We put it to you that Stewart Downing is the most Spurs player never to actually play for Spurs.
Fictional forwards but no room for Rivaldo in Spurs’ transfer legends XIA fun game with simple rules: it’s a team of players who were famously and repeatedly linked with Spurs but never actually signed for them. We say fun, which it was right up until we remembered that football teams will traditionally include a goalkeeper…We can’t immediately think of a goalkeeper Spurs were linked with a lot but didn’t sign.
One of his favourite refrains during his time at Spurs was to repeatedly rue the narrow failure to land Gary Cahill from Bolton before the villainous Chelsea nipped in and snaffled him. Usually after Redknapp’s Spurs had lost thanks to some defensive silliness or other – which, being Spurs, was relatively frequent – he would be heard uttering some variation of “Cahill was one we came close to but The Chairman couldn’t quite get the deal done.
David Pleat took in several games in Holland during a spell as Spurs director of football and occasional caretaker manager after whatever disastrous reign had come to an inauspicious end this time. He wasn’t only watching PSV’s MVB, though. He was also on the trail of a highly-rated Eredivisie youngster according to Sky Sports at the time. ‘Spurs are also continuing on the trail of Feyenoord’s highly rated winger Robin van Persie.
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