From: Daily Mail Online

Harry Looking To Santa Cruz

Harry Redknapp is planning to beat Manchester City to the signature of Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz this summer.

Although Redknapp has not made contact with Blackburn about the Paraguay
striker, who is determined to quit Ewood Park, the Tottenham manager has put him on the top of his wanted list.



Redknapp is reluctant to discuss the club’s transfer dealings in public after a row with Sunderland chief Ricky Sbragia in January over Tottenham’s proposed deal for Kenwnye Jones.

Despite serious misgivings over Santa Cruz’s fitness — he has made just eight Barclays Premier League appearances this season — he remains one of Europe’s most sought after strikers.
Manchester City refused to meet Blackburn’s £20million valuation for the striker in January, but Rovers manager Sam Allardyce is prepared to sell him to Tottenham in a cash-plus-player exchange deal.

Allardyce is understood to be interested in striker Darren Bent as part of any proposed deal as he begins preparing for his first full season in charge at Ewood Park.

Roman Pavlyuchenko admits it has been ‘disturbing’ to find himself out of the Tottenham team and linked with a move after only nine months at the club.

Pavlyuchenko, a £13.8m signing from Spartak Moscow last August, has started only two Barclays Premier League games in the last three months.

But he said: ‘No-one is to blame for the situation except me.’