Spurs Jump the Gun as “Defoe’s Contract Has Not Yet Been Signed”

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Quote of the day: “The difference between us and them is that we played football where as Milan thought they were on a film set as if they were in Hollywood. My job is to run a football club and not to make sure Victoria Beckham has the best suite in the hotel.

"I don’t know why Milan accepted all these demands. It was all just one big scene. Steven Spielberg was the only one missing.”  - Bayern Munich’s general manager Uli Hoeness.

Runner-up: “Arsene Wenger is a cunning fox. In the morning he says Arshavin will play all the time at his club and during the day he says he doubts the capabilities of Andrei to play three games in a row at the highest level. This is a tactic to fool the competition.” - Andrei Arshavin’s agent Dennis Lachter.

Today’s overview: Confusion reigns today over Jermain Defoe’s transfer back to Spurs, with the latest reports casting doubts over whether the transfer has actually been concluded. Outside of that, transfer rumours are rife on day eight of the window, particularly in relation to West Ham and Newcastle, but aside from the speculation there are no concrete deals to speak of.

For the first time in a long time, Derby County are today making the headlines for all the right reasons. Henry Winter commented in his match report, “short of ploughing up the pitch to give it that authentic Baseball Ground feel and getting everyone to wear flares and tank-tops, Derby could not have done more to revive the spirit of the Seventies.” Changing the focus, Daniel Taylor rips into “the abysmal Paul Jewell, a man whose reign was so utterly ­embarrassing that he will surely never manage a decent-sized club again.”

Jermain Defoe’s transfer to Tottenham could be the subject of a bitter dispute according to David Hytner, with the striker’s former agent, Sky Andrew, ready to litigate over the role Defoe’s mother played as an unregistered adviser in the deal.

And it gets worse for Spurs according to Neil Ashton

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