Three's a Crowd

When Spurs sign a player they rarely seem to pluck them from nowhere ala Wenger and his Eduardo da Silva signing. Bale dragged on for 6 months or more, Benty was a back page favourite for weeks, and now we have finally completed the signing of Kaboul - which has rumbled on for even longer.

If you ask me, it seems a decent tactic. Keep the Press occupied with a long running transfer saga so you can discreetly conduct your other enquiries without too much hassle. However, with 2 months still to go before the window shuts, and a well documented need for a left sided player, there seems little doubt that within the next week or so we can expect the first episode in the next drama.

The signings we have made are, in my opinion, superb. I know many Yids have reservations about the need for Benty, but you can't argue that we now have 4 quality strikers, all of whom have a slightly different game. Of course £16.5m is a lot of dosh, but would you rather see it worm it's way into the shareholders pockets? Berbatov can't do it on his own, and as much as we would love to believe it, Keane and Defoe really can't play together.

Bent showed an impressive desire to play for the club and will be worth double the fee if he keeps developing the way he has, and proves to be the edge we need to nab 4th. Also, with Charlton accepting terms equivalent to a buy-now-pay-later deal we still have plenty of cash sloshing about - as proved by the £8m we have just thrown Auxerre's way.

I don't really know much about the French U21 captain, but if he is as hot a prospect as the evidence suggests then this is another outstanding signing. Call me a sucker for flattery, but I just love these players who demand that Spurs is the only club they want to move to. With Ledders' season likely to be... inconsistent, and Gardener and Rocha being well, inconsistent, I suspect that Kaboul will make a big difference.

Unlike Gardener, for me Rocha is actually a class player, good in the tackle and calm on the ball he also has the advantage of not being a "hoof it" merchant. I hope he has now settled in because this season will be make or break for him. I must say though, I think that Kaboul signals the end of Gardener's time at Spurs, he may have shown improvement toward the end of last season, but I won't be sorry to see him go.

Mido and Gardener are two players that always made my heart sink when I saw them on the teamsheet. The fact that both are more than likely on their way out is brilliant - the fact that they have been replaced by players of such quality is nothing short of miraculous!