Double Play

U.S . international Clint Dempsey was transferred from Fulham to Tottenham  on Friday. He received 9.5 million for the transfer. There is an interesting story behind this transfer, as Dempsey twitted "A lot was said and written ahead of me leaving Fulham. It wasn’t how it was portrayed, but that’s in the past now and we move on" on the Tottenham twitter site.

Dempsey was first offered a deal with Aston Villa. While the two clubs accepted the offer, Dempsey had other things in as he rejected the offer because of his dream to play for Liverpool. Shortly after, Dempsey's dream was answered Liverpool made an offer which was too low in the eyes of the Fulham club. It appears that Dempsey was going to take the offer, but the club rejected Liverpools offer to get back at him for not accepting the deal with Aston Villa, which was larger than the Liverpool offer.

Dempsey's trade has made him the highest paid U.S. soccer player ever, a title that was held by Fulham's goalkeeper Brad Friedel.

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