Gareth Southgate has today admitted that David Wheater could leave Middlesboro if the right offer comes in. With injuries to Woody and Dawson, and Ledley’s situation, there has been speculation that Spurs could make a bid if the Chavez trial doesn’t work out.  You can see that interview below.

The Jenas to Villa rumours keep on coming. This time he’s off if we can prize Scott Parker from West Ham. Parker was top drawer against us on Sunday and seems to have shaken off his injury worries. He’s also exactly the type of player the squad needs because we lack a true ball winner to cover for Wilson Palacios.  The prices being quoted are between £5mil and £7mil. We hope this comes off but doubt West Ham would sell. We can but hope.

Joe Cole to Spurs is another persistent rumour. The rumour mongers are telling us it’s World Cup year, he needs to playing, bla bla and so on. We think this is just nonsense, the bloke’s injured! Of course he hasn’t been in the team. The fact is, Chelsea don’t have an embarrassment of riches on the right side of midfield (a position Cole can play in) and don’t have another player like him  who can slot in across attacking midfield. Cole will get games, loves Chelsea and this wont happen.

The Modric swap for Carrick and £10mil rumours are just that, but irritating nonetheless. However, if  Man Utd are willing to let Carrick go, lets give them a fat wad of cash and take him in a straight deal. I kid you not, if we could sign Carrick back, I’d go and put serious money on us for the top 4. I know a lot of you don’t want him, likening his move to the Berba one, but he left with dignity and gave us the choice. We could have held on to him but chose to take the money. Him and Palacios with Modric and Lennon would be a top, top midfield, the midfield with absolutely everything.

One thing is pretty clear, there will be at least some movement between now and the end of the window. We’re hoping for a player who can competition for Jenas and Thudd and back up to Palacios as the ball winner.

COYS

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Just like we told you, Redknapp confirms that Huntelaar to AC Milan means Pavlyuchenko is staying and Spurs wont be after anymore strikers. We’re happy with that, what do you reckon?

Also, Spurs didn’t bid for Joe Cole, just media cobblers. And Spurs to only buy one more player, if that. It’ll be a box to box player that can win the ball as back up for Palacios and competiton for Jenas. Interesting stuff.

Thoughts please?

COYS

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

Looking at Chelski’s squad though, there is very little in the way of options for the right wing. Kalou can play there but is more of a central attacking player and all their other midfielders are central players too. They will be short of wide creative options if they let Cole go and I think he’ll be looking at the current squad, the injury records of the aging Ballack and Deco and thinking he can get games this year. I’d play Cole ahead of Ballack, Deco and Malouda anyway.

Rumours are though that Chelsea are about to spend some serious wedge and if someone like Ashley Young (who like Cole is right footed but often plays from the left side) is amongst the incoming, Cole could reassess quickly and a Spurs move could materialise.

Lets hope so!

Come on, let it be true

So it looks like the Huntelaar deal is dead in the water after the signing of Crouch. The Daily mail is reporting that Wenger is in poll position now, lets hope he’s crap then!

The Evening Standard are reporting that Spurs and Newcastle are close to agreeing an £8m deal for Sebastien Bassong with the speedy French defender likely to agree a £50K per week contract with Spurs.

Likeliness Meter – 8/10 – A no smoke without fire scenario, we’ve been heavily linked with him all summer, there have been no Upson-like comments from ‘Arry on this one about it being fantasy talk and lots of talk about our priority being a defender after the injuries to Dawson, Ledley and Woodgate.

Should we do it meter – 8/10 – he’s strong, positionally astute, quick and proven in the Premiership.

According toThe Mirror, Spurs are ahead of Liverpool, Everton and Aston Villa in the chase for Michael Turner. Apart from him being extremely tall, I know nothing about this bloke, sorry! Comments welcome, what’s he like?

That bastion of reliability The Metro are telling us that Joe Cole has now genuinely emerged as Tottenham’s number one transfer target this summer. I wouldn’t have included this if it wasn’t so god damn exciting!

Likeliness meter – 1/10 – this is so unlikely but while there’s the slightest possibility, I think we should enjoy the fantasy.

Should we do it meter – 10/10 -- Course we bloody should!

Here’s a Joe Cole vid to get you salivating

The Guardian are telling us that the Vieira deal is looking increasing unlikely, boo hoo. I was ready to accept Vieira (and probably still would in time if he signed) but after reading Thierry Henry saying how much Vieira still loves Arsenal, it just rankles a bit.

And various people are saying that Villa and Hull have joined Sunderland in the race for Darren ‘The Shin’ Bent. Can’t wait.