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The Betrayal would stem from the signing of a new contract and not honouring that contract, the Betrayal would be refusing to play last week or for not being in ‘the right frame of mind’ to play for the club currently paying his very large wages. Worry about your own clubs short comings you Gooner t**t.

Man Utd,Arsenal,Liverpool & Chelsea seems to be running a cartel, buying the TOP players from the emerging clubs is breaking their momentum hence the emerging clubs are finding difficulty breaking into the so called top 4.

He was labeled a judas after he promised to sign a new contract, but then let his run down to get his bosman, he also said he would never join arsenal but did, all the actions of a Judas it seems.

Rubbish. Contract is contract. If there was a clause in Berbatov’s contract saying that he could be released if Spurs didn’t break into the Champions League, then fair enough. Given the Berbatov signed a contract that kept him at the Lane far beyond 2008, whether Spurs came 4th or 17th, he is obliged to play for Spurs until they decide to sell him. The best interests of the player are not really a consideration. If players are concerned about not achieving certain targets with the clubs that they are joining then they should sign shorter deals – Berbatov was under no obligation to sign a contract keeping him with Spurs for so long. He is a professional footballer and should have behaved in a more professional manner – asking for a move is acceptable, but not ‘being in the right frame of mind’ to play is pathetic, for someone being paid tens of thousands of pounds per week. He has come out of this whole saga looking very bad indeed.

Ramos Poyet and Woodgate have not done or said anything wrong. All Ramos has said is that Berbatov’s head is not in the right place to play at the moment which I think is cleary true and that this whole saga of only having 1 striker to choose from had affected our results so far which again there is no way that you can deny this is true. As for Woodgate he’s words were poorly twisted in the press. Infact it was Woodgate who came out first and said any talk of Berbatov being solely responsible for our poor start is rubbish (though I would argue he is partly) Would have far more respect for Berbatov if after he made it clear he would like to move, if he was called upon before he got his move that he would role his sleeves up and give the club that are still paying his wages 100%.

Typical non-Spurs comment – rubbish! Spurs took a gamble on Berbatov when we could have gone for more obvious transfer targets. No one had heard of him over here till he joined Spurs. As soon as he started showing his true Premiership class twats like Lawrensen were shouting he should be a Man Utd player! WHY? Do you not realise it is of vital importance to the welfare of football in this country that teams like Spurs, Man City, Aston Villa, Everton, West Ham, Newcastle break the ‘top four’ cartel. Spurs managed to unearth someone that has the quality and he should have been leading us to challenge. Instead last year he was an absolute disgrace to game. Self absorbed – blaming teammates for every move break down even when it was himself at fault. You obviously did not see all of the Spurs games last year and have taken on a ‘match of the day’ tunnel vision view of what went on last season. I’m just looking forward to the look on his face the first time he sees Rooney fumble the ball with his poor first touch! I’d rather Arsenal win the prem this year than old red nose!

How can any team guarantee to a player what they will give them. He signed for us when he could have gone to Man Utd – he turned them down. Now he pulls a strop to go to Utd and refuses to play despite us still paying him. If I refused to work, I’d get sacked not sympathy

How does that explain his bad attitude and lack of commitment? Lack of commitment to the club that risked £10.9m on him. Where were Utd 2 years ago? Why did they not believe in him enough to spend £10.9m on him? If Utd want the proven quality striker that Berbatov now is, then they should have to cough up big money. Either pay the £30m or go abroad and take the risks that we had to take. Sign someone like Huntelaar and see if he can cut it in the Premier League.

if he wants to move on fine but he’s a professional, if i wanted to change job i would be expected to continue giving my all or be disciplined, spurs have paid him for the last 2 weeks for nothing, good riddence when he goes today – dont sign a long contract if you cant be proffessional enough to play – we did fine without him yesterday – article obviously written by a gooner lover

Berba is under contract… Berba has signed a contract… Berba doesn’t want to play, but we’re still paying him, therefore he’s not professionalist and acts selfishly… Come on people! If he (or whatever player) wasn’t under contract, the team wouldn’t be able to SELL him because he’d be free agent and would go wherever he wanted. One of the purposes of contracts is to compensate a probable loss of a player by giving the club the right to put a price for him! And about “don’t want to play” – the whole summer Tottenham has been talking about “life without Berbatov”. Ramos knows he’d leave. Levy too. So, if you are going to lose him for one reason or another (he has said many times he wants to win trophies and to play in CL) you’re also going to take the best price possible, right? And if you want 30 million for him, you can’t risk your golden egg goose to get injured! And by blaming him the club also find excuses for the poor start of yours (btw, well done for the Chelsea draw!)! Prove me wrong, if you can!

So everyone is wrong except Berbatov and the writer of this article. Spurs were wrong in offering him a 5 year deal, yet player and his agent arent because they signed it?. Spurs were wrong for finishing in 5th place in his first season and winning a trophy in his second.Berbatov isnt even though his performance from August-December netted 4 goals?, and of course his attitude hasn’t affected team moral in the slightest?.Spurs fans are wrong for giving the player hero status and being equally upset when this players agent has manipulated a deal with Man Utd for over two years. Spurs are wrong in not selling the player for a sum that Man UTD see fit to offer, how dare they!. Naughty Tottenham should just bend over and be taken up the backside by anyone who wants to shaft them! Fans of ANY club outside the top four should be applauding the stance Spurs have taken and anyone or agent involved in media should also be backing Tottenham Hotspur because after all they are right, their stance is right, and you my friend, the authur of this garbage…..are most certainly a fool!

Stop crying Spurs , you pay 11mil. take 30mil., what you want ? And the article is right , this is the simple truth ! DONT BLAMING BERBA , he and RK carried you on pickaback enough!

Of course, if Tottenham failed, Berbatov also has to be blamed… as wells as all the other Tottenham players. But I want to ask you sth – do you think that he and Keane failed after netting 91 goals in the last two seasons? (Berbatov 2×23, Keane 22&23 respectively). I don’t think so. But you can blame, for example, the defence. You can blame also your midfielders, because Keane and Berba actually made most of their goals and chances. The midfield created almost nothing for the past two seasons. You can blame especially the goalkeeper! You can blame Levy and Commoli for not buying the right players (I mean these the coaches wanted!). But for god sake, don’t blame Jol, Ramos, Berbatov or Keane! You just don’t have the right to do so, because they did their job! The simple truth is that having the right coach and the best forward duo in PL was just not enough. Now you’re on the right way, but you still have a great work to do. And if Berbatov and Keane wants to leave (and some left), this is only because they don’t believe that when Tottenham becomes good enough to possibly break the big four in a few years, they themselves won’t be good enough for the team anymore. And there’re only very few players who’d stay in this situation, don’t you think?

Your both wrong he did ask to move along with keane its on the spurs website levy sated they both asked to leave. so leys get the facts right. The guys a poor professional acting the way he has done so cut the crap! Personally i will glad to see him go you are welcome to him and you will sson see his attitude sucks he may be ok for a whiloe then you will see the poor body language

I think the bosses at Spurs are right to make it difficult for any top player to leave. It will be a couple of years before Tottenham will get into the top four and they must send a message to each of the current squad to stick it out or suffer the same treatment as Berba.

As a Spurs season ticket holder i Actually feel let down by everyone involved with the whole matter. But overall a player should play football and show some loyalty to the club who gave him his chance in one of the best leagues in world football. He has shown nothing but petulance and has acted like a spoilt child. Woodgate, hit it on the head when he said that every professional footballer should be honoured to be paid as much as they do for doing a job they love doing. I was at the Roma friendly and the fans were singing his name, but he didn’t deserve it, he just doesn’t want to play for the club. Someone mentioned Sol, saying it was the same thing, but this is different in that Sol gave the impression all through the last season of his contract that he would sign a new deal. He dumped us and we got nothing for the time and money spent developing him from a boy. If he had been truthful we could have sold him in contract and got £12M for him, but he stuffed us. The club board and management have cocked up in the whole pre-season. We should have been improving the squad and in the end we have decimated it and there is no cohesion at all. The point yesterday was lucky as we don’t look like scoring. Because of so many changed this could be a mid table season and no European football next year. Overall, Berba is a spoilt child and the Red scum are welcome to him, but the Spurs board and management are to blame as well

Vlad, I couldnt give a monkeys toss, what age Berbatov is or what his motives are, all I care about is Spurs getting whatever they can from whoever they can, and getting this two-faced money grabbing lying piece of garbage off of our books,and I look forward to giving him a big ‘Sol’type reception when he comes back to the Lane..strange how many times Campball has gone AWOL when this game comes around..?

StephenPerth – Dude, what the hell are you reading. I said Berbatov himself had not come out and said which club he wanted to go to. Levy said Berbatov wanted to go to United. Berbatov said nothing directly to the press…You get your facts straight! And about acting the way he has, Lets look at the facts! When Gallas wanted to move from Chelsea to Arsenal he publicly stated that he would purposefully play poorly until he got his move. With Berba on the other hand Spurs have said he’s a bad influence on the team. Why? What’s the reason for it? Do you know? And don’t give me YOUR crap about how his head was not in it anymore and all those other speculative gossip. For all I know, it just means that Ramos has decided that since Berbatov wants to leave, he won’t play.

Since Ramos and Spurs are so adamant that Berbatov was a destructive influence, why then do they blame their 2 losses so far to a player they refused to play! If Berbatov played for 90 mins in each of the 2 games, and played poorly at that, then you can say, he was a destructive influence. But that didn’t happen! So don’t tell me I’m wrong and that I have my facts wrong!