Soccer (FIFA)
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15 hours agoTottenham move ahead of Premier League rivals to sign free-agent defender
Tottenham is advancing talks for a free transfer of Marcos Senesi, contingent on maintaining Premier League status.
Vincent Kompany was at Tegernsee [last summer], he drove out there with Christoph Freund, and said: 'Uli, we need Xavi Simons'. I had put an apple pie on the table for the meeting and replied: 'Vincent, you can have another piece of the apple pie, but you're not getting Xavi. We want you to play the young players'.
"Quarter-finals are never easy and we made it a bit tougher than it needed to be. Fiorentina got the belief back with the penalty. It was a very difficult game to manage to be honest."