The transfer window opens

So with today being the 1st of January it brings with it a massive opportunity for Spurs to bolster their squad to help stave off the all to real threat of a relegation scrap to steer clear of the drop to the Championship through the use of the transfer window.

It's turned out to be a very distinct possibility as the season has developed that Spurs flirtation with the drop zone is not merely a fleeting one but one that has continued to hang around like a bad smell until today. But now comes Harry Redknapp's first chance to make his mark on the squad since he arrived at the end of 2008.

In my opinion he needs a striker, as this is where we are really struggling at the moment with only Bent, Campbell and Pavlyuchenko who has played a full Russian season, Euro 2008 and the Premiership season as well. He could also do with another centre back as I don't think Dawson can cut it at the top level consistently and King and Woodgate can't seem to stay fit.

We could also do with another 'keeper because although Redknapp seems to have cured Gomes of his inability to catch anything including a cold for the time being, it would still be good to have an insurance policy in the form of a decent second choice stopper.

Players that have been linked by the BBC website (this means every person who has pulled on a football shirt anywhere in the last three months) include Bellamy, Defoe, Given, Glen Johnson, Crouch and Green.

All of these would be welcome additions to the team for me except Bellamy because the guy is a liability in terms of his behaviour. The only thing that you can rely on him to do is disrupt things, wherever he has played he has caused trouble in one way or another.

So, in conclusion, I think we certainly need to be relatively active in the next month without going too far. We still need stability and that only comes through consistency of selection but a few well chosen purchases wouldn't go amiss. So I look forward to see what wheeling and dealing the guy who sounds like a second-hand car salesman will do!!