The new Berbatov ?

Are we about to sign yet one of those players that no other club will take a chance on , im talking about Leandro Damiao ? , we are good at finding little gems



Spurs 'Confident' They will Complete Move for £14m Brazil Striker
Posted on 14 June 2011

Tottenham are currently in talks with Internacional over the possible signing of striker Leandro Damiao, talkSPORT have revealed.

Spurs boss Harry Redknapp has made no secret of his desire to add a fourth striker to his squad following a misfiring season from his front three.

Peter Crouch, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe managed just 17 league goals between them last season and the lack of goals proved to be the difference as the club missed out on a Champions League spot.

Redknapp is therefore seeking to recruit a clinical goal-scorer and has been linked with moves for a host of strikers. Atletico Madrid pair Diego Forlan and Sergio Aguero have been mentioned whilst France forward Kevin Gameiro opted for a switch to PSG.

TalkSPORT claim Spurs have already had one offer of £10m rejected from the Brazilian club who are thought to be holding out for around £14m.

Damiao earned rave reviews for his performances last season, scoring 16 goals to help his side to win the league title. And at 21-years-old, he is considered one of the most exciting talents in South America.

Former teammate Sandro made the move to White Hart Lane and, since breaking into the first team, has proved to be a revelation.

As part of the deal for Sandro, Spurs secured an affiliation with Internacional that gave the north London club first refusal on their young prospects.

TalkSPORT also claim that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is confident the move for Damiao will be successful and that talks will continue between the two clubs.

In all competitions last season, Damiao scored 22 goals in 24 appearances.

BazSpur wrote:Spot on Lobs I mooted this one about a month ago I think. I also put the same you tube clip up. We need to take the chance on young unknowns in my opinion. Look at Sandro and this fella is from Internacionale as well and as you say Berbatov was a steal. The great thing about the deal we have with Internacionale is we get first pick on their talent.

Players i can think of we bought that no one else wanted to a chance on

Berbatov bought 10 mill sold for 32 mill
Bale Bought for 10 -12 mill worth 40mill min
Modric bought for 13-15 mill worth 30 min

Every so often we manage to pull that rabbit out of the hate ..

good at finding them, its keeping them is the trouble

Just watching that you tube for the first time he certainly takes his goals well and looks like he really enjoys playing and scoring. However they were against some crap defences when you really look at it and if we get him it will probably take some time for him to settle in but he obviously has great potential.

But the way the press release read it seemed that Harry was looking to add him to what we already have, namely Defoe, Pav and Crouch. I would prefer we sold at least 2 of them and added another top striker as well as Dimao.

I know I keep saying it but we have a lot of players who are hardly going to get a game and there is no point just sending them out on loan as they will just be getting older and their price is going down. We could do with that money to really spend big as the other clubs are doing.

Mikey M

totalytot wrote:
Just watching that you tube for the first time he certainly takes his goals well and looks like he really enjoys playing and scoring. However they were against some crap defences when you really look at it and if we get him it will probably take some time for him to settle in but he obviously has great potential.

But the way the press release read it seemed that Harry was looking to add him to what we already have, namely Defoe, Pav and Crouch. I would prefer we sold at least 2 of them and added another top striker as well as Dimao.

I know I keep saying it but we have a lot of players who are hardly going to get a game and there is no point just sending them out on loan as they will just be getting older and their price is going down. We could do with that money to really spend big as the other clubs are doing.

Mikey M

with defoe & crouch i would give them to xmas and see if last season was just a one off, if they continue to play poorly then move erm on, we do need a striker no doubt about it, if we sold anyone of the three we got i'd have to say crouch

defoe can go if we get decent money for him, crouch i would give him away.
own goal v man c then red card at madrid .

anyway i hhope we get somone young in and not somone old

loving the avatar lought

lobo im hoping to change it soon when the beanpole leaves