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Looks like it's happening for Spurs and Bassong. Here are a few quick thoughts.
1) Nice move for Spurs as they need a young, healthy, high quality centre back with upside.
2) You have to wonder why Arsenal wasn't interested at this price - throwing an additional £16M for Bassong and Chamakh seems like a reasonable use of their K2 & Toure money. Maybe the rumored deal for Migueal Veloso is really on and that is going to suck up the cash.
3) For fantasy purposes my assumption is that Spurs start the season with Bale on the left, Corluka and Bassong in the middle, and Hutton on the right with Corluka moving to the left to supplant Bale if/when one of Spurs oft-injured CBs returns to health. Could make Bale an interesting play until he is sent back to the bench. Not sure he'll ever live up to his first fantasy season but at 6.12 it's worth thinking about.
Contra Neal, I think Benoit Assou-Ekotto (sp? I'll stick to BAE, thank you very much) will start on the left with - gut feeling here - Naughton on the right. 'arry likes to play 'his' guys - see Defoe, Keane, Crouch, etc - and Naughton is his buy while Hutton (to EVE, maybe?) isn't.
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