For me, this is a great time of year to be a Spurs fan. I love all the stories about who we are going to sign that never come to fruition but year on year people still fall for the same old bullshit. If you think of all the big names we have been linked with in the last five years or so, how many have we actually signed?

Samuel Eto’o, Roque Santa Cruz and Arjen Robben are just some of the high profile names that we have been connected with, but in reality, none of them have had Tottenham on their radar. Man City aside, no top quality player in their prime is going to come to a team with no European football on offer, especially those already at a club who are in the Champions League.

The only players we can attract are those who either aren’t quite up to scratch for Utd, Liverpool etc, or they are English and not the finished article, and no other club is stupid enough to pay the kind of money for their services that we are. The thing we have going for us now however is Harry Redknapp’s ability to find decent players for little money. I hope he continues to work this way even though he knows there is plenty of cash at his disposal.

With Manchester City looking more and more likely to crash the top 4 this season, and probably staying there for some time, Spurs chances of ever being able to attract the Samuel Eto’o’s of this world are slim to none.

Personally, I’m quite happy with the position we are in. I’m very keen to see what Harry can do given a complete season and being able to bring in a full compliment of his own players. I realise long term Spurs will likely need a billionaire investor to compete in the Premier League but it’s not something I’m looking forward to.

Having an unlimited budget isn’t healthy and I think football clubs need to be run as viable businesses. It will take a side like Man City or Chelsea going under before something is done but I definitely think there needs to be some kind of transfer and salary cap enforced.

I find it hard during International weeks. Not only because I couldn’t really care less about it and miss the domestic action with a passion, I also struggle to find things to write about that aren’t already all over the interweb.

I’ve seen some ridiculous transfer rumours this week, Ashley Young being the one I find hardest to believe, but I thought I would look at another possible target.

I honestly believe 99% of the transfer stories in the tabloids are plucked out of thin air by desperate journalists but one so called target that I could envisage us going after is Roque Santa Cruz. I know his looks very likely to join Mark Hughes at Manchester City but that deal could go down the toilet for a number of reasons.

Hughes might not be manager come the summer. The Man City owners seem to only want to sign superstars, Cruz doesn’t fall into this category. Would Blackburn rather sell him elsewhere than to the club that already took their manager?

Another reason I think he’s likely to join Spurs is the fact we like to pay over the odds for obvious transfer targets. Players that make it public knowledge they want to move and their club squeeze every last penny possible out of those clubs stupid enough to pay these inflated transfer fees (tottenham and err, oh yeah, tottenham). Roque Santa Cruz certainly falls into this category.

Do I rate him? Yeah I think he’s a decent player. Do I want us to pay £17m for someone I think isn’t that much better than what we already have? No thank you very much.

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