUSLY NOTHING BETTER ELSE TO REPORT ON ,LIKE THE RAPID DOWNFALL OF THE FAMOUS GUNNERS. ARIVOUR HENRY...
  10. CARRICK WAS A WAIST OF TIME , I THINK WE DONE GOOD BUISNESS,HE AINT IN BERBS CLASS AND I THINK THE BOARD KNEW IT.
    HE DONT DO TOO MUCH FOR MAN UTD - LIGHT WEIGHT IF YOU ASK ME.
  11. The Jenas article is in shoot just rehashed by the Sun, so Jenas must have said it at least amonth ago.
    Carrick wanted to go - Spurs didn't want to sell him. Carrick refused to sign a new contract and publicly stated his desire to go to Man Utd. We would have been left in a Judas situation if we had made him stay. Anyway next year he will be the most expensive bench warmer in the league.
  12. It is the combination of more than one reasons.

    Firstly Spurs are headline makers and with its massive fan base papers always will rely on Spurs and alike.

    Secondly for some obvious reasons media or even FA would not want Spurs to become one of the elite again,it is not a coincidence that everytime we do well we get either a dodgy referee or a bad headline.

    Every occasion that we have built or seems to be building a good team for the future Man Utd,Arsenal friendly media starts selling our players so to stop the improvement before even it starts.

    Our choice of not so good managers such as Francis,Gross,Ardiles,Hoddle did not help the cause in the last 15 years either.

    If Spurs carry on improving and force their way into the top 4 which i think more than they are capable of by signing only the right players,eventualy these rumours and negative attitude towards Spurs will evaporate and replaced with the ones that we are dreaming of.
  13. FCUKING PRICKS!! Carrick went because he wanted to leave so we cashed in u fucking freak!! Berbatov doesnt wana leave so we wont sell him u fcuking fukc fuck fkcu fuck fuck fucking cunt!
  14. It's Fergy who's the problem. He talks about the way that Chelski do business by tapping up players and he's the first to jump up and say - this is not how things are done in this country and it shows a total lack of respect to other clubs. But he's worse. At least they do their own tapping up. He does it in a snidey way through the media. He's been doing it for years. The media will only oblige in this because they want all the best players to play at Utd. Then everyone moans that the Premiership is becoming a bit predictable. Obviously, if all the best players play for Utd or Chelski, what do these nobs expect. The media should stick to the real stories and leave out the tapping up. If Fergy wants a player then he should go about his own business and stop trying to unsettle a player through the media.
  15. Because our best players are GREAT players that would strenghten bigger teams as well...

    I think it's better that the Media sell them, or some Gooner sell them on Championship Manager, than actually the club selling them...

    Unless the player wants to leave, none of our best players will be sold! Carrick wanted to leave...
  16. Theres one reason and one reason only, all the media hate spurs, there is not one paper who have a sports journalist who favours spurs, we could win the treble and we wouldn't get a big deal written about it and there would be negatives filling the article in every possible area, like 'the sleeping giant who have underachieved for years, selling there best players have finally scrapped there way to a lucky victories winning the treble of cups' they love unsettling our players like they did with carrick, klinsmann, etc... and what they more recently try and do with berbatov, defoe and keane, i mean they've tried it with ledley king! its pathetic, and the reason they link 'top world class players' to us because they know its all rubbish, so they get the spurs fans hopes up and then when the club in question say the play isn't goin anywhere they can write 'WORLD CLASS PLAYER SNUBS NOT GOOD ENOUGH SPURS!' which is obviously far from the point. or if we …
  17. does the owner of this board actually watch football? or does he make stuff up according to what everyone else has written on news now the week before?

    what a prick
  18. The reasons are simple:
    1) Henry is leaving Arsenal, Tottenham to rule North London from start to finish in 07/08 season.
    2) Nightmare for the media as Arsenal will become a mediocre team and since they have nothing left to write to stir up the rivalry, they are doing all their best to make Berbatov leave.
  19. 3) Failure to do so = out of job so you have my answer to your question.
  20. You know, it's funny. In the last few years people have been saying that Chelski have bought the title. I don't disagree with this one bit. They did. But having said that, Utd bought the title years ago and have been buying it ever since.

    Ferguson is a tactician. A dirty one. He knows how to use people because he's the manager of the biggest club in the world. He thinks therefore he can get away with anything; and he does. People think that he goes about his business quietly with everything he does above board. But in truth he is a conniving, scheming and manipulative person who has a team of people working for him in the media to do his dirty work for him. There jobs are to undermine every other clubs progress in the premiership to benefit himself and his team.

    He doesn't care what he does as long as he gets what he wants. He then has the audacity to accuse Morinhio of dirty tricks when he is the king of dirty tricks. The dude reckons he's the best manager in the wo…
  21. The media are but a few, problem is, their audience isn't and news travels fast, extremely fast actually, keep telling people the same thing over and over and eventually it will be believed.We seem to constantly be the flavour of the month though its getting a bit boring really.A good example of this is happening aswell, down the road from us, as Henry had "signed" on to be a Barca player next year which is a blatant lie even if it is a nice thought lol. For the sake of us fans, not football, whoever printed that story should be made an example of and left out to dry and for all to see. Arsenal need to make sure they dont get away with that. A very small number of "experts" working in text & television set the tone so to speak when it comes to non-match related topics, transfers, wages, anything really other than what happens on the pitch, because it speaks for itself and its just always going be like this its how it is unfortunately. What I find funny abou…
  22. I have heard west ham are going to offer £24M for berbatov on top of the £18m for bent !!

    If they get to keep Tevez they will have some strikeforce !!
  23. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn.