Rafa hefur neitað að biðja Daniel Levy (stjórnarformann Spurs) afsökunar á ummælum sé hann lét falla varðandi Defoe og Cisse. Svo virðist sem umboðsmenn séu í raun ástæða þessa ósættist en þeir klárlega hagnast manna mest á því þegar leikmenn skipta um félög.

“He talks with the agents and afterwards he cannot remember, but I remember because I am professional and he is not professional. I talk with agents and they tell me a lot of things, but he cannot remember what was said. He must think about what he said to agents. That is all I want to say, it is very clear.”

Tottenham segir að þeir ætli að tala við The Premier League varðandi þetta mál og Martin Jol er afar ósáttur:

“It is unbelievable. It is bad enough when agents talk and spread rumours, but this was totally unnecessary coming from a club. I would never deliberately upset another team’s player like this. No disrespect to Cisse, he is a good second striker but we don’t need this type of player now, end of story.”

“We are in dialogue with Spurs, and it is an episode we want to put behind us and move on. I am sure we will do that. They are making the point they are not interested in our player (Djibril Cisse), and we not interested in their player - so I think we’ll resolve that one.”