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Rumours: Tottenham to battle West Ham for £15m Chelsea pair
As Steve Sidwell and Wayne Bridge struggle for regular action in Avram Grant's high-flying side, the interest of the Blues' London rivals is hotting up.
by Mark Apostolou on 18 February 2008
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Steve Sidwell must have known that when he moved to Stamford Bridge he would struggle to oust the world-class talent in front of him. Still, I am sure he is earning lots of money at Chelsea!
Now it appears that the 25-year-old ex-Reading and Arsenal player may on his way out. West Ham boss Alan Curbishley is apparently keen to pick up the £8m rated midfielder (The People) and Tottenham's Juande Ramos is also monitoring the situation. Add to this speculation that the Upton Park boss also wants another supposed Spurs target, full-back Wayne Bridge, and you have a mammoth battle between the two London sides for the Blues pair.
Obviously there is no love lost between these three sides, and it will be interesting to see how this triangle of transfer activity develops. Clearly Sidwell with have England ambitions and playing in the reserves and Carling Cup won’t impress Fabio Capello. Therefore a move is inevitable for Sidwell.
Bridge is in a slightly different boat but has similar problems in terms of imposing himself as a regular first-team starter for Avram Grant. Bridge and Sidwell are good players who just need more of a chance at Premier League football. Both West Ham and Tottenham are more likely to offer them a decent chance of top-level appearances.
Comments (41)
by George Dawes on February 18, 2008
But won't be much of a battle, who would pick West Scam over Spurs! The Hammers aren't in the same league!
by Cloutty Cloutty on February 18, 2008
no west ham are 5 point above Spuds with a game in hand and they have been playing the reserves all season. Spuds ...big club? hahahahaha
by sparksyid sparksyid on February 18, 2008
Cloutty ur beginning to sound like them imigrant gooners with the reserves excuse, weve had jus as much injury problems specially at the back ur jus getting scared now cause u know we will be above ya come the end mate an might as well call it 2 points ahead cause uv gotta bring ur 11 other team rejects to the lane.
by cloutty cloutty on February 18, 2008
How old are you ? You sound like a 12 year old to be honest with your txt speak, spelling and grammar. My money is on you having an overinflated sense of your own self importance like most deluded Spuds. Dream on mate, you have been in the shadows of your North London superiors for as long as I care to remember. Also we have not had a great season and are still above you. Work it out for yourself you numpty.
by Mug Spotter on February 18, 2008
feckin hell fella, it just over half way through the season, you actually have a season where you are not battling relegation and you call us overinflated, change ya name you mug, try cunty cunty it suites ya better ya westspam chav muppet. back to ya market stall ya thick twat
by Les Ly on February 18, 2008
Vest Hamsters will suit um fine
by bod ger on February 18, 2008
You stupid Spuds. One win over the Gooners and you think you are big time. Don't make me laugh! The mighty Hammers did the double over them in the league last season. You will always be in the shadow of Arsenal, so you try to get one over on us. Pathetic bunch of self deluded muppets.We shall see who is a big club in the Summer , when the real big boys come sniffing round for Berbatov.
by boo daa on February 18, 2008
The mighty hammers my a**e!!! talk about wait till the big clubs come sniffing! you muppets are forever selling ur best players!!! You've never bin a big club just a excuse of a football team now owned by a biscuit maker! ha! just see it now hammy dodgers at the foot of the table next season.
by Karl Connolly on February 18, 2008
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. You think Berbatov will become a spammer?! Made me fall off my seat laughing, that did - hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahaha
by Joe Yid on February 18, 2008
Lets stop trying to drum up this rivalry between us, when it doesn't even exist. We have 16 major trophies.End of debate about who is bigger and better I'am afraid. As for Bridge and Sidwell!!!??? Juande would never contemplate this pair.Bale and Jenas are three times as good, at least.West Ham have always been the poor relations in London, light years behind the top 3. Go racially abuse your captain or boo your star striker(seems thats what you spanners excel at)
by Carl W on February 18, 2008
Sparksyid - Please do a bit of research and see how many long term injuries WHU have had this year and re-think your poorly thought out remark above !!!!! AL other THFC followers; it does seem to alot of people (as per recent poll - Spurs fans are the most arrogant outside top 4 and yet have nothing to be arrogant about)that you all seem to come out of the woodwork when you have a few good results but soon disappear when you get turned over !!! One good result vs half the Arse team and get to a cup final and all of a sudden the big 4 are going to be domianated for years to come by Juando's slimeline army !!! why were they all so fat in the first place !!! Please accept that you are on the same level as most premiership teams outside of the top 4 !! Do that and we will all get on a little better ....... drop the delusions of grandeur !!!!!!
I said the real big clubs(Man Utd and the like) would be sniffing around Berbatov. I never said anything about it being West Ham. Muppet!
by Tom Slaughter on February 18, 2008
so, we beat you at your place, in the lst minute with our 5th pick right back scoring the winner, you shouldve gone down, but bummed the FA, and now youre in a false postion, that you wont maintain, and you laud the plaudits over the club that keeps you afloat in our cast offs?? Get back in your caravans, and stop your ginger kids throwing stones at my nice new Merc every time i drive around your manor....West Spam will always be the poor relative of the mighty Spurs...
by Jonny Dickins on February 18, 2008
Bridge and Sidwell are good players, but I think the price tag is way too steep. 10 million the pair would be pushing it.
by yid army on February 18, 2008
15 mill for those 2, theyd be lucky to get 5!
by benny goldsteinberg on February 19, 2008
i'm having a bit of trouble with this, as a typical spurs fan, i'm a cab driver from herts, i'd like to say that all this is wrong. west ham have always had a production line of young talent including 3 world cup winners whereas we have a reputation for attracting players who are happy to take the money and practise complacency weekly while we carp on about being a big club in arsenal's shadow. west ham are having a growth spurt which is plain for all to see so we better get used to being seen as the 4th club in london as it's inevitable. still there's always the QPR derby to look forward to.
by dave dimbleby on February 19, 2008
hahaha, living over the other side of the world, I was beginning to forget why I hate Tottenham fans so much. Then I read replies like this and remember. Big club, small club who cares, there's no cure for being a w@nker, cheers for reigniting my hatred! Wayne Bridge wouldn't be a bad signing for West Ham, Sidwell, take him or leave him, he's just a bloke really. Spurs wise, yeah Bale is probably better but Jenas hasn't magically become a good player just because he played for England, he's still pointless.
by spurs rule west ham on February 19, 2008
you say personal abuse will not be tolerated then you print racist crap from a typical west ham fan. West ham are everything that is wrong with english football. The sooner they go down to where they belong the better. Oh and theyre full of paki's (ban me then)
by Carl W on February 19, 2008
Before I start ..... can we leave the anti-semitic stuff well alone .... it's vile !!! As keith Brooke says so eloquently above, Spurs a are well supported club, of that there is no doubt. But so are lots of others, including West Ham !! The difference between us, thankfully, is that we know it's going to take a long time to build our club up to be able to compete with the big 4 and freely admit that we are way behind them (chances are we always will be !!). Spurs fans however, despite not winning the league since 1961 (nearly half a century ago and before you all start I know we have never won it)still consider themselves to be on a par with the likes of Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool etc ..... YOUR NOT get used to it !!! Tom Slaughter - Can you remember which team was fined and kicked out of the FA cup after being found guilty of over 60 financial irregularities ??? But after an appeal was re-instated but with an increased fine ??? Seems like " bumming the FA" is not something new !!!
by DAVE SMITHY on February 19, 2008
TOTTENHAM FANS DONT THINK THEY HAVE THE BEST TEAM IN THE WORLD THEY JUST KNOW THERE TEAM IS GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION WITH A CUP FINAL TO PLAY IN ALREADY MADE EUROPE FOR NEXT YEAR AND WEST HAM THINK THAT 8TH PLACE MAKES THEM BETTER I FEEL SORRY FOR U GUYS IF THATS ALL U HAVE TO SHOUT ABOUT O WELL ENJOY WHILE U CAN CAUSE IT AINT GOING TO LAST LONG
by Ricky P on February 19, 2008
Do get this myth out of your heads Spurs fans. Your Not, just admit it. Why are you a big club? What have you consistantly won over the years? What? How many times you been in the Champions League? Some fool is going to say how many times West Ham been in it. We don't claim to be one of the big clubs like you lot, we will be a big club in the next 5 years, but you still will not be. Your Arsenal's shadow. You beat their reserves and think you won the Cup. That was your final and if you class that as a Big Club achievement you really have lost it. You will lose Sunday and you know it deep down. I do enjoy the flid army banter but sometimes admiting the truth like you are not a big club is just to much to bear for you lot. Oh and a Great buy Darren Bent was. True value for money. West Ham might by him from you for 50p to be Dean Ashtons boot cleaner.
by Hammers laugh at spurs on February 19, 2008
Carl - the first racist / vile comment above came from a spurs poster not a Hammer: he used the term "Pakis". Not an acceptable word, tut tut. The Hammer above stated the fact that Spurs are strongly supported by the jewish community. Nothing racist or anti-semitic there. That is well know. Indeed you call yourselves the "yids" - although I do have to question the use of that word: surely anti-semitic! Pots calling kettles black I think.
AS I ALREADY STATED WE DONT THINK WE R BIG CLUB JUST A LOT LARGER THAN YOURS AND GO ON ABOUT BENT BEING ASHTONS BOOT CLEANER DONT MAKE ME LAUGH AS ASHTON OFF TO NEWCASTLE AS HE HAS NOW GOT RID OF HIS INJURY HE NOW IS FREE TO LEAVE FLID PARK GIVE IT ANOTHER YEAR PARKER WILL BE READY TO MOVE ON BUT ONLY WHEN HIS GOT RID OF HIS INJURY AS ONLY DESPERATE MUGS LIKE YOURSELF WILL SIGN HIM IN HIS STATE
by stuart cooper on February 19, 2008
What you on about fella?. Who else beat the "Ar5ena1 Reserves" before we HAMMERED them?.If you could take off your wet spam blinkers you would see that it is not the Tottenham Supporters that think we are a "big club". It is the media, pundits, commentators, players, new signings etc etc. You dreamof actually having something to say other than "We had Bobby Moore". One day you may become a respected mid-table club but you'll need to drop those eel prices 1st and accept that a caravan is not a home, it's a toy for clogging up roads and keeping pensioners happy.
by the truth on February 19, 2008
there isnt a single wet spam player who'd get in the mighty spurs 1st XI. admit it.
by Pete Hallam on February 19, 2008