Tottenham Transfer News: Hector Moreno and Jay Rodriguez to Lead January Spree

Tottenham currently sit 10th in the Premier League table with the season's halfway mark starting to appear on the horizon. The sluggish start is reportedly causing Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino to consider a massive overhaul during the January transfer window.

Sami Mokbel of the Daily Mail reports the squad could look a lot different by the time the movement period ends. That includes both high-profile arrivals and exits. Hector Moreno and Jay Rodriguez highlight the potential additions:

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Espanyol defender Hector Moreno, who the Argentine manager worked with before, is a player firmly on Pochettino's radar even though he is recovering from a broken leg.

Barcelona youngsters Sergi Samper and Adama Traore are also being watched. Tottenham will also bid to sign Southampton forward Jay Rodriguez.

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As for the players who could be on the move to make room for the spending spree, the list goes at least seven deep. Several of them arrived during the club's last revamp:

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However, there will be players on their way out too with the club willing to listen to offers for Paulinho, Vlad Chiriches, Aaron Lennon and Andros Townsend next month.

The futures of Mousa Dembele, Emmanuel Adebayor and Jan Vertonghen also remain uncertain.

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It's not often a club is looking to make such wide-ranging changes in the middle of the campaign. But with Pochettino being a new manager and now having a couple months to assess his squad, it sounds like he's ready to make a splash.

The question is whether the club's brass is on board with the plan. Last week, Darren Lewis of the Daily Mirror passed along comments from the head coach, who admitted he doesn't have as much influence at Tottenham as he did with Southampton.

"In Southampton, I was a manager. My responsibility was not only to coach the team," he said. "Here I am a head coach—a head coach is head of your department. My department is to train the team."

Put a different way, he's only in charge of getting the players on the roster ready to play. He can make suggestions, but the ultimate transfer decisions come from higher up the ladder.

It creates an interesting dynamic with less than a month until the window opens. Exactly how active Spurs will be as they try to spark a second-half surge remains a mystery.