Graham Roberts has rubbished claims that Tottenham Hotspur could look to move for Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma.
The French international was linked with a move to the North Londoners earlier this month with Wolves and Jose Mourinho’s AS Roma also said to be keen on a deal (Julien Maynard).
Spurs were reported to have had a bid rejected by their rivals last summer for the 26-year-old with Chelsea wanting close to €45m (£38.5m) if they were to allow him to leave (L’Equipe / Print Edition – 11/11/20).
Roberts believes that the frosty relationship between both clubs will result in there being no chance that a deal could be a possibility after tensions became the two Premier League sides become ‘fractious’ over Chelsea’s attempt to prise Luka Modric away from Tottenham in 2011 (ESPN).
Roberts told the Football Transfer Tavern: “It will never happen, because [Daniel] Levy and [Roman] Abramovich don’t deal with each other,”
“They just don’t deal with each other. They don’t like each other and theydon’t deal with each other, so that won’t happen at all.”
SpursWeb Opinion
Roberts is correct, there is no way that the two clubs would look to conduct business, especially if one believes that a sale would strengthen the other club in what is already a tough battle to secure a top four finish in the Premier League table.
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