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Anderlecht general manager Herman van Holsbeeck has confirmed that he expects Belgium teenage striker Romelu Lukaku to move to England in the summer and confirmed Spurs as a possible destination.

Tottenham have been linked with “the new Drogba” since last summer but a high price tag for an unproven youngster put off any potential bid for the 17 year-old Belgium international. Clubs in Italy and Spain are watching the progress of Lukaku and so are a host of English clubs including Chelsea and Tottenham. Lukaku is a self confessed Chelsea fan and Chelsea would appeal to him but competition for places in attack since the arrival of Fernando Torres means that Chelsea may not be in the market for a striker.

Van Holsbeeck confirmed that the club turned down a bid from an English club in January believed to be Tottenham for Lukaku but expects the striker to move to England in the summer for a fee of around £26m. Harry Redknapp has been watching the progress of Lukaku and may make a summer swoop.

“Teams like Chelsea, Tottenham and Liverpool are interested,” he told Sudpresse.

“But if two clubs Manchester enter the race, it might be interesting.

“We know that Real Madrid is interested in all the young talent, but I think his future would rather be in England.

“The transfer should be around €30million.”

As the title says, these guys are 5 of the finest center backs in football and they all play for our club, any team would be proud to boast these top stars on their books so we should consider ourselves blessed.

Not so lucky for us is the fact that 2 of them have real serious injury problems and don’t play that often. Ledley has a troublesome knee and can’t really handle 2 games in a week at his peak. Woodgate has been plagued with injuries his whole career and had recently missed a whole year of football for Tottenham. Luckily the other 3 have no serious long-lasting injury problems.

Kaboul in my opinion is definitely on the up and will be a top player for us in the next year or two. My question for you is that if these guys were all fit and able to play week in week out is which 2 would you pair at the back, who do you see as your best partnership. For me it would be Ledley and Woody but I am just wondering how you rate them, I know many will not want to leave out Dawson and that’s fair enough because I see him as future England captain material. It’s a shame we have been unlucky with injuries but put that aside and pick your partnership.

Just a bit of a hypothetical question here as I have not much else to do with my spare time. England games really don’t get me excited much at the moment.

I was thinking England have been really poor and always disappoint, in a way similar to Tottenham, so many years of under achieving, so many great players who never won trophys.

If Tottenham of today were to play against England of today what do you think would be the outcome? From experience of watching both teams who would likely come out on top. Say for arguments sake that any England players that are Spurs players would turn out for Tottenham. So the likes of Lennon, Defoe, Dawson etc would be still playing for Spurs. I reckon we could turn them over.