Comments on: Jermain Defoe Returns to Tottenham After History’s Costliest Day Trip http://www.runofplay.com/2009/01/06/jermain-defoe-returns-to-tottenham-after-historys-costliest-day-trip/ Attacking Football Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:36:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sam Levenback » Defore http://www.runofplay.com/2009/01/06/jermain-defoe-returns-to-tottenham-after-historys-costliest-day-trip/#comment-3553 Sam Levenback » Defore Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:41:20 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=5432#comment-3553 [...] want to associate myself with the Brian Phillips take on Jermaine Defoe. How is it alright that Tottenham just bought Defore for £15 million after they sold him 12 months [...] [...] want to associate myself with the Brian Phillips take on Jermaine Defoe. How is it alright that Tottenham just bought Defore for £15 million after they sold him 12 months [...]

]]> By: Benj http://www.runofplay.com/2009/01/06/jermain-defoe-returns-to-tottenham-after-historys-costliest-day-trip/#comment-3465 Benj Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:04:02 +0000 http://www.runofplay.com/?p=5432#comment-3465 i'm thrilled to have defoe back, even though we paid portsmouth 7.5 million to babysit him for a year. i'd like to think this isn't "bungling another episode" but patching up an episode previously bungled. spurs never should have sold him in the first place, particularly as berbatov was always going to leave this summer. on the bright side, with defoe in, appiah potentially on his way, and a left winger on the horizon (for the first time in god knows how long), the club is finally looking at transfer targets in positions we need to fill, rather than collecting attacking midfielders. i’m thrilled to have defoe back, even though we paid portsmouth 7.5 million to babysit him for a year.

i’d like to think this isn’t “bungling another episode” but patching up an episode previously bungled. spurs never should have sold him in the first place, particularly as berbatov was always going to leave this summer.

on the bright side, with defoe in, appiah potentially on his way, and a left winger on the horizon (for the first time in god knows how long), the club is finally looking at transfer targets in positions we need to fill, rather than collecting attacking midfielders.

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