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| | Tottenham´s new manager Juande Ramos has his eye on Real Madrid keeper Iker Casillas, seen here in March 2007, for next season, and the club is ready to pay a record 40 million euros for the Spanish international, a Spanish newspaper has said. |
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MADRID (AFP) - Tottenham's new manager Juande Ramos has his eye on Real Madrid keeper Iker Casillas for next season, and the club is ready to pay a record 40 million euros for the Spanish international, a Spanish newspaper said Thursday.
"Juande wants Casillas," headlined the newspaper El Mundo in its sports section.
Despite struggling in the Premier League this season, Tottenham has the money, the daily said.
The club offered the Spanish former Sevilla manager a deal worth six million euros a season to take over from Martin Jol, who was sacked last month, and is ready to pay Casillas seven million euros a year, El Mundo said.
A transfer fee of 40 million euros (58 million dollars, 29 million pounds) would make Casillas the costliest keeper in football history, alongside Italy's Gianluigi Buffon, who went from Parma to Juventus for the same amount in 2001.
But El Mundo said Casillas -- nicknamed "Saint Iker" by Real fans for his miraculous saves -- renewed his contract with the club two years ago after rejecting a move to Manchester United.
Casillas, 26, who has made 72 appearances for his country, is under contract with the Madrid club until 2011. Freeing him from the contract would cost any club 60 million euros, the sports newspaper Marca said.
Last weekend, Ramos took Spurs to only its second Premier League victory of the season when it thrashed Wigan 4-0 at White Hart Lane.
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