Robbie Heading Back to the Lane?

Up until some great and consistent years with Spurs Robbie Keane had been a bit of a wonderer. Blasting on to the scene with Wolves where he looked to be one of the biggest talents to emerge from British football for some time. He then moved to Coventry where again he was successful and it even made the big clubs look up and take notice. Alex Ferguson once famously said he wouldn’t pay of £500,000 for Keane but Inter Milan and Marcelo Lippi decided to pay a hefty £13m for his services. When Lippi left he was rarely chosen and moved to Leeds on loan and eventually made the move permanent. When Leeds came up across financial problems Spur took advantage and signed him in 2003 for a knock down price.

Liverpool

Then came the controversial move to Spurs which devastated the fans (myself included being a Spurs fan) because he was always known as ‘Mr.Tottenham’ and was the angel where Berbatov was the ‘devil’. It was really disappointing as Keane was a quality player but it was understandable because of the profit made and the amount of money for his age. However I was not happy with the way Benitez went about the transfer, he attempted to do the same to Aston Villa and Gareth Barry but Martin O’Neill stayed strong. Benitez has this trick of releasing information to the media that he is interested in a player which gets to the tabloids. The player then hears this and because Liverpool are a big club they then want to go there and cause a fuss at their current club. Benitez can then come in and take the ‘troublesome’ player off their hands and gets his player.

Back to Spurs?

I personally would welcome Robbie Keane back because he is such a good player, seems like a fantastic guy and is  Spurs legend. It all depends whether Harry Redknapp is interested and if Benitez can let his ego accept he made a wrong move and that the apparent dream strike force of Keane and Torres isn’t going to happen any time soon.