BONKERS!

Followers of the summer madness that revolves around Tottenham will have noticed over the last few years that if anything things are getting progressively madder. This year has so far been the maddest of them all and has seen us linked with the usual parade of 'wonderkids', unobtainable superstars, continental nobodies and thirty-something hasbeens - culminating in what at least appears to be a fairly solid looking story about us signing the long serving, iconic ex-captain of our most hated rivals.

I have a theory on all this. I'm wondering whether the Spurs insiders have a new tactic in the annual media war? Could it be that they have become so annoyed by leaks and mis-information over the years that they are now deliberately leaking a huge number of tip-offs so that any real activity is lost in the sea of bullshit? I don't know - that's just my own little conspiracy theory I thought I'd share with you there, it's certainly something Harry is capable of devising!

Being addicted to NewsNow, I have noticed a trend. A story materialises on a small site and sometimes never gets mentioned again. However, occasionally someone higher up the food chain decides it has legs and it starts to make it into the national papers. It's not exactly beyond the boundaries of possibility to assume journalists from these publications scour the community sites of Premiership clubs looking for ITK stories to run. Of course, it's also a given that dubious agents will leak deals to them for a few quid and a boozy lunch - and/or deliberately exaggerate interest in their client to bump up any potential fee.

This week alone we are expected to believe that we have turned down £14m for Bent (really, when a fee of £19m has apparently been agreed for in-demand Huntelaar? Bite their bloody arm off Levy!), that we are about to blow £10m of our precious kitty on 2 kids from Sheffield, who we'll promptly give straight back to them (I thought we weren't buying kids?), and then there's Patrick Viera...

Now, I'm no knee-jerk, foaming at the mouth Arsenal hater. Sure I like to see them suffer, and I'd love us or Man City to take 4th spot off them next year, but truth be told I don't really give a toss about them. I don't have anything against Bentley because of his past - jeez, I'm not even really that much of a Sol hater! He made his choices but he handled them badly. However, I think it's safe to say that there are a significant number of people out there who feel slightly more... let's say 'passionate' about the subject. I'm talking about the people who wouldn't even buy a Panasonic TV because it has Viera written on it - God only knows their reaction to him pulling on the shirt.

In actual fact it probably wouldn't be a bad move. We need an experienced DM who has a bit of fight, a winning mentality and fully understands that he's not going to play every game. Viera fits that bill. Been there, done it, bought the t-shirt as they say - and has a cabinet full of medals to prove it. He'd probably play about as often as Zokora did - as understudy to Wilson, or along side him in the middle in away games against the likes of Everton and Stoke. We could do a lot worse - and in truth I'm struggling for a shortlist of realistic targets with whom we could do a lot better.

Nonetheless, if this one is more than just paper talk then it represents an enormous gamble for Harry. The WHL boo boys are not known for their tolerance and a fair proportion will be just itching to write off the lanky goon before he's even kicked a ball for us.

It may be akin to spending a pound and expecting to win the lottery, but just consider if you will the ramifications of Viera rifling in a 25 yard last minute winner at the Emirates next season and tell me that alone doesn't make him worth a punt?