Jordan's Spurs fury

C PalaceSimon Jordan has reacted with fury over a football league tribunal's decision that Spurs should pay just £700,000 for John Bostock.

The 16-year-old made the controversial move from Selhurst Park to White Hart Lane at the end of last season and the Eagles chairman claims he has been vastly undervalued by the tribunal.

He told the Croydon Advertsier: "For a tribunal to reward a purportedly bigger football club in Tottenham to take one of the most gifted young English players in the country for a sum of £700,000 is nothing short of scandalous.

"You get players like Aaron Ramsey, who has gone for £5million from Cardiff to Arsenal because that is the UK transfer market.

"The tribunal, in my view, are supposed to reflect the conditions of the transfer market place. And they came up with a figure of £700,000 for a player who has captained his country at Under 17 level, who is perceived to be one of the best youngsters in the country and is being chased by Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea.

"I have an academy who have produced a world-class footballer for someone else and got paid two-and-sixpence for it."



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