Berbatov, Spurs U-15's, Austin, Alderweireld

Quick snippets of news with the basics, Dimitar Berbatov, Tottenham U-15's, Charlie Austin and new signing Toby Alderweireld.



Former Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov has turned down advances from Aston Villa and will sign for Olympiacos of Greece. The 34-year-old Bulgarian international is his countries all-time leading goalscorer. He has spent the last two seasons at Monaco netting 18 goals in 53 games.

The 26th edition of the Lion Cup will take place on August 14 and 16, involving the Under-15 teams from Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool. Singapore's National Football Academy (NFA) U-15 and U-16 squads.

Nobody is willing to pay the £15 million (US$23.11m - AUS$30.93m - €20.83m) asking price for Charlie Austin. The Queens Park Rangers striker is one of the backup options for Spurs but Austin is known to want regular Premier League football, which seems unlikely with the form of Harry Kane.

Toby Alderweireld spoke to HLN at the end of May and was looking forward to playing with Jan Vertonghen then.

"It would be very nice to play again with Jan. I am very happy in the Premier League, which really suits me."

Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) is a Dutch language newspaper based in Brussels so despite Ronald Koeman quoting and clinging onto old indications given before the season close, Tottenham were chasing him and he knew where he wanted to play. Sensible lad.

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