He's been banging on to the media, as usual. Claims that Spurs want to sell Modric and that Levy agreed to let him sign for Madrid this summer, if he stayed last season. West Ham?
Redknapp represents the single biggest threat to Tottenham this season imo. His inability to keep his mouth shut for more than 5s plus his (obvious) knowledge of what went on at the club before he left all points to a volatile mixture. I bet this won't be the last we'll hear from old 'arry on the current status of our players.
Cross off Rasmus Elm from the prospective buys, he's joined CSKA Moscow- although I do like the way it's presented on the BBC gossip page... ...which implies one led to the other.
Hopefully it's a double bluff - or we're rescuing Javier Hernandez from the shame of being Danny Wellbeck's understudy.Nibble, tabloids, nibble!
I think we just know that it's pointless bidding at the moment. He's not available to sign anyway, so what's the point?
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11675/7968321? Andre Villas-Boas has admitted he is desperate to add a striker to his Tottenham Hotspur squad before the season starts, but insists he will not be rushed into 'an expensive mistake'. The Tottenham manager has been left with Jermain Defoe as his only senior striker following the departure of Louis Saha and the failure to secure Emmanuel Adebayor on a permanent deal. He is currently utilising 19-year-old Harry Kane in the club's pre-season fixtures, although the youngster has yet to make his Premier League debut. But despite the lack of options and time before their opening game against Newcastle on August 18th the new manager insists he will not resort to panic buying. Sound bids He said: "In this market it's important to make good, sound bids, not just to do anything for the sake of it. "We are hopefully moving in the market in the next couple of days or weeks. "We are trying to deal with the market. Lots of teams are having difficulty, there's not a lot of money around and teams try to hold onto their assets as best they can. "We're just trying to make the best decisions possible before the start of the league - hopefully trying to solve the issue with one more striker before the Newcastle game. "It's funny because last January everybody was expecting one big move to trigger all of the others and it didn't happen, so I think it's just a sign of the difficult financial situation in all of Europe. It spreads out into football. "The Premier League is obviously the richest league in the world and clubs are trying to be able to move the market. Some can and others are trying to trigger that move, but that doesn't mean it will happen." a couple of days or weeks. - cheers for that insightful comment, Andre. "A couple of days" is very encouraging. "A couple of weeks" is worrying!
Sounds like the opening fixture or 2 without a striker then. Lucky we haven't got any difficult fixtures like Newcastle or anything.
