A quick Tottenham Tittle Tattle for you this evening folks, I'm not actually here, I'm with my Grandson and my daughter plus partner of course.

I keep getting asked about Wilfried Zaha so I'd better address it.

My view is that he is a player who is interested when the ball is at his feet and not interested when it is not.

The image of him on the half-way line allowing an opposition player a few yards headstart on him if the ball came that way, which it did and Zaha having to chase back. sticks with me.

Crystal Palace never recovered and Liverpool scored.

Nobody blamed Zaha because nobody saw his mistake, nobody was looking at him not doing his defensive duties properly.

Compare that to Lucas Moura, Lamela, Heung-min Son or Christian Eriksen when he had learnt them.

They all put in a shift and that is something Zaha has to add to his game.

No doubt a talent when the ball is at his feet, but it is only at your feet for 5 minutes a game, there are 85 minutes you still have to play.

Are Spurs interested in Zaha?

Yes, in a nutshell yes. 

Palace have always priced him out of the market.

If somehow we managed to squeeze a deal out of Palace, then someone would have to leave, probably Erik Lamela to recoup some of the fee and free up some wages.

Lamela earns £80,000-a-week at Spurs.

Zaha earns £130,000-a-week at Palace. 

He would have to slot into our pay structure.

However Mourinho likes Lamela and nobody is going to pay our asking price so as I keep saying when his name comes up, he is going anywhere.

If Zaha accepted £100,000 we would have to find £20,000 from somewhere and that might scupper another deal and force us to change targets.

The one thing in our favour is that he wants to join us and is prepared to be negotiable over his wages.

I say prepared to join us, he is prepared to join any club he is being offered to.

Zaha joined the camp of Israeli super-agent Pini Zahavi in January to facilitate a transfer away from Crystal Palace.

Since then Zahavi has spoken with PSG, but they have bought Mauro Icardi and don't have the funds for Zaha unless they sell players first.

Zahavi then offered him to Bayern Munich, but they wanted Leroy Sané.

Then he tried Chelsea but they wanted Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech.

That has brought him to being offered to Spurs and Arsenal.

Arsenal prefer Willian from Chelsea who is costing a £10m signing on fee and will receive £100,000-a-week plus bonuses.

Chelsea bonuses are 66% and Arsenal's will be similar so he'll be picking up around £166,000 per week.

That leaves Tottenham as the only viable option from the Top 6.

This all stems from his agent offering him to clubs, not Spurs making an enquiry or Palace offering him around.

He is the wild card of this summers transfer window.

It is unlikely, but the will to move is strong.

Can a financial deal be worked out with Palace?

We would probably have to loan him for at least a season with a purchase option.

If I were to choose I'd say Zaha is more likely than Coutinho..

I give Coutinho little to no chance of joining Spurs.

His wages are simply far too high.

They are not the £240,000 that is being misreported by ITK accounts, those wages are simply for the remainder of his contract at Bayern Munich (the extra weeks of the season).

When his loan spell is over and he has returned to Barcelona, his wages then revert back to his Spanish sides wages, over £400,000.

If we bought in a player like that we would have to give a wage increase to every other player in the club, Coutinho earning more than Harry Kane, I don't think so.

The only option would be a loan move with option to buy and Barcelona paying some of his wages or he agreeing to basically cut his wages in half.

Barca want to sell however, ideally.