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Nah, well behind it. Cant keep up on a work day. FWIW, I'm less convinced by the Dad/agent thing vs every media outlet saying he's had a medical. I'm resigned now.

If (if) he has had a medical at Spurs then that feels to me like it's over. You can't force someone to have a medical at a club they don't want to join. Even if, at best, he is ambivalent about joining Spurs then still no real pressing need to have a medical. I think I am now firmly in the "he's gawn" camp.

That Guardian piece seems pretty unequivocal to me. Very difficult to see how he is going to end up anywhere else other than Spurs now. Balls.

Scrolling gets in the way of trolling.

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Well, maybe. But the general theme about FFP and unfairness and how awful it is that those other clubs have more money than us only ever flows in one direction. Us looking upwards at the top 4. Maybe our incredible good fortune of being owned by a billionaire and raking in Premier League mega-dollars is a trifle unfair to, I don't know, Barnsley or Yeovil (or Newport). The system is a crock of sh it, I agree, but let's remember we are beneficiaries of it, not victims. We're effing well loaded.

Yes, but not quite - the FFP thresholds are defined by the turnover of the clubs, not by any hidden force/discrimination. As well as the misinterpretation of glass ceiling I also don't accept that financial fair play is somehow unfair to us. I don't want us to be spending stupid money we don't have, and if there is a mechanism to stop us and other clubs doing it, then good. Tottenham has a bigger threshold because they are financially bigger than we are in ways that can be quantified, perfectly fairly. Everything - our strategy, and football legislation- points to us building the club sustainably, which thankfully is what we're doing.

You've generously rephrased the question, and then answered it with the same response 99% of normal people on here would give and is essentially what Les Reed has been saying for years - it is exactly what Cortese used to say as well. Cortese always said we would never compete financially with the bigger clubs. That's partly why Alpine gets short shrift, because this has been done to death and everyone should really understand our strategy by now. Calling our best finish for 25 years "an intolerable situation" and other such emotional garbage does help him. There's most people that can understand our strategy and then there's a handful of dins forever refusing to accept that we haven't got the "ambition" to p iss millions and millions of pounds away on players and wages like they do when they play their computer games. We're the best run club in the land and still they grizzle.

We've discussed your perception of "ambition" before, which essentially boils down to "that woman has got loads of money so why doesn't she keep spending and spending it until my football club gets into the Champions League". So don't make out you have "ambition". It's just toddler foot stamping. No idea what FFP is or what you were right about. Many, many congratulations though.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25752833 Ninth. About as upper mid table as you can get.

Upper mid table is eighth isn't it?

I object to the terminology which is incorrectly used. There is not glass ceiling, or hidden or secret force or level of discrimination that stops us finishing fourth in a football league table. Slightly arcane point but fundamentally the phrase leads to too many to thinking we are hard-done-by victims when we are in fact hugely blessed as a fanbase right now.

Mainly because you've ignored the rubbish he's written and have made up your own question. Are we in an "intolerable situation"? Of course not, total nonsense. Do we get "looted"? Nope. Nonsense. Is there a glass ceiling? Nope. Either way, the answer to your question is easy. Keep doing precisely what we're doing now. Listen to Les, listen to Ronald, listen to Ralph, listen to whoever you like connected with the club. We know what we're doing, and will keep doing it. We are not going "to put ourselves in a similar position to become a big club". Not going to happen. Question answered.

I offer a more accurate analysis of where we are and where we can conceivably go than you, who despite everything is still, eighteen months on, grizzling about Cortese leaving and expecting us to pi ss money away to chase the Champions League. I have given up wasting my time trying to educate you so a simple "Waaaaaaaaah" is all you deserve. Waaaaaaaaah.

Also, to everyone here, the phrase "glass ceiling" really does not apply to our circumstances. There is no glass ceiling.

As usual, this post can be effectively summarised as "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh".

A lecture from Alpine about cliché and stereotypes. Seriously, you couldn't make it up.

In other news, it's the sixth day of July.

All your contributions to this site are drivel. You think we are a tin pot club with no ambition. Fine. We get it. The rest of us will get on with supporting the club and team. After all they pi ss ed all over your doom laden drivel predictions last season, didn't they? The rest of us will settle in ready for your snivelling "well, it's all easy with hindsight" catchphrase when you roll that out in a few weeks or months time.

Chocolate is the answer, chubs.

The usual Alpine utter drivel.

Don't ever change, will you? FFS.

It took no effort at all to demonstrate how clever I am compared to you. But you are a fuc king moron after all.

Hmmm. I don't get any sense that TA is desperate to sign for Spurs (or more importantly desperate not to come back to us). Sign for us, give it a season and he's off to a Champions League club so everyone's a winner.

Saints could take legal action but if Toby might have played 50 games for Spurs by the time it gets resolved.