Reports from White Hart Lane this afternoon are triggering concern for the well being of Daniel Levy.
Sources describe a tense, knife edge atmosphere at THFC which already has an inward looking and paranoid culture.
This transfer window has been a slow train coming. Yet the board at the club have been incapable of doing more than recouping some of the extraordinary monies squandered in the previous windows.
As self inflicted messes go, Levy has taken Spurs beyond the realms of Frank Spencer, into a new and unchartered stratosphere of stupid.
With just days to go before Everton arrive in N17, the club’s playing staff more resemble the contents of a lost property box than a side with aspirations for a top four finish.
Eric Dier is playing rush-DM as someone at the club ‘forgot’ to buy a real one, and the search for an additional striker appears to have all the strategic planning of a goose hunt.
West Bromwich Albion have gone to the lengths of issuing a statement on their website, repeating the message of two previous statements on social media. Said Berahino is not for sale.
The player has handed in a transfer request and it has been rejected.
What’s truly sad here, is that Berahino is at best an okay striker.
Levy has been attempting to fob off critics with this morsel of a threat, that Spurs will sign the 22-year-old who last season scored 14 Premier League goals for the Baggies.
The BBC’s Ian Dennis (Commentator/Senior Football Reporter at BBC Radio 5 Live) just Tweeted “Spurs not agreed a deal for Yannick Bolasie and it’s my understanding they have no interest in him.”
Given the meagre signings to date, compared to the targets in the press, one has to start wondering if links to players are just being leaked in order to give the impression the club is busy?
It’s now obvious that Pochettino is a patsy and that the appointment of Paul Mitchell was window dressing. Just as with Franco Baldini, all three men were designed to to operate as window dressing whilst THFC was entering into discussions with the NFL.
Which was yet another Frank Spencer moment.
Whilst basking in his recent pay rise, one has to ask, just how much pressure is a football chairman willing to take?
The atmosphere at The Lane this weekend won’t need much encouragement to turn vicious very quickly.
If the fans cannot be placated, then Levy will be a braver man than I to take his famous ‘best seat in the house’.
There is more chance of Michael Crawford turning up at Spurs this weekend complete with beret and mackintosh than there is a credible signing or two.
