Early Morning Notes – Tottenham, Owen Hargreaves, Gary Cahill, and SWP England tedium

Harry Redknapp has confirmed that goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes will most likely be leaving the club in January after last season’s disastrous showing and his subsequent fall to third choice behind Brad Friedel and Carlo Cudicini.

The Sun actually has quite a decent story today, based around Rohan Ricketts’ nomad career – obviously it’s written with the usual irritating colloquialisms that the tabloid favours – but still...

Lots of reports this morning are claiming that Shaun Wright-Philips is in the verge of being recalled to the England squad. Jesus. If there’s something that characterises this era of the England team, then it’s players being given chance-after-chance without really earning it.

Owen Hargreaves is blaming Manchester United for his injury-plagued stay at Old Trafford – and just about every paper is carrying the story as an ‘EXCLUSIVE’ this morning, nice try boys. Here’s the Telegraph’s version…

Owen Coyle is making more noises about how much Gary Cahill should cost in the January transfer window, warning Arsenal that they face a battle for his signature. At what point do we look at Bolton’s start to the season, watch the goals they’ve conceded, and accept that Cahill is just not that good a defender?