Newcastle boss Kevin Keegan confessed: “I tried to bring in one new face and it was Woodgate, but I don’t think I have been successful and it looks like we’ve lost out to Spurs.
“It wasn’t a question of money, it was purely down to where the boy wanted to go.
“I wanted Wood-gate as the first part of the jigsaw. Spurs and us both had bids accepted but it looks like I’ve not got him.”
