EPL, Premiership, English Premier League

Chairman Daniel Levy has accused Dimitar Berbatov of malevolence against Tottenham which led to the Spurs having a horrible start to the season.
“We had a player who had refused to play two games for us, having a detrimental affect on the dressing-room. We’d known for a year that the player had wanted out of this club. We were very disappointed. Dimitar Berbatov was a player who we brought to this club at a time when Man Utd were interested in him. He made a conscious decision to come to this club, we invested a lot of money, nobody had ever heard of Dimitar Berbatov when we bought him.”
Its pathetic that Levy is attempting to accuse Berbatov of having ruined Spurs next season. He told them he wanted to leave a year ahead of time and Spurs got paid a fair amount of money from Manchester United for him, only €30.5 million. And they had the entire summer transfer window to pick up some strikers (they also sold Robbie Keane to Liverpool for €20.3 million) with the combined €50.8 million euros they obtained. Unfortunately Spurs Sporting Director Damien Comolli did not pick up decent replacements. They got their moneys worth in those deals and it makes no sense to criticize Berbatov for going to one of the moss popular and successful clubs ever.

“A year later with 10 days to go to the end of the window he tells us he wants to leave to go to Manchester United.  I don’t think he treated this club with the respect that we honestly deserved. We put him on the map, I think he’s an outstanding player, but he signed a long-term contract with this club and I think he should have stayed. I had so many conversations with him. He kept saying it was about his ambition to play for Manchester United. It wasn’t a money issue. We offered him a new contract and he wasn’t even interested in discussing it.”