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No to Berahino

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It is transfer story time, the silly season and a silly story is being spread by The Mirror over WBA striker Saido Berahino.

More Berahino rubbish

We already have several players at Spurs with an attitude problem, adding another doesn't sound much like common sense.

I wrote an article on the 21-year-old (22 in August) previously and WBA fans left comments saying he has a huge attitude problem, that he thinks he has made it and that he doesn't even bother to turn up on time to training. Do we really want someone with that mentality, do we feel moving to Spurs will suddenly change him, he'll grow up or feel now he has to work? We'd be taking the gamble that he thinks I'm not too big for Spurs but I'm too big for WBA.

Where is the professionalism in drink driving at 110mph (177kph)? How does that behaviour fir in with the professional attitude of your body is the instrument of your trade and thus should be kept in optimum condition? The finest medical facilities and a special diet to follow are of little used if he is going to go out drinking.

The Daily Mirror are suggesting we are going to offer Andros Townsend, who has stated he doesn't want to leave and Aaron Lennon, who has no desire to go to a perennial bottom half of the table team plus cash.

How much are they valuing him at for goodness sake, Aaron Lennon is £7 million (US$11.12m - AUS$14.30m - €9.79m), Andros Townsend is £15 million (US$23.82m - AUS$30.65m - €20.98m), so that's £22 million (US$34.94m - AUS$44.95m - €30.77m) plus cash.

He scored 14 goals in 38 Premier League games this season and just 5 goals in 32 games last season. You would think at his stage of his career he'd want to be playing football rather than watching Harry Kane and he makes no appeal as a wide attacker in the three behind the striker.

This is one guy I hope we don't sign, there are plenty of strikers around the world and Berahino is far too much of a gamble. We need players with the right mentality and we need to assess that mentality before we buy trouble. Perhaps then we won't make the mistakes of the past and end up with a bunch of money mercenaries only interested in themselves and not the club paying their wages.

When you are spending millions of pounds on an asset, and that's all a player is, in any walk of life you do your due diligence, not to do so when you buy a footballer is quite frankly archaic. Having a happy squad is conducive to better football. Do we want someone with Christian Eriksen's attitude, some one girls happily take home to their mother or a jack the lad boozing with his mates. That English mentality, English culture is exactly what we don't want.

We are supposed to be becoming more professional so let's see some of that professionalism and fully vet potential signings, they can be trouble off the pitch as well as on, as we know only to well with another problem child centre forward.

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8 comments

  1. Same agent as Sterling, why would you bother to draw such trouble on the club. Theres far more talented foreign players available for a fraction of the price and baggage
  2. I actually think Spurs and Pochettino would be great for Berahino. At West Brom he is way too good a player to be involved in relegation battles. At Spurs he would have to fight to get in the starting line up.
    With confidence sometimes comes arrogance but no mistake Berahino is the real deal.
  3. A 21 year old in a team with no real playmaker getting 14 goals and most of them beauties is a decent achievement. I like the kid.

    More worrying is the news that Chelsea will come in for Dembele, who would surely jump at the chance having not had many opportunities this season.
  4. If Berahino is doomed to be involved in relegation battles, then why would he want to play for a club that haven't won anything in ages and look like doing so for years to come? Tottenham are the original 'all mouth and no trousers' club and have a lot to thank Harry Kane for, as without his talent Spurs would be your typical middle-of-the-table outfit that isn't even all that good at being distinctive. If Berahino has any imagination he'd aim higher than signing for a club that has 'So What?' written all over it.
  5. Repegation battles are the level west brom are at, for the past few seasons youve been on the better side of that battle the same as spurs have been on the worse side of our champions league qualification battles.
    Just as spurs havent been able to hold on to Berbatov , Carrick, Modric or Bale due to higher profile clubs offering more than we can offer, neither can West Brom hold on to a player like Berahino.
    That is just simple reality in football and I hope Spurs are the ones who can get him because I think the boy is great.
    PS Every club is a "meh club" unless you support that club, except Arsenal...they are utter scum...
  6. What? Arsenal? The club who actually get to play CL football and win things, unlike other outfits who are lucky to scrap along on Thursday night Europa League campaigns until they're unceremoniously dumped out? Really? There's a lot to dislike Arsenal for, but, unlike Spurs, they seem much more ambitious, controlled and focused on what they want. Berahino would be better off going to a setup like that rather than a club that peppers its stadium display boards with guff like 'Glory' and then end up with none at all to show for it. You're not even good enough to be Southampton. Blimey, you're just an above-average Stoke, and, to be honest, if you didn't have some sections of the sporting media of this nation's capital behind your back no-one would really give a stuff about you. Berahino - if he must go - can do better than choose Spurs.
  7. Its pretty clear youre just a bitter little baggie with delusions of grandeur, who clearly knows nothing about football. After the crap youve written in your last two posts Id be the mad one to argue with you...
  8. If Spurs were an actress they would be in Hollywod....West Brom more lik ethe ugly fat bird in Eastenders...sums it all up u bitter small club pikies