<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Man United boss confident of landing Tottenham striker &#8211; should he be?</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/</link>
	<description>English Premier League Football News Blog</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:56:55 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: Richardtheframesman</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160612</link>
		<dc:creator>Richardtheframesman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160612</guid>
		<description>JOE you can just fuck right off</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JOE you can just fuck right off</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: JOE</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160601</link>
		<dc:creator>JOE</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160601</guid>
		<description>How come keane and berbatov have said that they want to leave such a &quot;huge&quot; club.
hahaha stupid deluded spuds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How come keane and berbatov have said that they want to leave such a &#8220;huge&#8221; club.<br />
hahaha stupid deluded spuds.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Richardtheframesman</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160577</link>
		<dc:creator>Richardtheframesman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160577</guid>
		<description>Liverpool can&#039;t afford Keane till they cash some more giro&#039;s

And Fergie  can go fuck himself</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Liverpool can&#8217;t afford Keane till they cash some more giro&#8217;s</p>
<p>And Fergie  can go fuck himself</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Scorpion</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160470</link>
		<dc:creator>Scorpion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160470</guid>
		<description>We have done it on a more subtle level with lower profile players, but it&#039;s still the same thing. Making players turn their head to further their careers and to hell with contracts and commitment. 
I have no faith that Levy&#039;s comments will result in anything but at least he has gone public with them. This needs to be addressed by the FA and dealt with very assertively. Why sign contracts if they aren&#039;t worth the paper they are written on? 
A major overhaul is needed, otherwise the top 4 will remain that way as will the middle 8.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have done it on a more subtle level with lower profile players, but it&#8217;s still the same thing. Making players turn their head to further their careers and to hell with contracts and commitment.<br />
I have no faith that Levy&#8217;s comments will result in anything but at least he has gone public with them. This needs to be addressed by the FA and dealt with very assertively. Why sign contracts if they aren&#8217;t worth the paper they are written on?<br />
A major overhaul is needed, otherwise the top 4 will remain that way as will the middle 8.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: leso</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160431</link>
		<dc:creator>leso</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160431</guid>
		<description>Evidence to show both clubs talking to respective agents without permission. Not only do these clubs think that the rules don&#039;t apply to them, they also think they can pay what they like too. Well done DL well over due REDNOSE has marked his card with the EPL now with his outcry at the Ronaldo situation stating he&#039;s under contract and won&#039;t be sold. Permission is important as are the rules now what the suits goona do about it 2X20k fines!!                 Scorpion, its not the same. We never tapped up anyone, nor have we broken the rules !! all our purchases are above board.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Evidence to show both clubs talking to respective agents without permission. Not only do these clubs think that the rules don&#8217;t apply to them, they also think they can pay what they like too. Well done DL well over due REDNOSE has marked his card with the EPL now with his outcry at the Ronaldo situation stating he&#8217;s under contract and won&#8217;t be sold. Permission is important as are the rules now what the suits goona do about it 2X20k fines!!                 Scorpion, its not the same. We never tapped up anyone, nor have we broken the rules !! all our purchases are above board.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160429</link>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160429</guid>
		<description>Unfortunately Cobra, in the statement Levy said that Keane and Berbatov wanted to leave. I think personally that they are two brilliant players, but Berbatov in my opinion is a mercenary, and just used us as a stepping stone to get to where he wanted to be, and Keane realised that he could get into the Champions league quicker with Liverpool. I think that Keane will b regarded with a degree of affection by the Spurs fans, but Berbatov will be given unmerciful stick should he decide to show his face at the lane again. 45 million is enough to get a good striker, why dont we stick it all on Tevez, and fuck the Scottish cunt right off.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately Cobra, in the statement Levy said that Keane and Berbatov wanted to leave. I think personally that they are two brilliant players, but Berbatov in my opinion is a mercenary, and just used us as a stepping stone to get to where he wanted to be, and Keane realised that he could get into the Champions league quicker with Liverpool. I think that Keane will b regarded with a degree of affection by the Spurs fans, but Berbatov will be given unmerciful stick should he decide to show his face at the lane again. 45 million is enough to get a good striker, why dont we stick it all on Tevez, and fuck the Scottish cunt right off.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: cobra</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160407</link>
		<dc:creator>cobra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160407</guid>
		<description>fellow spurs fans our chairman will never sell to manure now,
read this
LATEST NEWS
Chairman speaks out

There has been substantial speculation in respect of the futures of Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane, including press comment from both Sir Alex Ferguson and Rafa Benitez. In response our Chairman, Daniel Levy has made the following statement:

&quot;Today&#039;s public comments by Manchester United&#039;s manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players. It is also probably one of the worst offences by any manager in the Premier League to date and is unbelievably hypocritical given his recent comments in respect of Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid.

&quot;This comes after a series of events, dating back to last summer, which have shown Manchester United to be in breach of Premier League (PL) rules. As a result, we have today made an official complaint to the PL about the conduct of Manchester United. Benitez made similar comments in respect of Robbie recently and we made an official complaint to the PL about the conduct of Liverpool earlier this week.

&quot;The behaviour of both clubs has been disgraceful. We told both clubs very early on that we had no interest in selling Robbie or Dimitar, respectively, and that they should refrain from pursuing the player. Both clubs arrogantly chose to ignore this request and we now have evidence that both clubs have systematically been working to prise the players away from us, outside of PL rules of conduct.

&quot;Our subsequent position has been severely compromised by both clubs making their intentions widely known and indeed making contact with the players and their agents, without the Club&#039;s permission.

&quot;I have absolutely no wish to sell either player and to date we have not accepted any offer for either. However, when a player&#039;s head is turned and their commitment is absent, particularly when they occupy key positions such as that of striker, they become a negative influence in a team dressing room in which they were once a positive addition and influence. This is the situation we now have on our hands, with both Dimitar and Robbie having made it clear that they wish to leave for Manchester Utd and Liverpool respectively.

&quot;Irrespective of the outcome and futures of Robbie and Dimitar, we are continuing to seek to bring in quality, talented players for the future, who want to play in a Spurs shirt.&quot;

our chairman has had enough of this under handed action by both managers, and told both clubs they are being reported to the pl for unsettling our players, he told them both to go away, and forget about these players, but they didnt care, and went ahead, and did what they liked, punishment must be administered to these clubs, and our chairman will demand it, he has had enough, we will never do business with these two clubs now, our chairman never intended to sell these 2 players, the papers, the clubs the agent all lied to our fans, how can this go on, it must stop.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>fellow spurs fans our chairman will never sell to manure now,<br />
read this<br />
LATEST NEWS<br />
Chairman speaks out</p>
<p>There has been substantial speculation in respect of the futures of Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane, including press comment from both Sir Alex Ferguson and Rafa Benitez. In response our Chairman, Daniel Levy has made the following statement:</p>
<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s public comments by Manchester United&#8217;s manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players. It is also probably one of the worst offences by any manager in the Premier League to date and is unbelievably hypocritical given his recent comments in respect of Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid.</p>
<p>&#8220;This comes after a series of events, dating back to last summer, which have shown Manchester United to be in breach of Premier League (PL) rules. As a result, we have today made an official complaint to the PL about the conduct of Manchester United. Benitez made similar comments in respect of Robbie recently and we made an official complaint to the PL about the conduct of Liverpool earlier this week.</p>
<p>&#8220;The behaviour of both clubs has been disgraceful. We told both clubs very early on that we had no interest in selling Robbie or Dimitar, respectively, and that they should refrain from pursuing the player. Both clubs arrogantly chose to ignore this request and we now have evidence that both clubs have systematically been working to prise the players away from us, outside of PL rules of conduct.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our subsequent position has been severely compromised by both clubs making their intentions widely known and indeed making contact with the players and their agents, without the Club&#8217;s permission.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have absolutely no wish to sell either player and to date we have not accepted any offer for either. However, when a player&#8217;s head is turned and their commitment is absent, particularly when they occupy key positions such as that of striker, they become a negative influence in a team dressing room in which they were once a positive addition and influence. This is the situation we now have on our hands, with both Dimitar and Robbie having made it clear that they wish to leave for Manchester Utd and Liverpool respectively.</p>
<p>&#8220;Irrespective of the outcome and futures of Robbie and Dimitar, we are continuing to seek to bring in quality, talented players for the future, who want to play in a Spurs shirt.&#8221;</p>
<p>our chairman has had enough of this under handed action by both managers, and told both clubs they are being reported to the pl for unsettling our players, he told them both to go away, and forget about these players, but they didnt care, and went ahead, and did what they liked, punishment must be administered to these clubs, and our chairman will demand it, he has had enough, we will never do business with these two clubs now, our chairman never intended to sell these 2 players, the papers, the clubs the agent all lied to our fans, how can this go on, it must stop.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Scorpion</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160397</link>
		<dc:creator>Scorpion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160397</guid>
		<description>Drew Vader: It&#039;s not apples and oranges. The practice of tapping players up by dropping &quot;secret&quot; info to the media is commonplace. Sir RN is a master at the art. Here&#039;s how it goes. Sir RN asks an inked stained wretch to ask him a question; like would you like to have Berbatov in your team? Sir RN says of course he is a great player, anyone would like him in your squad bit I can&#039;t comment further because he is under contract to another team. Scumbag agent then announces to the world that ManU are &quot;in&quot; for Berbatov.  All hell breaks loose, and rumors abound that Berba is going to ManU. And the merrygoround begins. It&#039;s unofficial  legal tapping up. I&#039;m not saying Spurs don&#039;t do it because I know we do. What I&#039;m saying is the rules have to change. A contract is in fact a contract, but in fact now it is accepted practice that a player who has a great year can now use this practice to shake up a move that betters himself, not football and certainly not the supporters paying the freight for all these guys. Platini has some bizarre ideas to clean up the game, but here is one area that can be cleaned up very easily. If you are under contract, you or your mouthpiece are not allowed to discuss moving in any public forum. Penalty being you are suspended for one year. If any club makes any comment to any media representative they will be subject to a fine equivalent to 50% of any transfer fee involving that player if he is acquired by the offending party.
Don&#039;t you find it obscene that Luton town can be pretty much run out of football by a 30 point penalty created by a previous administration, yet blatant breaking of rules amongst the big money teams is ignored?
It&#039;s simple. We all know who is running football in this country and it is not those that pretend to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drew Vader: It&#8217;s not apples and oranges. The practice of tapping players up by dropping &#8220;secret&#8221; info to the media is commonplace. Sir RN is a master at the art. Here&#8217;s how it goes. Sir RN asks an inked stained wretch to ask him a question; like would you like to have Berbatov in your team? Sir RN says of course he is a great player, anyone would like him in your squad bit I can&#8217;t comment further because he is under contract to another team. Scumbag agent then announces to the world that ManU are &#8220;in&#8221; for Berbatov.  All hell breaks loose, and rumors abound that Berba is going to ManU. And the merrygoround begins. It&#8217;s unofficial  legal tapping up. I&#8217;m not saying Spurs don&#8217;t do it because I know we do. What I&#8217;m saying is the rules have to change. A contract is in fact a contract, but in fact now it is accepted practice that a player who has a great year can now use this practice to shake up a move that betters himself, not football and certainly not the supporters paying the freight for all these guys. Platini has some bizarre ideas to clean up the game, but here is one area that can be cleaned up very easily. If you are under contract, you or your mouthpiece are not allowed to discuss moving in any public forum. Penalty being you are suspended for one year. If any club makes any comment to any media representative they will be subject to a fine equivalent to 50% of any transfer fee involving that player if he is acquired by the offending party.<br />
Don&#8217;t you find it obscene that Luton town can be pretty much run out of football by a 30 point penalty created by a previous administration, yet blatant breaking of rules amongst the big money teams is ignored?<br />
It&#8217;s simple. We all know who is running football in this country and it is not those that pretend to.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Drew Vader</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160377</link>
		<dc:creator>Drew Vader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160377</guid>
		<description>Spuds comparing this to the Real Ronaldo deal are complete fuck heads. 

United have made an official bid for the player with Spurs management, have Real actually made a bid for ronaldo? No, they have not. That fucking cocksucker calderon just keeps running his fucking mouth. 

Have united players come out and tapped him up in the media? No, they have not. But look at sneijder, (i know he recently changed his tune but before that he was talking about how great it would be to play with him), Robinho, Henize and a few others have all publicly said shit about Ronaldo. 

Have spurs come out and said flat out that Berba is not for sale? No, they have not. How many times has fergie or david gill said that about ronaldo? And yet fuckface Calderon just ignores it and wont shut up about it. 

Look, it sucks you arent in the champions league and United is, and i understand the frustration, but as Scorpion said, thats just the way it is. BUT, united/Berba and Real/Ronaldo are apples and oranges. So get that straight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spuds comparing this to the Real Ronaldo deal are complete fuck heads. </p>
<p>United have made an official bid for the player with Spurs management, have Real actually made a bid for ronaldo? No, they have not. That fucking cocksucker calderon just keeps running his fucking mouth. </p>
<p>Have united players come out and tapped him up in the media? No, they have not. But look at sneijder, (i know he recently changed his tune but before that he was talking about how great it would be to play with him), Robinho, Henize and a few others have all publicly said shit about Ronaldo. </p>
<p>Have spurs come out and said flat out that Berba is not for sale? No, they have not. How many times has fergie or david gill said that about ronaldo? And yet fuckface Calderon just ignores it and wont shut up about it. </p>
<p>Look, it sucks you arent in the champions league and United is, and i understand the frustration, but as Scorpion said, thats just the way it is. BUT, united/Berba and Real/Ronaldo are apples and oranges. So get that straight.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: billiospur</title>
		<link>http://www.caughtoffside.com/2008/07/18/man-united-boss-confident-of-landing-tottenham-striker-should-he-be/comment-page-1/#comment-160353</link>
		<dc:creator>billiospur</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.caughtoffside.com/?p=8018#comment-160353</guid>
		<description>spurs has always been  big club but dragged heels in forward vision in the past two decades when we did not make the same transition in  investment into the current climate as others did with  changes and other reasons falling behind in the financial stakes..etc..ground capacity etc (to be sorted)for the club wants its proper status ...with Ramos and Co ....great
 its where we belong.....but we need patience and stability....if berba goes
then goes against our plans but .....only for a while ....the players further their careers by joining THFC.....time to move on ......spurs need a real effort all round over the next two years and continue to build real depth ....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>spurs has always been  big club but dragged heels in forward vision in the past two decades when we did not make the same transition in  investment into the current climate as others did with  changes and other reasons falling behind in the financial stakes..etc..ground capacity etc (to be sorted)for the club wants its proper status &#8230;with Ramos and Co &#8230;.great<br />
 its where we belong&#8230;..but we need patience and stability&#8230;.if berba goes<br />
then goes against our plans but &#8230;..only for a while &#8230;.the players further their careers by joining THFC&#8230;..time to move on &#8230;&#8230;spurs need a real effort all round over the next two years and continue to build real depth &#8230;.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/

Minified using disk
Page Caching using disk (enhanced) (user agent is rejected)
Database Caching 2/18 queries in 0.027 seconds using xcache

Served from: www.caughtoffside.com @ 2010-03-20 21:09:41 -->