The bad news is that a lot of our other targets have slipped away in recent days. Chelsea moved swiftly to quash any talk of a Spurs move for Joe Cole, Klaas Jan-Huntelaar looks set for a move to AC Milan, Vieira’s “gone all quiet”, Fabian Delph has moved to Villa, Van-Bommell never got off the ground and Moussa Sissoko would seem to have been priced out of our reach.

‘Arry spent the first half of last season banging on about balance and the lack thereof in the Spurs squad. Moving Modric out to the left and bringing Palacios in sorted the balance issue in our 1^st eleven right away. With Crouch a more natural accomplice than Bent to the usual attacking suspects of Defoe/Keane, Modric and Lennon, we should be happy with our first choice team. But as the image below shows, our second eleven still needs work in terms of balance.

We have no back up left wing options other than moving Lennon across and no back up ball winner at all now that Zokora has gone.

Klaas Jan-Huntelaar is such a good player that if there was a chance of us signing him, we had to try. But don’t expect us to keep looking for a striker now that he’s slipped away. Pavlyuchenko deserves a chance to prove himself and I think he will this season.

Look out for a new wave of left wing and defensive midfield targets from now until the end of the window. I reckon they’ll be people we’ve not been linked with so far. Watch this space.

COYS

The race for Fabian Delph has intensified with Man City manager Mark Hughes admitting over the weekend that he’s interested in singing the young Leeds player. This thickens the plot following hot on the heels of Redknapp’s admission of interest in Delph and Leeds manager Simon Grayson confirming that Leeds are resigned to losing Delph.

Delph would have to be feeling pretty plucky to accept a move to Man City at this stage in the city revolution with the guaranteed arrival of more and more established international players.

What’s going on????

Click here to view a profile and video of Delph in action.

Make no mistake, this boy is no Bostock type ‘one for the future’. If Spurs get him (it’s a big ‘if’ with all of last season’s top 6 linked with him this summer), he’ll be in and around the first team from the off, possibly playing quite a bit on the left of midfield but drifting in ala-Modric.

Likeliness meter – 5/10.  Lots of clubs after him, hefty price tag, but Harry has made our interest public so could go either way.

Should we do it meter -  7/10. There are lots of players I’d get ahead of Delph but I’d still be excited if we signed him. If we are going to buy Vieira or someone similar, it would suggest that Modric will stay in the position he was so effective in last season – drifting in from the left. A youngster with pace and quality as back up to Modric could be perfect.

Here’s the Fabian Delph video (all his goals from last season). Don’t forget to vote in the poll underneath.