Robbie to be homeless again?

Warper

Poor Robbie Keane looks like he could be without a home again after Christmas. Reports in the papers are that Spurs have put 4 players up for sale, 1 of which is Robbie. All I can think of is that classic sketch by Mario Rosenstock on Setanta Sports last year.

Guy:Incognito

To the SPL with him!

flahavaj

Its only a matter of time before he gets labelled "journeyman pro" Robbie Keane. Sad the way its panned out for him these last few years.

JPA

flahavaj wrote: »

Its only a matter of time before he gets labelled "journeyman pro" Robbie Keane. Sad the way its panned out for him these last few years.

Ya real sad for one of the top 10 goalscorers in PL history with his hot wife and millions in the bank

flahavaj

JPA wrote: »

Ya real sad for one of the top 10 goalscorers in PL history with his hot wife and millions in the bank

Hes a benchwarmer in what should be the prime years of his career and his dream move to Liverpool went tits up after three months. I doubt hes happy about that, regardless of how good looking his bird might be, hardly what you'd expect for a guy who as you say is one of the top 10 Prem goalscorers of all time.

MagicMarker

What are the odds on a move to Old Trafford?

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Warper wrote: »

Poor Robbie Keane looks like he could be without a home again after Christmas. Reports in the papers are that Spurs have put 4 players up for sale, 1 of which is Robbie. All I can think of is that classic sketch by Mario Rosenstock on Setanta Sports last year.

How would he be without a club?
"Up for ale" means they will sell him to another club, if they released him it'd be a different story altogether, but they can't afford that.

JPA

flahavaj wrote: »

Hes a benchwarmer in what should be the prime years of his career and his dream move to Liverpool went tits up after three months. I doubt hes happy about that, regardless of how good looking his bird might be, hardly what you'd expect for a guy who as you say is one of the top 10 Prem goalscorers of all time.

He's rotated in the Spurs team, he's not a bench warmer and he's their captain.
I'd say he's pretty bloody happy with his life. Nothing sad about it.

flahavaj

JPA wrote: »

He's rotated in the Spurs team, he's not a bench warmer and he's their captain.
I'd say he's pretty bloody happy with his life. Nothing sad about it.

And up for sale. He'd hardly be happy with a third transfer in under 18 months. Hardly a sign things are going well for him in all fairness.

Warper

Adam Limited Schoolboy wrote: »

How would he be without a club?
"Up for ale" means they will sell him to another club, if they released him it'd be a different story altogether, but they can't afford that.

Hes not that bad - I think Spurs would want cash

JPA

flahavaj wrote: »

And up for sale. He'd hardly be happy with a third transfer in under 18 months. Hardly a sign things are going well for him in all fairness.

I seriously doubt he will be sold though so it's not worth talking about.

ctrl-alt-delete

flahavaj wrote: »

And up for sale. He'd hardly be happy with a third transfer in under 18 months. Hardly a sign things are going well for him in all fairness.

Not his fault how things panned out, of course he was going to move to his childhood club, and when that didn't work out of course he was going to jump at the chance of going straight back to where he was.

I'd be pretty sure there were a couple of times this season Rafa was thinking he could have done with him, i know i was, and when you think of where the money went to, it has gone a lot worse for Liverpool than Keane.

A player is always up for sale at the right price anyways, and if he does move on, he'd just get on with it like he always does.

dyl10

flahavaj wrote: »

Its only a matter of time before he gets labelled "journeyman pro" Robbie Keane. Sad the way its panned out for him these last few years.

He picked up that rep about 5 years ago!

On another note, it's not sad at all, he must have made a bomb from all those transfers he's made!

5% of every transfer fee paid for Robbie, isn't pocket change...

flahavaj

JPA wrote: »

I seriously doubt he will be sold though so it's not worth talking about.

But if he was you'd admit it would be a lot of moving around, not only in the last 18 months, but over his career?

flahavaj

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

Not his fault how things panned out, of course he was going to move to his childhood club, and when that didn't work out of course he was going to jump at the chance of going straight back to where he was.

I'd be pretty sure there were a couple of times this season Rafa was thinking he could have done with him, i know i was, and when you think of where the money went to, it has gone a lot worse for Liverpool than Keane.

A player is always up for sale at the right price anyways, and if he does move on, he'd just get on with it like he always does.

Course he would hes had tonnes of practice.:pac:

ctrl-alt-delete

flahavaj wrote: »

But if he was you'd admit it would be a lot of moving around, not only in the last 18 months, but over his career?

Yeah it would be, but let's not forget Nicolas Anelka

JPA

flahavaj wrote: »

But if he was you'd admit it would be a lot of moving around, not only in the last 18 months, but over his career?

Ya obviously, but that happens. Look at Anelka, doesn't mean he's not a good player.

flahavaj

JPA wrote: »

Ya obviously, but that happens. Look at Anelka, doesn't mean he's not a good player.

Hes also playing his best stuff in years now that hes happy and settled at Chelsea. Wants to spend the rest if his career there.

stovelid

To hell or to the SPL.

monkey9

Going by the thread title, i thought he was signing for Shamrock Rovers!!

Neil3030

I'd take him at VP.

dyl10

Gary Twigg would beat Robbie to the number 10 jersey at and he'd back on the move again in January 2010!

eddiehead

baz2009 wrote: »

"Up for ale" means they will sell him to another club.

I think that means they're going on the piss

invincibleirish

Neil3030 wrote: »

I'd take him at VP.

Me too. But knowing silly Spurs and their chancer manager, they'd either ask for £25m or want a swap for Ashley Young.

God love him, he's on at least 60grand a week for warming a bench.

My heart bleeds.

He ain't on the bench for no reason.

Neil3030

invincibleirish wrote: »

Me too. But knowing silly Spurs and their chancer manager, they'd either ask for £25m or want a swap for Ashley Young.

And knowing our pathalogically tight-arsed manager, MON would offer no more than £5m or a swap deal for Salifou.

Here's an outside shout though - Arsenal?

mike65

Wolves on loan!

Xavi6

Celtic, his other boyhood club.

NukaCola

Neil3030 wrote: »

Here's an outside shout though - Arsenal?

mike65 wrote: »

Wolves on loan!

Xavi6 wrote: »

Celtic, his other boyhood club.

Probably all three the way Robbie goes through clubs....

blinding

It will be interesting to see if Robbie is made of the stuff to get himself back on the high road again.

He probably can if he has the desire to. Some millionaire footballers lose the desire.

I cannot think for the life of me why this would happen. Oh it might be the millions:p

therokerroar

He's always strongly linked with us (Sunderland) around the time of the transfer windows opening, the move never happens though, but perhaps this time it might materialise in a cut price deal.

Bruce has been in the papers saying he can't motivate Jones and I don't think he fancies him at Sunderland to be honest, perhaps Spurs will rekindle their interest in him and make another silly offer this January, Keane and cash for Jones, although IMO if Jones does go to Spurs it will be Bentley coming our way instead.

Nonetheless, it will be very interesting to see where he ends up.

CHD

I'd take him as a benchwarmer. Selling him is kinda ridiculous. Proven EPL scorer.

monkey9

therokerroar wrote: »

He's always strongly linked with us (Sunderland) around the time of the transfer windows opening, the move never happens though, but perhaps this time it might materialise in a cut price deal.

Bruce has been in the papers saying he can't motivate Jones and I don't think he fancies him at Sunderland to be honest, perhaps Spurs will rekindle their interest in him and make another silly offer this January, Keane and cash for Jones, although IMO if Jones does go to Spurs it will be Bentley coming our way instead.

Nonetheless, it will be very interesting to see where he ends up.

Do you think he'd play well with Bent?? I can't really remember the two playing together at Spurs that much so can't make a judgement on how they did

dsmythy

Once he doesn't go to rot in the SPL.

stovelid

Xavi6 wrote: »

Celtic, his other boyhood club.

I hear Crumlin United's interest might prove too much for him?

Bandit12

Amazing that he's never settled at a club he's been at. I guess it say's a lot about his attitude problems.

stovelid

Bandit12 wrote: »

Amazing that he's never settled at a club he's been at. I guess it say's a lot about his attitude problems.

His attitude to fat signing-on fees, I presume.

Kev_ps3

Strange that he doesnt start, Id play him instead of Crouch every time.

A Dub in Glasgo

There is no way Celtic would be able to pay him unless Mr. Desmond personally paid a portion of the fee and wage which ain't going to happen.

ctrl-alt-delete

He has 1 less start than Defoe this season, 6 more than Crouch and 13 more than Pavlyuchenko.

There have been rumours Pav wants to get 1st team football or move on in January, and if he does Keane won't be moving.

I don;t know where the rumours of Keane moving are coming from.

Suppose we'll have to wait and see.

JerryHandbag

Celtic I'd say.....and Samaras will get the hump and be Premiership bound once again

Dub13

Celtic would not be able to afford 1/3 of Keane's wages,and thats not taken into account the transfer fee.So he will not be going their.

noodler

flahavaj wrote: »

Hes a benchwarmer in what should be the prime years of his career and his dream move to Liverpool went tits up after three months. I doubt hes happy about that, regardless of how good looking his bird might be, hardly what you'd expect for a guy who as you say is one of the top 10 Prem goalscorers of all time.

Hasn't he been on the bench for 4 of his last 4 games?

Its hardly alot.

Complete overreaction here tbh - wait for something more substantial than random paper speculation.

eagle eye

He started two of their last four games including their last game, he came on in one and was an unused sub in the other one.

DSB

Think any club in the Premiership (and with the exception of only a few clubs in the world) would be lucky to have him in their squad. Whoever signs him will be much the better for it. Top quality player who has recently hit a bad patch.

Dub13

DSB wrote: »

Think any club in the Premiership (and with the exception of only a few clubs in the world) would be lucky to have him in their squad. Whoever signs him will be much the better for it. Top quality player who has recently hit a bad patch.

I think thats a slight overstatement,he is good but nothing special.

gucci

Yeah but do you need to be anything special to cut it at half of the premiership teams? Ok granted you have to be a bit special to be a premiership player, and again to be a strong goal scorer, but when you look at Bent, Defoe, Bellemy, Johnson, Jo, Doyle, Heskey, Kevin Davies, Jason Roberts etc. He would hold his own against any of those guys any day.

Raskolnikov

Robbie Keane must be on about £80k a week at Spurs. The highest earner at Celtic is probably on about half that. There's no way Celtic can afford Keane.

Redzer7

Back to Leeds United with him, Viduka, Alan Smith and Harry Kewell :P.

eagle eye

Dub13 wrote: »

I think thats a slight overstatement,he is good but nothing special.

Well you would say that obviously.

Dub13

eagle eye wrote: »

Well you would say that obviously.

He is a good player but do you believe the following is justified...?

DSB wrote:

and with the exception of only a few clubs in the world