Tottenham fuming mad over Liverpool and Man United’s transfer tactics: Could a formal complaint really help?
by offsidetrap on July 21st, 2008
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Well it looks like the striker ambush by Manchester United and Liverpool on Tottenham stars Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane has finally hit the boiling point. After watching Sir Alex and Rafa claim each striker for their own over the last month, the North London club has finally come to their last straw in making sure Liverpool and Man United get what’s coming to them.
Tottenham Hostpur have handed the Premier League a dossier of evidence from the past year to back up their complaint about Manchester United’s pursuit of Dimitar Berbatov.
Sir Alex Ferguson has questioned the validity of comments attributed to him last week regarding the Bulgaria striker but that is understood to be only one of Spurs’ concerns from over the past 12 months. The north London club have been angered by United and Liverpool, who are interested in Robbie Keane, and the two clubs will respond to the complaints before it is decided whether they will face charges.
The Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has accepted that Berbatov and Keane want to leave White Hart Lane but there is likely to be a fall-out from the transfers if they go through, in the light of Levy’s accusations of “sheer arrogance” and “hypocrisy” levelled at the United manager. (Guardian)
While nobody can be certain if either club broke any rules over the last year, a lot can still be said for how each manager and club has gone about discussing each player in the media. If Spurs indeed have documents with legitimate evidence against Man United and Liverpool, then you can only hope each club gets hammered every possible way. However, one has to wonder if this is just a final last ditch effort by Tottenham to keep everyone away from their fantastic pair.
Does Tottenham really have serious beef with Liverpool and Man United over this whole transfer saga?
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Tagged Under: Liverpool FC, Manchester United, Premier League, rumours, tottenham
m.coys - July 21st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
oh look spurs are looking a bit dangerous, lets stick our oar in and balls it all up .
DublinYid - July 21st, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Well said ! TV rights will keep the two faced bastards in good stead. All foreign purchases from next season should not have to sign a contract but have their passport taken from them on arrival
Contracts my arse !
DublinYid - July 21st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I think it’s more a preemptive strike for the future than anything else. We are resigned to losing both of them and probably Bent as well, and Ramos has been planning for their replacements for some time. I have a sneaky suspicion that this is what he wanted all along anyway. Certainly with Berbatov who he can’t stomach because of his negativity on and off the pitch.
The top 4 teams have been getting away with tabloid tapping up for ages. I think Levy believes we are about to shake up their monopoly on the game and is sending a message for down the road. Leave our players alone or else.
Scorpion - July 21st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Sorry Dublinyid, I forgot to change the name that always seems to get left behind from the last poster????
joneser - July 21st, 2008 at 9:37 pm
sod all will happen the premier league are to shit scared of the so called top 4 just look at what happened when we got a dose of the shits on the last day of the season when the chef exec was at the gooners game and couldn’t be arsed to make it a fair fight and helped that load of shit qualify for the champs league. Then you only have to look at Chelsea’s blatant tapping up of frank Arnasen and Ashly Cole alright we took a pay off but thats besides the point and in the Cole fiasco they got fined some silly pittance that means sod all to their deep pocketed chairman so what’s the bloody point in complaining but it is about time someone has the brass bollocks to have a go
0500Silva - July 21st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I’m not so sure about Berba but I recogn Spurs don’t mind selling Keane at all….
Indyfan - July 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Will filing a formal complaint help? Of course it will. It must be done otherwise people like Ferguson will continue to flaunt the rules. The FA should realize that there is a groundswell of dislike and contempt for the way the top four clubs are allowed to hold sway over the rest of the PL. Time to start doing something meaningful about it.
S - July 21st, 2008 at 11:51 pm
After Spurs shafted Palace regarding John Bostock, this is surely the height of hypocracy. Spurs in turn are being shafted by bigger clubs. Oh, dear. How sad. Who cares?
ZAP Wilderbeest - July 22nd, 2008 at 12:01 am
Ho
Anonymous - July 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 am
Well said, S.
Gopher1882 - July 22nd, 2008 at 6:49 am
Why do all these people think we screwed Palace over. The football league made the decision. We originally offered more than we ended up paying!!!
As for Fergie and Benitez we all know nothing will happen and Levy is just trying to prove a point to keep Spurs fans from thinking he ust gave up without a fight. Hope Ramos holds off selling though until we have what he believes to be suitable replacements.
southern spur - July 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 am
Same old moaning from bitter palace fans. how did spurs shaft you exactly? the final outcome had nothing to do with us it was decided in court after your knob head chairman rejected a good offer so read up and do your research before you start talking shit.
stevey - July 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
The difference between our dealings and those of utd and liverpool is that although spurs might have looked bad they still actually worked within the rules of the premier league. Bored of palace fans just because the only good player you have ever owned wanted out as quick as possible
PREM - July 22nd, 2008 at 9:45 am
Spurs need to realise and acknowledge when they are dealing with the heavy hitters. The Top 4 clubs are bigger , more powerful and better than middle section Spurs , thus Spurs will be treated like a cheap whore and used as such as and when the Top 4 see fit. Accept your position in the order of things spuds as you clearly look embarassing trying to punch above your 10th place mid table weightclass.
Though I admit , your players were definately sabotaged by the establishment when you missed out on 4th place 2 years ago. That is clearly evident.
YSB - July 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Spurs are linked with more players than anyone else in the tabloids yet they throw a hissy fit when the tables are turned.
Fergie didn’t mention spurs or Berbatov – your idiot chairman got fooled by the Sun.
cry me a river yidd scum - July 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 am
liverpool and united haven’t broken the rules they put transfer offers in for players , to brake the rules ur club have to have direct contact with the player
JPF - July 22nd, 2008 at 11:22 am
It just chucking bricks from a glass house. When Berbs signed for Spurs, he admitted that Spurs had been talking to him for 12 months, despite Leverkusen saying that he wasn’t for sale. And people from Spurs were spotted leaving Ramos’s hotel about 2 days after being refused permission to speak to him by Seville, it’s just laughable hypocrisy, So Levy can just fuck right off.
Jon - July 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Just to clarify a couple of things for the “hard of thinking” and the northerners.
Man U and Liverpool are in breach of PREMIER LEAGUE rules. “Cry Me A River” you are an idiot. The rule clearly states ‘Directly or indirectly - including via the press’ - so there you are wrong.
Even if Spurs did tap up Bostock (which they didn’t as he wasn’t under contract) Ramos and Berbatov, the rules that have been broken are PREMIER LEAGUE rules. Last time I checked none of those were within the premier league.
If you want to mess with Spurs, you must realise that you are dealing with a very well run club (praised more than any other by Deloitte) who happen to have the finest legal team in the League.
Oh, and finally, Sir Alex did mention Berbatov in name and on more than one occassion.
I would hope you get points deductions, but that would help Chelsea and Arsenal!
JPF - July 22nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Jon - So what your whole argument is, if i’m understanding this, is that it’s ok to tap up players/managers, as long as they don’t play for other Premiership clubs? And where do you get ‘finest legal team in the League’ from? Is their a league or cup format for this? When where they crowned ‘the finest’? All top clubs have top legal depts, it comes from having lots of money to employ the best. ‘If you want to mess with Spurs’, what are you? 12? Is Spurs dad bigger than Manchester Uniteds dad? You big, big twat. Tapping up is tapping up, you’ve done it, we’ve done it, everyones done it. Get off your moral high horse.
Carvetian - July 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
So does this mean a PL manager can no longer publicly state that they admire a PL player, if said player doesn’t already play for them? Can a manager not suggest - when questioned by the media - that a certain player would be a good addition to their team?
‘Arry Redknapp has just been quoted as saying something along the lines of, “SWP, his dad and myself all think a move to Pompey would be best for him.” and, “Kaboul wants to come here but I heard he is going to Villa. ” Are we to expect the same vitriol towards Redknapp that Fergie and Rafa received?? The most obvious point to all this is that Fergie is a hypocrite. Well, fuck me, it’s hardly headline news is it??! What may be a surprise is that Spurs are showing themselves up to be hypocrites, too. And only blind and biased spurs fans would disagree with that.
Dave - July 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I hope Berba and Keane are sold to a foreighn clubs. We should take a loss on them to spite the mancs and those pikey scoucers. They both have huge debt, and it wont be long until Platini gets his wish, and the tables will turn. I hope the Glazers and Hicks robs them blind, sorry I forgot they already have lol.
southern spur - July 22nd, 2008 at 2:03 pm
keane will probably end up at liverpool dispite his new contract saying he’s ours until 2012 but after all of this crap i dont think theres a chance in hell berba will be allowed a move to utd. spurs will probably just offer him to barca at a knock down price
LFC TV - July 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
No two men have done more for Liverpool Football Club than Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley but which of them can lay claim to being our greatest ever manager? On The Great Debate on LFC TV, you can decide.
At 9pm on Thursday July 31, LFC TV will be hosting only the second ever Great Debate show, where we will pose the question, ‘Shankly or Paisley - Who was Liverpool’s greatest ever manager?’
Was Shankly’s achievement in transforming Anfield, the home of a team going nowhere fast when he arrived in 1959, into ‘a bastion of invincibility’ by the time he left in 1974, enough to earn him the title of Liverpool’s greatest ever manager?
Or does that honour have to go to the man who followed him into the Anfield hot seat? Does Paisley’s incredible trophy haul – including six league titles and three European Cups – place him above the man he loyally assisted in the Anfield Boot Room?
For years, Paisley has been English football’s most successful ever boss but, amazingly, that title is no guarantee supporters will vote him Liverpool’s greatest manager on July 31.
Shankly’s unique vision, incredible rapport with the supporters and socialist outlook on both life and football captured the imagination of Liverpool fans everywhere and even today, his name is still the most revered in Anfield history. To many of his disciples, Bill Shankly was more than a manager – he was, and still is, an icon of football and when it came to talking the talk, only Muhammad Ali could rival him.
Bob Paisley certainly never tried to match the Scot’s charisma – he let his players do the talking for him on the pitch and if you believe you can only judge a football man on the number of trophies he’s won, Paisley has to be the greatest.
Shankly won seven major trophies in 15 years; Paisley captured a staggering 14 major trophies in just nine – and that’s not to mention 5 Charity Shield triumphs and six Manger of the Year awards!
So, who is it to be? By 11pm on July 31, we hope you, the supporters, will be able to provide the answer.
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Visitors to the website will be able cast their vote up until 10.50pm, while all fans will be welcome to call up the show and debate the subject with our two special guests, Ian St John and Phil Neal, two men who owe many of their greatest achievements in life to Bill and Bob.
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jamie - July 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
pot calling the kettle black, what about their pursuit of Bostock, fucking hypocrytes :@
Carvetian - July 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Dave - it wont be long until Platini gets his wish, and the tables will turn. ..
And how exactly will the re-building of the Spurs squad fit into this? Somehow i can’t see Ramos paying the ‘english price for english players’ very long. Especially if Bentley turns out to be an expensive, homegrown flop.
southern spur - July 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
jamie - your a fucking idiot like all palace fans! do your bloody research before posting shite! how many times does it have to be said, spurs put in an offer that jordan rejected but due to the players age it went to court and spurs had no say on the final price, all done within the law u dumbass
chaz - July 22nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Throw the book at scum utd
A Librarian - July 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Over the last year I have posted numerous comments re the blatant attempts by Man Utd apostles to unsettle Berbatov. It was more apparent last season as this pre-season they are between a rock and a hard place due to their position over Real Madrid and Ronaldo. I am sure no one in the top strata at Man Utd will be found to be connected but certainly the overwhelming number of stories re Berbatob and Man Utd that have been planted would make a political “spin doctor” green with professional envy. Given that the media do not check their sources and the electronic media is virtually unregulated the scene is set for whatever campaign a club likes to orchestrate. As to the authorities, well they will have to ask SAF what they should do first.
alan - July 22nd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
lets face it, looks like we are becoming a bottom half of the table team. I was a mug to renew season ticket.
CRY ME A RIVER SPURS SCUM - July 22nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
southern spur, what about the way use tapped up ramos? HYPOCRITE
Jon - July 22nd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
alan, you must be a west ham fan. Face it, you are lucky to be bottom half.
JPF. Look at the legal track records for each club in the league. Perhaps you are not old enough to remember “financial irregularities” at spurs.
Name calling makes you look retarded by the way.
southern spur - July 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
CRY ME A RIVER SPURS SCUM - what are u basing that on!? did spurs ever come out and say they were after him before he signed? no! all you have to go on is the word of a sour team who lost one of the best managers in the world and came up with no proof so eat that u nonce
jamie - July 25th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
“jamie - your a fucking idiot like all palace fans! do your bloody research before posting shite! how many times does it have to be said, spurs put in an offer that jordan rejected but due to the players age it went to court and spurs had no say on the final price, all done within the law u dumbass”
You lot couldve said no, they have rejected it, dont take it to court, leave it. Did you? NO! Give the yids £350k for each player, totalling £700k.
And we palace fans are a smart, educated bunch thank you very much