A happy threesome at Portsmouth

Harry Redknapp will sign Peter Crouch. Redknapp's old club Portsmouth have accepted a 10 million pound offer for the gangly striker, and he's about to rejoin former team-mate DeFoe and former boss Redknapp. Crouch will sign a five year deal.
Although Redknapp last week said the fee would be too much for Spurs, the deal has gone through.

He said at the time: "I just feel that for that type of money it is an awful lot of money. It is an expensive deal because there is no return on it.
"I don't know whether it is possible for us to do that type of deal. It is an expensive deal. The whole package looks expensive."

Portsmouth could also offload more players even though Sulaiman Al Fahim's takeover of the Premiership side is almost complete, but there will be no spending sprees.

"It's important everybody understands that we have to cut our cloth," Hart, who has been appointed on a permanent basis, told BBC Radio 5 Live. "The days of £20m buys are over in the short-term, but maybe not longer-term."

Treetop striker for Spurs

Tottenham manager Harry Reknapp wants to join the race for Portsmouth striker Peter Crouch, and is ready to fight of Fulham and Sunderland to capture his signature.

He said: "I like Peter. I've signed him several times and he's a top player."He's a player we could be interested in but we'll have to wait and see."Portsmouth obviously want to sell him now, so we'd be interested."

If this goes through i think he'll do better at Tottenham than he did at Liverpool, i mean, ask Robbie Keane about that!
Rafa has a certain managerial style that may have worked in Spain, but in the English Premier League it's doing nothing except getting him frustrated at the disappointment of not winning the title, and getting him criticism(especially from me)for his whiny ways.
Ok, back to Crouch.....Crouch is a good player in his own way, but i don't think he's world class, i think he was a mistake for Liverpool, but i think he'll patner Keane very well. Good buy for Spurs if it happens.

Sunderland may sign Crouch.

Portsmouth treetop forward Peter Crouch are in talks with Sunderland after Portsmouth agreed to a £12m offer.Crouch, 28, is also a target for Roy Hodgson, cash from another deal for Fulham, Zamora to Hull City for £5m, could help to buy Crouch, and Crouch may want to move to Craven Cottage because of changes that have happened at Portsmouth. But Sunderland are more likely to sign the England international.

Sunderland manager Bruce said: "He is a player I have admired for a very long time."
The Black Cats' boss refused to be drawn further on the deal, saying: "We hope we can try to put something together because he would be the type of player of course that would signal our intention of the way we want to take the football club forward."
Asked directly if a fee had been agreed, Bruce said: "I don't understand that just yet, but I have just come off the training ground.
"I haven't been told anything to the contrary. I will be getting back to work in the next couple of hours and we'll see. I know discussions at high levels were going on late last night, so we'll see and I'll be able to tell you more in the next 24 hours."

Now, i understand that you can't always get what you want, but doesn't it seem like Crouch is going down int he Prem world, Liverpool to Portsmouth to Sunderland. I'm not saying that Portsmouth are any better than Sunderland, i'm going by Prem status.
Crouch became an overnight sensation when he signed for Liverpool from Portsmouth, 1. because Rafa bought an Englishman, and 2. out of all the forwards he could have bought...Crouch? I guess only Rafa the Gaffa knows why. It seemed to me that Crouch was another Rafa miss-buy.
But, i think he will do better this coming season than he did at Liverpool. Once again, too many 'stars' does the club no good.