Niko Kranjcar rejected Everton to join Tottenham

02 September 2009 10:06
Kranjcar agreed a deadline day move to White Hart Lane, for around £3 million, after Spurs lost Luka Modric, his Croatian team-mate, for two months with a broken leg bone. "Everton is also a big club but, in the end, the tradition and greatness of Tottenham made the difference,” said Kranjcar. "I also knew manager Harry Redknapp, and Luka Modric and Vedran Corluka told me great things about the club. "It all happened in the last two days, although it is true that contact with Tottenham was here for a long time," said Krancjar, quoted in Croatian newspaper Jutarnji List. "Now I will play for a club with big ambitions, those which are similar to mine.” Kranjcar won the FA Cup with Portsmouth under Redknapp and joins a club currently joint top of the Premier League following their best start to a campaign for 49 years. "I want to fight for trophies and I'm sure that at Tottenham I will get this chance, which I didn't at Portsmouth," he said. "So for me this is a big step ahead in my career. If everything at Fratton Park would stay the same as before, I wouldn't push so much for the move. "But the ambitions were gone, the president wasn't able to give so much money as before, players are leaving the club. I just didn't want to stay in such a club."

Source: Telegraph