Spurs row could harm midfielder deal


Spurs' row with nasty old Porto could mean any potential new deal for Joao Moutinho may be over after being so close to landing the elusive player on transfer window deadline day.
Spurs' row with nasty old Porto could mean any potential new deal for Joao Moutinho may be over after being so close to landing the elusive player on transfer window deadline day.
The week preceding the transfer deadline provides journalists with an opportunity to ramp up the hype machine to 11 and roll out a barrage of transfer rumours across all different types of media. The day itself is something to behold, too, with Sky Sports giving it the Hollywood treatment.
News of Manchester City agreeing a deal for Everton's Jack Rodwell this Sunday lunchtime was a bit of a reasonable surprise, rather like finding a fiver from behind the sofa, or opening the lid on your work lunch-box to find corned-beef sandwiches, nobody expected it but it was good all the same.
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Round-up of transfer gossip for Friday 10th August
It's been a pretty slow summer up in the business rooms of the Stadium of Light in Sunderland as they have only managed to get Carlos Cuellar despite it looking back in April that boss Martin O'Neill was limbering up for a busy summer of squad improvement.
They may be a Championship club now, but it hasn't stopped this pack of Wolves from getting angry, barking loudly and be baying for blood at any hint of a club trying to snatch one of its cubs.
Not only has the Premier League been put on red alert by Marcelo Bielsa's latest comments about his Bilbao striker Fernando Llorente, but the sprinklers are pouring down from the ceiling and the alarms are pounding as the league's top clubs hit a state of emergency in the chase for one of Spanish football's top attacking talents.
Transfer gossip round-up for Wednesday 8th August
Spurs defender Younes Kaboul sees no qualms with the forthcoming life without the departed Harry Redknapp as he waxes lyrical of the good times he is predicting for himself in his nearest North London future.
Money bags Nottingham Forest are set to continue their summer transfer business with a double dip into the yellow half of East Anglia for a couple of Norwich's Canaries.
Transfer round-up for Tuesday 7th August
Jermaine Pennant may be set to take his own unique back-log of trivial crimes to Wigan in what could be one of the summer's not-so high profile moves.
Like a fashionable female hitting the Jimmy Choo, Dior and Prada shops of the high street, Chelsea have been extremely busy with their bank acount down in the transfer market as a flurry has seen the likes of Eden Hazard, Oscar, Kevin De Bruyne and Marko Marin for a total of £70 million plus.
Round-up of the transfer gossip for Monday 6th August