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!

Modric: injured knee, Corluka joining Spurs?

Yesterday, Luka Modric was to play against Dortmund in a friendly, but rested the whole game instead. Earlier during warm-up training, Modric broke down with a knee injury. It’s likely that the injury was caused during the Celtic game and now just got worse. However the injury isn’t believed to be all that serious but he will still get checked out by a specialist.

The match ended with Tottenham Hotspur winning with a comfortable 3 to nill from Borussia Dortmund.

It is also believed that Tottenham Hotspur will close the £7 million deal taking Vedran Corluka to White Hart Lane anytime now. Corluka is a versatile defender (but usually playing right back) and a Croatian National Team mate of Modric.

EURO 2008: Luka Modric in action tonight!

Luckily for the fans, the achilles injury of Luka Modric wasn’t anything severe and he has been declared fully fit meaning we’ll see him in action tonight! Hopefully Modric will really shine against Germany this time since his performance in the previous Group B game against Austria was decent but nothing spectacular.

Bilic also promised some changes earlier and might replace Mladen Petric (who wasn’t convincing in the first match) by Ivan Rakitic from Schalke04. However, Klasnic might also be a candidate for that position. Germany will probably play with the same team and the main threatwill come from striker Podolski who is in a lethal form.

Luka Modric slightly injured, Bilic making changes

Today Luka Modric missed the training because of a slight achilles injury which was the result of a knock in the game against hosts Austria. However he is only being rested more as a precaution and it’s almost certain he will play in Croatia’s next game in the EURO 2008 tournament against Germany on Monday. Instead of training with the group, Modric took some individual training.

Some player should be more worried though since Bilic said he will replace some of them that he believed delivered sub-par performances last game.