Football

did you just make that up on the spot or did you read it on a cittteeeeeeeeh messageboard?
talking to players before they've signed contracts is completely normal. do you honestly think teams waste all that time and money inquiring through other clubs before ever approaching players? because if that was the case it would take a full season for a club to sign anyone.

Spurs didn't accepted an offer from United, only City and didn't allow United to speak to Berbatov, yet Berbatov had a medical at Carrington and was shown on Sky Sports meeting David Gill & Alex Ferguson. Seems like an illegal approach to me.

Anyway, I wouldn't waste my time reading Citeh websites (not that I would the Mirror either) but anyway, from the Daily Mirror:

"Manchester United have paid Spurs £30.75m and chucked Frazier Campbell in on a season-long loan (bad luck Hull fans), and Spurs have agreed to drop their tapping-up complaint against the champions."

It's well known that teams enquire about players if they would leave through agents etc, but that is entirely different to flying a player to Manchester, meeting him personally at the airport, taking them for a medical and agreeing a contract when the players club have said publically that the player isn't allowed to talk to them, in fact, after they have given permission for the player to talk to a completely different club. What United did was effectively hold Tottenham to ransom over Berbatov, because the player would have likely refused to play for them again (according to Daniel Levy).

Not that I support Spurs, or Citeh for that matter. I just can't stand the hypocrisy of Ferguson, especially when you consider his bleating about Madrid 'tapping up' Ronaldo.