Collection of Luka Modric desktop wallpapers

I’ve been searching the web for some Luka Modric wallpapers and this is what I came up with:

Luka Modric - Tottenham Hotspur #1 wallpaper 1280×1024 / 1920×1200

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Luka Modric - Croatia wallpapers can be found here

Modric Gets New Team Mate: Pavlyuchenko

Just now, Tottenham confirmed the rumours that 26 year old forward Roman Pavlyuchenko (22 caps for Russia) signed for them. He was mainly contracted as a replacement for the leaving Berbatov. The signing fee to buy him from Spartak Moscow is believed to be in the region of £14 million. However he won’t get into action this Sunday yet, since he is away with the Russian national team.

Another excellent addition to the team in my opinion! I was greatly impressed with Pavlyuchenko during the European Championship. I can’t wait to see him in action, in tandem with Luka Modric.

Luka Modric called up for World Cup Qualifiers

As expected, Luka Modric has been called up by Slaven Bilic, coach of the Croatian team. Croatia is going play against Kazakhstan and England in the World Cup Qualifiers next month. Worth noting is that Bilic will miss Kranjcar, one the key players, because of injury. The game against England will be especially tough since Croatia beat them twice in the European Championship qualifying games, surely the English team will do anything to try avoiding a third defeat in a row. Read the rest of this entry »

Tottenham 1-2 Sunderland, unlucky Modric

Unfortunately for the Spurs fans, the second game of the season resulted in a second loss as well. This was in large part thanks to Sunderland ’star of the day’ Djibril Cisse. He scored the winning goal at the 83th minute with a header. Earlier Tottenham Hotspur managed to draw level after Luka Modric, fed by Jermaine Jenas, had a long shot blocked but showed class in accelerating to the rebound, dribbling past two men in the box and trying again, but this time - despite Gordon’s parry - Jenas was on hand to score.

Preview: Spurs versus Sunderland

Tomorrow we have the Spurs and Sunderland going head-to-head in the first home game for Tottenham at White Hart Lane. It’s their second game of the season, having lost 2-1 at the opening game.

Spurs fans will see their nearly new team in action again with hopefully a solid performance. It will be another chance for Luka Modric, Dos Santos and David Bentley to prove their worth to the team (and their high transfer fees!). They will get better and better by playing matches together, however wins are needed early on as well if one wants to challenge for a top Premiership finish!

Likely line-up:

Tottenham: Gomes, Bale, Zokora, King, Woodgate, Jenas, Modric, Dos Santos, Bentley, Berbatov, Bent

Sunderland: Gordon, Chimbonda, Nosworthy, Collins, Bardsley, Malbranque, Whitehead, Reid, Richardson, Diouf, Cisse

Video Interview with Luka Modric

Here is an interesting short video interview (by sport.co.uk) with Luka Modric, talking about this season in the Premiership and for Croatian International football.

Middlesbrough 2-1 Tottenham

Unfortunately for Tottenham Hotspur, Middlesbrough beat them 2-1 in their opening game of the 2008-09 Premiership.

The new signings David Bentley, Giovani Dos Santos and Luka Modric showed some individual brilliance, but they failed to click together, while Aaron Lennon was work hard but didn’t yield the desired result yet either. However after they will have played a few games, that will get the opportunity to glue together, don’t forget this is almost a whole new team!

Middlesbrough: Brad Jones, Andrew Taylor, Gary O’Neill, Emanuel Pogatetz, Jeremie Aliadiere, Afonso Alves (Mido 83), Robert Huth, Mohamed Shawky, Tuncay Sanli (Didier Digard 72), Stewart Downing, David Wheater.

Tottenham: Heurelho Gomes, Didier Zokora, Benoit Assou-Ekotto (Jamie O’Hara 77), Michael Dawson, Jonathan Woodgate, Aaron Lennon (Gareth Bale 66), Jermaine Jenas, Luka Modric, Giovani dos Santos (Dimitar Berbatov 65), David Bentley, Darren Bent.

Spurs dominate Roma

Today the final pre-season friendly for the Spurs got played… and what a game! Tottenham dominated and destroyed the Roma squad who were helpless, resulting in a 5-0 victory. They started with all their major signings of the summer - Luka Modric, Bentley, Giovani dos Santos and Heurelho Gomes - in a strong line-up which also included Dimitar Berbatov. It looks like Modric has overcome his knee injury and performed well. With this quality line-up we can expect the Spurs to go for a top-three position in the league table!