Roman to Spurs?

Many years ago I was given some advice by a wise man.

He told me to beware of football agents.

Consider it logged.

These days I only talk to agents who I consider friends, who I know personally, have dealt with before (and trust) or I know to be honest. Not many, in other words.

And if I do speak to any then I still make sure that their version of events is backed up by other sources at Albion.

Which is why you won't find pages of speculation linking Albion with this player or that in the Birmingham Mail. I see no point in idle speculation.

So I can only congratulate Pavel Zika for leaking a story of Tottenham's alleged interest in Roman Bednar.

I simply cannot ignore it.

"We know of the Tottenham interest, of course, but there are also other Premier League clubs who want Roman," he said.

"I cannot be more specific now.

"In terms of scoring, Bednar has joined players like (Cristiano) Ronaldo, (Frank) Lampard or (Steven) Gerrard, who have scored only a few more goals than him.

"And, as there is always interest in skilful scorers, Bednar's move from West Brom during this transfer window is not ruled out."

So what do you reckon?

These quotes were apparently made to a Czech news agency and, I can only assume, lost in translation.

Perhaps Spurs are interested - Harry Redknapp may well have been too busy name-checking Middlesbrough wingers to remember mentioning Roman.

Somehow, I'm not sure sure.

Albion's response has been swift.

Bednar will not be leaving Albion.

However if Spurs (or any other club) comes in with an offer that would fit a player of Ronaldo, Lampard, Gerrard or even Bednar's billing then I'm sure Jeremy Peace's door will be open.