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Apologies for the interruption over the weekend - server issues but normal Beef Bagel service has resumed once more. Good work on signing up to Twitter those that have. What we all need to do is follow each other and make sure your mobile phones are set up to receive updates from our community. Then, if anyone spots any hot Spurs news - no pun intended - you can post it on Twitter via SMS through your phone or from computer. Then everyone else will receive the news through SMS and we’ll all be up to date wherever we are, and that includes if you’re abroad. The only cost at all is if you post a comment - a Tweet, I believe they’re called - by text and that’s just whatever your normal text cost is.

So, obviously if we sign anyone, any particularly hot rumours, if you see a player out and about or anything you see or hear that other Spurs fans would want to know about, then Twitter it. Now, to make sure you know who’s part of our community and who to follow, we can all use the same picture. This one…

…then we all know we’re part of the crew. Otherwise it could be really boring getting SMS tweets about someone’s cat vomiting or whatever their excitement of the day is. So, if you see this picture, follow them via SMS and obviously don’t Tweet stuff unless it’s relevant otherwise, once again, receiving a lot of dull SMS will not be fun. Oh, and in case you’re worried Twitter is 100% junk free unlike Facebook applications etc.

So, the news. Well Modders did ok yesterday as we’ve all had a little chat about today. Personally, I’m cursing the fact that I missed the first 25 minutes of the game, where according to Hansen, and subsequently Shearer for the benefit of the population of the North East, our new signing ran the game. He showed some flavour in what I saw. Now every pass was 100% but his brain looks good, he can run, take on players, do crazy clearances but best of all, he seems to be able to get the right touch on the ball no matter where it is in his body space.

In some ways, rather like Dimitar the Great, he just doesn’t have a problem getting it out from under his feet, no matter how off-balance he is and that’s a very good sign. I doubt he’ll play quite such a free role for us as he did yesterday arvo, which is no bad thing, and my only real concern is that if we play him instead of JJ then we going to need someone bigger than Didier Zee to play with him in the middle or they’ll never get the ball. He’s not going to win a lot of headers at 5′8″. Imagine the dwarvish midfield of Little Aaron, Steve, Luka the Mod and Didier Zee, then take away a Berbatov. It’s like the cast of The Hobbit. Anyway, chances are we’ll have bought another defensive centre mid and big man striker. Fingers crossed.

Oh, and before I leave that game, did anyone notice that both teams largely ignored the wings? Very turgid encounter with a total of about 4 crosses a piece from what I saw.

Now what I’m who I’m not going to talk about today is Almeria’s striker Alvaro Negredo, who’s only 22 and had a respectable season with 13 goals. See the fact is that he’s not ready to leave Spain despite out interest and would rather play big La Liga club before he takes on the Prem. Fair enough and that’s him for bagel column inches unless there’s a further twist. Let’s not tease ourselves.

I’m not going to talk about Lassana Diarra either. There were rumours that we were back in for the player, on whom we missed out, to the tune of £10m but according to Portsmouth, there’s no truth in it. Pompey chief exec Peter Storrie said:

“I had dinner with Daniel Levy from Spurs.” Name dropper. “If they were interested in Lassana Diarra I think he may have mentioned something!”

Would he? I wouldn’t. I might not get pudding.

“Lassana is one of our most important players, and only arrived at the club in January. He is not for sale and that is the end of it.”

He is good but there are few more mercenary than Diara and I should imagine if he wants to go, he will. Besides, we don’t want him, surely that’s our general consensus? Didn’t he basically say, just days after joining Pompey, that he just wants to get into the shop window until he can play for a better club and that he listens to Barbara Striesand and eats children or something?

The man who I must talk about today is Dimi as, at last, it looks as if the biggest auction this summer is about to get started. The expected retail price is £30m for lot number 9, a lovely little Bulgarian piece from the early 1980s; hard wearing, classic, of the fine quality and up for grabs.

At the end of last week, reports were that we’d offered Dimi a £70k/week deal while we had nothing better to do and at last that’s stirred up a few coffers with AC Milan president Adriano Gallliano admitting that he’s up for any one of “Eto’o, Drogba, Adebayor, Gomez and Berbatov.”

The other rumour is of course that Red Faced Fergie wants him. On the one hand he goes to United (shit) and on the other he goes to a non-CL club. Both are a bit of a slap in the face, so here’s hoping that Real and Barca wake up some time soon.

What really wind me up though, is the Mirror’s coverage of all this, passing of a on of Junade’s quotes on the last day of the season as current prrof that we’ve given up on keeping the beautiful Bulgarian. This is the one…

Ramos said: “We have to cover our back in case the player decides to leave and we have to have options to replace him.

“It’s difficult to say whether it will be his last game. I would obviously like him to stay here but we don’t know how future negotiations will go, so it’s something I can’t guarantee.

“I’ve spoken to him many times and I know exactly what he wants. But it is a private conversation and I won’t say what he told me.”

Isn’t the use of the present tense a bit of a give-away? It’s difficult to say whether it will be his last game. Wouldn’t he have said “was” the current was current? What kind of paper-filling, sloppy, but mostly pointless, shit is that? They haven’t even tried to pass it off as up to date.

Very briefly, before I’ve got to go:

• Apparently we’re willing to go to 70k/week for Bentley. God help us. I was talking to a frustrated Hammers fan at the weekend. You could actually see the stress their wage bill was causing him. Like a weight it was.

• Talk of using Prince Kev as bait for the Capel deal. Sevilla were bang up for the Ghetto Kid before we bagged him and he seems surplus to us, so great. Only trouble is that I think the new Hamburg manager might having something to say about it.

Right, trust you’re enjoying the sun and I look forward to seeing you all on my mobile with news flashes.

Are you queer? Do you like to suck bagel? Bullshit! I bet you’re the kind of guy to fuck a guy in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach around. I’ll be watching you!

The Bagel.

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