Comments on: What Are Spurs Going To Do With Younes Kaboul?

By: Russell

Russell — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:28:47 +0000

Harry’s a decent manager but he’s not as good as you lot seem to think. He’s a compulsive spender and many of his purchases aren’t needed. As well as his many good signings for us (Pompey) he spent £7 million on Utaka and £6 million on Nugent who are just about the worst pair of strikers I’ve ever seen in the Premier League! He’s already spent an awful lot of your money since joining you and I’m betting he still won’t reach any higher position than you achieved when Martin Jol was there!

By: Lawrie

Lawrie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:52:06 +0000

I think Harry’s got more sense than he’s given credit for.
1. Right back. I’ve seen Kaboul play there for Pompey nd he really played as a supporting/overlapping full back.

2. I’m sure Harry’s reason last jan, and this, for resogning old players is that they can fit in straight away. They know most of the players, the style of play, the club, the area they’re moving to. I imagine that they can ‘hit the ground running’, rather than take the next two or three months to settle in.

By: JimmyG2

JimmyG2 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:30:55 +0000

His strength for us will be his versatility. Backup for Palacios,Corluka and centre halves.
He was sold, like Boateng, too soon in the first place. We don’t seem to be able to coach promising young players into good young players.
O’Hara is another one we should have retained. Not enough value is given to heart, effort and commitment, and dare I say it, loyalty.
No I don’t want to see a team of moderate triers but a mix of such players might see us holding onto leads for example.

By: dc samuel

dc samuel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:50:02 +0000

cos Hyypia is sh*te?

(admittedly that hasn’t stopped Harry before… didn’t he once sign Titi Camara?)

By: dread718

dread718 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:36:17 +0000

Kaboul is back at the Lane as cover for Palacios. Harry has repeatedly mentioned his concern at the lack of cover and competition for the central midfield position. Harry likes players who can play in more than one position and Kaboul fits the bill nicely as a secondary cover for the centre half slots. Kaboul has probably been the outstanding player for Portsmouth this year and he will spice things up in midfield – if he gets a few games to show his stuff. Not good news for Jenas, of course. It could be worse – there was a time when it looked like Reo-Coker was being lined up.

By: DAVSPURS

DAVSPURS — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:35:26 +0000

Scot Loach is no better than what we have and showed in the under 21 he is not good enough Joe Lewis would be better and loan them Alnwick. We are the red cross of football loaning players everywhere, and why have we let Moses go to Wigan when we organised a game for us to look at him at the Lodge. I bet we buy him for Millions in a few years lets hope he don’t score against us we haven’t played them away .Why has Harry not tried to buy Sammy Hypia from Germany and loaned Pavlyuchenko to his club.

By: Yidian

Yidian — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:54:12 +0000

In my opinion this was a financial no brainer. If and when Portsmouth go into administration we would have lost all outstanding money still owed on the original transfer. At least this way we have a player that we can evaluate this season and if need be sell on again in the summer

By: dc samuel

dc samuel — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:30:25 +0000

Agree with most people, he’s a good signing – and was cheap as the deal included a sell-on clause – which we now pay to ourselves, so very canny.

As a player, he was a monster at the back and should never have been sold: I still reckon he was one of Comolli’s few good signings. Now he’s maturing he can be an excellent squad player and, hopefully, has something to prove. He can play at right-back where he’s more dynamic than Corluka and is a cruncher at CB or in the middle alongside Wilson if we need to mix it away from home.

The weird thing is, why do we keep signing right-backs? We signed three last window, have sold one (Chimbo) and now might have three others out on loan! (Walker, Naughton and Hutton). It’s bizarre. Why isn’t Naughton given a chance? He looks fantastic.

As for Keane/Pav – it looks like both could go (which would be good) – but then we’re left short on strikers at the last minute, as Gudjohnsen maybe a month away from fitness.

Why does our transfer policy seem so completely random? Am expecting a least one completely weird one or two in the course of today…

By: Ingar

Ingar — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:19:21 +0000

Remember the 4-4 match against Aston Villa? We where 4-1 down. Younes grabbed the late injury time goal with determination in his eyes.

Kaboul is a player for the spurs future.
I see him as Cover for Palacios, but he can play in many positions.

By: billiospur

billiospur — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:07:40 +0000

niko……..palacios……crouch…..defoe ……..

all good signings as harry see’s it……….

as a spurs fan ……..this blog pisses me of

kaboul is a professional who deserves our support

aiming high requires a strong squad…..

it just might get us into the champions league if
we stop shooting players down with bullshit

harrys era……..tottenham on the move