Last week, Fenerbahçe chairman Aziz Yildirim said the Turkish club had rejected a €10m (£8m) offer, believed to be from Tottenham, for striker Emmanuel Emenike.
“The offer for Emenike came and they offered 10 million euros. However, I trust him; therefore, I rejected the offer,” Yildirim told the Daily Sabah.
Fener signed Emenike from Spartak Moscow for £11.2m 18 months ago, so they were never likely to accept an £8m bid, particularly given his good form since moving to Turkey.
It sounds like Tottenham’s offer was designed to unsettle the player – and it’s worked.
Both Emenike and his agent have since said a move away from the SuperLig club is possible this month, which leaves Spurs in a strong position if we actually want to sign the 27-year-old Nigerian.
The fallout seems to have annoyed Fener, however, and the Turks have release a statement stressing that no transfer talks are ongoing.
“Emmanuel Emenike is a Fenerbahçe player and has a contract with us until 2017, there are currently no transfer talks,” reads the statement.
Statements like this don’t mean much (remember Tottenham’s ‘we’re not in talks with Frank de Boer’ one, when we obviously were in talks with Frank de Boer), so there’s a good chance you’ll read more stories linking Spurs with Emenike before the end of the month.
I don’t know anything about the Nigeria international but a couple of videos on YouTube suggest he’s a technically-decent player and he’s played on the right wing at times for Fener. That’s versatility that’ll appeal to Mauricio Pochettino.
He also scores goals: in two seasons at Spartak, he netted a whopping 36 in 42 league appearances and he’s managed 25 in 40 since moving to Istanbul. He clearly knows where the net is.
With Emmanuel Adebayor on the head-coach’s blacklist and Roberto Soldado, er, not very good, Spurs desperately need someone to take the pressure off Harry Kane and the reported bid for Emenike at least proves the club are searching for that person this month. Emenike could yet turn out to be our man, despite what Fener are saying.
courtesy: thetottenhamway
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