Depending on how you choose to look at it, Tottenham Hotspurs striker Robbie Keane is either on his way to MLS and the Vancouver Whitecaps or going nowhere fast. The latest bit of psuedo-news came in the form of Spurs coach Harry Redknapp proclaiming that will be transferred to the highest bidder in January.
Robbie Keane-to-Vancouver Rumors Just Won’t Quit
“I think he’d like to move - he wants to play, you know?” Redknapp said. “He’s not used to not playing. All his career, he’s played and been a big player and he wants to play. He could sit here and take his wages, but that’s not him.
”He wants to play football. He trains hard, works hard every day, he’s shown a great attitude. And probably the hardest decision I had to make was last week: I couldn’t get him on the bench.
The two teams to which Keane has been most prominently linked are the Whitecaps and EPL side Aston Villa. Assuming both teams have interest, it’s hard to see MLS outbidding an EPL side for a player with Keane’s relatively meager namebrand.
As good as Keane has been, he scored 28 goals in 43 matches as recently as 2009-10 season, he’s not particularly well known outside of soccer circles. His current salary of about $3 million a year would put him among the top four paid players in MLS, all of whom had considerably more name recognition. Tack on the possibility of the league needing to pay a significant transfer fee, and this starts to feel more and more like wishful thinking on the part of MLS followers.
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