Reid My Lips

Hasselbaink: "We'll be teammates at Charlton someday."

Reid: "Yeah right, and I'm stocky not fat."

One of the problems with growing up in North-East London is that you end up with a lot of friends that support Spurs. It's enough to make you want to move 4,000 miles away to restart your life.

However, given the unusually high amount of transfer activity between the two clubs, it does permit an honest exchange of opinions from Luke Young to Chris Perry, and from Danny Murphy to Andy Reid.

Somewhat reassuringly, their opinions on Reid were not overwhelmingly negative:

"...good touch, good passer, looked very good at international level (playing on the right) but too slow to play on the wing in the Premiership. Always thought he was a central midfielder (like Murphy) myself."

"...I actually quite like him. In a way he's a bit like Anderton, not much pace and can't beat a man, but he can pass, shoot and take set pieces. He is however overweight and apparently drinks like a fish and that may be his drawback if he is ever going to make it in the Premiership. I don't actually think he got a fair crack at Spurs, as he played about 20 games two seasons back after signing, did ok but the fans never totally warmed to him 'cos of his size and didn't really get a chance last season."