Every year premier league table makes a surprising shuffle among the top rank holders in the last phase of the season and this year is no exception. All the four toppers: Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal, and Liverpool are eager to throw others out of the top four while Tottenham is the side who has lots of potential to surprise Blues to reach onto the top of table, this is what its 29-year-old Belgian footballer Mousa Dembélé believes. If we remember correctly the performance of White Hart Lane side last year, they challenged Leicester City for the title, but somehow collapsed towards the end of the campaign and finished only third after winning just one of their final five matches and experts then were surprised to see their sudden diversion from the right path. Although, they are now having a big nine points trail to the topper Chelsea and since more than half of the season has gone by, it is generally difficult to shrink as much gap when North Londoners are also in their finest … [Read more...]
Expecting another commitment, Wenger stands Ozil in line with former legendary Dennis Bergkamp
Every time a side delivers unexpectedly, its credit is given to the top performers and often few of them are leveled in line with the all-time greatest of the side and this is something that seems to be happening with Arsenal who has been in tremendous form this year. They are second to Man City on the board and equal in points and their permanence is powered by the key role played by Mesut Ozil who has made an emphatic return to his form with a consistence performance throughout the season. The way he is playing these days, manager Arsene Wenger has started taking him as next legendary player in the making especially after looking at his partnership with Alexis Sanchez and he believes if he continues this tuning with 27-year-old Chilean in Sunday's North London derby against Tottenham Hotspur, they can surly top the table for the first time in many years. Knowingly, Ozil contract is expiring in 2018, after having a five-year deal when he switched from Real Madrid in 2013, hence … [Read more...]
Spurs still confident to sign Leandro Damiao
Missing out on big matches often cost clubs their ambitious players, and it happens more aggressively around summer or winter transfer windows. The EPL club: Tottenham, who recently missed to make it to Championships League, has Brazilian Leandro Damiao into their dream list of players for this summer, but when they could not qualify for the CL, it was believed that player would now be interested in another club where he can get good exposure of big soccer events. But on the contrary, Damiao now says that he still wants to join Spurs if his club officially allows him to do so. Actually, the Brazil international, who is also in his national side for upcoming world cup qualifier against England, was in the target list of White Hart Lane club since last 18 months but everytime they tried to initiate an offer, something otherwise happened. Even this time, they were sure, until their failure to finish among top four in the EPL, that they would certainly capture their desired player, but … [Read more...]
Gareth Bale agrees a new £130,000-a-week deal with Tottenham
After heap of speculations about the departure of a vital Tottenham’s asset: Gareth Bale, a closed source of player has finally revealed that player is in talk with Spurs for a one year extension at an astonishing £130,000-a-week price tag. The news brings a big relief for Tottenham’s fans who were expecting second worst news after they were sidelined from Championship qualification. Though, Bale, who has won Players of the player award, has not made any commitment about his possible stay next year as he is also in talks with other clubs to make a permanent makeshift after spending contracted time at White Hart Lane. Tottenham is now out of the Championship race despite their yesterday’s win coz Arsenal defeated Newcastle and shunned its chances. According to some media reports, Bale is in some serious talks with Manchester United and Real Madrid and if things go as planned by him, 23-yearl-old young sensation can reside at any of these biggies for rest of his playing career. However, … [Read more...]
Gareth Bale wins Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year award
It seems Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale is ruling the award ceremonies these days that is why he added another award to his recently won two PFA awards. He is now chosen for the prestigious Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year award for current season for his brilliant performance throughout the season that includes 24 goals in total, including 19 EPL goals out of 29 played games. Over 53% of the total voting was cast in Bale’s favor while last year’s winner Manchester United's Robin van Persie ended on the second place along with Chelsea's Juan Mata. Record wise, he is the first Welshman to win this award after goalkeeper Neville Southall who won this award back in 1985. Likewise, he is the second Spurs player to win the trophy after David Ginola who won this title in 1999. Actually, his performance has been consistent throughout the season that helped his club’s march to the quarter-finals of the Europa League along with standing a good chance to finish on a top-four … [Read more...]