Archive for the ‘Transfer In’ Category

He is a hot favourite Newcastle defender who attract the interest of Man City, Arsenal And Spurs following the club relegation. In the end, it was Tottenham who seal his signautre. Despite signing by Newcastle at just £500k last summer, its price worth increased by 16 times within a year to £8millions transfer fee to White Hart Lane.

He was called up by Cameroon national team recently as Cameroon only managed to get 1 points out of 2 games in World Cup Qualifying Group Stage. With the missing of Dawson, King and Woodgate for the start of the season, Bassong will come in handy to fill up the slot. Bassong arrival marks the 4th signing of Harry Rednapp this summer.

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Portsmouth has signed Lyon striker Piquionne on a 1 year loan spell as a Peter Crouch replacement who left for Spurs. The Lyon striker has only found the net 3 time during his 23 appearance last season though. The striker has set his targets in EPL is to help Portsmouth to get as close as Top 4, but its would seem like Portsmouth will have a relegation survival instead with the sale of their star player Peter Crouch and Glen Johnson this summer already to reduce their financial problem.

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His departure out of White Hart Lane has been pretty much expected since the arrival of Peter Crouch to Tottenham. The negotiation between Sunderland and Tottenham has been ongoing for months and in between Bent has posted his frustration on a social networking site Twitter by accusing Spurs Chairman Levy on stalling his move.

“Seriously getting p***** off now,”

“Why can’t anything be simple. It’s so frustrating hanging round doing jack s***.

“Do I wanna go Hull City NO. Do I wanna go stoke NO do I wanna go sunderland YES so stop f****** around, Levy. Sunderland are not the problem in the slightest.”

But thank to this twitter controversy, within few day, his transfer to Stadium of Light has been finalise with a initial transfer fee of £10 million. He was fined £120k by Spurs before the deal though despite issuing an public apologize for his twitter accusing. The following below was the statement appeared on the club’s website containing Bent’s apology.

I appreciate that transfers are seldom straightforward and are often complex.

However, after a long period of waiting following my withdrawal from the plane to China, I had become incredibly frustrated by the time these things take and I posted inappropriate comments on my Twitter site.

I allowed my emotions to get in the way of my better judgement. I regret my actions and did not intend to offend Daniel Levy or anyone with the nature or the content of my posting.

He haven’t really been making an impact for Tottenham since his arrival as a club transfer record in 2007. He has been seen to miss bunchs of easy goal which causes Tottenham to drop off their constant 5th position in 05/06 and 06/07 to 11th in 07/08 and 8th in 08/09 season. I guess his transfer movement might be good news to both Spurs and Sunderland fan.

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