Diarra & Emanuelson (from the Guardian)

David Hytner and Dominic Fifield
Thursday December 20, 2007
The Guardian


Tottenham Hotspur will try to tempt Lassana Diarra from Arsenal next month and have also been linked with a move for the Ajax defender Urby Emanuelson.
Diarra alerted a host of clubs, including Lyon in his native France, when he revealed his determination to quit Arsenal just four months after joining them from Chelsea. He said that he was frustrated at his lack of playing opportunities - he has started only four Premier League games - and alleged that Arsenal had reneged on promises made to him.

Diarra alerted a host of clubs, including Lyon in his native France, when he revealed his determination to quit Arsenal just four months after joining them from Chelsea. He said that he was frustrated at his lack of playing opportunities - he has started only four Premier League games - and alleged that Arsenal had reneged on promises made to him.






Damien Comolli, the Tottenham sporting director and Diarra's compatriot, knows the midfielder's representatives and will look into signing him for Juande Ramos, the club's new manager. Ramos would like fresh blood in defensive midfield.
Fifa's transfer regulations state that a player "is only eligible to play in official matches for two clubs" in the period from 1 July to 30 June of the following year but they may be registered for "a maximum of three clubs". Diarra came on for Chelsea as a substitute in the Community Shield against Manchester United on August 5 but he did not play for them again before his transfer to Arsenal on August 31. The Football Association confirmed last night that the Community Shield was not an official first-team game.
It is not clear whether Arsenal, who entertain Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday, would allow Comolli to sign Diarra. The 22-year-old France international was outstanding in the Carling Cup quarter-final win over Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday night.
Ajax's Emanuelson is regarded as one of the best young talents in Europe and the 21-year-old's agent, Brian Birkleef, has said that Tottenham have approached him to talk about the player. "I have been rung but I referred them to Ajax," said Birkleef. "He certainly sees a move in January as a possibility."
Spurs have appealed against Steve Bennett's decision to dismiss Didier Zokora early in their Carling Cup quarter-final victory at Manchester City, in the hope that the red card can be overturned for the Ivorian to face Arsenal.
Zokora was sent off for a two-footed lunge on City's Brazilian midfielder Elano just 20 minutes into the tie at Eastlands on Tuesday, much to the frustration of the African and the visitors' management staff. The 27-year-old faces a three-match ban... ruling him out of the Arsenal game and the home fixtures with Fulham and Reading. The FA is to consider the claim for wrongful dismissal today.
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http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2229895,00.html

Yet more cobbling together of information that is already all over the boards. It's no wonder that journos are a bunch of piss-artists, they can sit in their club or pub and write their articles without moving from their chair these days, and they're completely unaccountable - everyone keeps tabs on the so-called ITKs, maybe we should keep a league table on the piles of drivel spouted by these tossers too, lazy lazy, lazy.

When I used to live in London our pad was near the Daily Mail/Evening Standard building. There was a pub I went to that happened to be their after work hang out. In these journos would stagger and drink themsleves stupid. Every night. In a nutshell they were sub-human scum. This my freinds is where 99% of these stories come from, pisshead journos making shit up in the pub. Thank god for the internet age where we don't rely on these c*nts for real information anymore.

End of rant.


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