Missed Deadline?

Sky Sports News understands Tottenham Hotspur missed the deadline to finalise the paperwork for the signing of Rafael van der Vaart.


Spurs made a late bid to bring in Holland international Van der Vaart and tried to complete the deal before Tuesday's 6pm cut-off.However,
it is understood that technical issues prevented the necessary
paperwork from being completed and Spurs have now requested special
dispensation from the Premier League to add the midfielder to their
squad.The club were not initially expected to be particularly
active on deadline day, but the sudden availability of Van der Vaart at a
knock-down price of £8million prompted Spurs to act.Manager Harry Redknapp told Sky Sports News on Tuesday evening that he was hopeful of signing Van der Vaart and conceded the club could not pass up such an opportunity.

sounds dodgy to me lol.

Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

DJSR wrote:Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

2 wrongs dont make a right.

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

2 wrongs dont make a right.

Highlight the 2 wrongs for me then.

DJSR wrote:

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

2 wrongs dont make a right.

Highlight the 2 wrongs for me then.

arshavin signing late for arsenal and van der signing late for yids. makes 2 dont it.lol

BazSpur wrote:Burger's hoping lol. Would be gutted if we got VDV

not as much as you if you dont lol.

BazSpur wrote:Lets wait and see first. I am sure I will put a brave face on it. Will you?

sure will bazza.

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

2 wrongs dont make a right.

Highlight the 2 wrongs for me then.

arshavin signing late for arsenal and van der signing late for yids. makes 2 dont it.lol

So what your saying is the goonies are allowed to get away with it, but others arent?? Remember, we're top 4 club now

DJSR wrote:

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

2 wrongs dont make a right.

Highlight the 2 wrongs for me then.

arshavin signing late for arsenal and van der signing late for yids. makes 2 dont it.lol

So what your saying is the goonies are allowed to get away with it, but others arent?? Remember, we're top 4 club now

the fact your now top 4 says to me the deal will go ahead, dont blow too many of these top 4 priveliges too early tho, thats this and the over the ball against stoke, thats 2 and we just in september lol.

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:

burger777 wrote:

DJSR wrote:Its all very much 'up in the air' at the moment Baz, but going by what happened last time with Arshavin signing late for the Goonies, we should be allowed to sign the player also, so i dont see a problem. The FA are prob looking at proof of the delay, which should be logged on the servers when Spurs/madrid were about to agree the deal.

2 wrongs dont make a right.

Highlight the 2 wrongs for me then.

arshavin signing late for arsenal and van der signing late for yids. makes 2 dont it.lol

So what your saying is the goonies are allowed to get away with it, but others arent?? Remember, we're top 4 club now

the fact your now top 4 says to me the deal will go ahead, dont blow too many of these top 4 priveliges too early tho, thats this and the over the ball against stoke, thats 2 and we just in september lol.

The amount of Luck the goonies have had over the centuries, we could never catch you lot up with regards to priveliges, you lot have more than over used yours.

Arshaving only got in because david dein ex gooner chairmen sits on the premier league board , same reason wetspam never went down over the tevez saga Brooking another prem board member, you see its who you know at the end of the day.. i think this will get clearence

Article from spursnetwork.com


Sources in both England & Spain have confirmed that Rafael Van Der Vaart will make his proposed transfer to Spurs today. A deal was thrashed out late yesterday before the deadline and Van Der Vaart has already announced his pride at moving to the "beautiful" North London club.

Complications arose last night however with the papers being submitted some 10 or 20 minutes after the deadline. The FA were not happy but Spurs have since claimed that "technical difficulties" involving their email servers lead to the delay, Premier League officials have since asked for proof and have been examining the deal in a meeting this morning. The results of this meeting are still unclear, although news should filter through by 5pm today when the 25 man Premier League squads need to be submitted.

Spurs fans need not to worry though as it is highly unlikely that this transfer will be rejected as Spurs have FIFA's backing, not to mention the fact that Van Der Vaart is not included in Madrid's squad. This would mean that he would be unable to play football till January unless he made a loan move to Denmark (as their deadline is tonight) if the Spurs deal did not come off. A player of Van Der Vaart's class would not be at all happy with this situation and Spurs could send the Premier League to court over grounds of blighting a player's career, which the Premier League will want to avoid at all costs as it would be severely damaging to their reputation.

It is highly unlikely that it will even come to this though as they will want a player as big as Van Der Vaart in their league. They have also allowed deals in the past that missed the deadline such as, Benjani to Manchester City and Arshavin to Ars*nal.

All in all, the Premier League are taking a tough stance to show they are no push overs and that the deadline is a deadline but they will not stop this deal for the reasons mentioned in this article.

i heard the decesion will be made at 3 30. i remember the ashley cole deal not being finnilised untill the next day. same with arseshavn last season

why not its easy theres 2 lol

on the official website, hes ours!!