Sunday, August 17, 2008

United finally set to land striker


According to todays sundaymirror Dimitar Berbatov's move to Manchester United will go through this week.

A compromise deal between United and Tottenham has been struck.
It came after the Premier League admitted that they had temporarily suspended reviewing the evidence Spurs had submitted to them after the North London club claimed Berbatov had been illegally tapped up by United.

The Premier League was due to look at the evidence last Wednesday, but asked Tottenham to review their documentation and then re-submit it.
United have privately insisted that any deal was subject to the charges being dropped by Tottenham in the same way they facilitated a similar request from Liverpool to ensure Robbie Keane's transfer went through.
United in turn are prepared to up their original £20million offer by a further £5m and include various incentives that will take the ensure deal met Spurs' valuation of £30m.

Personally I find this transfer saga is now very boring. I think it is inevitable that Berbatov will leave it is just a matter of how much and when, this was shown when Ramos left the striker out of the staring line up on saturday. As for the tapping up allegations I wouldn't be surprised if they were indeed true but it happens all the time so I dont see how it can be prevented.