Spurs Offer Kanoute

By Jason Blog
For THBN

We have received two reports from our sources stating that Tottenham Hotspur have offered their Mali International striker Fredi Kanoute to three Premiership clubs.

We can confirm that Daniel Levy is in talks with Everton, Manchester City and Birmingham so as to offload Kanoute for around £5 million.

We haven't been given a reason as to why Martin Jol wants to sell Fredi, but we assume that another striker may be installed if Kanoute is sold to one of the above clubs.

Tottenham have been strongly linked with Feyenoord's prolific striker Dirk Kuyt, but Jol himself said that he's not interested as we already have four strikers. Martin never said that he wouldn't be interested if he was only left with three.

Our mighty head coach has always gone along with the fact that he wants four strikers vying for the two places up-front. If Kanoute is to leave the club in a £5 million switch, then we can expect another striker to replace him.

Many of you have said that we should give El Hamdaoui a chance to prove himself, but we believe that Jol will opt for a more experienced striker.

Kuyt offers the experience of a proven goal-scorer and would fit into our young squad. The only downside is that Feyenoord have said that Dirk Kuyt will not leave the club for less than 18 million Euro's, approximately £12.5 million.

Daniel Levy will not sanction such a bid. Rumours circulated that Spurs had tabled a £14 million bid for Real Madrid new boy Julio Baptista. The truth was that Levy enquired about the Brazilian beast but never made a bid after he was told by the Sevilla president that in order to lure Baptista away, Spurs would need to table a bid of around 17 million Euro's.

If Kanoute does leave the club, then we can expect a new striker to be brought in by either the end of this transfer window, or in the January window. It is highly unlikely that Spurs will pay the asking price of £12 million for Kuyt though.