Tottenham Furious At Manchester United and Liverpool

Tottenham Hotspurs have reported Manchester United and Liverpool to the Premier League after both clubs announced an interest in one of their players.

United have been interested in Dimitar Berbatov for almost an entire year and Sir Alex Ferguson recently declared his optimism in bringing the Bulgarian to Old Trafford in the next couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Rafa Benitez has also shown an interest in another Tottenham forward, with Robbie Keane the Spaniard’s target. Tottenham are clearly unhappy with the two clubs and have criticized them for their comments.

This kind of behavior has almost become normal in the world of football, but it doesn’t change the fact that Tottenham are far from pleased with the conduct of United and Liverpool.

Tottenham Chairman Daniel Levy did little in hiding his frustration, going as far as taking the matter to the Premier League.

"Today's public comments by Manchester United's manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players," said Levy to his club's official website.

"It is also probably one of the worst offences by any manager in the Premier League to date and is unbelievably hypocritical given his recent comments in respect of Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid.

"This comes after a series of events, dating back to last summer, which have shown Manchester United to be in breach of Premier League rules. As a result, we have today made an official complaint to the PL about the conduct of Manchester United.

"Benitez made similar comments in respect of Robbie recently and we made an official complaint to the PL about the conduct of Liverpool earlier this week,” Levy said.

"The behaviour of both clubs has been disgraceful. We told both clubs very early on that we had no interest in selling Robbie or Dimitar, respectively, and that they should refrain from pursuing the player.

"Both clubs arrogantly chose to ignore this request and we now have evidence that both clubs have systematically been working to prise the players away from us, outside of PL rules of conduct."

It remains to be seen as to whether or not any action will be taken by the Premier League against either of these clubs, but it does spark one question.  Is it ethical for a club to announce its interest in a player?

Real Madrid have been doing it for years and no action has ever been taken against them. I highly doubt United or Liverpool will face any punishment for their actions, but it doesn’t neccesarily mean that what they are doing is right.  I’ll leave it up to you to decide.