Is Benteke’s Transfer Request Really Good News For Spurs?
If the examiner pressed a gun to your forehead and asked you to show your workings, it’d be hard to argue that Atlético wasn’t the logical destination for David Villa this summer. Not too much travelling involved: a ready-made Champions League club with a history of providing food and lodgings to some of the world’s finest strikers. Vieri, Torres, Forlan, Sergio Agüero, Falcao. They even found room at the inn for the considerable backside of Jimmy Floyd Hassebaink. Yes the council had to knock a wall through, but that’s not the point.
The point is that while Madrid proved to be an understandable decision for El Dave, it doesn’t help one bit in Tottenham’s ongoing, near-mythical quest for new centre-forward. Much more so, for those of us who thought- perhaps romantically, hopelessly as it turned out- that Spain’s all-time leading scorer might just be the one. WHAT’S WRONG WITH US, DAVID? IT’S BECAUSE I’M UGLY, ISN’T IT?
On an entirely separate note, would anyone like to buy this season’s replica shirt with club legend Ricky Villa’s name on the back? That’s Ricky Villa. Definitely Ricky Villa. Anyone? No?
Oh well.
With that ship long gone, tethered and anchored in another port, the searchlight swings elsewhere. The papers have become fevered (sexually, no doubt) with idea of us signing Christian Benteke- whose thigh muscles alone put the fear of Mumm-Ra into opposition backlines last season. At twenty-two, even with the inflated price-tag Villa have (rightly) attached to their star man, it looks like it could represent good business for Daniel Levy. The only worry is that the Belgian’s attitude is stinking the whole damn place up. Two transfer requests and a self-imposed strike in two years and what’s to stop more of this jack-assery should, say, PSG show an interest after another good season with us?
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