Didier Drogba on Harry Redknapp’s Tottenham
shopping list
HARRY REDKNAPP fancies a bid for Didier Drogba if
the Chelsea star becomes available.
The Tottenham boss
will carry out a major overhaul of his striking department this
summer, whether or not Spurs qualify for a second successive
Champions League campaign.
And top of his list is Lorient hot shot Gameiro. He will
be allowed to leave his club, although the asking price may be as
high as £13million.
People Sport can also reveal that Redknapp is eyeing
Drogba’s situation following his recent axeing from Carlo
Ancelotti’s first-team starting line-up.
Drogba, who turns 33 this week, will only have a year
left on his Stamford Bridge deal in June. He would prefer to stay
and will wait to discover the fate of Ancelotti before deciding
on his future.
But if his prospects remain poor, Drogba will become a
target for Redknapp.
Although the Ivory Coast ace would no longer command a
huge transfer fee, chairman Daniel Levy prefers younger players on
lower wages.
Redknapp plans to shake up his forward line, with doubts
about the long-term futures of Robbie Keane, Roman Pavlyuchenko and
Peter Crouch.
SOURCE: The Express
Could this deal ever really happen or is someone at The
Express in need of psychiatric evaluation? Well it’s probably
the latter as whilst Harry Redknapp may entertain notions of
signing Didier Drogba, such
notions probably occur when he is fast asleep and dealing in a
fantasy wonderland. Yes Tottenham are on the up and up but the
Ivory Coast goal machine will almost certainly never play for
another Premier League side.
If the 32 year old feels sufficiently angered by being benched
for Fernando Torres and Nicolas Anelka to flee the club then it
will be to either move to France or to Spain where the likes of
Marseille and Real Madrid respectively, are ready and waiting to
sign him.
Redknapp will have been heartened by the fact that Jermain Defoe
finally broke his Premier League duck yesterday when the England
man scored two beauties and the fact that Roman Pavlyuchenko also
scored a cracker, however it does seem likely that the Spurs
manager will look to sell one maybe two of his quartet with Robbie
Keane almost certain to leave.
As for Chelsea, well Carlo Ancelotti appears ready to cull some
of his older players and may well let Drogba leave if he so
desires. Florent Malouda, Yuri Zhirkov, Jose Bosingwa and Paulo
Ferreira may also be offloaded this summer.
