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Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspur have joined the transfer race for Swiss midfield ace Valon Behrami.

The defensive midfielder, who currently plays for Napoli in Serie A, is a former West Ham United player and has caught the attention of several European clubs with his performances for the club last season as well as during Switzerland’s World Cup matches.

Spurs will face stiff competition for the 29 year old from Inter Milan who have earmarked the Swiss international as the man to add the bite to their midfield that has been lacking and the Italian media reports talks have already begun between the two Italian clubs.

Behrami played 21 matches for Napoli during the 2013/14 season of Serie A. the Swiss ace spent three seasons in an ill fated spell at West Ham United between 2008 and 2011, where he failed to nail down a first team spot before being moved on.

He scored just four goals during his 58 game spell at West Ham United following his £ 5 million move from Lazio.

However, he has reestablished himself as a steely defensive midfielder in Italy and Tottenham Hotspur want to bring the player back to the Premier League with Sandro expected to leave the club this summer, leaving Brazilian international Paulinho as their only defensive midfield option.

If Behrami does join Spurs, he would add to a growing list of former Spurs players to make the move to their arch rivals, including Jermain Defoe, Freddie Kanoute and Michael Carrick at the turn of the century.

Behrami has played both group matches for Switzerland in Brazil making a total of six tackles as well as 81 passes and Tottenham Hotspur are hopeful the lure of a return to the English game will clinch the deal in their favor this summer.

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Former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit has revealed that Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood turned down the opportunity to sign Luis Suarez when he was a scout at the club. Sherwood was one of the scouts at Tottenham during the regime of Harry Redknapp. He was appointed as the new manager of the club on an 18 month deal during the middle of the season after poor run of results forced the club to sack manager Andre Villas-Boas. Sherwood will be coming up against a Suarez on Sunday and there is every chance that he will rue his mistake not to sign the player.

Suarez was a young and upcoming name and Ajax. Gullit says that Sherwood visited along with a number of colleagues in the hope of signing him. However, after watching a couple of matches, Sherwood decided to turn down to opportunity. Gullit has revealed that he persuaded Sherwood to take Suarez with his eyes closed because the Uruguay star was set for greatness. The Ajax striker moved to Liverpool in 2011 and he has been one of the best players in the world since then. The 27-year-old has already scored 29 league goals and is on course to setting a new record.

Tottenham, meanwhile, could have very top four aspirations ended if they lose to Liverpool on Sunday.

“They came to watch him. I met Sherwood together with Les Ferdinand, they were Harry Redknapp’s assistants at the time and were also his scouts. They asked me all kinds of questions about Suarez, so I just point blank said: “You have to snap him up, without any hesitation, in a heartbeat.” Well, we’re not sure,” they said whilst they actually watched him play. That’s a huge mistake, if you ask me. Afterwards they said to me: “Well, we might have got it wrong.”’ said Gullit.

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Tottenham is in an uncomfortable situation of late- it’s their player Vertonghen who has raised serious controversies for his bad play-acting at the club’s last match against Dnipro.

It seems that the Belgian footballer managed to mug up everything what is wrong with the game in a single moment of perfectly pure ridiculousness. The player has drawn severe criticisms from many quarters since then.

Last Friday. Tottenham Hotspur was having a match against Dnipro, the leading Ukranian club, in the 2nd half of the Europa League championship tie.

The Brit club lost out on the 1st leg 1-0 & when their Ukrainian opponent opened scoring in 2nd leg, Spurs were very much on the verge of losing the game.

But everything changed completely with the turn 62nd minute of the match. Jan walked into Roman Zozulya (Dnipro) & then suddenly crashed to ground, theatrically clutching the face.

It was certainly a very implausible, stupid dive from the Belgian. The 2 players had hardly touched ne another. However, Antony Gautier, the referee was befooled completely & he showed the red card to Zozulya.

That was something really unethical to the Ukrainian side as whatever the Tottenham player did was completely his own antics and there was hardly any trace of contribution from Zozulya. As a result, Dnipro were wrongfully reduced to 10 men which enabled Vertonghen’s club to go on with the winning title. They won the match with 3-1 status, progressing to next round.

The Belgian was not exactly repentant for his wrongful antics post the match. “I walked towards him. I walked up to him again & he gave me one”, said the Belgian stressing that it was the Dnipro player who made him crash to ground. “He gave me the reason to crash. It is his fault & not mine.”