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Reports appeared in a sports newspaper that Julio Cesar Baptista, a goalkeeper for Madrid's "Real," is a target for England's "Premier" league club Tottenham. The team is prepared to pay an 18 million euro ransom for the Brazilian.
J. C. Baptista, acquired by Madrid from the Sevilla team a year ago for 24.5 million euros, has emphasized for weeks that he doesn't intend to leave the club ("I have said 300 times, I am not leaving - I am happy here."), but with the transfer wave hitting the team, which ended with the acquisition of Mahamadou Diarra, his future at the club has become unclear.
Moreover, a new face at Real, another Brazilian, Emerson, has further increased competition for a spot in the starting lineup.
Tottenham hopes to successfully close the deal in the next few days, but the Spanish team has not yet decided on the player's fate as they have not given up hope of luring Arsenal goalkeeper Jose Antonio Reyes, who wants to return to his homeland, back.
J. C. Baptista was on Arsenal's radar last summer and is currently seen as a potential part of a deal between Spanish and English clubs for Jose Antonio Reyes.
