Ramos Sacked, Redknapp Takes Over, and Spurs Win

Just your average weekend as a Tottenham Hotspur supporter. The manager, his assistant and the sporting director all get fired - and replaced - overnight, and the team then turn around and pick up their first Premiership win of the season.

Late on Saturday night Juande Ramos - approaching his 1-year anniversary at the club - was sacked by chairman Daniel Levy. It had become almost inevitable after the club’s poor start to the campaign, and the fan’s increasing frustration at team selection and tactics - along with the role of Damien Comolli as sporting director. Read more

Ramos “Worried” About Situation at Spurs

Spurs’ boss Juande Ramos has admitted he is “worried about the situation.” Speaking after Tottenham’s sixth league defeat, he said “At the moment it is terrible.”

Tottenham’s worst league start for years has left them at the foot of the table with just 2 points from 8 matches, and not a win in sight. Only one team in the history of the Premier League has managed to avoid relegation after being in the situation that Spurs find themselves in now (for those of you interested, it was Southampton in the 1998-99 season). Read more

Transfer Deadline: Robinho Joins MAN CITY, Berbatov Moves to United

The transfer deadline has finally passed, and the normal flurry of activity mixed with wild rumours, and fluttering hearts of football fans up and down the country has left us with the biggest shock in deadline day history…..

ROBINHO HAS JOINED MANCHESTER CITY!!!!

The Brazilian has been continuously linked with a move to Chelsea this summer, and the deal did look possible. But, with minutes to spare the Real Madrid midfielder has shocked us all and moved to City. Not one person predicted this move, including us here at CLDsport.

The fee is reported to be a British record £32.4million and Read more

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

Bentley To Sign For Spurs

As reported here, David Bentley looks set to sign for Tottenham Hotspur in a deal worth £18million. Reports suggest that the former Arsenal man could be a Spurs player by the weekend, following a medical on Wednesday.

Spurs have been interested in Bentley for some time now, and no doubt the sale of Robbie Keane to Liverpool has allowed the North London club to reach an agreement with Blackburn. Spurs fans will be happy to see Bentley arrive, after the disappointment of seeing Keane leave.

Blackburn manager Paul Ince did not want to let Bentley leave, but the 23-year-old made it clear he wanted out, stating European football as his motivation.

The winger has been at Blackburn since 2006, and has scored 13 goals in 102 appearances in that time, as well as winning 6 England caps.

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

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