Well his not the most popular player at the club is he? Hasnt scored in the premier league yet, but has in the cups. Though not getting alot of minutes. Going to have a hard time getting infront of the other 3 thats for sure. But he is a model proffesional and i would love for him to stay. Listen to this interview.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/sol/newsid_71...rue&bbcws=2

He says he wants to sign, but will let his agent sort it out. Somehow i can see his agent being a right old c*nt. Look what he says about the old regime. They use to eat jelly babies after trainings and wine gums. No wonder Robbo became fat. But the new regime sounds really positive. He is a top pro, and a great lad. Lets hope he signes a new contract soon

I LOVE JD.

he must be popular consid he was voted fans fav in his first year he saved us from relegation with stacks of goals then was quality under jol at first then went out of favour when keane turned into god!

isotonic wine gums rofl would love for him to stay but think he will want 1st team football slightly more regular than what he is getting atm. If spurs can promise him time on the pitch then I believe he will be with us for years to come, but on current form you cant leave Keane out so his starts look limited. 50 -50 as to whether he signs or not imo

Threesome

Definately one of our most sympathic players...

I know this isn't relevant to the thread but; these sweets act as a way to provide the players with energy, as jelly babies and the likes are packed with sugar, a slow releasing energy rush. I remember I was in the Northampton Town (nothing special I know) dressing room before KO once and they had stacks and stacks of jelly babies in there.

But back on topic; he should leave for the good of his career if I'm being brutally honest. It would be a waste for him to be a bit part player for the rest of his career, he deserves better. But you can't kick out Keane.

Apparently he isnt going to sign a new contract..

Fuck off then, thanks for some of the goals you scored, but with the possibility of Berba leaving he would of gotten more chances. We saved him from those fuckers down the road, he should of been grateful. I loved him as a player, one of my favourites, loved his style of play and always defended him, but now he has swayed me.

Laters Defoe

Yeah but don't forget that is just some guy claiming to be an ITK. No solid evidence yet. I was having a conversation with Dom last night about our attack, saying that Keane is twice the overall player Defoe is. Defoe is a great predator and has served us well, but if I'm brutally honest he needs to move on for the betterment of his own career. I can't see him pushing Keano out of the team any time soon and a Keane - Defoe partnership doesn't work. So unless he's happy starting on the bench and coming on to nick the occasional goal then he should move on and we should bring in a young hungry striker that is ready to step up a level.

Yea i know its only ITK, but if it is true its sad. If he doesnt want to sign were is he going to go? Assuming he will leave in this window. Pompey and Villa are the only big interests, but i cant see Defoe wanting to live in those places, since he loves London so much.

Would love for him to sign on though

Defoe wold be ideal for us, if he can get out of the mentality that he has to play for a 'top 4 club' then I think we would be a very good move for him.

London to Portsmouth isn't exactly a big move, he could still live in London.

Im all over that lad.....

Average finish against Villa though...hahaha great goal!

You start your post with the word ''apparently'' which leaves the possibility of this information being false but yet, you suddenly turn on him as if he's come out, slagged the club off, called you every name under the sun and basically ruined your life. Why? Do you not know how to be a mature human being?

If Defoe really really wanted to leave, he would have done so 12-18 months ago. The only way I can see him leaving is if the club force him to as a result of him not comitting his future to the club. Although Damien Comolli came out the other week and said things were progressing well and basically expected him to sign long before his deal runs out. Ofcourse until all is resolved nothing is definite.
The way I see it is, JD is holding out on a new deal to see how things develop with him getting more games under Ramos. At the moment I don't think a great dea lhas changed. It's still Keane & Berba first choice but with Berba's future up in the air Defoe will not leave. Firstly, if Berba goes Defoe has a better chance of playing more often, something he has wanted all along. And secondly Daniel Levy isn't a mug. He won't sell two of our best players in the past couple of seasons in the same window. Regardless of who comes in.
For the record I can't see either player departing the club in this window.

I'm a Defoe fan, and he has been a loyal servant to us...always scoring goals and always praising the fans. Although it would be sad for him to go, i can fully understand him stalling on signing a new contract because the lad just wants to play football and at the moment he isnt getting it regularly.

yes he is a great impact player from the bench and it would be great to keep him for that role, but the fact is jermain defoe wants to play football all the time and he won't get that at spurs. If he went to a team like pompey i think it would work out great for him, and i personally would be pleased to see him playing often and scoring goals again (as long as they arent against us!). defoe is a great player and person and he deserves to be playing week in week out for the benefit of him and any international hopes he has.

overall i just want to say that i think people shouldnt be so harsh on him. imagine if you were in his position and you were working hard in training, scoring goals when coming on as a substitute, yet you just couldnt get a start...it would be so frustrating and jermain, quite rightly, wants some assurances that he will play more regularly before signing a new contract.

Jermain Defoe would score 20+ goals at any Premiership club. I hope he stays with us for the rest of his career.

I support Spurs. Not Jermain Defoe. If him staying and being a bit-part player for us means that he isn't banging them in against us and for our rivals week in week out - I'll be happy.

Bottom line is - he's at a top club where competion for places is high. If he wants to win his place back he needs to do better than the man currently in his place. As of right now he isn't.

He has been saying he wants to sign a new deal for a while now. And yet he hasnt done anything to sign one yet. He even said himself he wanted to sign a new deal, and the ITK that said this is very reliable.

How do you know he hasn't ''done anything to sign yet'' for all you know Levy and JD's agent could have discussed a new deal last night whilst watching Deal or No Deal.

I'm not saying ''he will definitely sign a new contract'' because he's still here and says he wants to sign. Sol Campbell said repeatedly he wanted to sign. He even said he could never see himself playing for the scum. One month later...

All i'm saying is clearly Defoe doesn't truly want to leave the club. He'll only leave for footballing reasons. If he wants to leave good luck to him. I'd prefer he stays as I've stated already but if he did ever leave I wouldn't start hounding him the way you did after hearing small bit of transfer gossip. The guy deserves more than that.

Yes i know were your coming from. If he wants to leave he can leave in this window, so we can get the maximum amount of cash for him. But if he wants to run out his contract, then thats when things will get dirty with Levy.

Defoe scored quiet a few goals lately, I would have thought he starts against Reading again.
One start and then straight back to bench... he has to be gutted. Plus, he didn't even come on as a sub and it's not like he's been shit when he came off the bench lately. Ramos could have done better there I feel.

That's the thing though, he's effective off the bench, not as a starter. He scored a good goal against Villa, but other than that one moment he was pretty poor, I see no reason why he should of started against Reading to be honest.

I agree that he was very poor against Villa. However, he has been in pretty good scoring form and didn't start much that season either so he could have done with 2 starts in 4 days easily.
It's the prefered option to safe him up later for the game by the looks of it but I think he would have at least deserved to come on with 20 minutes or so to go, probably him and Taarabt on for Keane and Lennon or Steed.

i felt 2 years ago defoe would be one of the best forward in the epl, back then he was scoring some incredible goals,pace combined with the ball skill. Since then he has not improved, with defoe it has to be mental and a move from spurs maybe the best thing for him. He is still only 25 and talented enough to become what he was meant to be a star.

Unless ramos is willing to drop keane which would be undeserved defoe has to go.

He says he loves the club, but why doesnt he sign on the dotted line already? Ramos has said he can go if he wants, but he said he wants to stay. Its not very hard to sign a new contract if he loves the club so much.

He wont do a Cuntbell on us will be? Please JD, just sign a new contract

defoe understands that signing a new contract would be silly, he is 4th choice. Spurs just want him to sign a new contract so they can sell him rather than him walk away for nothing.

Go to Villa or if liverpool want to sell crouch and vorinin that may be a good option for him.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/goss/view/26219...-2M-love-shack/

I think he should just move on. The moment your manager comes out and tells you he can make do without your services, it's time to move on. I still think he's one of the best box players in the PL. +he has pace to burn. He won't be short of suitors.

In case Defoe does not sign the new contract, i could bet my new Adidas predators, that Rafa will take him as a free agent, like he did with Voronin

Am I the only one who doesn't want to see Defoe leave? He's been a loyal and good servant to the club inspite of not always featuring in the first eleven. He has always shown his eagerness to play and has performed more often than not when called upon. He's a quality finisher, which is something he'll never lose, along with his pace, incisiveness, and insticts infront of goal. I can't understand why we are trying to change and bring in reinforcements in our forward line. We're scoring freely, and only now (after dropping Bent) have we been able to find some sort of balance up-front with Defoe as our super-sub and sometimes starter. Ramos confuses me, I know he wants to stamp his authority on the pitch and that may involve him bringing in some players that will adhere to his instructions and intended style, but why change a working formula and that too during mid-season.

I really don't want Defoe to go to rivals Villa, we were supposed to be the team investing in English Youth, but now Villa seem to have taken over such a mantle with their signings of Young, Davies, Reo-Coker, two of which were prospective Spurs recruits. Let's just hope Ramos come to his senses and allows him to stay. I'd much rather keep Defoe than risk dipping into the market for the potential arrivals of Fred or Kerzhakov. Both carry too much risk, are unproven in Major leagues, won't come cheap and don't exactly fill me with much confidence. Fred should only be signed as replacement for Berba and for no other reason. We should rather be concentrating on firming up the defence and our keeper.

KEEP JERMAINE AT THE LANE!

Nah lad.

Im JD's biggest fan...KEEP HIM AT THE LANE!

I agree as well, I hope he signs a new contract. Kerzhakov is a fascinating player, but as you said, the risk is through the roof - and for the price he'll come in, no chance it'll be value for money. He's not going to set the EPL alight, IMO. And I've never rated Fred that highly, he's a good finisher, but Defoe is just as good anyway.

Ah well, i guess nobody expected such a great quality from Berbatov when he was signed. So, i wouldn't underestimate Kerzhakov. He might be able of turning some fresh air in the EPL, i dunno.
Defoe should stay. No matter, whether Berbatov leaves, or Fred comes in, the team needs to preserve their top players, otherwise all this talk of the squad aiming high would have no back-up.

Off to Pompey. Opportunity to start regularly and get back into the England squad was too much of a draw. Best of luck, JD.

Dom, hope you'll be ok.

9m is a great price for Defoe, considering he didnt want to sign a new deal. Anyway goodluck to Defoe.

good luck defoe. except when he plays us, lol. he will be missed. but we got a good deal for him.

Im actually gutted

When i heard the clubs had agreed a fee i didnt think he would agree personal terms...
Even says on the official website 'The Club has reluctantly agreed the transfer of Jermain'

Says it all.....

GUTTED!

Im gutted too mate. Defoe was my favourite Spurs player early on. I still havnt come to terms that he is gone.

Hope he can bang them in for Pompey though. Pompey will be like a second team for me now.

Same....Will definitely watch Pompey games from now.

All the best to JD...he'll be in the England team within the year.

How many former Spurs players is that in the Pompey team now? We must have a pretty good relationship with them.

Too many...and too many ones id take back at Spurs.

A very good signing for us, the sort of striker we needed, and a striker we have been chasing for a while. Redknapp really rates Defoe so he will be playing regular football.

He is cup tied though right?

Yea.

Enjoy him

he also scored his first goal v pompey for us i was there great memory, at heard jermaine defoe always a yiddo!! need to change my username for most sites now and xbox live gametag.

Dunno about this for Pompey, always thought he was shit.

He will score alot of goals at Pompey..wouldnt be surprised if he scored today. He likes a goal on his debut.

Hey SPURS_4_EVA, why did you wrote "I love tottenham" with small yellow letters, eh? And why is Tottenham not with capital "T"? If i snatched that sig bet with you, i'd be very disappointed and demand even increasing period of usage of the sig !

Sorry to quote myself but i love being right.

Defoe is actually on loan at the moment, but the deal will become permanent when the Benjani deal is sorted.

Yep, Jermain Defoe still a yido!

He scored very good goal versus Chelski. Started the game a bit awkward, but grew on confidence and then after the first goal he got 2 decent chances to score a second, still Cech was on his place.

The Defoe deal is intend to give D.Bent more confidence, i suppose. I hope he uses this as some kinda boost and gets a decent performance, at least close to all thing JD did for Spurs.

Back in the England squad now. AWESOME LAD!

So happy for him, hopefully he could get a start and score.