Has the Gareth Barry saga reached a conclusion?
Today’s gossip, rumours and damned lies
The Mirror are reporting that Liverpool are finally prepared to pay Aston Villa £18 million. Further proof arrived this morning when a Kiss 100 DJ revealed that he saw Barry in a nightclub this weekend and the deal will go through on Wednesday. Concrete evidence, folks.
David Villa to Tottenham
While Liverpool lift up the couch cushions to count pennies, Spurs are ready to take their summer spending over the £50 million mark by bring in Villa for £32 million and attempting to snare Man City defender Vedran Corluka for £9.5 million. Berbatov may make way to raise the funds.
The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: A deceptively shrewd summer for Spurs, with their net spend currently about £10 million, despite the big signings
Robinho latest
With no sign of progress, it was decided that Chelsea new boy Deco should coo over how amazing the Brazilian is and how they should be as one. “He’s got incredible skill, has magic in his feet and is capable of anything on a football pitch. His quality is amazing. It would be great if he joined us and he’d be made very welcome here,” the Portuguese said.
The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: Normally such actions would warrant criticism but it’s hard to sympathise with Real Madrid.
Everyone still wants Nicky Shorey
It looked like Portsmouth were going to have their wicked way with the Reading left-back but Aston Villa and Sunderland have both rode in on horseback to stake their claim for the two-time England defender.
The Spoiler Truth-o-meter: Pompey are still very much the favourites
3 responses so far
Hmmm // August 5, 2008 at 11:28 am
just out of interest, where’d you get the net spend of £10mil from for spurs? in: modric, dos santos, bentley, bostock, gomes; out: keane, malbranque, robinson, tainio, chimbonda… just curious as a lot of these are undisclosed?
Fake Kop Boss // August 5, 2008 at 1:02 pm
We tried to offer Stevie Finnan as part of the deal but O’Neill told us he didn’t want our “Sloppy seconds.”
Tottenham eye up another striker from La Liga | The Spoiler // January 12, 2012 at 4:45 pm
[...] Yesterday, David Villa was supposed to be ushered into White Hart Lane for a cool £32 million, but today all the talk is about Dean Ashton and how they won’t pay West Ham’s £18 million asking price (quite right, too). Fear not though, Spurs fans, Juande Ramos has now decided Atletico Madrid’s Diego Forlan is the right man for the job, according to the journos fishing for a story experts at The Mirror… [...]
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