Tottenham Set for Shock £25m January Bid from Barcelona for Defoe
by Mr Neutral on November 30th, 2009 400 words | 12 commentsCatalan giants eye up White Hart Lane goal machine.
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Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola is reportedly eyeing up a move for Jermain Defoe to bolster his strike force in January.Defoe has been in scintillating form for Spurs this season and has caught the attention of the Barcelona manager.
The Spurs striker is currently the Premier League’s joint top scorer with 11 goals, and bagged an astonishing five goals against Wigan earlier this month.
Since returning to White Hart Lane last January, Defoe has continued to improve and on current form could be considered the best finisher in the Premier League.
It is thought that only a huge offer in the region of £25m would persuade Harry Redknapp to part with Tottenham hit man.
However, it is unlikely Defoe would move again in the near future, fearing he may damage his chances of going to next summer’s World Cup in South Africa. (Give Me Football – Official PFA Website)
There is no doubting the natural instinctive talent that Jermain Defoe possesses and his recent five goal glut against Wigan merely displayed what a great many already know, and that is that the England international just can’t stop scoring. Since his return to White Hart Lane from Pompey the nippy striker has been in fine form and whilst it’s not surprising that some of the European elite are interested in the former West Ham man, I have to say I was surprised to see Barcelona in the frame for the services of the 27 year old.
Pepe Guardiola has some of the finest attacking talent in world football at his disposal and the switching of Samuel Eto’o for Zlatan Ibrahimovic has only increased the potential in the front line at the Nou Camp outfit. After Sunday’s win over arch rivals Real Madrid the Catalan side finds itself at the top of the La Liga with a very healthy 30 goals from their first 12 games and at present have strikers in two of the top three spots in the goalscoring charts, so why a move for Defoe?
Given the fact that Harry Redknapp is clearly a huge admirer of the player he at first honed at West Ham and then purchased whilst at Portsmouth I sincerely doubt whether he would allow the Beckon boy to leave at any price.
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anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Ha,ha,ha….sorry,can’t …stop…ha,ha,ha….myself..oh dear…I know you’re only reporting what you hear but absoloutly no way on earh is this going to happen..Ha,ha,ha…here I go again,ha,ha,ha,
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
as much as we love you barca we are not going to let the most lethal finisher in the league go not unless you give us 100 mil and messi! see it aint going to happen.COYS
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
They don’t need or want him. We cannot afford to lose him. I think this story should shrivel and die very quickly.
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
kieron
once again barca trying to take players from the premier league seriously if its not barca its real , how many players do these teams want barca play 4 3 3 with one striker and how many strikers do they have, if a english team did what barca and real do you know the idiots running the show would transfer ban us
anonymous - November 30th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
as a liverpool fan this is funny they wont buy Defoe redknapp but i don’t care if he did spurs are annoyingly good this year
anonymous - December 1st, 2009 at 4:05 am
defoe going to barcelona… I just dont see it happening. not many english people go to nou camp or bernabeu (except beckham) because the english fùcking suck at playing football ok beckham only scored 16 goals at bernabeu real madrid took his talent and shriveld beckham up to a point where he just plain sucked. fùck barcelona and madrid they both are terrible teams, defoe transfer to barca will never fùcking happen lionel messi likes sucking puyol’s d i c k.
kermit - December 1st, 2009 at 5:43 am
why not lineker did
anonymous - December 1st, 2009 at 10:08 am
Actually Mcmanhan Owen Woodgate not just beckham
anonymous - December 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am
How r Ireland gonna become a 33rd team, how do they see this working
anonymous - December 1st, 2009 at 3:57 pm
liverpool should have gotten him instead of keane
anonymous - December 1st, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Then what about Henry?
anonymous - December 1st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Anon 9:25 – until Barca bought Ibra this summer their record purchase ever was something like 25 mil for Overmars a decade ago – hardly a big spending club.
The team that started El Classico last weeeknd cost less than Real paid for Ronaldo on his own!
Barca, unlike Madrid, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man U, Liverpool etc etc prefer to build theior own team – 6 or 7 of their first team came up through their youth academy.