‘My Commitment is With Tottenham’

barthammerWhile those suspicious Paulinho quotes might have to be sent off to the lab for further assessment, it was left to our very own Mr. André to provide the most reassuring sound-bites of the close season so far, as he bid a polite non, merci to the Parisian Energy Barons and consigned his immediate future to Spurs:

“My commitment is with Tottenham.

It was the club that allowed me to return to the Premier League and I feel good there”

And, yesterday, Laurent Blanc was officially given the keys to PSG vault and it’s there the story ends.

Good show from Villas-Boas, I would say. Even for the most optimistic of fan, there’s always the slight feeling of discomfort when New Money rolls into town and make their intentions known. You can talk all day about loyalty and Doing The Right Thing but when someone’s offering to swamp your bank account with enough money to reanimate the corpse of Walt Disney (plus a fast-track route into the Champions League) it’s a brave man who can turn it down flat. Not that we’re paying him in WH Smith vouchers or anything.

Far from being content to just sit back and admire his own brilliant decision, the Portuguese coach has also been talking this week about the future of Gareth Bale; again providing quotes which you’d be hard pressed not to file under ‘positive’:

The chairman said that we are not open to offers, whatever they are, and that the player will stay,” he told Portuguese newspaper O Jogo on Monday.

“In football anything can happen, but these are the guarantees given to me.

Presumably the only thing he can’t guarantee is that Zinedine Zidane won’t throw a hessian sack over the Welshman and smuggle him down into his wine cellar until he agrees to sign for Madrid. And the odds on that happening are shortening by the day.

 

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