Dimitar Berbatov will today hold crisis talks with his agent, Emil Danchev, manager Juande Ramos and Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy in the hope of forcing through a long awaited move to Manchester United.
Tottenham have maintained that they would not let the Bulgarian International go for less than £30M. However, with Berbatov being left out of the Spurs loss to Sunderland at the weekend due to ‘lack of focus’ it appears that the 28 year old is fast becoming tired of the stalemate.
With the closing of the transfer window only six days away, Tottenham find themselves in a difficult situation with an unhappy player, no clear-cut deals on the table and very little time to find a replacement.
The north London club have spent and sold in fairly equal measure this season and in recent weeks have been linked with Klass Jan Huntelaar of Ajax and Andrei Arshavin from Zenit St.Petersburg but both these players are very settled at their respective clubs.
Tottenham’s early losses to Middlesbrough and Sunderland adding to a training ground bust up at which Berbatov was reportedly at the middle of shows that they simply cannot afford to let the forward ‘rot in the reserves’ as they have threatened to do if United do not meet their estimation.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson last night admitted that he was concerned with the deadlock. “There’s only a week and you start to concern yourself, but we’ve got a good quality of player here. We would like to add to that, but we’ll have to see what happens.”
By Andrew Bunting
