A quick word from me.
OK, plenty of you asking for a post.
Generally, I'm concentrating on building a business at the moment so have left this rather time-consuming blog, because of the volume of research it undertakes, to produce posts.
But you have asked for my thoughts on the transfer market, I'll give you my thoughts on the current situation.
Tottenham are in limbo.
Discussions with the QSI are definitely taking place and that affects who Spurs buy.
Why buy a player in January, if they are available, when you can buy a better player in the summer?
Antonio Conte has not committed to a new contract, he has been offered one so why should a club invest in him if he hasn't signed?
Conte needs to inform the club he is staying and, if he is, then to sign a contract.
You have to know who your manager is long-term to invest in them otherwise you simply buy players that don't suit another manager's style and it is the manager who dictates the type of player he wants.
These two factors are currently holding back player investment.
Then there is the issue that we have three right-backs so can't buy a fourth, we have to sell one of them first and Emerson doesn't want to go. Spence will be loaned out, he isn't considered good enough yet.
A bit like Gill and Sarr, neither are good enough at the moment, nor is Sessegnon or Skipp for a team wanting to challenge for a title.
Conte, I assume, is waiting on the outcome of talks with the QSI group.
Spurs, I believe, have £100m every summer to spend at the moment. A £1 billion investment will means Conte committing himself, Kane committing himself, a stadium naming rights deal (which hinges on Kane staying, hence why no deal in the last two years), plus large sponsorship deals from the Middle East.
Now, you put that lot together and you change the landscape of Tottenham Hotspur and, of course, there will eventually be an NFL deal too, with the resulting US sponsorship deals.
The stated aim of Daniel Levy, which people including the insular THST have forgotten, is that Levy wants Spurs to rival Barcelona and Real Madrid both on and off the field.
To achieve that on the field, you first have to achieve it off the field.
If that is your stated goal, you do not get deflected by chasing a trophy, you build to a point where you become an attractive proposition for investors.
To do that you build off the field, you build the infrastructure first.
Spurs have done that and with the NFL tie-up have looked to the future as well.
The stadium allows £100m to be invested annually into the team, as I said before, investment increases that to build a team 2orthy of our stadium.
That will give a return on investment to the investor as IT WILL result in trophies. Anyone who thinks investment into the team is not a part of the master plan is a complete idiot.
Daniel Levy is no idiot, he knows full well that investment in the team is needed and he informed everyone the stadium would change Spurs, he meant in that respect as well.
No, everyone will not be bought in one window, no January is not a time you'll buy a group of players, one, two at the most, primarily players other clubs don't want or they have fallen out with.
Investment in the team will come, but not Vhile there is this limbo.
The other matter that I'll have to mention is my concern that Conte is losing the dressing room, that the players don't want to play this style of football.
Son doesn't make the runs he was making last season, the team isn't playing to the standard of last season and it's the same team basically, it should be.
That rests at the foot of Conte.
To my mind, our performances simply prove that we still do not use sports psychologists in the right way and that they are still not an integral part of our training.
Last season Spurs had the best front three in the Premier League, this season we aren't even passing them the ball, we're too busy defending.
Having said that, we had more shots than Arsenal and their goalkeeper was made Man of the Match, ours gifted them a goal for the third game running.
Shilton was too old for England, Seaman was too old for England, both cost us a place in a World Cup/ Lloris is too old.
Look at his save before their second goal, giving to palm a shot around the post. It was a laboured dive, an old man's dive.
I know, I've been through it.
Playing cricket you spend hours diving around a field.
Anyway, we don't know how talks are getting on but clearly, there is serious interest so it's a wait-and-see I'm afraid.
Tara for now.
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