Tottenham Hotspur To Fund Ruud Van Nistelrooy Purchase By Inviting Bids For Four Spurs Players

Tottenham Hotspur are so keen to recruit Real Madrid misfit Ruud van Nistelrooy that they are willing to listen to offers for four of their own players: Roman Pavlyuchenko, David Bentley, Alan Hutton and Robbie Keane.

According to The People, the Lilywhites' manager, Harry Redknapp, has a limited mid-season transfer budget, and will therefore have to sell prior to buying.

Van Nistelrooy has fallen out of favour at the Santiago Bernabeu, and is allegedly keen on a winter window exit in order to find first-team football and play his way into contention for a spot in the Netherlands' World Cup squad.

The aforementioned quartet of Spurs players are deemed surplus to requirements at White Hart Lane.

Celtic are reportedly expressing an interest in Keane, while Pavlyuchenko is on the wish-list of AC Milan and Zenit St Petersburg. Sunderland boss Steve Bruce is allegedly in pursuit of defender Alan Hutton while Mark Hughes could be reunited with Bentley, this time at Manchester City; the pair worked at Blackburn Rovers together.

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