Berbatov Departure Upset Spurs Chairman

Levy claims that Spurs had made the Bulgarian international striker a household name and that when he offered to open improved contract talks with Berbatov the player refused saying that he had wanted a move to Old Trafford a year earlier in 2007.

"Dimitar Berbatov was a player who we brought to this club at a time when Man Utd were interested in him," Levy has said.

"He made a conscious decision to come to this club and we invested a lot of money in him. Nobody had ever heard of Dimitar Berbatov when we bought him.

"A year later with 10 days to go to the end of the window he tells us he wants to leave to go to Manchester United.

"I don't think he treated this club with the respect that we honestly deserved. We put him on the map.

"I think he's an outstanding player, but he signed a long-term contract with this club and I think he should have stayed.

"I had so many conversations with him. He kept saying it was about his ambition to play for Manchester United.

"It wasn't a money issue. We offered him a new contract and he wasn't even interested in discussing it."