Arshavin Too Good For Tottenham

Advocaat says Andrei Arshavin is too Good for Spurs or Rangers

Dick Advocaat, Manager of Russian team Zenit St Petersburg has said that Andrei Arshavin is too good to join Tottenham or Rangers. Advocaat says Arshavin should be looking to sign for one of the major European clubs.

“As a manager I would like Arshavin to stay but as a person I realise that he deserves more. But Andrei is too good for Spurs or Rangers. It would be better for him to stay in St Petersburg than to go to London or Glasgow. Tottenham has a fine reputation but I doubt that Arshavin will want to move there.

“I do not want to offend Roman Pavlyuchenko, but in my opinion Arshavin is a much classier player. He needs to move to a really great club. He didn’t show his best form recently. For St Petersburg he doesn’t perform as strongly as he used to.”

According to the Daily Mirror, Anredi Arshavin’s fellow Russian Pavlyuchenko may have to leave White Hart Lane as manager Harry Redknapp looks to do some wheeling and dealing to bring in some money and get the players he wants. Harry is well-known in the UK for being a very clever buyer and seller of players.

Pavlyuchenko has scored five goals since Redknapp took over at Spurs, but rumour has it that the manager is still unconvinced of his quality.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is also said to have put £20 million price tag on Aaron Lennon, to dissuade former Spurs manager Juande Ramos from luring him to Real Madrid. Ramos was of course famously interested in Andrei Arshavin when he was manager of Spurs, so now that he is at Real Madrid, where presumably cash is not a problem, it is quite probable that he is even more interested in Arshavin.

Ramos said to Sovetsky Sport: "At the moment I can only talk about Real players, and Arshavin is Zenit player. But despite this, I cannot hide the fact that I know Andrei Arshavin very well. He is a brilliant, magical footballer."

Talking to the Sun Arshavin said : “I can confirm that officials from Zenit have begun preliminary negotiations with Real Madrid about my transfer. At the moment there is nothing concrete on the table. Also, there is contact with other Spanish clubs, as well as Italian and English clubs.”

The problem in the past has been the (inflated) price Zenit have been asking for Andrei Arshavin, and now that Ramos is at Real Madrid is seems unlikely that they will deflate this price.

Hopefully Arshavin will sign for somebody in January, as this saga is getting a bit tedious and it would be nice to see Arshavin playing for a top European Club in the Champions League.