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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><place w:st="on" />Barnsley</place /> seal move for Spurs' Brown<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Brown figured just 11 times for Tottenham this season </font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><place w:st="on" />Barnsley</place /> have snapped up midfielder Michael Brown from Tottenham. </font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Brown, 29, joined Spurs in January 2004 for £500,000 from Sheffield United, but has never been a regular in the first team at <street w:st="on" /></font></p><address w:st="on">White Hart Lane</address></street />.

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<font face="Times New Roman">&quot;I'm very excited to be joining Barnsley and I'm looking forward to the challenges that this new opportunity brings,&quot; Brown told <place w:st="on" />Barnsley</place />'s website. </font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman">Boss Andy Ritchie added: &quot;Michael is a talented footballer and he will add a new dimension to our midfield.&quot; </font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman">Brown, who played just 11 times for Spurs this season, added: &quot;I enjoyed my time there and wish the club and its supporters well. </font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman">&quot;But my prospects there became very limited, so when a club like <place w:st="on" />Barnsley</place /> who play attractive passing football showed an interest in me, there really was only one decision that I could make. </font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman">&quot;I'm really looking forward to working with Andy Ritchie and the rest of the squad.&quot; </font></p>

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<font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font face="Times New Roman">The former <placename w:st="on" />Manchester</placename /> <placetype w:st="on" />City</placetype /> man becomes <place w:st="on" />Barnsley</place />'s third January signing after the U 20England forward Tommy Wright and galctico Paul Heckingbottom</font></p>

 

3rd Signing = Paul Heckingbottom

 

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I think Hendrie was after him when he was at City