Piennar moved to Spurs for the style of football

New Tottenham signing Steven Pienaar has claimed it was the club's attractive football that persuaded him to sign for them ahead of Premier League champions Chelsea.

GettyImagesSteven Pienaar can;t wait to link up with former Ajax team-mate Rafael van der Vaart

Having joined from Everton for around £3 million on Tuesday, Pienaar is looking forward to once again linking up with former Ajax team-mate Rafael van der Vaart and becoming a part of the entertaining style of football that manager Harry Redknapp employs at White Hart Lane.

"The style of football is really important," Pienaar said. "I played with Rafa at Ajax and we played attacking football and I want to be in a team that plays attacking football that is exciting for the supporters to watch.

Pienaar announces Spurs move

Everton midfielder Steven Pienaar has announced on his Twitter account that he has chosen to join Tottenham over London rivals Chelsea.

GettyImagesSteven Pienaar has joined Spurs for around £3m.

Both clubs had offers in the region of £3 million accepted for Pienaar, who told Everton he would not extend his contract which expires at the end of the season.

However, Chelsea were unable to agree personal terms, allowing Tottenham to conclude a deal for the player who made 104 Premier League appearances for Everton.

Pienaar arrived at Tottenham's training ground on Tuesday to undergo a medical and later confirmed he will be signing a contract, reported to be for four years.

Everton 3 - 3 Manchester United

After leaving Wayne Rooney off the roster for the match today versus Everton, the Red Devils had no problem scoring, putting the ball in the net three times.  Defense is a different story all together. 

Spotting Man U a 3-1 lead 90 minutes in, Everton scored two goals in stoppage time pulling out an improbable draw and getting one point from the Devils.  Steven Pinnear started the scoring with a goal in the 39th minute and getting additions from Australian Tim Cahill and Spaniard Mikel Arteta for the injury time goals. 

Everton boss David Moyes was left fuming at the end when referee Martin Atkinson blew the full-time whistle just as his team were on the counter-attack.

"There's always ifs and buts,'' Cahill said. "It would have been nice for a bit of commonsense at the end, to see whether (Edwin) Van der Sar would have saved it or whether we would have scored, but it happens.''

Goalkeeper Tim Howard pulled off a string of stunning saves against his former club and was delighted with the fighting spirit showed by his team.

"The first half we dominated and we should have went in 1-0. Obviously they got the goal and in the second half they were powerful and went over the top of us. But we had spirit and we had fight and we got the point which was important.''

Scoring Summary:
Everton:
Steven Pienaar (39)
Tim Cahill (90)
Mikel Arteta (90)
Manchester United:
Darren Fletcher (43)
Nemanja Vidic (47)
Dimitar Berbatov (66)