"A taxi for Maicon". This is what Tottenham's fans were singing last Tuesday night remarking on the defender's difficulty to stop Gareth Bale.

Yesterday, Inter sporting director Marco Branca, spoke about the Brazilian player who is not performing well at the moment: "The critics towards him are unfair, he's playing for more than a month suffering a knee problem, he's not training well, he's sacrifising himself for the team".

However, Inter thought of his possible transfer to Real Madrid last summer. Maicon's agent, Antonio Caliendo, speaking to calciomercato.com, said: "Is he staying or leaving in January? Everything is possible in the world of football, Moratti will decide".

But the 'taxi' could take Maicon to England or somewhere else...