Kerry

Hope this wasn't a trap again ;)

Not everyone is a grown man ;)

Ahhh ... losing the league title is much much much more painful to me! I can live camly with Real, Barca, Inter (yes even Jose Mourinho) winning the CL. But if WE are NOT winning the league most probably it will be caught by Mancs, scum and the gooners and this makes me MAD!

I thought he doesn't want the Spurs

Given the heat this thread has created I'm more surprised reading geezer's not posted a more fierce comment on it ;)

Well I can't figure out myself if the reports of Scolari commanding an "organizer" is really true (is it a SUN source?) but as Kaka is definitively not coming (haha if Grant had stayed he would've come!) Arshavin is a decent option imho as he could be really effective upfront and he is a sort of player probably suiting Scolari's style. I have my own stomache ache about this but I'd rather see a 28-year-old arriving and helping us winning the league instead of seeing this trophy going on loan again.

I agree fully with you that compared to those others we are not that bad off. On the downside this would mean we just have luck this season. I would not go that far to say we have a crisis at the Bridge though not everything is working perfect; if Scolari leaves now and we stand there empty-handed without a substitution than yes we have a real crisis but the current situation is not comparable to that. Though this would suggest we have damn luck till now. It could relatively have gone otherway; one of the other clubs (even ManCity!) could have taken the lead. We're a bit lucky that everyone else has been f*cked up so far. But that's not to our merit. What worries me more is that I have the impression there is nobody there to take the lesson. It's human to fail; nobody is infallible and we have no godly right to win everything. Errors are made to learn of them, but I have the impression nobody seems to be able or willing to react what has happened during this season so far. We've seen and heard a lot of promises to improve, but we haven't seen or heard any real measures for this. Maybe it's still too far, so we shall come back to this later in January, that's for sure, just what we've seen so far isn't very promising. Be it Scolari's tactical enigmas. Be it rumours of unrest in the dressing room. Be it Kenyon's pleading over and over again that we won't spend. Be it Drogba's seesaw "I will stay" and "I hate you all". I understand we don't need a radical change. All my impression is solely there's done nothing, and that's too less.

If this is not going to trouble his job for the Spurs - excellent! Down the league table but beating scum there's nearly nothing more I could wish for Spurs!

Which option do we have at the moment now when we drop JT? Playing Alex and Ivanovic together? OMG. And just reading the rumours that Big Phil is losing authority over his players where are we going when JT is dropped? I thought stability is what we need

Hope then you survive in this bloody business :D

Depending on what you wanna do ;)

If they can't get the money for Alex, Malouda or Kalou I can't see where the money shall come from as Scolari has to sell before buying. Ah and I forgot Ivanovic may leave, too.

There have been several pages/sites saying Scolari has lost the authority. Well there is no quote so it seems so there's more speculation than truth behind it as always when tablods and backpages go talking. They're merely mentioning what has been discussed in the match threads here, too: Deco, Scolari's lack of influence, motivational skills, substitution policies, etc. etc. So nothing we didn't know already. On the downside it makes me a bit nervous that the Brazilian FA may have an eye on Phil before they're going to sack Dunga. He is a decent subsitution for Dunga who enjoys less success than Phil at Chelsea and if Phil feels himself uncomfortable on the Chelsea seat this would be no surprise though he is denying pressure on the current situation. And Kenyon on his way claiming no spendung but great improvement must be made is not going to help in the situation. Scolari has made clear that he needs improvements otherwise results won't get much better that way and we don't need our crystal globe to believe at least this is the truth unveiled. Though just a mere suspicion it doesn't sound promising.

Now according to the tabloids Big Phil has even lost the authority over the dressing room. I believe they're just writing what we all have thought about Deco and substitutions ourselves but I'm desperate to believe not a piece of it is true. It's not going to help us during the Christmas period.

We have young players to service, Di Santo (OK he's injured at the moment), Stoch, Mancienne (though defense is not that a problem of age), Sinclair ... once we used to have Sidwell as well before we got rid of him ... but will they turn the game when we bring them on? OK they're too young. Agree. But Kalou and Malouda as mentioned are nowhere near the age of a heartache but do they improve our game? Rarely they do. Or to take another example - Wenger's squad last season (don't know how it is this season it's out of my range) used to be very young in average. Na we know what fate did with it. Surely age will become a problem slowly. But in my opinion Scolari needs the right players for his style, fast-paced players with accurate passing abilities to make his game successful.