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[Rsonist]

Deal in place for January.£12mHis current inclusion in the Brazil squad eases fears of potential work permit problems.

[LS]

Not going to lie and say i've seen him play alot of times 'cause i haven't. However, if he's better than O Hara (Which i highly believe) its fantastic news. f*ck harry thinking of bringing o horror back to us when we are on a high.He is meant to be sick.Long term partner for Wilson maybe?Good addition to the squad 'cause Jenas sometimes doesn't put a good shift in when playing with Wilson and Huddlestone will probably be playing at CB for like 20+ games

[Black.]

“Hellish” is Alan Hutton’s word for it. When the defender talks about the nagging foot pain that presaged a one-shot operation to save his career, about the agent who dragged him through court in pursuit of multiple pounds of transfer-market flesh, you realise the adjective is not used lightly. In these trying times, Scottish football could do without a prime talent suffering such gross misfortunes.At the tail-end of 2007, Hutton seemed heaven-bound — the thrillingly athletic full-back terrorising Italy as Scotland came within a Hampden heartbeat of returning to tournament football; the man Sir Alex Ferguson reckoned would “become a superstar once he gets that little extra experience”. Soon he’d been forcibly extracted from the SPL for a £9m fee equivalent to the collective turnover of several of the division’s clubs, debuting for Tottenham by shutting down Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Ryan Giggs. Two games later Hutton had Nicolas Anelka shunted off to the opposite Carling Cup final wing as Spurs won rare silverware.The untold story of Hutton’s reversal of fortune begins with pre-season training in Spain and an aching right foot that stubbornly refused to correct itself. “It came on gradually,” says Hutton. “I was doing the running in the morning and couldn’t train at night. I went to see a few specialists over there and they were telling me I’d need an operation, saying it was common in footballers for bits of bone to grow about the ankle. They didn’t really know what had happened so I was kind of panicking.”Eventually a CT scan detected a 9mm fracture in the navicular, a small bone beneath the ankle joint. Poorly supplied with blood, it is hard to treat. “They were saying ‘do we leave it or do we operate? If we operate we only have one go at it and the success rate is not high’. So we decided to put it in an aircast boot and leave it for three months.”While Hutton waited for the fracture to heal, Tottenham were enduring their worst start to a season in 50 years. Juande Ramos needed Hutton back and the Scot pushed himself through an accelerated fitness programme to play four fixtures in 11 days. He helped neither Ramos — sacked halfway through them — nor himself. “I rushed myself because I wanted to play and help the team,” says Hutton. “I had no games, just from the physio right into the game away at Stoke. I think adrenaline got me through that, but there was a game Saturday, then it was Wednesday, then it was Saturday, and by the time the Arsenal game came I just blew up. I couldn’t move, I had a sore hamstring, my foot was sore, everything. I was thinking, ‘it must just be wee tweaks,’ because I’d been out for so long. But it wasn’t, the crack in my foot had opened again.”Hutton did not want to cry off from Harry Redknapp’s first game, away to Arsenal. He played much as you’d expect a tired man with a broken foot to, losing the ball for Arsenal’s fourth goal before being subbed in what would become a 4-4 draw at the Emirates. For the next three weeks Redknapp avoided starting Hutton in the Premier League and it was only after a November international against Argentina that the fracture was rediscovered.“I was hoping they’d say, ‘it’s alright, it’s nothing,’ but the doctor right away says, ‘there’s the crack, it’s opened again’,” recalls Hutton. “That was me, I had to get it sorted. I went back, got two screws put in and they said to me again that the success rate wasn’t very high and there was only one chance to do it. People think I just had a foot injury and it’s a case of go rest it for a while and come back. They don’t realise how bad it was.”As Hutton began four months of rehabilitation the fractured navicular was not the sole bad element in his life. A former agent, John Lonergan, wanted over £400,000 in lieu of a commission on Hutton’s transfer to Tottenham, claiming he’d negotiated a deal with the London club only for Hutton to take new representation before signing it. Lonergan took the case to Glasgow Sheriff Court, receiving a “nuisance” financial settlement a fortnight ago.Hutton is “raging” about the outcome. He says his contract with Lonergan ended in April 2007, long before Tottenham approached Rangers, and he repeatedly rejected the agent’s attempts to have him accept Spurs’ offers because he wanted to remain at Ibrox. Just as the move south was ultimately pushed on Hutton by the Rangers hierarchy, so the payoff became unavoidable when Hutton realised he would have to miss training and matches to defend the court action in Scotland. “I’m trying to fight for my place and I’m having to tell the manager: ‘just to let you know, I’m not going to be here today because some agent is suing me and I need to be in court in Glasgow’. Didn’t really go down well, that.”Lonergan jettisoned, Hutton can concentrate his energies upon re-establishing himself in Tottenham’s first team. Redknapp’s doubts about him led the manager to sign three more right backs — Pascal Chimbonda, Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker — and regularly play Vedran Corluka in the position. In the final hours of the summer window, he tried to swap Hutton for Sunderland’s Anton Ferdinand; a move the Scot had no interest in.“The games I had played under him last season, a couple were all right, the Arsenal game was bad, so first impressions of me were maybe ‘not good enough’,” says Hutton. “I want to stay at Tottenham, that’s for sure. I’ve still to show him [Redknapp] what I can do. In my eyes that wasn’t me, that wasn’t how I play and that’s not who I am. I’ve done it at a very high level so it’s not like I’m attempting something new. I’m over my injury now, so it’s just about getting on with it, proving to him what I can do.”Just as Scotland proved a catalyst for Hutton’s move to White Hart Lane, so the national team could help restore his fortunes there. Certainly, there is no chance of the 24-year-old following Lee McCulloch, Kris Boyd, Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor (all friends of his at Rangers) by exempting himself from national team duty. “I would just laugh at people if they said that to me. Why wouldn’t someone want to play for their country? Some of the experiences I’ve had, Holland, Italy, walking out at Hampden, 50,000 fans, who wouldn’t want to be involved in that? No matter what age I was, if Scotland were calling on me to play for them, I would. I love being there and being involved, I’m just disappointed that it’s not been in a finals yet.”Hutton accepts that the loss of the Ibrox quartet contributed to Scotland’s failed World Cup campaign. “In 2007 we had spirit, everything, we were just all together at that point in time. I think if we’d stuck with that team we’d have done well.”Yet when it’s mentioned that SFA president George Peat has framed participation in Saturday’s friendly in Japan as a form of referendum on player support for George Burley, he is diplomatic. “It’s not a question of not supporting him [burley]. I think everybody’s behind him and it doesn’t matter who the manager is. You would always be behind your manager 100%. Obviously it’s not ideal going to Japan in the middle of a season, I don’t know how that’s come about. Hopefully everything goes well and all the boys turn up. We’ve got a lot of young lads coming through who can take places and really do well. I think it’s good for the future.”The end of Hutton’s misfortunes all the more so.

Never knew that foot injury was that bad, no wonder he was so bad at arsenal

[Rsonist]

Its ashame cause the guy looked fantastic in his first half season with us.From then on after the injury he has looked like any Phil Ifil.Unfortuantely he is the new Bale, we play Hutton, we lose games. He will be shipped off in January.I rate Naughton higher.

[Duzza]

Never knew that foot injury was that bad, no wonder he was so bad at arsenal

lol i'm not sure the foot injury is a good enough excuse for that back pass against arsenal

[Rsonist]

Was questioned for four hours by police yesterday and bailed until the 21st.

[KING]

[Young Spray]

HIS GOAL TODAY WAS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Gayle]

Yeah just see it on Goals on Sunday

[Black.]

Guy is class Lennon could never do that if it was only him on the pitch

[Aquaman]

goal was ridiculous.go bbc website if u missed it

[Guest faze .]

goal was sick

[Guest R9]

DB11 >>>

[MrJibbles]

[Bruno Di Gradi]

Nice chim wid your big nose lolabout 8 hours ago from UberTwitter

[Rsonist]

Guy is such a prat.

[Black Ant]

LOLgreat ladnice to see he's enjoying himself

[Guest R9]

+What was with Michael c*nt Brown trying to pick as if he was faking him up after what was actually quite a bad tackle?Silyl little c*nt.+BAE looking better and better each time he plays. Just needs to get rid of his silly hair.

[Zachary Foxx]

His reaction proves he was faking.

[Guest R9]

I'd react like that if that wanker tried to drapse me back up to my feet, he caught him in the mid-section with a woeful attempt at a tackle, worst still he was shaking his finger as if it wasn't a foul/yellow+LOL@ Tim Howards push

[Rsonist]

Benny is one of the leagues top left backs now.

[Lieutenant]

HIS GOAL TODAY WAS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guy is class

goal was ridiculous.

goal was sick

[LS]

http://vodpod.com/watch/2357952-qpr-4-preston-0Kinda rare to see footballers doing that in England these days IMOFantastic goal.

[Rsonist]

Doubt we will see him before Xmas.Bad news.Was always gonna be the case, Luka's injury was similar to Nasri's, who suffered his in July and still aint back. Says it all.

[Young Spray]

BUMP.