PSG target Villas-Boas happy to stay at Spurs but wants David Villa, Damiao and Paulinho signed
PSG target Villas-Boas happy to stay at Spurs but wants David Villa, Damiao and Paulinho signed
Brazil duo and Barca striker seen as the calibre of player who can deliver Champions League spot PLUS Adebayor out, Ince in?
Bright future: Villas-Boas wants three new attacking players this summer
Bryn Lennon
Andre Villas-Boas is ready to snub Paris Saint-Germain - but wants Tottenham to prove their ambition. Villas-Boas is big-spending PSG's number one managerial target
as last season's title-winner Carlo Ancelotti prepares to succeed Jose
Mourinho at Real Madrid, and they are prepared to meet his £10million
release clause.
But AVB wants to stay loyal to Tottenham, who
hired hima year ago after he'd lasted less than a season as Chelsea boss
- although he expects them to back him in this summer's transfer market.
He plans to shake-up his strike-force this summer, with Emmanuel Adebayor heading out to Turkish giants Fenerbahce and Barcelona's Spain international David Villa top of his wish-list of replacements.
Fenerbahce,
who had targeted Benfica's Oscar Cardozo, have now switched their aim
to Adebayor with a £10million move in the offing - the low-tax regime in
Turkey making the move more palatable for the 29-year-old.
That
will allow Levy to turn his attention to the three attacking recruits he
hopes to confirm before Spurs begin pre-season training next month. Internacional striker Leandro Damaio is one, while Tottenham are also a long way down the road with Corinthians midfielder Paulinho.
The two Brazil internationals are the calibre of players that
Villas-Boas believes can take the club forward, after narrowly missing
out on the Champions League last month for the second season running.
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, meanwhile, is keeping close tabs on Blackpool's Tom Ince.
England
Under-21 winger Ince is wanted by former club Liverpool, and premier
League new boys Cardiff and Crystal Palace, but Tottenham have the
firepower to blow them all out of the water.
Villas-Boas, who has
two years left on his contract, has seen Franco Baldini - former England
boss Fabio Capello's ex-lieutenant - begin work as his director of
football to bring in new signings, even though he has yet to be formally
confirmed.
It is all designed to show AVB that Tottenham are determined
to push on next season, especially as they are also committed to resist Real Madrid's moves to sign Gareth Bale.
Villas-Boas is happy at the north London club, and seeing them continuing to move forward will be enough to keep him at White Hart Lane.
That
is likely to push PSG towards switching targets, away from Villas-Boas
and on to Swansea's unsettled boss Michael Laudrup and also Roberto
Mancini, sacked by Manchester City last month exactly a year after
winning the title.
Laudrup is likely to be ahead of Mancini.
The Dane's
Swansea future is still unresolved and it seems increasingly likely he
will leave after a fall-out with chairman Huw Jenkins.
PSG's long
term ambition is to land Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, but
Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis has already made it clear they are
committed to keeping the 63-year-old beyond the 2014 expiration of his
current contract.
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