Martin Lol

...............................Gordon..................... Chimbonda........Kaboul.........Nosworthy..........Bardsley Edwards............Tanio.............Malbranque......Richardson .....................Jones.................Chopra Bent ................... Fukin hell brickin it If Keane got his way, Bent is adamant he won't move there. Suggested fee would get Spurs snapping Quinn's hand off.

So what's the fee for Chimbonda on his own then? No idea, I don't honestly believe £23m for all 4 either tbh. Keane is saying that 3 out of 4 have agreed personal terms so I'm hoping they've all got inflated fees! What do you mean "no idea"? Weren't you involved with the talks? No. All I did was make the tea and supply the chocolate digestives....................

So what's the fee for Chimbonda on his own then? No idea, I don't honestly believe £23m for all 4 either tbh. Keane is saying that 3 out of 4 have agreed personal terms so I'm hoping they've all got inflated fees!

Chimbonda having a medical, agreed a 4 year deal. Good for him and hopefully good for Spurs. Still can't really believe that Sunderland would offer £23m for the 4.

I will be more than happy if they replace Berbatov, Keane and Defoe with Pavlychenko, Milito and Arshavin. All of them are unproven over here and will take time to settle. Trouble is, knowing Spurs, they are likely to do all this AND strengthen in DM too. David Albelda is the name cropping up quite regularly in the past couple of days. At least there is now talk of trying to get a DM in, almost any name mentioned would be an upgrade on Zokora.

One arranges the accommodation/mortgage for new signings, his information is normally very reliable. The probability is that the easy part (getting a bid accepted) is done, getting the players to agree to the move within our salary structure might be more of a challenge. MJ, on a side note, do you know if theres any truth in us hijacking Sunderlands Malbranque bid? I've only heard of Villa and Everton as alternative destinations for him. If the rumours that he (and Chimbonda) have been offered £80k pw by Sunderland are true, I think Newcastle, or anyone else for that matter, will be struggling to sign him.

One arranges the accommodation/mortgage for new signings, his information is normally very reliable. The probability is that the easy part (getting a bid accepted) is done, getting the players to agree to the move within our salary structure might be more of a challenge.

'apprantly' sounds like the usual ITK bullshit was actually told by a mate who is in moscow,been on russian tv,personally i hope it is ITK bullshit. Russian radio and TV were reporting 23m (£18.2m) bid accepted. Would be a good replacement for Keane but ITK's seem to be saying we have bid 22m and it wasn't accepted. Two ITK's are now saying a (revised?) bid for Arshavin has been accepted. Maybe the Russian media were right all along? Also being said that bids for Pavlychenko and Milito have been accepted.

Fulham bid £10.75m for Andy Johnson.......................

Barca have made a final bid of €27m (£21.4m) for Berbatov. Levy trying to renegotiate the add-on clauses for Dos Santos to make it happen. He will do almost anything to make sure Berbatov doesn't end up at Old Trafford.

'apprantly' sounds like the usual ITK bullshit was actually told by a mate who is in moscow,been on russian tv,personally i hope it is ITK bullshit. Russian radio and TV were reporting €23m (£18.2m) bid accepted. Would be a good replacement for Keane but ITK's seem to be saying we have bid €22m and it wasn't accepted.

Agreed. Spurs are being too hasty in shipping him out imho, he just needs experience in the Premier League. A season long loan would have been better.

he does it every f***ing time! and £2.5m for carrick??? is he pissed? (i take it he's talking pre-spuds, but still, thats a random mention) That's straight up. Carrick was waiting for a bid from Arsenal, never came, Pompey offered £2.5m. Spurs gazumped them with a bid of £3m.

And still no defensive MF other than Zokora who scarcely deserves the title.

Arshavin for Keane I presume, Diego Milito to replace Defoe, Roman Pavyluchenko to replace Berbatov, Diego Capel to replace Malbranque and David Bentley as an upgrade on Lennon. They're the names being mentioned the most, I would think we would get 3 of those at best. Fernando Meira is being rumoured to be opting for Spurs ahead of Galatasaray and still no names at all for a DM

Zenit confirm Spurs are in for Arshavin http://sport.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Football/2008/07/21/Premier-League-Zenit-on-Spurs-contact/ Zenit St Petersburg have claimed they are in discussions with Tottenham Hotspur regarding a deal for Russia star Andrei Arshavin, but a disagreement over a valuation for the playmaker has led to a stalemate at present. Arshavin has been the name on everyone’s lips during the summer transfer window and although he has made clear his preference is to join Barcelona, a move to England certainly looks possible for the 27-year-old. Chelsea and Arsenal were reported to be leading the chase for the player who impressed so vividly at Euro 2008 but the interest from the two Champions League contenders has never been formally confirmed. Zenit official Konstantin Sarsaniya has now revealed that Tottenham have been in contact though, with Juande Ramos looking to prepare for the possible departures of Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov. “With Tottenham we have contacts,” Sarsaniya told the Russian press. “This English club is really interested in acquiring Andrei but, as I understand, €27 million (£21.5 million) is too high a price for them. “For Spurs it is unacceptable. Tottenham are ready to pay in the region of €20 million (£15.9 million) for Arshavin.” However, Sarsaniya has denied speculation linking Manchester City with the playmaker, stating: “I have not heard of this.” Tottenham have been reported to hold an interest in Arshavin in the English press in recent days but a possible move to White Hart Lane was first mooted as long ago as January by his agent Pavel Andreev.

Tavernes 0 Spurs 8 (Lennon, Pekhart 2, Dos Santos 2, O'Hara 2 Malbranque (before he flew home) C.D. Denia 2 Spurs 4 (Taarabt, Jenas, Bent and an og)

All the talk is that Keane joins Liverpool this weekend for £18m. Bent going nowhere. Pavlychenko and/or Milito most likely to be incoming. Not a solid DM in sight.......sigh.

It's a done deal barring late changes of heart, apparently. Is that you Nicko? Nicko got a lot right. The 3 Spurs players on the plane home to be jogged on are Tainio, Malbranque and Chimbonda. Keane has thrown a massive strop because he can see his dream move hitting the rocks, Berbatov isn't much happier either. Keane's move probably will happen but not anytime soon by the sounds of it. Berbatov's I'm not so sure about. Gill offered £25m, take it or leave it, Levy said we'll leave it. Up to Utd to come back now.

I'd agree with that. Before the influx of foreign superstars, he was at the top of the list of players I would have loved to have seen in a Spurs shirt. Surprised you didnt sign him,once we had declared our intentions tbh. With comments like that, it's a fair bet that you never saw him live. If you had, you might have made a more meaningful contribution. Newcastle could do with someone of Green's ability now.

Jamie O'Hara may be going on a season long loan to Fulham. http://www.fulham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=114937

I'd agree with that. Before the influx of foreign superstars, he was at the top of the list of players I would have loved to have seen in a Spurs shirt.

Scolari is has made a gaff by revealing his chat with Fat Frank...I think they're being silly trying to hang onto him, it's quite clear he wants to leave. Read yesterday that he's been 'negotiating' with Chelsea for 2 years about renewing his contract. If he wanted to stay he'd have signed a long time ago imo. He wants to finish his career there. Chelsea think that career is shorter than he does. He's after 5 years, they're offering 4. That's the only stalling point. He does want to stay at Chelsea. That's the only sticking point? Didn't know that tbh. Well, it's the main one. He's agreed the salary and he's said he wants to stay. He just wants a longer contract than Chelsea are offering. To be honest if I were him (if only ) I'd go to Italy and play for a couple of years. But he'll be 35 at the end of his contract, Chelsea won't pay £140k pw to a 35 year old. I think it's Lampard's way of engineering a move while still saying to the fans 'I don't want to go, I love Chelsea'. But with Kenyon now saying they will hold him to his contract and he can go on a Bosman after that, the ball is back in Lampard's court.

I think SWP will go to Pompey. 'Arry's putting together an impressive squad irrespective of whether SWP goes there or not.

Tribunal decide that Spurs should pay Palace £700k rising to £1.25m for John Bostock. Jordan's not happy, he wanted £2m rising to £4.5m ‘For a tribunal to reward a purportedly bigger football club in Tottenham to take one of the most gifted young English players in the country for a sum of £700,000 is nothing short of scandalous,’ said Jordan, who sent manager Neil Warnock and chief executive Phil Alexander to the meeting at Ar5ena1’s Emirates Stadium. ‘You get players like Aaron Ramsey, who has gone for £5m from Cardiff to Ar5ena1 because that is the UK transfer market. ‘The tribunal, in my view, are supposed to reflect the conditions of the transfer market place. And they came up with a figure of £700,000 for a player who has captained his country at Under 17 level, who is perceived to be one of the best youngsters in the country and is being chased by Barcelona, Ar5ena1, Manchester United and Chelsea. ‘We had a £900,000 offer from Chelsea when he was 14 which we turned down. It’s beyond me and it makes me question why I bother with football. ‘I have an academy who have produced a world-class footballer for someone else and got paid two-and-sixpence for it. We weren’t unrealistic - we didn’t try to be clever and put a value of £5m on the player. 'We simply said this is what the player is worth, these are the reasons why he is worth it and all we wanted was a fair and equitable outcome.’ In the wake of England’s failure to qualify for Euro 2008, Jordan questioned the wisdom of tribunals allowing elite clubs to poach young talent for knockdown fees only to put them in their reserves. He said: ‘We have a national team who can’t qualify for the European Championship and we have a shortage of players of the required standard to compete in world football. 'One of the reasons the Premier League is the best in the world is because it is made up of 50 per cent foreigners. So when big clubs buy our own younger players and don’t use them, how the hell does that benefit the national game? ‘I don’t feel it sends out a good message to people who pump millions into youth development. A significant amount of money we could have got from the disposal of John Bostock would have been ploughed back into youth development. 'And what’s going to happen to our young players when they are stockpiled in the butter mountains of the Tottenhams and Chelseas of this world?’ Bostock became the youngest player to pull on a Palace shirt when he made his first-team debut against Watford at 15 years 287 days last October. And Jordan insisted the player’s future would have been better served if he had continued his development in Palace’s first team rather than opting for a place in Tottenham’s reserves. ‘The most disappointing thing is we had a player we nourished and cherished for nine years,’ he said. ‘He’s a player who cited his desire to be the youngest ever to play for Palace, which he achieved, and to be the youngest captain of Palace. ‘He was looked after for a long time with bespoke training specifically for his development. It was John Bostock’s year next season at Palace and we weren’t going to sign central midfielders because we wanted to clear a path for him. ‘He’d have got into our team this year and established himself as a first-team player at a big club. I’m not so sure that’s going to happen for him now.'