impressed by his performance at the america, the representatives of tottenham hotspur were keen to offer him a contract. the north london side paid £2.6 million for dumitrescu. just days after dumitrescu becoming a tottenham hotspur player, british tabloid newspaper news of the world wrote an article about dumitrescu chasing the services of prostitutes. the story later proved to be untrue, but tottenham were unwilling to play dumitrescu during the scandal and he was loaned out to sevilla fc, with the la liga side given an option to buy him during the loan.