What now for Parry...and Rafa?

[Gray]

Why hang on to a player who has never played well and looked out of his depth at the top level? If we hung on to him until the summer there's nothing to suggest from his abject performances that he'd help the squad and we'd very likely get much less money for him.

In summary, he was no good; he's gone; let's move on

Why is Lucas still here then???

[memzey]

Because even Tottenham aren't THAT stupid

[red g]

Why is Lucas still here then???

we dont have any money to replace him and nobody wants him

[Redspin]

Its depressing. We are a fukin laughing stock. The owners are a joke. They attend games rarely, and when they do they sit apart. They cant decide between them what to do with the club and how to sell it or who to. They only now seem to have decided that rafa quite rightly should decide who he buys with his funds and not parry the clown. The bull**** promises about the stadium etc.

and then we get to parry, rafa and keane. How pathetically embarrassing. Its pretty much clear to anyone with any sense that keane ended up being a pawn in the game. Only a fool would believe that parry simply went out and decided to buy keane without consulting rafa first. Thats ridiculous. Rafa obviously had a few players on his hit list and keane was one of them, but it would appear that he was clearly second on the list behind barry. It would appear that rafa was happy to offload alonso in the hope of using the funds raised in addition to the cash provided by the board to purchase both barry and keane. Alonso's deal didnt happen and so we were left with a choice of barry or keane and it seems as though parry and the board went over rafa and bought keane. That was ridiculous. Parry and the owners are to blame. But rafa is hardly in the clear. Its obvious that he rated keane as a player and wanted him with us. But as very good a manager rafa is, he is also a stubborn man. Overly stubborn. Crouch went months without scoring and deadly dirk has hardly set the world alight with his scoring record, yet rafa continued to play them and stuck by them. Yet keane, although he struggled for form, was never given anywhere near the same level of support. Even when he did score he would be dropped. He was often taken off early when he did start. Purely because rafa wanted to show parry who was boss. And it has worked. He has got his way. In a way, i am glad as i think rafa should never have been overruled by parry and rafa should have the final say in transfers, within reason. But the way rafa has gone about it leaves a sour taste in my mouth. We wasted keane while he was here and now have lost millions in the process and are also a striker down. God help us if nando should get injured. Well done to all you, the yanks, parry and rafa. What a sorry state of affairs.

Crouch brought an entirely different dimension to the team when things needed shaking up. Keane didn't. He just blundered about to no great effect and couldn't seem to keep hold of the ball or kick it in a straight line when presented with an open goal. In his last game against Everton I don't remember him doing anything at all. He was shocking

[Gray]

we dont have any money to replace him and nobody wants him

Good point

[Reece]

Well at the end of the day it doesn't really matter what we think of players, it's what the manager thinks of them. He obviously rates Lucas fairly highly (or at least sees great potential in him), whereas he doesn't Keane. That may be over-simplifying it but I think Rafa has proved time and time again that if HE doesn't rate a player he moves them on pretty quickly.

[memzey]

Seriously, I think rafa sees some qualities in Lucas who is obviously a hard working and thoughtful player. Perhaps he feels he can develope him further, into the type of player we need?

Then again if someone offerred silly money for him (like spurs did for Keane), I have a sneaky feeling Rafa would take it. We are well stocked in that position and also have a few youngsters coming up who can provide cover.