Russian club prepared to meet for showdown talk over striker’s move to Tottenham: Will Juande ever get his man?
by offsidetrap on August 5th, 2008
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Tottenham transfer target, Andrei Arshavin, has been on Juande Ramos’ list for some time now. Ever since the Russian striker made a splash at Euro 2008, the current Zenit man has been in a furious battle with his current club to let him leave for the Premier League this summer. After going at it in the papers for the past month, Arshavin appears to be getting what he’s been asking for all along: a showdown meeting with Zenit’s president.
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Zenit St Petersburg president Alexander Dukov will meet the agent of Andrei Arshavin in Madrid in a bid to crack the final stage of the Russian striker’s move to White Hart Lane.
Arshavin is keen to move as soon as possible but Zenit have dragged their heels, to the fury of Spurs, who are threatening to look elsewhere.
Bankrolled by Dukov’s millions, Zenit are in mid-season and do not need the money so they do not share the urgency of Tottenham or Arshavin, who has already rejected the offer of a new five-year deal from the Russian champions worth £75,000-a-week after tax. (Daily Mail)
Arshavin could be in for the biggest battle of his life against his current employer. It appears the club doesn’t need the money from Tottenham, so that takes away the bribe factor. It also looks like they have no reservations of giving their star striker away for anything less than top dollar. After Spurs’ recent move for David Bentley, you have to wonder if the club still has the funds to splash out for a striker of Arshavin’s quality. With Berbatov and Bent still at the club, do Tottenham supporters still consider the Russian striker a top priority before the transfer deadline?
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jimmy neutron - August 5th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
yes
Spurlz - August 5th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
He would be a great signing. The perfect candidate to wear the no 10 jersey IMO.
wampeng - August 5th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
A friend within the club has confirmed that Levy has gone over to Madrid today with the intention of completing the transfer. A medical is expected on Thursday with Arsharvin being announced before the Roma game on Saturday.
Adam - August 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
If Juande rates Arshavin this highly then he will be worth having. Don’t question the guy….
The real issue is the defence.
Although Spurs seem to be able to have learnt over pre-season the art of defending as a group a little better, cover is needed in the middle and needed badly.
Links with Corluka are good signs and Juande must see him as a centre back as he is too slow for right back in our new system especially in getting forward and getting forward often.
Lets see some Centre backs joining with experience as all we all know Woodgate or King injury means bye bye Champions Lg without question!
Come on guys which Centre backs do you want too sign?
brian - August 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
WAMPENG — why would Levy go to Madrid when Arshavin and Zenit are in Russia? The game against Roma is Sunday not Saturday - so how can we value “your facts”???
yid army - August 5th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
my friend has a friend who is friends with a friend of a friend who has a friend in the club and he said to his friend who told his friend who told his friend who told his friend who told his friend who told his friend and he told me, but i can’t tell anyone else cos there not my friends.
sorry
Alfieconnman - August 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
My confidence in both Ramos and Levy has grown considerably over the past months and we must assume that they are aware of the remaining signings that are needed and are taking the appropriate action to address the situation. I would love to see Arshavin in a Spurs shirt and feel that he would turn out to be a revelation and far better that Keane. However it is obvious that Levy will not be held to ransom over the price so we must just be patient and keep the faith.
yid army 1 - August 5th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
yid army , i think i know who that friend is ! is your friend the friend of my friend who knew the friend of a friend before that friend wasnt friends with the friend any more because of the bollocks he was coming out with?
HarlowYid - August 5th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
WAMPENG, amazing bit of ITK lmao Birthday List: atlas
ben - August 5th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Dunne would be a quality signing
Arshavin would be good - Villa better
Reckon the club should issue an ultimatum to Berba. Woudl love him to stay but surely we need time for a coningentcey if not!!
spurster sy - August 5th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
He’s a great player and would fit in well with the new look spurs. All it takes is for berba to leave or bent to get injured and were left with dos santos who’s a great player but he doesn’t need that sort of preassure at this stage in his career. So yes we need another stricker, him or villa would do nicely.
Basildon Yid - August 5th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Brian, read the article, Zenit owner is going to Madrid to meet with Arshavin’s Agent.
plamen - August 5th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
yes we need arshavin .dont forget hi is most popular player in russia.good deal anytime
RAY - August 5th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
ARSHAVIN IS A GREAT PLAYER, BUT I WOULD RATHER HAVE VILLA ANYTIME .HE IS WORLD CLASS PLAYER, AND WILL BE THE BEST STRIKER IN THE PL.
BP - August 5th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
ben, i agree that the club should lay down an ultimatum to berba so we have time to sign someone - tbh I think they have and that is exactly what we are trying to do. If Bent is going to be our main striker we will have no back up at all in that position if berba goes, Arshavin isnt an out and out striker so we will still need cover for Bent.
Plenty of rebuilding still to go I think. Juande isnt stupid he knows we need another CB too.
yid army - August 5th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
yid army 1, your right my friend that is him.
now we are friends my friend i can tell you what my friend told me but i can’t tell everyone else until we are all friends so are we all friends my friends??
Woody - August 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
villa would be better although havin arshavin isnt bad at all and i would still love to hav him
smokey - August 5th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
arshavin is world class,why do you thing zenit st petersberg won the uefa cup when no one had even heard of them before,check him out on youtube,i would rather arshavin than villa anyday,if we do sign arshavin then we could seriously mount a challange for the title,come on levy just pay wot they want,his worth twice wot u payed for bentley
yid army - August 5th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
smokey lay off the dope my friend!!!
Simon - August 5th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
hi everyone ! what i want to know is why havnt we heard anything at all about arshavin from the club or anyone within the club,wether it be denying the transfer rumours or approving the transfer rumours on arshavin.You hear from every other clubs officials in the premiership about transfers WHY NOT TOTTENHAM!!.
Spursio - August 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
spurs should replace keane with arshavin he is a perfect no10 replacement, Then force some sort of sale for berbatov to lure Villa before he goes to madrid, imagine the stike power, Bent,Arshavin,Villa three completely different types of striker, with modric santos bentley and jenas, we would be bagging goals left right and centre, even horizontally.
Moscowspur - August 5th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Arshavin is not an “out and out” striker. In fact, with Zenit he plays as a winger almost always and has done for ages. So, in terms of playing the number 10 spot, he would have absolutely no problem and I think would be far more effective in this role than as a true “striker”.
Indyfan - August 5th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Roll on the weekend and the end of all this idle uninformed speculation. If you want my completely uninformed guess, Barca will bid for Berba, Spurs will accept and get Arshavin; in order to pay for Berba, Barca will sell Manure Eto’o.
Spurt - August 5th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Still say Arshavin before Villa.
You can always find someone to put it in the net, but first you’ve got to get it to them.
rebrovsky - August 5th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
we have not replaced Keane yet, as far as I am concerned we would have bought Bently even if Keano had stayed, the Liverpool bid came out of Left field. Ramos thought it was christmas because Keano didn’t fit in with his planned style of play, but how could he tell the supporters he didn’t want him.
We will sell the incredible sulk to Barca/Manure, leaving us approx £50m to spend from the sale of our first choice strikeforce. I hope we will therefore spend £18m on Arshavin and £32m for Villa, net outlay £0.
We could also do with veluso, but whether levy would sanction this, I doubt. If he did, and corluka Ramos would be under enourmous pressure. Less than fifth would be a disaster and in my opinion, with that squad, we should be in the top three.
COYS
JD - August 6th, 2008 at 8:21 am
THIS GUY I BELIEVE IS THE PIECE OF THE RAMOS JIGSAW THAT MUST BE PURCHASED , HE IS THE BEST SUITED FOR OUR FAMOUS NUMBER FOUR / TEN SHIRT THAT CAN OPEN UP DEFENCES AND SHOOT AND LINK UP WITH ATTACKING FLAIR , MAN UTD HAVE ONE OR TWO OR THREE OR FOUR , CHELSEA HAVE ONE OR THREE , LIVERPOOL HAVE A FEW , THE ARSENAL HAVE A FEW , SPURS NEED THIS GUY BUT AT REASONABLE TRANSFER FEE NOT A MUGGING , AS I HAVE SAID PREVIOUSLY IF CHAIRMEN OR OWNER`S ARE INDEED FRIEND`S THROUGH THEIR ASSOCCASION`S LIKE THE ROTORY OR THE MASONIC SUGGEST LEVY ASK`S ABROMAVIC TO BROKER THE DEAL WITH THE RUSSIAN MAFIA OF ZENIT , ( JUST A SUGGESTION DO YOU THINK IT WOULD WORK ) !!!!!!!!!!!