Transfers

With the season just finished, it's an odd time to be beginning a football blog. However, I figure it's all about getting into the swing of writing it before anything serious starts happening. So the next couple of months will be dominated by posts about transfers.

Today's news that Man Utd are buying a couple of wingers from Portugal is good for Spurs. Along with the purchase of Owen Hargreaves from Bayern that takes their spending to well over their £25m annual budget (which is, I'm pretty sure, what the Glazers capped it at), making any deal for Dimitar Berbatov highly unlikely (don't know if that Facebook link will work, but it's the Berbatov Appreciation Group). Needless to say, the loss of Berbatov, at pretty much any price, would largely dismantle the club's credibility as challengers for the Premiership top four - with repercussions on future transfers and retention of top players. We'd stumble on without him, but it would require a remarkable coup in the transfer market to retain our competitiveness.

I didn't really mean to start using "we" etc. when referring to the club, but it there ya go.