Capel, Bentley, J2S and any other wide boys!!

For my second blog entrance I'm going to see if we can make sense of Spurs' midfield transfer dealings this summer.

 In my opinion, the addition of Bentley (surely he must be coming soon) and Capel (a strong possibility) to accompany the signing of J2S would be great signings and would give us the kind of skill, invention and trickery that we have been missing since Ginola left us all thos years ago.

Bentley is an exceptional player who has got experience in a variety of situations - at Norwich he battled the drop, at Blackburn he played in the UEFA cup, he has caps for England and is seen by many as the successor to Beckham on the right side of the England midfield. Bentley can put great crosses in and will offer us an increased goal threat from wide areas, a thing we have lacked for too long to remember. With a change of system mooted at Spurs this year he could well find himself on the right of a front 3 which i'm sure will give him more chances to score and young Mr Bentley has an eye for goal.

Dos Santos is widely regarded to be the best Mexican player in years. He starred at the world youth championship around 2years ago and had many Brazilians cursing his choice to play for Mexico over Brazil. At Barcelon he has played in one of the best leagues in the world and has champs league experience and all at the age of 19. He has pace to burn and trickery to go with it. Anyone who saw the hat-trick he bagged in his last game for Barca will know he can score goals too (good goals at that).

Capel is probably a lesser known quantity to many spurs fans but from watching him play for Sevlle I can tell you he is a waspish character, short, stocky and pacey with a great left foot. He can cut inside or go on the outside to beat his man and is a ver tricky winger. Sounds like Aaron Lennon??? Wwell yes slightly but from what I've seen Capel has a far better end product than our own little Prince lookalike.

Bentley will be joined in the battle for RW by a somewhat energised Lennon (if you've read the quotes AL has made). J2S seems to be playing wide left in the pre-season games, so if Capel came in it would be J2S & Capel fighting over the LW position. This is a great set of options for Ramos to have and one we at Spurs have not seen for many a moon.

With Modric sure to be the clever, crafty attacking midfielder we have been crying out for our strikers will have a raft of chances sure to come their way.

 Berba looks to be leaving and my personal choice to replace him would be Roque Santa Cruz. RSC has proved last seaon that he can score goals at this level and with wingers of the calibre we are looking to bring in providing him with chances then i'm sure he would up last seasons total. I would liek to see Bent retained and given a chance at the lone striker role and I'm sure that RSC and Bent could fight it out for that position.

 Keano i feel could operate as a deep lying forward / attacking midfielder. Taking hsi place next to Modric in a midefield 5. The 5 is not yet certain as I think we need a top CDM to add steel to our class in midfield. Huddlestone would be good for this job but I feel that we need a more experieinced head in there. Albelda, a player we have been linked to in the past would be great for this role and at £3m would be a good price for the grit and knowledge he would bring.

 Our 5 in midfield and lone striker could be:

Albelda

Bentley Keano Modric J2S

Bent / RSC

 Jenas, Malbranque and Hudd would be great backup for this system and could all fill different roles in that 5.

 What do you guys think? I would very much like to know what you guys think will be our midfield for this coming season and who will be our new ST (providing Berba leaves).

I will be running the rule over our defence in my next blog!