Tottenham Hotspur: The Transfer Window Soap Opera

It's that time of year again folks: televisions are tuned off of football and, arguably, on to other less entertaining sports, but fans' news feeds are lit up by the latest Peruvian stars looking to make it in the greatest league in the world—the Premier League. 

But for Tottenham Hotspur, the transfer window means a lot more—it means backstabbing, upsetting other managers to the point of lunacy, stealing the latest British talent, and selling the odd-ten central midfielders Martin Jol seemed fit to sign during his tenure.

This transfer window has been as exciting as the last, and the fruit of the Chairman, Daniel Levy's, success has come to the fore already, stealing under Kevin Keegan's nose the electrifying Croatian playmaker Luca Modric for a club-record equaling fee of 16.5 million.

However, signaling the intent for the "changing face" of Spurs, Tottenham manager Juande Ramos has yet to bring any more talent into the team.

Fans and writers alike were excited by the prospect of the imminent arrival of Samuel Eto'o, the exceptional Cameroonian International from Barcelona.

However, akin to the Damien Duff and Scott Parker scandals of the last two seasons, he is not interested in Spurs, not because of the reported "Champions League Football," but because Spurs won't double their top-earner to fulfill his need of £100,000 a week.

Juande Ramos' last-ditch trip to Spain to entice a man to join a club playing in a lower European competition, where the club that wins earns less than a group stage participant in the Champions League, while dropping £50k off of his pay packet is laughable.

Daniel Levy is a shrewd businessman, the only Chairman in the Premier League with an economics degree from Cambridge, a life long Spurs fan—but he will not break the rigid wage structure to sign anyone, after all football is a business, right?

Perhaps the most interesting rumor of this campaign is the potential signings of Uryagian Bruno Fornaroli and Bolivian Marcelo Moreno, each with a formidable scoring record in their respective leagues.

It seems our other joint transfer record coup, Darren Bent, may be on his way out, not that any Spurs fan will feel aggrieved by that move after disappointing everyone and forcing Jermain Defoe to move and go on the best scoring spree of his career.

After all, I could have just written an article with a list—the thing with Tottenham is you just don't know until it's written on the club's official website, but I feel even worse for Evertonians, their official website last season said Riquelme was on his way—who can you trust?