10.16 Reports in France claim Bolton are looking to bring in Fred from Lyon. According to Le Parisien, Wanderers have tabled a £4.5m bid.

10.05 Sky Sports News are reporting Spurs have increased their bid for Robbie Keane as they look to bring their former striker back to White Hart Lane.

Interesting...

11.36 There is news coming in from the Premier League that they are negotiating with the FA and Fifa to extend the transfer deadline from 5pm this evening. We will keep you posted if there is any change - and update our countdown clock accordingly.

12.05 We are receiving reports the deal for Andrei Arshavin is still in the balance. Arsenal and Zenit St Petersburg are trying to thrash out terms while there are conflicting stories regarding the Russian's whereabouts. Some sources are indicating he is actually undergoing a medical at the Gunners' London Colney headquarters.

It may still happen
Like the last transfer window :lol:

13.09 Sky Sports News understands Tottenham have accepted bids from two clubs for Giovani Dos Santos, with Portsmouth believed to be keen on the Mexican.

12.36 Sky Sports sources understand Robbie Keane is due to have a medical at Tottenham Hotspur as he looks to complete a return to White Hart Lane.

12.51 Hereford have signed Hungarian goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi on loan from Liverpool.

12.43 Portsmouth have completed the signing of Greek midfielder Angelos Basinas on an 18-month contract from AEK Athens.

14.22 The Premier League has announced it will grant applications from clubs to complete transactions after the 5pm deadline today if there is email confirmation from the two clubs involved that a deal has been agreed in principle. The club signing the player must also satisfy the board that the prevailing weather conditions have prevented the signing from being completed by the deadline. That will keep us busy well into the evening then!

[size=7]Transfer window deadline day[/size]
With the transfer window now closed officially, but with FIFA granting teams further time to do their teals due to the dreadful weather in england Tottenham have emerged as the main talking point of the final day of the window after agreeing to a thus far undisclosed fee with Liverpool for the return of Robbie Keane.
In other transfers:
- Oliver Dacourt has moved on loan for the rest of the season to Fulham.
- Charles N'Zogbia will be wearing a Wigan strip from now on with Ryan Taylor and a reported 6million pound heading the other direction. Newcastle certainly got the better end of that deal.
- Andrei Arshavin's move to Arsenal is nearly confirmed with teams merely looking to agree to a final payment installment for the russian forward.
- Arturo Lupolo has joined Sheffield United for the rest of the season.
- Man City's Jo has joined Everton to patch up their flagging striker stocks for the rest of the season.
- Ricardo Quaresma is being coveted by several clubs with the winger being left our of Jose Mourinho's champion's league squad. The extension granted because of the weather should see a deal finalised in the wee hours.

Those that missed out (so far)
- Spurs were reported to have made an offer that involved Jenas going the other way for Inter's Quarsema.
- Miguel Veloso's proposed move to Bolton fell through due to a disagreement over payment methods.
- Reports earlier in the day eminating from France had Bolton moving for 4.5mil rated Lyon striker Fred.
- Newcastle reportedl failed in a bid to swap Spurs' Darren Bent with Obafemi Martins.
- Spurs reportedly accepted a bid from Pompey for Dos Santos but the youngster was deemed to be unfit after failing a medical at Fratton Park.
- Newcastle also failed to land Michael Johnson off Man City for a reported 8mil.

Arsharvin deal is still not confirmed. I didnt realise it was that fucking hard!

So Keane is gone. Meh. Upsetting we didnt replace him

zenit are wanting toooo much money and arsenal dont like giving away money, its the two most difficult teams in terms of cash doing a deal here.

i still dont think you should have sold keane, 6 months is not enough to firm your status especially when your manager dsnt play you.

Arshavin is a gunner apparently. Deal will be finalised today once the FA or whoever has signed all the necessary paper work. He'll be wearing the no. 13 jersey.

Zim - I get what your saying, but we play better with one up front, and hes just going to be a benchwarmer
When Torres was injured, Kuyt started at striker ahead of Keane!! He didnt wanna just warm the pine

Apparently Rafa didn't want him in the first place either. Keane comes in for 12 million, meaning that afro has absolutely no leg to stand on after jibes that effectively we paid a couple million to Pompey for loaning Defoe for 6 months.

Im pretty sure we had only paid you 9mil of the fee. Staggered payment. So, dont know what the deal is there. Anyway.

Hmm yeah, not really sure how it works. Spurs transfers are confusing at the best of times, these ones bringing ex players back where the deals to sell them haven't been fully paid of are ridiculously hard to figure out.

Anyway. Didnt fit in our setup unfortunately. Best of luck to him, except when he plays us. Though he will probs bag a hattrick when you play us next.

You guys paid 7.5mil for Defoe.
We paid 6mil for Keane :D

Keane isn't a lone striker, but we play better with one up front. Taht was the main conundrum. But that goal against Arsenal shows that he has the ability there, which just end up raising the question 'why couldn't we get anything out of the fucker?'

- Andrei Arshavin'smove to Arsenal is expected to be finally completed on Tuesday when the Premier League receive on the necessary paperwork.
- Chelsea have completed the signing of Ricardo Quaresma from Inter Milan on loan until the end of the season.
- Striker Michael Chopra has sealed a return to Cardiff from Sunderland.
- Aussie James Wesolowski has completed a loan move from Leicester to Dundee United.

Without getting into figures of payment as no-one really knows, certainly you don't know how much we paid for Defoe, I'd say he is quite easily worth 1.5mil more than Keane :d

I wouldn't.:P

There's something wrong at Tottenham. You can't just turn around and sign 3 players you let go 6 months ago.
I think Quaresma will succeed, he plays wide, just the type Chelsea need now. Hopefully this means more time for Joe Cole to.
Arshavin is a good signing. I think he'll be the Rosicky that never was. If he can cope with the physical pressure he'll do alright.

Hopefuly this spells the return of Rosicky to germany.
Quarsema COULD be good, but I doubt it.
Redknapp is trying to get back to where the squad was before and bring back the players that he sees as being crucial to the club's former state so that he can procede to take the club forwards from there.

Quaresma wil be used solely as an injury replacement for Cole. Cants ee him stciking around when Cole regains full fitness.

Most likely.
But wouldn't that effect the mental state of the players brought in to replace them? I pretty sure Pavlyuchenko won't appreciate being bought to replace Berbatov and then have two more strikers come in.

Pavlyuchenko, defoe and Keane can work well together I think...should spell the end of Bent too.

That's what I mean. Atleast two strikers will miss out and I'm pretty sure they've got a couple of good youth players.

On keane didnt liverpool and tottenham make a swap deal that would see keane go to spurs in exchange of lennon and some money ??


LIVERPOOL NEED LENNON, HE IS THE TYPE OF PLAYER THEY ARE LACKING. THE TYPE OF PLAYER THAT CAN DRIBBLE AND CAUSE TROUBLE. FUCKING HELL RAFA - WHAT IS WRONG WITH U, YOUR SO CLOSE TO THE TITLE (CLOSEST FOR AGES) . BUY SOME MORE PLAYERS IF U WANT TO WIN THE EPL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME

Edited by jimsmith: 3/2/2009 05:32:07 PM

One will miss out, One would come on off the bench (most probably Keane)

Pava and Defoe have a very promising relationship already, but Defoe and Keane have already shown they can't play together. Hope it'll be different this time, but I'm not optimistic.



Depends what position in regards to academy players, we've got some fairly promising midfielders in Ryan Mason, Dean Parrett and Danny Rose, and we all know about John Bostock and Taarabt, but Redknapp's been hesitant to get them on the park, even when the result is a foregone conclusion.

They didnt pay that much for a bench player, theyll play three upfront



keane------pavlyuchenko-----defoe


big man in the middle two small/fast players on the wings = good

A) Spurs don't play 3 up front

B) Pavlyuchenko isn't a 'targer man'

C) Defoe is out for 10 weeks

D) No.

Well they're not getting him you mong.

For the most part they've been playing one striker anyway haven't they??
Defoe and Keane could well be interchangable and work with Pavlyuchenko.

Largely because he's concerned about relegation. It's the same reason Dos Santos isn't playing, because he's not proven.

We may well 'need' Lennon, but he's valued at more than 12mil by spurs. As nice as it would have been to have Lennon at LFC, it was never really going to happen, because Rafa was never going to part with funds over the deal.