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[h=1]AVB weighs up shock move for £5m Deeney just a year after release from jail with Defoe set for exit[/h] By Chris Wheeler
PUBLISHED: 10:41 GMT, 13 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:39 GMT, 13 August 2013
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Troy Deeney has emerged as a shock £5million target for Tottenham. Spurs are weighing up a move for Watford’s powerful striker with Jermain Defoe set to follow Clint Dempsey out of White Hart Lane.
West Ham, who are among the bidders for Defoe, and Fulham are also showing a keen interest in the 25-year-old target man.
Up top: Deeney has emerged as a shock target with striking options wearing thin
Goal machine: Deeney celebrates after completing his hat-trick in the 6-1 win against AFC Bournemouth on Saturday
Deeney only a signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract at Watford in March, preventing one of the most prolific strikers in the Championship last season from walking away as a free agent this summer.
[h=3]CHEQUERED PAST[/h]Deeney was sentenced to 10 months in prison for his part in an attack outside a Birmingham nightclub in the early hours of February 29.
He served a third of the sentence between June and September 2012.
The former Walsall player, who moved to Vicarage Road for £500,000 three years ago, scored 20 goals despite missing the first month of the season following his release prison after serving a third of a 10-month sentence for affray.
He hit the injury-time winner that sent Watford through to the Play-off Final at Wembley, although Gianfranco Zola’s team eventually lost out to Crystal Palace for a place in the Premier League.
Deeney has continued his rich vein of scoring this season with four goals in his first two games, including a hat-trick in Saturday’s 6-1 win over Bournemouth.
PUBLISHED: 10:41 GMT, 13 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:39 GMT, 13 August 2013
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Troy Deeney has emerged as a shock £5million target for Tottenham. Spurs are weighing up a move for Watford’s powerful striker with Jermain Defoe set to follow Clint Dempsey out of White Hart Lane.
West Ham, who are among the bidders for Defoe, and Fulham are also showing a keen interest in the 25-year-old target man.


Deeney only a signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract at Watford in March, preventing one of the most prolific strikers in the Championship last season from walking away as a free agent this summer.
[h=3]CHEQUERED PAST[/h]Deeney was sentenced to 10 months in prison for his part in an attack outside a Birmingham nightclub in the early hours of February 29.
He served a third of the sentence between June and September 2012.
The former Walsall player, who moved to Vicarage Road for £500,000 three years ago, scored 20 goals despite missing the first month of the season following his release prison after serving a third of a 10-month sentence for affray.
He hit the injury-time winner that sent Watford through to the Play-off Final at Wembley, although Gianfranco Zola’s team eventually lost out to Crystal Palace for a place in the Premier League.
Deeney has continued his rich vein of scoring this season with four goals in his first two games, including a hat-trick in Saturday’s 6-1 win over Bournemouth.