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Friday Morning Hoddle Of Coffee:Tottenham Hotspur News And Links May18, 2012

2012-05-18T06:00:07Z

Happy Friday Spursland! This is the weekend! Saturday night we will be drinking from the Keg of glory, or we shall be crying. Either way all we can say is COME ON YOU BAYERNS (we can also say #Zuckerberg4Tottenham)

And now the "news"

Off-season Fitness Work Pays Off Days Defoe-Sky Sports

I love to see things like this. I think that often times elite level athletes either don't get the most out of their talent, or expose themselves to injuries due to not training enough or in the right way in the off season. Props to JD Trouble for putting in the work, and it definitely paid off this season. Now maybe if someone could drag Aaron Lennon to yoga or something this off-season we can have a full season without him blowing out a hammy.

It Was 40 Years Ago-Tottenham Hotspur Official Site

A reflection on Spurs Glorious UEFA Cup Championship. 40 years later SUCK IT WOLVES!

What's happening around SB Nation after the jump

VIDEO: Eric Hassli With An Amazing Volley-SB Nation

Somehow this happened in the Canadian Championship game between two MLS Teams, but who cares because it's awesome. That's called logic people. Logic.

Juan Agudelo, Heath Pearce, And Danny Califf All Traded-SB Nation Soccer

The New York Pink Cows were not really using Agudelo, but that dude was the future of the team's attack and the kid does pretty damn well for the national team. Short term gains, but perhaps mortgaging their future.

Man United Goes Further Into Debt-The Busby Babe

Whatever, someone with pockets so big they could pick up the Glazers and carry them around in them is going to buy this team soon. Here is hoping it isn't Zuckerberg. #Zuckerberg4Tottenaham!

Mark Zuckerberg For Spurs, A Campaign

2012-05-17T20:59:46Z

Manchester City, Chelsea, Malaga, Paris Saint-Germain, every club in Russia -- all clubs that are owned by ludicrously wealthy men who made their money in oil and use the teams they own as the latest facet of the rich dude dick measuring contest (Don't think that is a serious thing? Look up Roman Abromovich and his yachts). Meanwhile, Spurs, owned by our own less benevolent billionaire Joe Lewis, seems to be left in the dust. Be this by choice, Wikipedia and Forbes list his estimated net worth at $3.8 billion, and while I have seen other sources rate it at $2 billion. Regardless, Mr. Lewis' insistence that the club operate at a net profit (despite it being rather low when taken as a percentage of the club's overall value) has prevented the club from reaching the heights of the rest of Europe's oil soaked upstarts.

All the while, Man City's owners, with an estimated net worth of $20 billion are making it rain on levels not seen since Floyd Mayweather last got his PPV check spending right around $1.4 billion to build their last second title winners. They have exploded the transfers and wage markets, making is possible for players who are perhaps only the 10th or 12th best player at their position in the league -- not the world, but the league -- making £80 a week.

While the team's current wage structure has kept Spurs competitive, it has developed into a glass ceiling preventing the team from building into the juggernaut it could be. At present it has continued to perform well despite the holes in the lineup being filed by creative means, the Emmanuel Adebayor loan for example, but this will not hold. If not this summer or the next, Gareth Bale and Luka Modric will be gone if nothing changes. Kyle Walker will probably only be a season after that, too. After that, it is back down to the mid table. This is reality.

But what if something did change? What if we had a new owner? A man who has money to burn and a tendency to eviscerate his rivals. A man who the Washington Post called "A Man Of His Time". A man that, as of yet, has no declared dog in the fight. A man whose fortune is based in the next generation of wealth generating businesses, not the old world that is the oil industry. That way when oil goes by the wayside we will still be cruising around with a top level squad. The oil money won't last forever, the worldwide Hubbert Peak has likely already passed, which means there is less oil to sell and at the rate these modern day tycoons are spending, they will be back in the poor house inside of 20 years.

We must get Mark "The Company I Started In My Dorm Room Is About To Have A $100 Billion IPO" Zuckerberg to buy the team. And it is time for us in this community to make it happen.

I have developed a step-by-step process to get this to happen. I believe that with proper execution and with the support of the commentariat and Spurs fans the world over we can make it happen.

Step 1: Make Zuckerberg a Spurs Fan

Step 2: He realizes he has more money that god and buys they team at the demand of the people

Step 3: Suck it City

To achieve this we must gain the attention of the King Of Social Media in a positive, open, and fun way. And that is where you come in, Commentariat. Join the staff here in writing letters, emails, spread the word on Spurs message boards, tell everyone you know. And do it while being the creative positive fun people you are.

Seriously, put a note on your door for the mailman because come hell or high water we are making this happen.

If you happen to live near Zuckerberg in Palo Alto, California (I will not print his home address here) maybe stand outside his window holding a boom box playing the latest episode of Wheeler Dealer Radio over your head. If you have a spare moment, and your office provides you with free stamps, write a nice note to Mark about why he should support Spurs and send it to Facebook headquarters addressed to him.

Most importantly, get involved. Let's see if we, as fans and supporters of the greatest club in the world, can trade in one disappointing billionare intent on buying a chain of pubs for someone with more vision (and more money), who might see it within himself to buy Lionel Messi one week, you know, just because.

You can contact Mr. Zuckerberg and get involved in the following:

1. Write him a letter at 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025

2. Tweet him @finkd on Twitter using the hashtag #Zuckerberg4Spurs

3. Message him on Facebook. This will probably be more well received and you can do that at his page http://www.facebook.com/zuck

But let us not be limited to these options. If you know that Zuckerberg likes a band, and that band also like Spurs, tweet the band to contact Zuckerberg. In fact, get as many Spurs supporting celebrities into the effort as well. Contact John Cena and get after Adele.

We are limited only by our creativity and by our level of effort.

Spread the word and let's get ourselves an owner who w can be proud of ... then let's tattoo a Spurs jersey on Luka Modric's torso while we unload a trash truck full of cash into his living room.

Scott Parker May Miss Euros With Injury

2012-05-17T17:20:16Z

Scott Parker May Miss Euros With Injury

Bad news out of the England camp, where it seems Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Scott Parker is at risk of missing the Euros with an Achilles injury. Parker has received an injection which should take a week to see if it will be effective. If the injection does not take then Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson will likely replace Parker on the squad.

Thursday Morning Hoddle Of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur News And Links May 17, 2012

2012-05-17T06:00:02Z

Happy Thursday, Spursland! Do you sometimes find yourself pining for a time when all of the news of the day was all about one player desperately trying to force a transfer away? You know, like every day from last summer? If you said yes then you are in luck because it appears as if that is what this summer is going to be like. Unfortunately nobody would ever say yes to that question. Oh, the joy.

Modric Will Wait Until After The Euros To Decide On Future- Sky Sports

Interesting, see back in February Modric said that he would decide once it was clear what Redknapp's situation was. Now, it is essentially settled that Harry is staying the finish line has been moved to post-Euro. Let us not be fooled by this cuddly (Editor's note: He's SO cuddly) pass-master. He wants out.

We Ain't Got No History's Modric Opinions Show Change Among The Chelsea Faithful- We Ain't Got No History

I cannot stress enough how much it raises my hopes that we keep the little trouble maker (for opposing defenses and Dan Levy) that Chelsea supporters, informed supporters, are not as high on the signing as the once were.

What's happening outside the world of Luka Modric after the jump

Fortuna Dusseldorf Win Promotion To The Bundesliga After Crazy Playoff- SB Nation Soccer

It's as if the supporters were trying to step things up for the filming of a new season of Football Factories: International.

Saturday Is About More Than Just A Trophy For Chelsea- SB Nation Soccer

Read this article once then go back and reread it and every time you see the word "Chelsea," replace it with "Tottenham." And every time you see the name "Roman Abramovich" replace it with "Dan Levy." Yeah, I just blew your mind.

The "Let Them Eat Cake" Of Blog Articles- Bitter And Blue

The basic premise, lets take all of our players that never get any time, then guess where that team would finish in the EPL.

A Champions League final tactical preview with screenshots

2012-05-16T17:15:51Z

A Champions League final tactical preview with screenshots

Holler

King Kenny gone from Anfield

2012-05-16T15:59:08Z

King Kenny gone from Anfield

Well, they were crap this season.

Two Tottenham Hotspur Players Named To England Euro 2012 Squad

2012-05-16T13:05:48Z

Harry Redknapp missed out on the England job, but there will be some Tottenham Hotspur players headed to Euro 2012 anyway. Roy Hodgson has named his 23-man England squad, and two Tottenham players are heading to Poland and Ukraine with the Three Lions.

Midfielder Scott Parker has made the squad, despite an injury doubt over his Achilles tendon. If he is 100 percent healthy, he's likely to be competing with Gareth Barry for one place in the starting XI. It's hard to concoct a reasonable England lineup that has either both of them or neither of them.

The other Tottenham player named to the team is Jermain Defoe, who will likely play the same super sub goal-poaching role for England that he plays for Tottenham. Expect either Danny Welbeck or Andy Carroll to start with Steven Gerrard behind one of them in Wayne Rooney's absence.

Aaron Lennon was a healthy omission, beaten out by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Stewart Downing. Kyle Walker missed out on a place due to injury, but incredibly, Hodgson didn't call in Micah Richards either. Glen Johnson is the team's only true right back.

Wednesday Morning Hoddle Of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur News And Links For May 16, 2012

2012-05-16T06:00:13Z

Happy Wednesday, Spursland! Apparently nobody has gotten the memo that summer is here and it's time for crazy ass transfer rumors every day because we don't really have any yet. This is like on Deadliest Catch, you know crabs are coming, but they might not show up right away. I guess the same could be applied to being a sailor pre-1980 too, I guess.

And now the "news"

S tevie P Hinting At Everton Stay- Sky Sports

I can't blame him for wanting to stay. He gets to play all the time there in a way that really showcases him. And what's more, while no Spurs fan ever had a truly negative thing to say about him while he was here, we never came close to cherishing him they way the fans up north do.

Ryan Nelsen Knee Injury Worries All Whites- Stuff

That isn't a typo - the source is actually a publication called Stuff.com. It is clearly a different world down that way. For instance, have you noticed that when they name their national team sides they always seem to follow the same template? it goes like this "All (insert color)"? They have the All Blacks for rugby, the All Whites for soccer, the All Magentas for extreme arm wrestling (I am not 100% on that last onem but you get the point)

What's happening around SB Nation after the jump

Manchester City: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same- SB Nation Soccer

I don't know how he keeps doing it (I do, actually he keeps beating up the FA in print), but SB Nation's Andi Thomas continues to editorialize his way into my heart. This time he appeals to the history teacher in me with his historical comparison of City to those in the past who have bought the title, which is to say everyone. And it is here that he hits on one of the most cross cultural trends in all of world history - that very many things ever change, they just become more intense.

US Names Initial World Cup Qualifier Roster- SB Nation Soccer

One forward, one measly forward? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU JURGEN? This guy must be just trying to see how far he can push things before he gets fired. ONE FORWARD, and it is a guy who can't play as a lone striker.

Van Persie To Meet With Club CEO And Asrsene Today- The Short Fuse

While the folks at The Short Fuse seems to think that Van Persie is most likely staying, everyone else in the football world including noted footy psychic Kevin McCauley seems to think otherwise. So now let us, as Spurs supporters, look back into our memories at last summer and all the Arsenal fans who gave us shit about the Modric situation. Now that we have done that, let's have some fun needling those people a bit. What's up Sabrina?

PS: Why does Mechanick insist on calling that thing he screwed up "The Pod" like its trendy for people to call podcasts that? Who do you think you are? Ashlock? Stop trying to make "Fetch" happen.