Spurs to sign England U-17 captain John Bostock?

GlastonSpur

"John Bostock is on the verge of signing for Tottenham after Crystal Palace reluctantly agreed to sell the most sought-after teenager in the country in a deal that could be worth millions to the Championship club.

Bostock, who made his debut for Palace aged 15 years 289 days, was told he could leave Selhurst Park last Wednesday and Tottenham sporting director Damien Comolli believes he has persuaded the England Under 17 midfielder, also wanted by Barcelona, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United, to move to White Hart Lane. "

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...779 &ito=1490

The Guardian are also saying that Bostock is set to sign for Spurs.

If true, it's another 'one for the future'. Of course not all such players necessarily make the grade in the end, but over the last 2 or 3 years Spurs have made significant investment in signing and developing quality youth players, the majority of them British. If we keep going we could have one hell of a team in a 2 or 3 years from now.

Snake Doctor

looks promising!

Cold_Boy

WE have signed or are close to signing Ramsey.

topper

echoes of the Scousers there

GAngel

I'd be a little upset if our feeder club didn't bring in the best young talent for us to have a look at.

kanchelskis14

I was told by a quite reliable source that Chelsea tried to turn his head by offering his dad a lot of money. Apparently he was due to sign a contract extension at Palece, and then his dad stepped in and said he had to go away for the weekend and he's never signed it. Training groundd gossip has suggested Chelsea have tapped him up.

Would rather he joined Spurs anyway.

CockneyHammer

Give it two years and Spurs fans will be claiming he was from the Academy

It pisses me off how they always do this which is why I hope he goes to Chelsea if he doesn't stay at Palace. Which I think he will if Palace come up through the play offs

GlastonSpur

It's good that delusions are keeping you calm - but might I suggest trying yoga?

GlastonSpur

Don't blame Spurs because many up and coming players want to sign for us. Try thinking instead about why they usually shun WHAM.

francobaresi

who?

fuckin Spurs

CockneyHammer

We don't try for them, we have these things called academies to produce our own rather than poaching them from other teams

GlastonSpur

It's called a 'transfer window' sunshine - ever heard of it? You know, when some clubs sign players from other clubs? Even WHAM have been known to dabble in it from time to time.

So what's your beef? That Spurs shouldn't sign any players under 18? If so, I'd suggest writing to the FA to try and get the rules changed. Until then: the rules apply equally to all clubs - Spurs have no special advantages conferred on them. So stop whining obsessively about Spurs at every tiny little opportunity.

tbtt

As far as I know, majority of Spurs fans are not haapy about this transfer policy. Your management invest in young British players not for footballing reasons, but for financial reasons. From a business point of view, it could make sense, but it won't help improve team performance at least in the near future.

francobaresi

I fucking hate Tottenham, only slightly less than i hate Leeds and fucking Liverpool.

GlastonSpur

Is this some strangely distorted second half of a knock-knock joke? If so, the first part is missing.

KeyserSoze

Spurs have ruined the career of quite a few young players buy just buying them all up no matter how much depth they have in that position. There is no point if he is not going to improve their team significantly, i have not seen him play enough to make a judgement.

francobaresi

dick

CockneyHammer

Yes we do dabble in the transfer window, it has made our club a lot of money and the transfer window is one thing that kept our club afloat after we was relegated

I don't have a problem with teams buying the odd young promising player but when your doing it all the time rather than developing any of your own then claiming those players to be products of your own academy it's very wrong.

A grade one showing from Tottenham of what is wrong with the English game

And yes you only do it for financial reasons rather than trying to build a team for the future

And by the way I doubt you'll sign him anyway

I'm going to add you to my list of favourte posters

RedKaos

GlastonSpur

I don't know where you get this idea from - it's rubbish. Most Spurs fans are very happy with the array of young players that we've been signing and developing over the last 2 or 3 years: players like Danny Rose, Dean Parrett, Adel Taarabt and several others. Not all will necessarily make it, but I bet you that several will be appearing in Spurs' match-day squad before too long. And most Spurs fans think likewise.

Also rubbish. Spurs have the 11th largest income in the world - unlike some clubs we don't need to sell players to survive.

If we didn't sign Lennon and Huddlestone (for example) for footballing reasons, then it's mighty strange that they play so frequently for us.

GlastonSpur

Like who?

Routledge is the only young player I can think of who was signed, didn't make the grade and was sold. He's now at Villa and still young - so his career is hardly ruined.

KeyserSoze

Yeah ruined is not the right word, they just stunted their development:

Darren Bent
Younes Kaboul
Helder Postiga
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Calum Davenport
Sean Davis

I know some of them are still there and could become good players for them, however, it aint looking good right now.

rocks13

I can't understand why people in this thread are getting so worked up about Spurs.

They're a nothing mid-table club with delusions of grandeur. Ultimately, if this kid's any good he be sold on at a profit.

CockneyHammer

Add Matthew Etherington and Bobby Zamora to that list

Defoe also had a goal ratio of 1 goal every 1.6 games at West Ham, it's currently 1.5 at Portsmouth at Tottenham it was 3.2

CockneyHammer

Lee Barnard and Andy Reid

GlastonSpur

Spurs don't claim any such thing - it's simply you building up a straw man argument.

However, we do contribute to the development of several young players who arrive at a young age from the outside and spend time inside our academy and/or reserve teams before - we hope - progressing further.

And we do also have a fine developing array of academy players who have been with Spurs from the outset. Those players - including only 4 players from an 18-strong squad who were signed from outside Spurs - have just won an U-20 international youth tourney in Switzerland, emerging as the best side amongst youth teams from Sevilla FC, Galatasaray, Sporting Clube de Portugal, Eintracht Frankfurt, FC Sion, CR Flamengo and FC Monthey. The Portuguese club, for instance, have one of the very best youth teams in Europe.

If you don't like the Spurs policy of signing young, British players - then gee that's tough. At least compared to many clubs we give British players a decent chance at a Prem club and a good environment in which to flourish.

GlastonSpur

Clever

francobaresi

not really

KeyserSoze

Grow up a bit lads.