Source: Daily_Mail
Spurs step up Sandro interest as Redknapp plans scouting trip to Brazil
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is expected to travel to Brazil before thetransfer window opens to look at Internacional defensive-midfielder Sandro.[LNB]No laughing matter: Spurs are keen to bring in Sandro (R), who shares a joke with Brazilian team-mate Maicon earlier this month[LNB]Redknapp only has Wilson Palacios, Tom Huddlestone and Jermaine Jenas as central midfielders and views the 20-year-old, who made his Brazil debut earlier in the season, as a possibility to provide competition.[LNB]'We've only got three central midfield players,' said Redknapp.[LNB]'Jamie O'Hara went, Kevin-Prince Boateng went, Didier Zokora went. Suddenly we're very, very short in there. Jermaine Jenas is on four bookings, Palacios on three.[LNB]'So I'm looking for someone else who can play in midfield here. [LNB]'We've been looking at Sandro. [LNB]'He's just breaking into the Brazilian team from the Under-21s.[LNB]'He can play - he's a modern day midfield player.[LNB]'I'd like to go and have a look myself as well and, if we do decide to do anything, it'll be up to the chairman to push it on from there.'[LNB] Sandro set for £14m Spurs switch as Harry Redknapp targets steely Brazil midfielderKaraoke king Peter Crouch gutted Harry has stopped Spurs stars partyingTottenham ready to leave Lane as they apply for permission to build new homeTOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FC
