Tottenham Look To Vieira For Guidance

It has been reported in the media this evening that boss Harry Redknapp is still hoepful that he can persuade both Inter Milan's Patrick Vieira and Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to sign on the dotted line within the next week.

It has been a quite month at the Lane, with much press speculation but nothing to come of it. Last week, Spurs paid approximately £7 million for the signatures of young Sheffield United full-backs Kyle Naughton and Kyle Walker.

But it has been much publicized that money is not in abundance at the Lane and Redknapp must not spend any more than what he accrues from player sales.

With only Zokora (£8 million), Chris Gunter (£2 million) and Gilberto and Rocha (free transfers) to have left the club, it seems that Redknapp will look to sell David Bentley, Gareth Bale and Alan Hutton to fund moves for Vieira and Huntelaar.

Following the injuries to his best three centre backs, he is also looking at signing Brede Hangeland or Sebastian Bassong as cover in that position.

In previous years, there has much to-ing and fro-ing at Tottenham. Last year, Modric, Bentley, Gomes, Pavlyuchenko and Dos Santos all made money-spinning moves to North London during pre-season with strike duo Keane and Berbatov moving on to bigger and better things. The result: an unbalanced, squad, incoherent team and two points from the first eight games. Ramos out.

2007-2008 saw Spurs pick up just seven points from their opening ten matches after a heavy recruitment drive in pre-season. Jol out.

Therefore, you could say here that less is more and I for one will not be disappointed if we start the season without further additions to the squad.

Redknapp needs to have faith in Dos Santos, Jenas, Huddlestone, Bent and Pavlyuchenko in particular. They all have a reputation, they all cost a lot of money. The ball is firmly in their court, especially as all of these will be pushing for a place in their countries' World Cup squads for next year's tournament in South Africa.