Downing for Tottenham?

Today Stewart Downing put in a transfer request to Middlesbrough and it looks like Boro have rejected it! But what you see when you look at his future his thick mist. He desperately wants to leave his boyhood team and Middlesbrough desperately want to keep him. If he does stay he will still be a regular starter but that isn't enough for him. He wants to go to a better club to fulfill his potential and Tottenham seems to be high on his list and him high on Rednapp's. But the chairman and the club seem somewhat reluctant to let their local star to leave and rejected Tottenham's revised bid of £11 million which is a chunky offer. 

We just have to wait and see if Spurs make a new, better offer and if Middlesbrough will accept it. But for now Downing remains at his hometown club and has to commit himself to Gareth Southgate for now.