News is breaking that a January target for Newcastle, Jermaine Defoe of Tottenham Hotspur, may be moving to Portsmouth for £9M.
Jermaine Defoe – £9M to Portsmouth?
Sky Sports is reporting that Portsmouth have agreed a fee of £9M for the Tottenham striker, and there is a move to get him through the window before midnight tonight.
Where this leaves Newcastle on Defoe we don’t know, but when Keegan arrived it was widely reported the three players he wanted were Jermaine Defoe, Jonathan Woodgate and David Bentley.
Benjani is also involved in this move, as Manchester City have moved in for him with a bid of £6.5M, and it may be that Defoe will only move if Benjani moves to City. Reports are that Redknapp and Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie spent most of Wednesday trying to agree a fee with Tottenham.
But Defoe has also been a long term target at Aston Villa, and Martin O’Neil is said to be following the moves closely, and may yet try to take Jermaine to Villa.
Former West Ham striker Defoe has scored 43 goals in 137 appearances for Spurs and formerly played 93 times for West Ham and scored 29 goals.
Defoe was also on loan at Bournemouth from 2000-2001 where he played 29 times and scored 18 goals.
However, Defoe now finds himself behind Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane at Spurs, with little chance to impress new England boss Fabio Cappello.
Comments welcome.
128 comments so far
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Comment #41scotty i heard news at lunch everyone knows that
Bigted28
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Comment #42Keegan said that some time last week in one of his press conferences.
scotty
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:58 PM
Comment #43thanks for letting me know joel. just got in and seen it breaking on SSN in yellow.
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Comment #44Pompey quiet on Benjani sale talk you guys look
Kash2
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Comment #45Benjani is proper shit!!!!!
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Comment #46soz http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/255608874?-477
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Comment #47Who cares hes shite!
Kash2
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Comment #48Get over him!!!!!
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Comment #49scotty do u really think benjani is crap
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Comment #50joel – you tell me not to talk about players who arent going o come, so shut up no1 cares bout benjani hes a shit player.
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Comment #51piss off kash2 no-one is talking to u
sparetheman
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Comment #52I’d rather have Benjani than Defoe. Don’t think we need either of them though.
Ashton
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Comment #53Ed !!
whay im suspended !!
come on dude give me a break fgs !!
i will be a good boy 🙂
i promise
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Comment #54Id rather have Chermiti buts it unlikely we’ll get him!
toon1978
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Comment #55Spartheman its been mentiond on talksport radio looks on the cards.
thelongshanks
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Comment #56benjani is overated,i would take de foe over owen though.Im still holding out on baines comin to the toon.Also heard we signed a swedish keeper is that true?
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Comment #57benjani or defoe would be fine.
besides tom-toon why do u keep jippin me?
sparetheman
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Comment #58I’ll believe it when I see it, toon1978.
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Comment #59err, you tell me to shut up about players who arent gonna come, then you bombard threads with ones that arent going to come. hipocritical basically!
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Comment #60does anyone know what happen to that target lubos kalouda?
sparetheman
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Comment #61He doesn’t bring up Benjani every other article though to be fair, Tom.
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Comment #62tom toon i did say sorry ! and this is my last time only im sorry.
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:09 PM
Comment #63you checked the other recent articles, my god
sparetheman
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Comment #64As far as I can see he’s only brought up in one other article. Hardly the ongoing saga that is your love affair with the Tunisians.
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Comment #65Andrea Caracciolo rangers have bidded for this italiaian striker is he any good??anyone
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Comment #66yes sparetheman i do go on about then but i didnt tell him to shut up about it 🙂
awc88
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Comment #67i think ill just give up and go and buy chelsea top tomorrow least thier billiuonaire aint afraid to spend money
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Comment #68http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Caraccio o
everyone check this one out on wik(put it ur internet).
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:17 PM
Comment #69tom-toon friends?
toonhitman
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Comment #70str8t swap defoe for owen,come on kev get your finger out and start gettin some players in,cant believe we wont pay an extra 1 mill for barnes,
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Comment #71ye
whats all this crap about not being able to get top plyer in january just pay that little bit more and you can get any player, we aint spending enough and we need to spend!
Hadrian
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:20 PM
Comment #72so then , how many of us remain blindly optimistic that our club wouldnt be so daft as to not stengthen in this window ?, that we really have 3 first team players lined up togo through before 12 tonight .
go on , admit it , there is bound tobe more mug’s like me thats still going to watch the clock tick down till 12 .
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Comment #73tom-toon should we pay extra money for giles barnes
toonoholic
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Comment #74i am a mug too hadrian
hope floats , be optimistic
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Comment #75Hadrian,im staying up till 12’o’clock tonight woooohhh hooo rock on dude!!!!!!!!!!
Tom_Toon
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Comment #76Hadrian – Ill be watching the clock but i doubt it mate. We need first teamers.
Joel – If it was the summer no, but we need players, just pay the extra mil, thats lke £5 to MA.
joel
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Comment #77i agree its gay that mike ashley and chris mort are not splashing there money out
Hammy
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Comment #78I was on this blog during the summer transfer deadline and there is a marked difference in the atmosphere on here this time around,
it seems our days of buying big name stars has come to an end and that we will be gambling on unknown youngsters coming good…..
will the Geordie faithful buy into this?
we’ll have to wait and see.
cooldj
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Comment #79Ade akinbiyi is better than ameobi though!
Hadrian
Jan 31, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Comment #80it looks to me like mort and ashley have no intention if buying anyone over the age of 19 !!!.
we must be buying both for future and now .
it’s starting to feel like a money issue .