Re: The 1060 pages and finally a striker summer transfer thread
Tottenham will attempt to splash up to £50million in a transfer window trolley dash.
Chairman Daniel Levy has made enquiries about more than 10 players with boss Andre Villas-Boas desperate to sign at least three new faces before the transfer window slams shut at 11pm on Friday.
Villas-Boas wants to sign two midfielders and a keeper.
He will also need another striker if Spurs can find a buyer for Jermain Defoe.
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Tottenham are in talks with Shakhtar Donetsk over *midfielder Willian and are primed to make another bid for Fulham star Moussa Dembele if Porto refuse to drop their £25m asking price for Portugal *international Joao Moutinho.
Chelsea’s Raul Meireles, Rennes’ Yann M’Vila and *Malaga’s Isco are back-up options who have been *watched and enquired about.
Rennes have announced that M’Vila, 22, has played his last game for them *paving the way for a move.
Goalkeepers Hugo Lloris of Lyon and Roma’s Maarten Stekelenburg are on the AVB hit-list. France international Lloris is the prime target and Spurs are willing to pay around £11m for him – £9m short of Lyon’s valuation.
Internacional rate Leandro Damiao highly at £25m, but an *acceptable bid for Defoe could see talks over the *Brazil striker accelerate again, while Villas-Boas has told Levy of his *interest in Daniel Sturridge – who he managed at Chelsea.
Much of Tottenham’s *business will be financed by sales.
Luka Modric fully expects to complete his £32m move to Real Madrid, while the club are still attempting to offload Michael Dawson and Tom *Huddlestone – despite the fact that their moves to QPR and Stoke have stalled.
But Hamburg are ready to play Levy and Spurs at their own game by making a take-it-or-leave it last-minute £8m bid for Rafael van der Vaart.
Villas-Boas says he expects Van der Vaart to stay at White Hart Lane, but Hamburg believe the player is desperate to return to Germany and will try to use that to their advantage. Hamburg hope they can force Levy’s hand by making a move for Van der Vaart late in the *window, knowing Spurs want money to bid for their targets
Tottenham’s ex-*director of football Frank Arnesen, now Hamburg’s sporting director, revealed Levy loves a last-minute deal, saying: “He needs that thrill.”
Levy’s approach to this transfer window is reminiscent of the last-minute shopping of Spurs’ north London rivals *Arsenal, who last year signed five new players in the final hours of the transfer window.
And Levy’s done it before.
He signed Van der Vaart on the final day of the 2010 *window and also pulled off deals to snap up Emmanuel Adebayor and Scott Parker at the end of *August last year.
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