I've been thinking a lot about this lately, and I've actually come to the conclusion that I really would prefer not to go for some 'silver bullet' signing up-front, and instead go with a lot of cheaper, but promising players.

So, what I would LOVE to see in the upcoming transfer window would be:

Christian Eriksen
Samuel Umtiti
Son Heung-Min
Mohamed Salah
Cristian Tello
Mohamed Diame
Tom Ince

Forget signing David Villa. He's a legend, but he's also old and fragile, and I'm just not convinced he'd be what we'd need him to be, anyway. For the price Barcelona are asking for, we could pick up at least 2 of the names on my list (aside from Eriksen), and I think they'd be better investments.

How to pay for it all? Well, I'd push to sell the following:

Emmanuel Adebayor
Jake Livermore
David Bentley (yes, he's still ours :p)
Benoit Assou-Ekotto
Tom Huddlestone

We'd still need to stump up some serious cash for Eriksen, I believe, but aside from that, I think we'd be able to cover a large chunk of the transfer funds by selling off those guys.

Also, with the return of Danny Rose, Andros Townsend and any of our other young loanees deemed 'ready', I think Spurs would have excellent cover and rotation for AVB's favored 4-3-3 system. I'd see it line up as follows:

Lloris
Walker -- Kaboul -- Vertonghen -- Rose
Lennon -- Sandro -- Dembele
Bale -- Holtby -- Eriksen

With Holtby deployed as a No. 10, and Sandro holding down DM.

We'd have SO MUCH DEPTH on that formation, if we bought my youngsters, and I think it would be great.

Any thoughts?

@JuanMata10, *looks at Oscar and Eden Hazard*.

@Heisingburg: haha yeah, Hazard is pretty small, but he's better than all i named in my previous comment. I looked up Heung-min Son's height and he is pretty tall (1.83 m). Didn't notice that before :-0

@Heisinburg: Ahhhh, with you now. :)

@JuanMata10: Yeah, I was gonna say, about Son. ;) Also, I agree that Salah is small, but he looks tough, too, from what I've seen of his play. I know what you mean, though.

Scott Parker out? For what ?

Well, for not being quite good enough, basically. :/ He simply can't do what AVB's system needs him to, and was really at his best cleaning up around Modric. Those days are gone.

We owe him a lot, and he's done us proud, but, we can't keep looking backward instead of forward. Sandro is already 1st choice, and we need a good understudy to him. I'd be happy to keep Parker on, for emergencies, but, I doubt he'd like that, and we could use the money.

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They look like friends to me...

...okay?

Just letting you know.

Know what? That they were involved in the goal celebration of another team-mate's goal? Cheers for that.

Oh, wait, you were trying to imply something, weren't you...? ;)

They're obviously best friends and he'll come to Liverpool. Obviously.

Joking aside, some media outlets are speculating that Luis Suarez could be extra-motivation for Eriksen to come to Liverpool.

I'm just trying to bum you out, as a joke.

@Gustavo: I guess it didn't seem to me like a joke; more of a dig.

But, fair enough. We've had some arguments in the past, which is why I jumped to that conclusion, but if you were attempting to make a joke to try and relieve that tension, then I appreciate that. The internet sucks in terms of conveying tone, so my bad for taking it that way.

I'll not be so touchy in future.

i would buy evra like i did in fifa 13 with hotspur

@Felix: I read a rumour that we might be negotiating to buy back Prince-Boateng. O.o Do you know anything about that? I thought he loved it in Milan...

@Lodatz

I don't think Boateng is coming back, as he has a better shot at winning trophies with Milan at the moment than with Spurs. And he'll cost you guys around 25 Million Euros (at least), so I don't think he's Spurs' best option right now.

@juanmata10 how about mata,oscar,silva..... ? classy players can play everywhere. french player get stronger the first year they came and gain weight look at ben arfa or Loic Remy. Tello is underrated, being a young promising player in RM or Barça isn' t simple. he's very strong mentally,very fast and have a great right foot...
we will not give it to spurs for 10m :) he played clasicos, C1 matches. i think he will never be a flop. salah is very class but not sure if he's prepared to be in a big team with a lot of games and pressure.

^You'd be crazy to suggest Mata or Oscar to Spurs. We would never sell them.

Okay, I'll settle for Lukaku then... O:)

spurs should buy micah richard and lescott off us. They are junk to our squad and they are just eating all the salary by sitting on comfy seats, each week.

Son made 5 goals by the head this season, strong player, also 4 goals against Dortmund!

U think u ll buy every season 5 top class players ? naaaah..