How Spurs finally got 11m hitman Rebrov ADRIAN CURTIS analyses how Tottenham's record signing of international striker Sergei Rebrov was finally completed after hours of painstaking negotiations with officials from Dynamo Kiev

From: Evening Standard - London | Date: May 19, 2000| Author: ADRIAN CURTIS | Copyright information

IT WAS the moment that Tottenham Hotspur got the feeling the Sergei Rebrov deal would go through.

There was still a lot of hard negotiating to be done and the Dynamo Kiev hierarchy were holding out for a 12 million transfer fee.

But what about the dodgy knee?

The question was concerning everyone and the player himself had even spoken of his fears that an injury suffered several years before would return to plague him. Could that be happening on the verge of his multimill...

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