Originally Posted by punky

I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Its not the players choice where, when and how they go, it's the prospective clubs. A player can put in a transfer request but if noone wants to buy him, he isn't going to move.

I think its more to do with the fact that other clubs just don't scout our league as much as our clubs scout their's. I can't really remember the last time a foreign club bid for one of Spurs' homegrown players. Mourinho wanted Jenas but I think that was because a) Mourinho managed in the EPL and b) The link to Bobby.