Pavlyuchenko To Sign For Spurs

Spartak Moscow striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has announced that he is set to join Tottenham Hotspur.

The 26-year-old appeared for Guus Hiddink’s Russian team in Euro 2008 in the summer, and finished as the team’s top scorer with 3 goals, Read more

Weekly Football Round-Up: 3rd August 2008

Welcome to the Sunday football summary! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week, and are not too upset that the weekend is almost over.

With the pleasantries over, let’s get to the action…….

Weekly Transfer Updates

In our first Weekly Football Round-Up we mentioned Read more

Tottenham Sign Bentley, Pavlyuchenko and Arshavin Next?

David Bentley has completed his transfer to North London, with a £15million move to Tottenham Hotspur that could rise to £17million. He has put pen to paper on a 6-year contract.

The 23-year-old former Arsenal winger made it clear to new Blackburn manager Paul Ince that he wanted to leave Ewood Park, and Tottenham was always his first choice. Despite Blackburn initially demanding £18million, the club have accepted that Bentley no longer wanted to play Read more

Robbie Keane Completes Liverpool Transfer

Tottenham striker Robbie Keane has completed his move to Liverpool for an initial fee of £19million that could rise to £20.3million.

Keane passed a medical at Anfield on Monday, before putting pen to paper on a 4-year deal reportedly worth £80,000 a week.

Tottenham have also agreed not to pursue their official complaint to the Premier League in relation to Liverpool’s pursuit of the player. Liverpool have apologised, and agreed to make a donation to the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation.

Spurs’ chairman Daniel Levy has revealed that Keane’s transfer was an ‘enforced’ deal with Liverpool’s illegal approach to the player, along with a transfer request from Keane himself.

Levy said on the club’s official website:

“I was incredibly disappointed Read more

Weekly Football Round-Up: 27th July 2008

Near the end of last season we started a weekend football round up, with a promise that we will continue the weekend summary in the forthcoming season.

Well, we are not ones for breaking promises. But, there is a small difference - every Sunday from this day on, we will summarise the weeks football action for you. Welcome to our first of many ‘CLDsport Weekly Football Round Ups’.

With transfer rumours still hitting the headlines, and supposedly Read more

Robbie Keane’s Transfer to Liverpool Imminent?

News reports suggest that Robbie Keane is set to sign for Liverpool ‘within the next 48 hours’ for a fee believed to be approximately £18million. Rafa Benitez has long admired the Spurs’ striker, and stated last week he hopes to sign him before the start of the season.

Keane has been at White Hart Lane for 6 seasons, and has scored 107 times in 253 appearances for the North London club.

Ironically, Keane almost joined Read more

Tottenham Interested In Arshavin

Latest reports suggest that Tottenham Hotspur are interested in replacing Dimitar Berbatov with Russia’s Euro 2008 star Andrei Arshavin.

Arshavin hit the headlines in June, after his two appearances for Russia against Sweden and the Netherlands - winning the man of the match award in both, and single-handedly turning Guus Hiddink’s team Read more

Saturday’s Premiership Roundup - 3rd May 2008

Well, what a time to start our brand new featured Saturday Premiership Roundup - the penultimate week of the season! Never fear though, we will continue where we finish next season.

This is our round-up of the Premiership action, all broken up into little bite size chunks for you. Aren’t we kind?! Read more