Spurs to make £21m move for fantastic playmaker: Ramos has a plan!
by Mr Comfort on July 21st, 2008 273 words | 10 commentsMore news regarding just how Juande plans to spend the cash he is apparently destined to receive for his strike pairing. Will this target make up for losing the Bulgarian ace?
Tottenham are preparing for life after Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane by making a move for Euro 2008 star Andrei Arshavin.
They have opened talks with his club Zenit St Petersburg and are prepared to more for the playmaker who was one of the stars of this summer’s tournament in Austria and Switzerland if they can agree some middle ground with Zenit over the asking price.
Konstantin Sarsaniya, an official with the UEFA Cup winners, has confirmed that Tottenham have opened negotiations and said: ‘We have been in contact with Tottenham.
‘This English club is really interested in acquiring Andrei but our understanding is that €27 million (£21.5 million) is too high a price for them. For Spurs it is unacceptable. They are ready to pay approximately €20 million (£15.9 million) for Arshavin.’ (The Metro)
The source above seems confident that talks are already underway between representatives of the north London club and Zenit and, if that is the case, then I guess a move for the attacking midfielder could be a distinct possibility. Whilst the player wouldn’t obviously serve as a replacement for either Berbs or Keane, he would fill the role of a man behind the one-striker formation that Juande supposedly favours using. It was a formation he used to great effect with Kanoute at Sevilla, and perhaps he wishes to adopt this again at White Hart Lane? Do Spurs fans think that such a formation would suit the club?
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Dannufc - July 21st, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Knob off!
coys - July 21st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
read something else then dan
stoney - July 21st, 2008 at 8:27 pm
The boy is a bit special. And would be a superb replacement for keano. And he won’t go missing on a cold and rainy january night up north like so many foreign players do. The elements here are nothing compared to a russian winter.
YorkshireYid - July 21st, 2008 at 8:37 pm
i find it very interesting that spurs aren’t willing to pay more for arshavin than they did for modric. maybe on some level they think they’ll be undermining modric as the team’s playmaker. personally, i reckon they should stump up the monies – would be a top player at spurs i’m sure.
mecho - July 21st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
sdsdsd
Bob The Yid - July 21st, 2008 at 11:34 pm
how can he replace Keane when he is a midfielder
Chingford Spur - July 22nd, 2008 at 12:18 am
Agree with you there Bob – he’s no deep striker. He’s an out and out central midfielder – his bursting central runs from deep make him more comparable to Jenas rather than Keane, out of anyone in our current squad.
mrdaintz - July 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Arshavin is a deep lying striker as he has played there for russia and zenit all the time he plays behind a big man upfront for russia its pavlyuchenko or pogrebnyak and the latter at zenit and that is a fact as i have seen him play manytimes and would be a like for like replacement for the little irish tinker.Personally i would like to see spurs break the bank for this guy he is a true genius on the ball and a good finisher and to see him linking up with the midfield bursts of modric would be great just need to sign a big man that is used to playing the lone striker role to get the best out of these two player’s.
Scott T - July 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
big man on hos own in front of modric and arshavin?? oooo step up Mr Bent, this is your time now to really get back to doing what you were at charlton…..
we seem to be purchasing an adundance of misfielders tho…. jj, dz, hudd, mod, dos santos, lenny, capel and arshavin too??
joe dudley - July 22nd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
wow a team full midfielders and no strikers interesting we could end up on the end of a lot of 0-0 results by the sound of it if keane and berba are leaving bent shd stay and step up the plate a large hitman alongside him im a little surprised spurs havnt moved for andy johnson an old fashioned striker is just what spurs need with all that midfield talent at their disposal