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by **metalhead** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:04 pm

Liverpool close to signing Robbie Keane from Tottenham
Jul 18 2008
EXCLUSIVE by John Thompson, Liverpool Echo

LIVERPOOL will look to tie up a deal for Robbie Keane in the next 48 hours after Tottenham gave up the struggle to keep their star player at White Hart Lane.

The chances of Rafa Benitez getting his man were boosted significantly last night when Spurs boss Juande Ramos admitted for the first time he is likely to have to cash in on some of his big names in an effort to balance the books.

With boyhood Reds fan Keane desperate to move to Anfield and Benitez equally keen on signing him, the move is likely to happen sooner rather than later given the Liverpool manager's desire to be able to work with his new signings at the earliest possible opportunity.

There is now an acceptance at Tottenham that Keane will get his dream move and yesterday's comments from Ramos were a clear attempt by the manager to prepare the club's fans for the departure of their hero.

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Speaking at Spurs' pre-season training camp in Spain, Ramos admitted it was possible that he would have to sell both Keane and Dimitar Berbatov to cover his own outlay on players since taking the White Hart Lane hot seat earlier this year.

He said: "We will see what happens there, but we are talking about two very important players.

"For the moment they are with us, but whatever happens the idea is to have a great squad, with the potential to allow us to aim to improve on what we managed last season.

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by **club_Levis** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:55 pm

An improvement on Crouch but still not good enough to land us the title.

by **redsince2001** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:00 pm

metalhead wrote:Liverpool close to signing Robbie Keane from Tottenham
Jul 18 2008
EXCLUSIVE by John Thompson, Liverpool Echo

LIVERPOOL will look to tie up a deal for Robbie Keane in the next 48 hours after Tottenham gave up the struggle to keep their star player at White Hart Lane.

The chances of Rafa Benitez getting his man were boosted significantly last night when Spurs boss Juande Ramos admitted for the first time he is likely to have to cash in on some of his big names in an effort to balance the books.

With boyhood Reds fan Keane desperate to move to Anfield and Benitez equally keen on signing him, the move is likely to happen sooner rather than later given the Liverpool manager's desire to be able to work with his new signings at the earliest possible opportunity.

There is now an acceptance at Tottenham that Keane will get his dream move and yesterday's comments from Ramos were a clear attempt by the manager to prepare the club's fans for the departure of their hero.

Story continues

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Speaking at Spurs' pre-season training camp in Spain, Ramos admitted it was possible that he would have to sell both Keane and Dimitar Berbatov to cover his own outlay on players since taking the White Hart Lane hot seat earlier this year.

He said: "We will see what happens there, but we are talking about two very important players.

"For the moment they are with us, but whatever happens the idea is to have a great squad, with the potential to allow us to aim to improve on what we managed last season.

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by **John Kegs** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:05 pm

Well it looks like this one is actually going to go through, as long as the fee isnt too high then its a good signing IMO, could fit in well with the team

by **John Kegs** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:08 pm

BTW when has keane ever said he is a liverpool fan? Seems every player we sign is these days

by **Red Dotty** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:15 pm

I suppose there will always be varing views on this one. one being that if Robbie is the sort of key player that we (one of the big 4) have been missing, then why has he not been looked at before.

He has without a doubt got talent and the ability to score goals and that there is no argument.

He could find more space when playing for us as at spurs he was there main threat so sometimes marked out of games for them, with us he will either have space as torres and the rest get close attention or he will be given close attention giving torres a bit more space and if that happens God help them all.

Oh yes and stevie back into Midfield feck yeah

:buttrock

Hope the manc :censored:

buying Berbatov does not scuppa this

by **redsince2001** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:19 pm

for some reason i think ramos is willing to let both of them go ...
they'll fetch 40-45m and both are nearing their 30's...

by **Red Dotty** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:23 pm

redsince2001 wrote:for some reason i think ramos is willing to let both of them go ...
they'll fetch 40-45m and both are nearing their 30's...

I Hope so

I know it's not really worth worring about but wonder what the spurs faithful are thinking about these 2 possibly being sold.

they surely must be up in arms.

by **Roger Red Hat** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:24 pm

club_Levis wrote:An improvement on Crouch but still not good enough to land us the title.

im not sure, adding Keane to the squad will undoubtedly give us at least 20 more goals a season if he plays along side torres. Gerrard back into midfield putting those good through balls into the path of Keane and el Nino would be the closest we've had to a league winning team for some time.

by **Roger Red Hat** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:26 pm

Red Dotty wrote:
redsince2001 wrote:for some reason i think ramos is willing to let both of them go ...
they'll fetch 40-45m and both are nearing their 30's...

I Hope so

I know it's not really worth worring about but wonder what the spurs faithful are thinking about these 2 possibly being sold.

they surely must be up in arms.

spurs had the second worst goal difference in the premier league last season. only Derby conceded more. So take away Keane & Berbatov goals from that and they would probably have been relegated.

hmmm, fans must be worried

by **Red Dotty** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:28 pm

Lee J wrote:
club_Levis wrote:An improvement on Crouch but still not good enough to land us the title.

im not sure, adding Keane to the squad will undoubtedly give us at least 20 more goals a season if he plays along side torres. Gerrard back into midfield putting those good through balls into the path of Keane and el Nino would be the closest we've had to a league winning team for some time.

I agree.

With Stevie being able to pick the passes out for these 2 maybe more goals will be possible.

Where keane is better than crouch is his ability to find better positions and i feel keane can do more with the ball than crouch could.

by **Red Dotty** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:30 pm

Lee J wrote:
Red Dotty wrote:
redsince2001 wrote:for some reason i think ramos is willing to let both of them go ...
they'll fetch 40-45m and both are nearing their 30's...

I Hope so

I know it's not really worth worring about but wonder what the spurs faithful are thinking about these 2 possibly being sold.

they surely must be up in arms.

spurs had the second worst goal difference in the premier league last season. only Derby conceded more. So take away Keane & Berbatov goals from that and they would probably have been relegated.

hmmm, fans must be worried

they could be really in the :censored:

this season then, Dooh

by **Roger Red Hat** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:31 pm

Lee J wrote:
Red Dotty wrote:
redsince2001 wrote:for some reason i think ramos is willing to let both of them go ...
they'll fetch 40-45m and both are nearing their 30's...

I Hope so

I know it's not really worth worring about but wonder what the spurs faithful are thinking about these 2 possibly being sold.

they surely must be up in arms.

spurs had the second worst goal difference in the premier league last season. only Derby conceded more. So take away Keane & Berbatov goals from that and they would probably have been relegated.

hmmm, fans must be worried

I got me figures wrong they finished with a goal difference of +5

dont know what was in that drink i just had? :oh:

by **JamCar05** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:32 pm

Lee J wrote:
Red Dotty wrote:
redsince2001 wrote:for some reason i think ramos is willing to let both of them go ...
they'll fetch 40-45m and both are nearing their 30's...

I Hope so

I know it's not really worth worring about but wonder what the spurs faithful are thinking about these 2 possibly being sold.

they surely must be up in arms.

spurs had the second worst goal difference in the premier league last season. only Derby conceded more. So take away Keane & Berbatov goals from that and they would probably have been relegated.

hmmm, fans must be worried

I do believe Ramos will have something up his sleeve though. Surely they wouldn't just sell their two main strikers and thus having to rely on the ever dangerous Bent

. They seem to be buying a lot of young talent, so I would expect them to replace Berbatov and Keane with some interesting younger strikers (haven't got a clue who though).

Regarding us buying Keane he could very well turn out to be a very good buy. I only hope the 20 million being quoted are not true, as that would be quite a bit too much imo.

by **Roger Red Hat** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:33 pm

do ya not think £20 million is the going rate for a proven goal scorer? I reckon if Rafa gets Keane for £20 million it'll be about right.

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