UK: FRENCH WINGER DAVID GINOLA MOVES FROM TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR TO FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE RIVALS ASTON VILLA

Record ID: 190169

  • Title: UK: FRENCH WINGER DAVID GINOLA MOVES FROM TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR TO FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE RIVALS ASTON VILLA
  • Date: 31st July 2000
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGODM (FILE, 1997/1998) 1. DAVID GINOLA STEPS ONTO WHITE HART LANE PITCH AFTER SIGNING FOR TOTTEHNAM ON JULY 7, 1997 2. GINOLA DOING TRICKS WITH BALL 3. GINOLA GINOLA SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS AND MEETING DISABLED BOY Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th August 2000 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVADJGYWR0UMK79CTMLCYMG5TEYX
  • Story Text: French winger David Ginola has moved from Tottenham
    Hotspur to l English premier league rivals Aston Villa.



    David Ginola ended weeks of speculation by signing for
    Aston Villa from English premier league rivals Tottenham
    Hotspur in a three-million-pound ($4.51-million US dollars)
    deal deal on Sunday (July 30).

    The flamboyant French winger announced the deal on his
    official website, saying he had signed a two-year deal with
    the Midlands club after several weeks of negotiations.

    Tottenham's official telephone information service
    confirmed that the club chairman Alan Sugar had finalised the
    move.

    Ginola spent three seasons at Tottenham where he quickly
    became a favourite with the fans after his move from Newcastle
    United.

    Ginola has been capped 17 times by France but has not
    played for his country since the 1995/96 season.

    The 33-year-old Ginola said he was relieved to have
    finally put pen to paper.

    The former Paris St Germain player said: "I met with Villa
    manager John Gregory in a Birmingham hotel this afternoon and
    then with the club's chairman Doug Ellis and the talks
    resulted in me signing a two-year contract."
    Ginola, voted English football's player of the year in
    1999, admitted that he had not wanted to leave the London club
    despite reported differences with manager George Graham last
    season.

    "I had been in limbo since the middle of June when the
    bombshell news dropped that Alan Sugar had accepted a
    three-million-pound bid for me from Villa.

    "It totally ruined my summer. I never asked to leave. I was
    happy at White Hart Lane and my family were settled in North
    London."
    Earlier this year Ginola said he had wasted his football
    talents and his skills should have seen him playing for AC
    Milan, Barcelona or Manchester United.


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