Gallas reveals late goals meeting

Gallas reveals late goals meeting

Published Dec. 19, 2012 7:15 a.m. ET

Anderlecht are demanding at least eight million euros for the services of midfielder Lucas Biglia, who is interesting AC Milan.

The Argentina international has attracted the attention of the Serie A giants in recent months, with rumours circulating Premier League clubs including Norwich and Newcastle could also be interested in the 26-year-old playmaker.

The Belgian club's director general, Herman Van Holsbeek, told calciomercato.com on Wednesday: "Milan are interested in Lucas Biglia.

"He's expressed a desire to move to Italy? We haven't received any offers. I can't rule out the possibility his agent is offering him to other clubs, but our position is clear.

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"The player still has two-and-a-half years to run on his contract. Obviously if someone pays us enough then we could not say no but we would need eight million euros net.

"That would mean, with one thing or another, a fee of about 10,250,000 euros.

"That would obviously be the fee that would allow us to sell him immediately, we can re-evaluate in the summer, but in January he will not go for a penny less."

Biglia - who left Independiente for Anderlecht in 2006 - has been a key figure for the Brussels outfit, winning four Pro League titles and one Belgian cup since his arrival.

Spurs have conceded 10 goals in the final 15 minutes of matches this campaign, which is a Premier League high along with bottom side Reading.

That inability to keep things tight until the final whistle has cost them - so much so that if matches had ended at 80 minutes they would be top of the Premier League.

"We've had a meeting with him (Andre Villas-Boas) because we've been conceding late goals and we have to be a little bit more focused, a bit more strong," Gallas told talkSPORT.

"Sometimes maybe we are panicking and we've let goals in.

"So we've been working very hard and we've had some meetings to look at the video to see what is good and bad, and against Swansea it was good to keep a clean sheet.

"In this period, we have a lot of games and some players are tired - they have already played more than 20 games this season, which is a lot. It's very intense.

"If we want to stay in the top four, we have to get all the players ready for the matches over Christmas and New Year, because we are going to be playing four games in 11 days."

Stoke kick off the festive period with their visit to White Hart Lane this weekend, before Spurs head to Aston Villa on Boxing Day.

"Stoke are a strong side and it will be difficult but we've got the quality," Gallas said.

"We can play football and we're playing at home, so we don't have any excuses to lose the game.

"Then we play Villa, who are on fire at the moment after winning 3-1 at Liverpool in their last game, and at the moment they are confident.

"They have Christian Benteke in attack, who has shown this season what a good player he is.

"At the moment, we are in the top four and they are trying to survive in the Premier League, so it will be a good game."

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