Bentley bid rejected, Berba to Barca, Why Robbie?? Arshavin and Keano's bulk buy!

Looks like Spurs have been knocked back in their first official bid for Bentley with Blackburn turning down an offer of around £9m! Despite widespread belief that Ramos and Spurs had seen Bentley agree personal terms and pass a medical towards the end of june it appears that our first bid is seen as somewhat lightyears short of what Rovers want for Bentley. Bentley wants european football and a move back to london, Villa can offer the INTERTOTO cup but Brum is somewhat short of London town! Besides there is no guarantee that Villa will qualify from the intertoto anyways.

I expect the deal to go through in the coming weeks at around the £15/17m mark and maybe Robbo moving to Rovers to replace the departing Friedel who fancies the move to Brum.

Sir Alex Ferguson is obviously so annoyed that Madrid "tapped up" his boy Ronaldo that he would never dream of doing it to another club. Oh hang on, HE HAS!! Yesterday he announced that he had bid for a big name player who would improve his squad, then last night like a child who couldn't keep a secret blurted out that the player in question was our very own incredibale sulk, Dimitar Berbatov! Thanks fergie glad to see that you really believe in what you preach!! Personally i'm not too bothered about Berba leaving for a number of reasons. He has been linked with a move away from us since the ending of his first season, his agent Emil Dantchev has pimped his man around every club in europe over the last 2 years and constantly wasting column inches with his "dimitar wants to play in the champs league" rubbish and i for one will be pleased to have heard the last from him especially. That said Berba has been a true legend in his 2 seasons. Not since Klinsmann have spurs had a striker of his calibre, some of the goals and some of the things i've seen berba do will stay with me forever, i applaud him for those 2 years and through gritted teeth say good luck to him. Lets face it Man Utd are not rivals for us, Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton will be our biggest rivals this year in the quest for top 4 finish! I hope that Barca firm up their interest in Berbatov and enable us to sell him to the Blaugrana and in the process show fergie that we can play games with transfers too!!

 Robbie why??? you told us you loved it in the white half of north london, that you were happy and settled at Spurs. And now... well now it appears that you want to move to liverpool, a team that Benitez tinkers with constantly, a place where you will probably find yourself played out on the wing and second fiddle to el nino Torres. If you stay at Spurs you will become a legend, a hero for all hotspurs. Robbie's loss will be a very bitter pill to swallow as i genuinely thought he was on the way to becoming a Mr Tottenham of sorts. Still Roy Keane had it right when he sad today, there's no loyalty in football nowadays. If Keano goes he will be sorely missed but its his loss as i'm sure that we are on our way to overtaking Liverpool and Arsenal in the league and Ramos is the man to accomplish this. Watch this space!!

Arshavin intruiges me. He has turned down arsenal according to the telegraph int he hope that he can move to Barca but it now appears that Spurs have held meetings with his representatives with the view to him joining the Ramos revolution. I hope this isn't true for a multitude of reasons, he is 28 (no spring chicken, he has only been on the radar for around 12months and whilst he was impressive in the games against Greece and Holland in the euro's when he came up against an organised team in Spain they marked him out of the game and he looked ordinary, pedestrian. One has to wonder how he would cope in the premier league, a league where time and space is at a premium and he will have to adapt fast. Are we willing to take a 20m euro's risk on a player who may struggle to adapt?? It would be interesting to see him line up to Modric in a 5 man midfield but it appears by watching him in last seasons uefa cup and euro's that Mr Arshavin does not like covering back. A risk too big for us to take in my opinion.

News that Roy Keane is wanting to import half the Spurs squad to Sunderland. by bidding for Tainio, Steed, Kaboul and Chimbonda. It appears however that Younes "i think i'm better than i am" Kaboul has told his gaent that he would not move to sunderland in a million years. I would hate to lose Steed as i think he would be a great squad player to have especially now we have 7subs to play with on PL matchdays. Tainio is 29 and injury prone and i'll not really miss him, Chimbo is surplus to requirements at WHL now Super Alan Hutton has got the RB slot so i will not be sad to see his kamikaze stlye defending find a home at the stadium of shite next year.

Let me know your thoughts on the above subjects, I have not insider knowledge but like the title of the blog says, its an honest opinion of a tottenham fan. We are all entitled to our own opinions!!