Giuseppe Rossi

[Carson35]

Tottenham To Launch €15 Million Bid For Villarreal Striker Giuseppe Rossi - Report
Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi is the subject of a €15 million bid from Tottenham Hotspur...

By Paul Macdonald
Jan 16, 2011 11:45:00 AM

Tottenham will launch a bid to secure the signing of Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi with a €15 million bid in the current transfer window, according to reports from Italy.

Calciomercatoweb comments that the English Premier League side have been drawn to the former Manchester United striker’s superb form in the Primera Division this season, and will test the Yellow Submarine’s resolve with a significant offer.

Rossi has netted 17 times in 24 appearances in all competitions for the Madrigal club, who are flying high in third spot in the table. Juventus have also been monitoring the situation of the 23-year-old.

The player has recently spoken of his desire to move to a more established club to improve his international standing, and Tottenham, who are participating in the Champions League this season, have the capacity to provide Rossi with a teasing offer to return to England.

The America-born attacker moved from Old Trafford to Spanish football in 2007, and his double strike against Valencia in the Copa del Rey two weeks ago made him the club’s all-time record goalscorer.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11/tran...-launch-15-million-bid-for-villarreal-striker

 

[Yid-ol]

a good player and another striker i wouldnt mind us getting! he played against us pre season and did very well against us if i remember right and scored a couple of goals

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

I've heard that when Villareal are ready to sell Rossi Man Yoo will have first dibs on the young sexy Italian.

 

[Yid-ol]

I've heard that when Villareal are ready to sell Rossi Man Yoo will have first dibs on the young sexy Italian.

With Berbatov, Rooney, Hernandez (sp) and even still owen, i dont think they would need him back

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

With Berbatov, Rooney, Hernandez (sp) and even still owen, i dont think they would need him back

True say, Owen will be gone this or next window blud.
In any case I wouldn't think that Villareal would entertain a bid for Rossi in this transfer window given their current league position.

 

[TEESSIDE1]

he got a hatrick against us?

15 million euro's? is that an attempt to offend them? More like 25 million euro's needed to prise him away from Spain.

 

[antiloqus]

With Berbatov, Rooney, Hernandez (sp) and even still owen, i dont think they would need him back

they don't need him, but it wont stop them from being dicks and pretending they do if they hear that we are interested though I fear.

 

[DoublePivot]

Getting a hattrick against us in a friendly makes you worth 25 million? Hell, we've kept 3 clean sheets all year. You should be worth 2.5 million if you don't get a hattrick against us.

 

[Zimmy]

He was rank awful against Seville last night.......maybe his head has been turned............or maybe he's just not that good?

 

[brett.spurs]

That wouldn't account for the previous 20+ games though. He wasn't great last night but Villareal as a whole didn't create a great deal, he did go through once though and should've done better.

 

[hyperterric2004]

He is not the right man imo, unless he is competing with VDV. The man I want is Suarez, although I fear Lverpool might get him.

 

[Zimmy]

That wouldn't account for the previous 20+ games though. He wasn't great last night but Villareal as a whole didn't create a great deal, he did go through once though and should've done better.

I like him, good technique and an excellent finisher, I just worry about his lack of pace and height.

I guess any siging we make is going to be a compromise of sorts, the mythical Drogba/Torres type doesn't seem to be out there atm or if it is it's beyond our transfer budget.

 

[brett.spurs]

Lack of pace?? Rossi is lightning!

 

[Zimmy]

Is he? Fair enough, I didn't think he was that quick from the little I've seen of him recently but I've never really watched his game that closely so i could be wrong.

 

[si_yidarmy]

i have seen that rossi could be more than £20million according to most newspaper reports

 

[MikeCOYS]

Is he another VDV? We need someone tall and strong to hold up play. We don't need him, we can just put VDV upfront and he'll do the same job, he's smaller than VDV as well... Save that £15mil and add extra £5-£8mil to buy Suarez.

 

[brett.spurs]

He's nothing like VDV, only in height and being left-footed.

Very quick, excellent technique/control, movement, composed finisher, sets up his fair share of goals too. Bale/Rossi/Lennon would probably be the fastest front 3 on the planet.

If you want a big guy upfront to lump the ball forward to then obviously Rossi doesn't fit the bill.

 

[nedley]

Spurs consider Rossi bid after Bent windfall

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Tottenham look at £16.5m former United striker as Sunderland target Crouch
By Sam Wallace, Football Correspondent





Tottenham Hotspur are weighing up the possibility of a move for the former Manchester United striker Giuseppe Rossi, having finally been paid the full £16.5m they were owed from Sunderland for Darren Bent.

Rossi, 23, now established as one of the best strikers in the Spanish league at Villarreal, is on Spurs' list of possible new players after they turned down the opportunity to sign Ajax's Luis Suarez, now a target for Liverpool. Rossi's contract expires in the summer of next year and he has attracted much interest in Spain and Italy this season.
The transfer of Bent to Aston Villa has caused movement throughout the transfer market, with Sunderland now making serious inquiries about Peter Crouch at Spurs. While Tottenham's manager, Harry Redknapp, does not want to sell the England international, that still very much depends this month on what kind of offer Sunderland would be prepared to make.

At a fee of £15m-£20m, Rossi would be among Spurs' most expensive acquisitions, but he would fit their model of buying good, young players at competitive prices and has been scouted for some time. He has formed one of the best forward partnerships in Spain with the Brazil international Nilmar and has scored nine goals already this season.
Born in the US, Rossi is now one of Italy's first-choice strikers after being left out of last summer's World Cup final squad by Marcello Lippi. He was highly rated by Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United, who signed him as a teenager from Parma, but was permitted to leave in August 2007. There have been suggestions that Ferguson has an option to re-sign him.
The usual resistance to competing for the biggest players has relaxed a little at Spurs in the last 12 months. The chairman, Daniel Levy, made serious inquiries about the Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko before he joined Manchester City and there is a long-standing interest in Andy Carroll of Newcastle that is likely to be pursued again in the summer.
Spurs will have to make big decisions on both Crouch and Jermain Defoe in the summer – both will then have two years remaining on their contracts and it is not inconceivable that one or both might be sold.
Steve Bruce, the Sunderland manager, attempted to sign Crouch, who turns 30 this month, when he joined Spurs in August 2009 and is a long-term admirer of the player. While there is no desire on Crouch's part to leave Tottenham, the security of a long-term deal for any player in his thirties can be persuasive. However, as an important part of Redknapp's Champions League run he would be very difficult to replace at this late stage of the transfer window.
The Sunderland chairman, Niall Quinn, hinted at their interest in a player like Crouch when he said that Bruce's side needed a "physical presence", in response to questions about whether they would be signing Robbie Keane, who has been made available by Spurs.
Quinn said: "What we are looking for to help Asamoah Gyan and Danny Welbeck along is probably a physical presence. Robbie works well off a big physical player, but we don't have that now. Robbie doesn't quite suit us now."
Other alternatives for Sunderland include the Monaco striker Dieumerci Mbokani and Cardiff's Jay Bothroyd. Quinn echoed Bruce's comments that the club felt Bent had been less committed in recent weeks, which prompted suspicion that he knew he was leaving for Aston Villa. Quinn said: "Two or three weeks ago maybe, I went into the training ground and there was something up with him. I looked at his demeanour and I thought, 'It's not right'. Having been in the game, you kind of know when someone's got something going on in their heads. It transpired that that's what had happened. They were setting him up to try and come and he took the bait."
Earlier yesterday, Villa issued a rebuttal to Bruce's allegations that Bent had been tapped up and had his head turned long before Tuesday's move to Villa Park went through. Villa accused Bruce of trying to "besmirch the reputation" of Villa and Bent, and denied that they had made "an inappropriate approach to the player or unfairly [compromised] the business of Sunderland football club".
Villa said in the statement: "Darren only became aware of his possible transfer AFTER [sic] Sunderland's game against Newcastle on Sunday and AFTER we had agreed with Sunderland the essence of the deal which led quickly to Darren's arrival at Villa Park on Tuesday."

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...er-rossi-bid-after-bent-windfall-2189075.html#

 

[rebrab]

if we're going barcelona-esque he is the ideal candidate.

If not, fabiano/hulk

 

[3Dnata]

I don't reckon much to these Bent windfall stories and I'm not saying we're not in for Rossi. According to Naill Quinn their Bent money allows them to pay off what they owe us. It may eventually total a few millin plus when all the installments are dealt with but that has probably covered the fee for Pienar.