Transfer Hullabaloo
Probably best we all purchase a good sturdy pair of wellies and an umbrella in the next couple of weeks; the weather maybe turning for the better but there’s a storm brewing of a wholly different kind. The transfer window’s open. And, as has become customary, there’s a veritable cyclone of gossip gathering about our dear little club which won’t rest until someone’s had the good sense to shut it again. Yes. It’s that time of year again. Where, seemingly, anything goes.
Joe Cole’s been the name on everyone’s lips in the last few days. As the blue open-top-bus veers back into its dock and all the hubbub of Chelsea’s domestic triumphs calms, the small matter of a new contract for the cockney cherub is still hot news. I just wants to win the World Cup, he told us last weekend, barely out of breath. A club to play at next year might be nice, too, you’d imagine. Chelsea don’t appear to be in any kind of rush to make sure that club is them, so I guess that puts us in the frame. The burning question, if there ever was one, is if we did sheppard hook Cole N17 way, where exactly would we find room for his once luminous talents? I’m of the opinion that we’d find room and he’d do just dandy. Who knows, we could probably even coax a bit of a renaissance out of the erstwhile Upton Park midfielder – given the right placement of ‘Arry’s arm around his shoulder. And Champions League experience doesn’t come free, you know. Well, not really…
Arda Turan. I’ll be perfectly honest: I’ve not seen much of this lad- bar the few Youtube directed links floating around internetland. Youtube, as we’re all aware, isn’t an entirely water-tight method of judging a player’s potential clout. In fact, I’d wager you could dig up the neighbour’s cat, pull a Celtic shirt over him and compile a video decent enough for the Parkhead boss-in-waiting to look twice at Robbie Keane and wonder whether he was worth all the bother. Turan, though, is a left-winger of considerable repute; subsequent to a ruddy good Euro 2008, he was voted 8th in a list of The 100 Best Young Players in the World Football. Or so Wikipedia tells me. Something akin to the dog’s delicate nether regions, then. Is he the type of thing we’re after? On top of the benefit a left-sided midfielder would be to the squad- in terms of balance and whatnot- he’s has the notable advantage of not being Stewart Downing. But I say that about everybody.
There you go then. Just a small dusting of transfer hearsay you already know about. In the spirit of the season- an idea plucked from the keen mind of WFRF? poster, Aran- I’m going to be devoting an entire page to the wonderful bonanza we call the summer transfer window. It’s still in its infancy as yet, but it could prove a useful go-to in which to make sense of all the potential wheelings and dealings going down at White Hart Lane. If such a thing were possible. With a bit of tinkering, you’ll be able to post homemade videos of your most-wanted until you’re blue in the face.
Now where’s that cat?
**The winner of a copy of ‘Superfan: The Amazing Life of Morris Keston’ is none other than JamieSpurs, one of the many folk who correctly named the nineteen different League scorers for Spurs this season. Which were as followed…*deep breath*… Defoe, Crouch, Kranjcar, Lennon, Modric, Gudjohnsen, Bale, Bassong, BAE, Jenas, Keane, Palacios, King, Dawson, Corluka, Pavlyuchenko, Rose, Bentley, Huddlestone. Well done, Jamie!**
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