The England hitman was thought to be heading to Tottenham after he spurned Sunderland approaches.

But Kop boss Rafa Benitez has the 28-year-old striker on his radar and has asked to be kept informed with Liverpool currently on tour in Thailand. Spurs and Fulham had looked set to fight it out for the 6ft 7in star with Portsmouth boss Paul Hart resigned to losing him. (more…)

The Mirror is reporting that not only will Inter Milan let Patrick Vieira leave  for Tottenham, but they will “make up any shortfall in Patrick Vieira’s wages to push through his proposed move to Spurs.” Wow! Anyway, it sounds like Vieira may be unwilling to make the move because of his “affinity” to Arsenal.

And, how bad do Inter have to want him gone to be willing to cover part of his wages?

Tottenham have revealed plans for their new 58,000 seat stadium that is being planned as part of the Northumberland Development Project. The plan is for the new stadium to be built adjacent to White Hart Lane.

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Tottenham Hotspur forced Manchester United to penalties after 12o minutes of scoreless soccer at Wembley before falling 4 - 1 in penalties as the Red Devils took the 2009 version of the Carling Cup.

Check the Penalties after the Jump…….

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Spanish giants Real Madrid have retained their position as the richest football club in the world — according to an annual survey issued by accountancy firm Deloitte.

from Deloitte UK

Welcome to the Deloitte Football Money League 2008 (register to download your report). This is the eleventh year of the publication, profiling the largest clubs in the world’s most popular sport. The Deloitte Football Money League is the most contemporary and reliable analysis of clubs’ relative financial performance and is released less than nine months after the end of last season, as soon as all the clubs’ revenue figures are available to us.  For the purposes of this publication, we look at the best publicly available measure of financial comparison: turnover from day to day football business operations.

Top 20 after the jump

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With Ledley King only available to play the odd game due to persistant knee problems, Tottenham head coach Harry Redknapp has given the armband to new signing and returnee Robbie Keane.

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UPDATE - ‘Following further scans and examination, Jermain Defoe will undergo surgery tomorrow after suffering a stress fracture in his right foot,’ read a statement from Spurs.

‘Contrary to newspaper reports that Jermain may have been carrying the injury undetected at the time of his rejoining the Club, the injury, to the fifth metatarsal, was sustained post signing during a training session in the indoor arena.

Jermain is likely to be out for up to ten weeks.’

Reports coming out of England tonight are that recent returnee, Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe has injured his metatarsal during a training ground challenge ahead of Saturday’s game at Bolton.

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LiverpoolFC.Tv, the official Liverpool website has confirmed that Robbie Keane is on his way back to Tottenham Hotspur after agreeing to sell the 28 year old back to his former club.

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