Vieri link

[bandini]

Vieri In Shock Spurs Link The 33-year-old is available on a free transfer after a season with Atalanta, but while numerous clubs in Serie A have been linked with his signature it could be a Premiership outfit that lands the veteran.

Tottenham are known to be in the market for a striker, despite their current healthy crop of forwards, and it is claimed that they have contacted Vieri's agent about a move to London.

Martin Jol is actively targeting Darren Bent, but with Charlton playing hard-ball over his transfer fee it is possible that the Dutchman is examining alternative options as he looks to replace the soon to be departing Mido.

Vieri, who made his name with Inter Milan where he enjoyed the most of his success in a much travelled career, has already been linked with Genoa, Napoli and Palermo this summer.

Tottenham are aiming to push their way into the top four having finished fifth in the past two seasons and may see the former Italian international as the man to make the difference.

source: Goal.com - Italy - Vieri In Shock Spurs Link

[D-Kin]

I think you're a couple of years too late.

It's not that he can't score goals it's just his body is knackered and he's injury prone.

He'd be better off at a mid-table Italian club in my opinion.

[bandini]

the only reason i can actually see it working is that we have a few starters already so maybe he wouldn't mind sitting on the bench and just coming on late in games and stuff, but my argument against that is that we are building a team of young up and coming players so why go for an older player that is near the end of his career?

[Jager]

I agree with Joel, however i'm very intrigued by any future move to England. He has always wanted to play there.

He speaks English fluently, so the transition would not be hard from a cultural point of view.

[Mighty T.A.L.]

Spurs fans would be real dissapointet if Jol decide to sign Vieri.Including Vieri in the squad could also mean one striker will be pushed out.Defoe maybe?

[D-Kin]

Originally Posted by bandini

the only reason i can actually see it working is that we have a few starters already so maybe he wouldn't mind sitting on the bench and just coming on late in games and stuff, but my argument against that is that we are building a team of young up and coming players so why go for an older player that is near the end of his career?

After what he's been through recently I can't see him being willing to sit on the bench, even if he's on a decent wage.

He'll want to start every week.

[skeeta]

He only played in seven matches for Atalanta, keeping up his record with Monaco (7) and Milan ( 8 ) ; he did manage six straight years with Inter, but before that it was a new club every year since he left Torino in the early 90s (a number of those moves were on loan).

When he was on and healthy, he was capable of putting up some very impressive numbers: 24 goals in 24 games for Atleti in 97/98, 22 in 25 for Inter 2001/02 and 24 in 23 for Inter in 2002/03. Unfortunately, it has been pretty much all down here from there, though there was that goal from 40 metres at the end of this season. A goal a game in Serie A is nothing to sneeze at.

What people don't like about Vieri is that he has in many ways become an absolute caricature of the modern footballer: always on the move in order to maxmise his earnings, always going out with a high profile bimbo, always eager to be featured (favourably) in gossip rags, always on the lookout for ways to make a buck (like the fashion labels). Even when he finally "settled down" at Inter (because everyone knows that Moratti is willing to pay strikers more than they can get anywhere else), he manages to annoy everyone with his off the field antics and to engineer a transfer that seemed primarily (or even exclusively) designed to piss people off.