Parker to Spurs for Keane plus £5million

There is a report going around today that West Ham would be interested in selling Scott Parker to Tottenham for Robbie Keane plus £5million. By my reckoning that would make Parker worth about £13 million. I wouldn't for one moment think this is going to happen but if it did, I would say what the hell! When we can get Diarra for £8.5 million, why waste it on Parker, who is injury prone and not getting any younger. Of course I could be made to eat my words, it remains to be seen.

Now don't get me wrong, I think Keane has nowhere to go at Spurs and any pending new forward would put him even further down the pecking order, but there are better options for us to follow. I think most Spurs fans appreciate we are still not quite there when it comes to our goal scoring options. We have five very good forwards but what we need is a forward who can dominate and conjure something from nothing. Where is our Torres, Rooney or Drogba. A player I always liked and is still only 28 is Saviola. I always thought he was a class act. Of course a decade ago we could have signed E'to who was at Real Mallorca, I think he was on loan from Real Madrid. Glenn Hoddle wanted to sign him but David Pleat blocked the move. We could have had him for £11 million which would have been a major deal for us then on the back of the money we spent on Rebrov, it doesn't seem that much now.

We have been linked with Huntelaar for the last year but we have always struggled to bring in these sorts of players. At the moment we are a second tier European club. Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Manchester United and Chelsea are going to be the preferred destinations of players like Huntelaar, we cant offer the wages and the prestige. It makes it harder for Tottenham, we see our club as the part of the elite, but we will not be there until we regularly compete in the Champions league and get through to the semi finals. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try though but we really do need to keep our feet on the ground.

We currently have Huddlestone, Palacios, Sandro and Jenas in central midfield and can also call on Modric to play there as well as Livermore who was on the bench yesterday. Jenas at the moment appears to be the weak link and I ma sure if the right offer came in he would go. I personally favour bringing back Carrick if he were available but I would not be too disappointed if it was Diarra to come in.

I think that with Giovani's rise in from and hopefully improvement in his attitude, it is only a metter of time that Keane will be sold and the money used to more than likely bolster our central midfield with possibly Jenas being sold as well. I can't see Daniel Levy sanctioning this move, it doesn't represent good business. Lets wait and see.