Tabloid Talk: Iker Casillas to become most expensive keeper in the world

One thing you can almost always count on during an international break week is that eventually the journalists get bored reporting about the national teams’ training sessions so they decide to stir things up with unconfirmed rumors about big name players transferring to big name clubs for big time money. Have to sell papers somehow even when nothing is happening. The Ronaldinho rumors are all too predictable, but credit must be given to the Spanish tabloids for giving equally absurd time to rumors about Ronnie’s Real Madrid rival Iker Casillas.

If you are to believe the reports (and gosh it is always more fun to believe them than to discount them), Tottenham have their eyes set on the 26-year-old Saint Iker. New boss Juande Ramos likes him so much that he is willing to spend seriously silly money to get him.

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.

There’s no doubt that Casillas is quality and has hands of gold, but is he worth that much dough? Is any keeper?

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Category: English Premier League, Spain La Liga, World Football