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Spurs to announce new signing!

So then, we've got our man. Seb Bassong will be announced as our new signing today and to be honest with you, it's a relief.

He's not a bad player, although I personally would have preferred Blackburn's Samba. At least we've got cover at centre-half level now.

I'm a bit sceptical about the £10 million sum being mooted though. I can't see Levy sanctioning that kind of cash for a squad player.

Time will tell.

21 comments

  1. I heard its £7 million with add ons upto £8.5
  2. Whether it's 7 or 10 million I think in the long term this guy might be a steal. He was solid for Newcastle last term and with it being his first season in the prem, we wasn't bad at all when dealing with the pace and stength of centre forwards in this league.

    Lets just hope he doesn't catch the WHL defensive bug and end up with a long term knee or groin injury.
  3. 10 mils to much but if hes good enough and he gets better it may be a bargain.ledleys number 1 but he wont last forever neither woodgate. Mr.lite s.e yid
  4. Probably not £10m. Don't forget Hughton is a Spurs man and Mikle Ashley is a big Spurs fan too. I think we'd def end up with more favourable terms than other clubs.
  5. WHe is banned for 2 games. We should wait until after Saturday, as Newcastle start their season and it will mean he will have served one of those games before he joins us.
  6. Don't agree with your blog suggesting that Samba is better than Bassong. Samba is a JT type player, good in the air good stopper but put the ball on the ground and he's a real klutz! Bassong is technically more gifted.
  7. You don't have to agree. Everyone has their own opinion. As my dad used to say; "Opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one".

    You're right about Samba being good in the air. After these pre-season friendlies and some of the games last season, isn't Samba what we need?

    Our set-piece defending at times was bordering stupidity.
  8. "WHe is banned for 2 games. We should wait until after Saturday, as Newcastle start their season and it will mean he will have served one of those games before he joins us."

    good thinking anonymous - sure we won't be that clever tho
  9. I agree Bassong is a better bet than Samba. He is also good on the ball. Anyway, we need a decent centre back with all the injuries we have and Bassong is a good choice. COYS :)
  10. We are also beeing linking with Beevers from Sheff Wed... Not seen much of him but he gets good reviews. I guess he will replace Dervitte as the up and coming starlet... and I am not surprised as Dervitte looked well out of his depth in the pre-season friendlies
  11. Except Samba is not for sale, and Bassong was - so there you go.

    Bassong is better than a lot of the ropey alternatives we could have ended up with.
  12. "WHe is banned for 2 games. We should wait until after Saturday, as Newcastle start their season and it will mean he will have served one of those games before he joins us."

    He is actually only banned for 1 game as Newcastle have already played 1 game since the ban (last day of season), so if we sign him after Saturday's game he wont be suspended at all for us.
  13. He's banned for one game...he hasn't served his ban yet. Newcastle will play before us as the lower leagues do...could be well worth completeing the deal after they play.
  14. Hopefully Harry's right about this one, buying a player that's banned at the start as cover for those games he's banned from does seem like madness though.
  15. crouch saying today "spurs will push into top four " is he winding us ,jenas & keane said the same but these 3 aren`t top 4 players ,i hate it when average players like these 3 say this ,when quite clearly we haven`t the players i regret to say ,nothing wrong with aiming high but you must also be realistic,too many years of hype with nothing but dissapointment that follows,they should shut up & let their football do the talking ,by the way bassong if he improves his positioning will be a great signing got everything else just a little inexperienced at times ,but great athlete just needs to be a bit more clever like ferdinand or even a 100% fit king ,are his best days gone you think?
  16. Id be glad to see him at da lane we need a bit of pace as our cb dont have any. i do think kings best days are gone but still good enough to play at this level and international level as cover.There nothing wrong with crouch talking about top for without a winning mentality u get no where you got to be aiming for top for and ithink we got a better squad now than when da scum made sure our players got food posioning and lost out on last day of the season
  17. 2 YEARS AGO I WOULD HAVE AGREED WITH YOU,BUT BEING MORE REALISTIC THIS YEAR ,THEN IF YOU AINT GOT THE PLAYERS THEN TOP FOUR IS A DISTANT DREAM,IS CROUCH GOOD ENOUGH TO GET US THERE? ER NO , IS KEANE? ER NO , IS JENAS ?ER NO ,BENTLEY? PAV? THUDD ?CORLUKA?I WOULD RATHER THEIR FOOTBALL DID THE TALKING & FROM WHAT I`VE SEEN IT AINT SAYING MUCH ,ALL THIS HYPE FOLLOWED BY DISSAPOINTMENT CAN GET ANNOYING WHO FROM VILLA,EVERTON OR FULHAM WHO DID FINISH ABOVE US LAST YEAR ,ARE GIVING THEIR FANS FALSE HOPES & PROMISES I MEAN IS REDKNAPP EVEN A TOP FOUR MANAGER ,HE HAS SCREWED UP PORTSMOUTH BIG TIME & PORTSMOUTH IS HIS BIGGEST SUCCESS ,IF WE TALK ABOUT 6TH OR 7 TH WHICH IS MORE REALISTIC ,THEN IS IT NOT GOING TO BE BETTER IF WE DO COME HIGHER,I MEAN REMEBER WHEN WE CAME 5TH THE FIRST TIME WITH JOLS ,I WAS OVER THE MOON AS I DID NOT EXPECT SUCH A GOOD SEASON ,I MEAN IS IT NOT BETTER TO AIM A LITTLE LOWER BUT FINISH HIGHER ,THAN TO AIM HIGH & FINISH LOW WHICH LEADS TO DISSAPOINTME…
  18. You speak about the top 4 as if it's calculated by each player's stats and ratInge. I think people forget that it's a TEAM game and sometimes the team play is greater than the sum of it's individual parts. Everton in 2005 for example.

    Besides, this top 4 b*llocks is getting on my nerves. Over the last 10 years Sky have build this sh*t myth up that it's better to finish 4th in the league than win ANY cups, just to help their big match ratings along with the pretentious tw*ts that run the CL. Remember our cup run in 95? Back then the FA cup meant much more than any European place. It shows what a sad mess football has become in the last decade.
  19. true ting that.
  20. Anonymous: yes they finished above us but we started with 8 points the first 10-12 games. We finished the season with a form to take us to 4th or fifth if it were over a season. We had a bd run of injuries, Defoe, King, Palacios missing the last three etc. I would rather aim high but not consider it a formality. Keep the faith
  21. quote"it is better to aim high and fail than to aim low and susceed" i know we may not be top 4 team but you gotta ask yourselves how many times did we lose to top 4 teams in da league out of the 8 games if i remember rightly we had a better record aganst the top 4 than man u