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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2006 13:59:02 GMT -5
Ivory Coast midfielder Didier Zokora said he chose to join Tottenham despite receiving an offer from north London rivals Arsenal. The 25-year-old joined Spurs for £8.2m from St Etienne last month.
"Spurs are an ambitious club with lots of good young players and for me they are a club for the future," he said.
"I listened to an offer from Arsenal, but decided Spurs was where I wanted to be at. One of the things was that they showed they really wanted me."
Zokora added: "Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Eboue are friends of mine, and of course it would have been nice to play with them at Arsenal - but I really wanted to go to Tottenham."
However, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger said towards the end of last year that he was not interested in signing the Ivorian.
Meanwhile, the World Cup star said the persuasive powers of Tottenham's sporting director Damien Comolli played a big part.
He had also taken Zokora to St Etienne from Belgian side Genk.
"I was impressed by them and I know Comolli. I was very impressed by what they had to offer," he said.
"Comolli came out to speak to me in Germany and told me what a great club Tottenham is. I'm also very excited about playing with players like Aaron Lennon, who are the future of English football."
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Post by Dominic on Aug 1, 2006 14:15:13 GMT -5
nothing to do with wage difference then
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2006 14:18:10 GMT -5
you don't think it's cos spurs are the better team then
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Post by feckarse on Aug 2, 2006 4:39:50 GMT -5
you don't think it's cos spurs are the better team then On the contrary he probably wasn't guaranteed first team football!
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Post by Wireless on Aug 2, 2006 6:18:26 GMT -5
Or it was their new brown kit...
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Post by Dominic on Aug 2, 2006 6:24:47 GMT -5
Theres not a football player in the world who wouldnt want to play under Wenger at some point in there Career
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Post by ash on Aug 2, 2006 8:24:12 GMT -5
you don't think it's cos spurs are the better team then On the contrary he probably wasn't guaranteed first team football! why? because he wouldnt be able to get into the team ahead of gilberto silve and diaby? ?
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Post by Dominic on Aug 2, 2006 8:28:24 GMT -5
because theyre holding midfeildplayers maybe?
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Aug 2, 2006 8:47:12 GMT -5
nah, the story is bs...got translated poorly
a few weeks ago he said that Arsenal and Utd were interested in him, but never put in firm offers
now he says that he snubbed Arsenal -- not really, it seems that Arsenal snubbed him
good day
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Post by wecker on Aug 4, 2006 7:17:09 GMT -5
He reminds me of Diouf...
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Post by feckarse on Aug 4, 2006 8:19:12 GMT -5
He reminds me of Diouf... who are you? from the sounds of your pointless posts i'd say you're someone else in the forum taking an alter ego........
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Post by wecker on Aug 4, 2006 10:17:09 GMT -5
He reminds me of Diouf... who are you? from the sounds of your pointless posts i'd say you're someone else in the forum taking an alter ego........ I just wonder whether he'll be so disappointing like Diouf because he has someting more or less with Diouf in common. You can skip what you dont like.
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