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Going to have to keeop this rather brief, as like Ruud van Nistelrooy, I’m on the hoof.

So, things to take note of today. David Beckham’s signed for the LA Galaxy. Not strictly Spurs news, although we were supposedly one of 8,000 clubs on the list, which in fact consisted of every single team in all worldwide associations minus Barca, Real and the English top four, although I wouldn’t count the Scousers out. They’ll have anything. Do you think he signed for the club thinking it was the LA Galacticos?

It’s probably a good move for the chap, given that major league football/soccer is so far removed from the radar that it doesn’t feel so much of a step down, that any other would have been, as a move into another dimension altogether. Dave’s got a lot to give to the game and the US is clearly a place he can do that. We all like the guy and it’d just be painful for us all to watch him fade from club to club, bench to bench until finally he’s sold his right leg to Bolton, where Big Face Same is using it for set piece training and occasionally to mine the canyon like cavities that are the nostrils of his planetoid head. And at least Posh can have her celeb life and keep it well away fromour pages, hopefully along with her “music”.

Just before we return to the club we know, love and adore, I’ve just literally fallen off my seat reading that Chelsea are in for Milan Baros. I was looking at the story on someone else’s paper on the bus and I had to get lower and lower as he scrunched the paper up further and further until I slipped and hit the deck of the upstairs of the 55.

Is this Mourinho’s final laugh at the West London club before he leaves; fill the ranks up with Premiership dross? You can just imagine him trying to persuade Kenyon and Abromovich.

‘No, honestly. He’s really good. He only looks rubbish because he plays alongside Angel and has only had the support of Barry, Gerrard, Kewell and Murphy when he was good. And er….um…he’s got really nice hair.’

Enough of the fun. Back to business and the name of that business today is ‘How to buy Ashley Young’. It’s all pointing that way. We’ve turned down Fulham’s bid to sign Routledge on a permanent basis and now we’re rumoured to be in for United’s Wes Orange. He always clashed with that red shirt anyway.

If you haven’t been following this one and shame on you if that’s the case, the WHL’s long forgotten winger is to be used as part of the bargin and Brown is to be acquired to fill in for Davenport, who is to be the other pawn of the package. Reports are suggesting that the Brown bid and that’s got nothing to do with persuading your girlfriend to try something different, was for cool but reasonable £5m but he’s reported to be looking to spend the rest of his days at the Red Devils under the wing of Uncle Fergie and his mountain of used chewing gum, rumoured to be orbiting Saturn and soon to be auctioned on Ebay.

It all looks fairly promising on the one front and all rather desperate on the other. How long before we’re putting in a bid for Djimi Traore

Away from the pitch, The Telegraph has printed an article on Daniel Levy’s pay rise from £225,000 to £775,000, asking how this can be justified. The author has recieved what can only be described as ‘a good slagging’ by host of Spurs, who disagree. Take a look. It’s worth it. This guy must be feeling rather small.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/sport/2007/01/11/sfnbon211.xml

So, if Levy’s on £775,000, then he’s getting about £15,000 a week. Even Danny Murphy is better paid. I say we double it again.

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