As of June 2012, Kranjčar has won 62 caps for the Croatia national team scoring 15 goals in the process.

Whilst Bale has been out injured, Tottenham started with Kranjčar in two back-to-back matches and he scored the winner in both, against Bolton Wanderers in a 2 – 1 victory at White Hart Lane, and away to Sunderland in another 2 – 1 victory.

Niko Kranjčar () ( born 13 August 1984 ) is a Croatian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv and the Croatia national team.

They also repeated their league title in 2011-12 season, this time with Croatian manager, Zlatko Kranjčar.

He also was sent off for punching Niko Kranjčar in a game against Croatia under-21s.

Everton manager David Moyes also expressed an interest in signing Kranjčar as a replacement for long-term absentee Mikel Arteta.

It was reported that Everton had made a late bid to sign Kranjčar, but the player opted to sign for Spurs, stating that: " Everton is also a big club but, in the end, the tradition and greatness of Tottenham made the difference.

Because of the financial problems suffered by the club, Portsmouth were forced to sell several of their top players and high earners, this included selling Peter Crouch, Sylvain Distin, Glen Johnson and Niko Kranjčar.

After speaking with Prosinečki current Croatia international Niko Kranjčar made the decision to sign for Portsmouth in the summer of 2006.

In 2005 Hajduk bought Dinamo's captain Niko Kranjčar and former Dinamo coach and legend Miroslav Blažević.

His first Premier League goal of the season came on in a 2 – 0 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers, scoring the second goal after exchanging passes with Niko Kranjčar.

His national teammate Niko Kranjčar says that, " on a training pitch, he does feints like Ronaldinho.

Hailed as the next Robert Prosinečki, Kranjčar was given his international debut by his father Zlatko in August 2004.

Kranjčar spent his childhood years in Austria, when his father Zlatko played for Rapid Vienna, thus holding an Austrian passport, counting as a EU player.

Kranjčar spent most of his youth playing for Dinamo Zagreb, and later, at the age of 17, became the youngest captain of the squad for the first time.

After the 2006 World Cup, the world press hailed Kranjčar for his talents, and several clubs immediately showed interest in the young star.

In August 2006, Rennes bid € 4. 5 million for Kranjčar, which Hajduk rejected, stating they felt they should get more for the player.

Later on the same day, however, Kranjčar then moved for a reported £ 3. 5 million (€ 5. 2 million ) to Portsmouth on 31 August 2006.

Kranjčar made his Premier League debut for Portsmouth on 1 October 2006 as he played all 90 minutes in their 2 – 1 away defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.

At the beginning of the 2008 – 09 season, AS Monaco apparently had a bid of £ 12 million rejected for Kranjčar, however this was denied by Monaco.

On 12 February 2009, with Portsmouth battling relegation, Kranjčar publicly declared his desire to quit Portsmouth and move to a bigger club.

In August, Kranjčar stated: " For now I am staying, but we have not strengthened like I would have liked us to.

On 1 September 2009, Kranjčar joined Tottenham Hotspur from Portsmouth after the two clubs agreed a transfer fee of around £ 2. 5 million, although the actual price was undisclosed.

And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.

Faulkner has found it useful, but he has employed it with his habitual independence of mind and skeptical outlook.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Largely due to their efforts the catastrophic invasion-theory has maintained its position although Seebohm has always found supporters.

In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.

This financial assistance from the state has become necessary because the local governments themselves found the property tax, or at least at the rates then existing, insufficient for their requirements.

No satisfactory solution has been found, but this is due more to the difficulties inherent in the problem than to a lack of interest or diligence on the part of the assessors.

in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

More than one president has found that a long-range plan helps him to attract major gifts.

Where an opportunity to enjoy boating has not been created by bringing bodies of water to the people, means have been found to take the people and their boats to the water.

By dealing with common landscape in an uncommon way, Roy Mason has found a particular niche in American landscape art.

It is true, that nothing has been found comparable with electricity by communication ; ;

One gram of cotton has been found to have a specific surface area of Af.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

No generalization of these results to spaces of more than three dimensions has so far been found possible.

) When the complete file has been read, the grammatical descriptions for all text forms found in the dictionary have been stored in the W-region ; ;

Wage-price policies of industry are the result of a complex of forces -- no single explanation has been found which applies to all cases.

Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.

It has been said of John Stuart Mill that he wrote so clearly that he could be found out.

A water-soluble protein of quite low molecular weight ( ca. 10,000 ) has also been found in this system and partly characterized.

In conformity with this conclusion a higher trace gallium content was found in the portion ( flange ) that has undergone a second melting.

In this respect, the general palatability and individual acceptance of most radiosterilized foods has, to date, been found to be low in comparison with fresh and commercially processed foods.