Ade Buyers With A Job To Finish

So he’s finally signed! Or has he? Yes, yes, he’s ours. Hang on? Isn’t that Kanye? No, no it’s definitely Adebayor. And the guy with only the back of his head showing? Diarra! Definitely him. It’s nailed on. They’re standing with BAE, who else could it be?

Thankfully, all of the twit smoke and daily mirrors seem finally to have been put aside, and we’re just waiting on the official site to announce that Adebayor is a Spurs player. There’ll be no details of his bunce ‘bites lower lip- rubs tips of fingers together* of course, but depending on what news outlet you choose to believe, it would seem we’re picking up a weekly bill of between 75-100k (or 2 days work as Samuel Eto’o might call it) with the option to have him for keepsies at around 12 million at the end of the season. Brillo pads! Expect him ready for debut after the international break to take on Wolves. I’ve said all along that he’s just the kind of forward we’ve been crying out for, and the prospect of him linking up with VdV is certainly enough to get the imagination going, especially when they’re both on song. I can imagine both of them on a bad day will be torturous though. Hey ho, rough with the smooth and all that.

News from a supposedly official Real Madrid account has confirmed that the Diarra deal is all sewn up as well. Permanent transfer this time, 12 million and a 3 year contract. Other reports surfacing this morning are that, fresh from confirming their place at Europe's top table, the Woolwich Wanderers have hijacked the deal and Diarra is now bound for the Sticklebricks Stadium. Just when we thought we were getting somewhere...

As the book closes on the Adebayor on/off saga at least, it would appear the Olympic stadium botheration was all set to follow suit. Tuesday nights London news put some chap from some sort of Olympic legacy doo-dad on my goggle box saying that Tottenham Hotspur had been very silly, had an epiphany in the wake of the riots, and decided to withdraw their legal challenge for them lot giving the stadium to the spammers. Great PR opportunity seized by the Plc thought I; duck out of a no-win situation, commit your support to your beleaguered current home, while currying favour with Government planning/funding types in the process. Not so, it would appear, as our reps turned up to court, all brylcream and shiny shoes, yesterday morning to carry on regardless. What had changed in the intervening 12 hours is unclear, but the elephant in the room is still very much sitting there with a lampshade on its head and not doing a very good job of looking either inconspicuous or comfortable. He’ll be around for a while longer, especially as this latest Judge to hear our woes has said the case is ‘arguable’, and according to @danroan from the twittersphere, ‘’Spurs are effectively arguing that the Newham loan to West Ham constituted state-aid and was therefore illegal under EU law’’. And so it rumbles on.

Back to the present, and we’ve got a job to finish tonight at home to the rabble from the Midlothian Arms. They can’t possibly be any worse than last week, but even with many of the youth team expected to take the field from our collective, we’ll comfortably have enough to make sure we’re in the group stages by the time the final whistle blows, and save practically all of Monday nights wilters for Sunday afternoon. It might not be AC Milan, but it’s a home game damn it, and I for one can’t wait to get back to my seat at White Hart Lane.


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