I have been hearing all summer how Spurs are going to oust Arsenal this season, so while picking my fantasy team, I started to look down the different squads to try to find a bargain or two.

But when I clicked on Spurs I got more than I bargained for. It amazed me that this team that had been so hyped up  - and make no mistake, they have the best front-line selection in the country with Dimitar Berbatov, Robbie Keane, Darren Bent and Jermain Defoe. But as I tried to find a good-value midfielder and defender, they just were not there, and as I studied it more, I could not see any true Premier League-class players.

Tottenham simply have nothing behind the front line. They have bought all these expensive strikers but never really thought about how to give them the ball and create chances. The whole thing has to be the work of an idiot. Step forward Martin Jol and the board that blindly backed him. They just may have sent Tottenham Hotspur on the road down the league of no return.

'The whole thing has to be the work of an idiot. Step forward Martin Jol and the board that blindly backed him'


Spurs are so similar to Leeds a couple of years ago it's a little bit scary. Leeds invested everything they did not have on a manager who had no real pedigree but gave his youngsters a chance and they did OK. The club then threw money at David O'Leary like it was going out of fashion, but we all know how that story finished.

Spurs are much the same. They have spent nearly £100m over the last couple of seasons with only Berbatov being good value for money. Now I know it's early in the season and I would not usually comment like this, but Spurs under Jol are such shocking under-achievers that it has to be said they are the most likely to become the next Leeds.

They have to buy midfielders and defenders before the deadline, and if Jol does what he has consistently done and buys the wrong players, then relegation is a real threat.

I would be sad to see Spurs go the same way as Leeds as they have always played entertaining football, but they really need big changes to survive. And the biggest change they need is finding someone who can buy players that give the team a balance - as good a defence and midfield to go with an attack that a team like Spurs can afford, not the all-out-attack house of cards that Jol has built.

Maybe if Spurs act now and get a manager who understands that a team is built from defence, midfield and attack, they may just salvage something from this season.