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While teams like Everton continue to fumble behind the sofa for a spare tuppence to add to their non-existent transfer kitty, Spurs are splurging on all sorts of high profile players. Studs Up - the greatest football comic in history - takes a look at Spurs’ signings right here. (Studs Up)

If Tottenham’s glorious haul of attack minded players doesn’t restore your faith in the beautiful game, maybe a platter of the most gloriously succulent beach soccer goals will slake your goal-lust. Look out for “Diego Junior Maradona”. (The Offside)

The Spoiler continues to riff on the world of dodgy haircuts, moving on from Stephen Ireland’s wig and this time having a pop at Joey Barton’s jail house barnet - which looks like a Roy Orbison tribute wig. (The Spoiler)

Meanwhile…over at Dave’s Football Blog they bring us a vision for the future. A world champions league, powered by a Richard Branson transport gadget. (Dave’s Football Blog)

According to this source, Ramos is close to securing the double swoop that should ease concerns from Tottenham fans and help replace the outgoing stars!

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As the finishing touches were being put to the Bentley deal, Spurs were on to their next business, a £34m twin raid on Russia, with fees agreed of £19m for Arshavin and £15m for Pavlyuchenko.Those two signings will take manager Juande Ramos’s spending through the £100m barrier since he arrived from Sevilla less than a year ago, although he has recouped a sizeable chunk of that in this summer’s outgoings. (Daily Mail)

It looks like Berbatov is likely to leave the White Hart Lane outfit. He wasn’t included in the squad that took on and thrashed Leyton Orient last night, raising concerns that the Bulgarian’s sulking antics could well lead to the club deciding to cash in rather than to hold on to a player who is showing such a lack of respect. Pavlyuchenko could work well as the one man up front, but is unlikely to be able to partner Darren Bent who has been in sparkling form in the pre-season matches.

Arshavin would also be one hell of a capture and the type of player who could help the Spurs fans forget about their departing stars. Do Tottenham fans think that the team can adequately make up for the loss of both their top strikers?

He has the same initials and plays in the same position so David Bentley will hope that his 15million pounds transfer to Tottenham will help him dislodge David Beckham once and for all from the England team.

The 23-year-old has never seemed short of confidence and the midfielder declared that he was ready to step up “to the next level” by leaving the homely surrounds of Blackburn Rovers after just two years for a return to London’s bright lights.

Bentley, of course, began his career in the youth ranks at Arsenal, leaving the club after becoming frustrated by his lack of first-team opportunities. It isn’t often Arsene Wenger errs in his handling of young players but Bentley may come back to haunt the Arsenal manager if he shines for their north London neighbours.

“I grew up there but it isn’t a problem for me. My heart is at Tottenham now,” Bentley told reporters after signing in at a nervous White Hart Lane.

Bentley supported Spurs as a boy and said he dreamed of emulating the feats of Paul Gascoigne in the white of club and country. Being at Tottenham has never harmed a player’s England prospects in the past and Bentley is determined to grab his opportunity.

“It is entirely in my hands - it is up to me to perform,” said a player whose impressive dead-ball skills and passing range from the right have earned him six England caps already.

More than once he has been quoted as saying he’s ready to replace Beckham in the England team and now is his moment to deliver. If so, it could well be Bentley and not Beckham filling the No7 shirt on England’s journey towards the World Cup in South Africa.

PHOTO: England’s Bentley (l), Beckham (c) and Walcott stand together during a soccer training session in Port of Spain, May 30. REUTERS/David Moir

Recent events at White Hart Lane have rightly concerned Tottenham supporters. Just how will they manage to cope without the goals of Robbie Keane and Dimitar Berbatov? Maybe the answer to allay these worries is already at the club?

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Before any non-Tottenham fan scoffs at the following suggestion, and they’ll, it’s worth noting that the man who could solve the crisis has a very healthy scoring record in the Premier League and is scoring for fun as the north London club steamrollers the pre-season opposition. Yes the man in question is none other than Darren Bent.

Outside N17, the former Charlton man has become something of a comedy figure. Indeed, some fans of the club itself may also chuckle at the England international, but the truth is that Bent hasn’t been a flop at the club and the 24-year-old is constantly having to apologise and justify his price tag, something he obviously has no control over. For the record, Darren started 15 games last season and scored eight times, which is hardly a horrendous failure!

He has managed two successive hat-tricks in recent days and, whilst the opposition weren’t the strongest, it does show that the striker is going about things in a professional manner knowing that now could be the chance to impress Juande Ramos and persuade him that he need look no further than the club’s number 23 to fill the huge void at the club.

Darren Bent has proved first at Ipswich, and then more spectacularly at Charlton, that he can score goals in the Premier League. He managed an incredible 31 goals in two top-tier seasons with the south London club, and that’s no mean feat given that the club struggled and inevitably were relegated.

Would it be too far fetched to think he could manage a 20-goal haul at a club pushing for a top six finish? I think he’s capable of being the club’s saving grace this coming season, but only if Ramos has faith in him and the Tottenham fans back him 100%, which i believe they’ll.

Talk is cheap, although there’s a lot of it at White Hart Lane, which has been a hive of activity this week. No sooner had Robbie Keane flounced off to Liverpool for £20 million, Spurs were reinvesting the lion’s share of their cash on Blackburn winger David Bentley for £15 million. Here’s another player who isn’t short of confidence, immediately making a sayment of intent which might be of interest to fans of former club Arsenal.

Sky Sports reports that the England international sees no reason why Tottenham can’t break into the top four, although this is starting to sound like an echo of last season, when there were plenty predicting the same thing. What actually happened was that the club failed to make it into the top half, but with Spurs treating this transfer window like a game of FM08, who knows?

Juande Ramos has made a number of other exciting signings this summer and Bentley feels Tottenham could break into the top four.

He told Sky Sports News: “Of course. They are young talented players. It will be difficult but if we give it our all and we’re all up for it, I think it is quite possible.

“We can do anything we want and anything we put our minds to. We’ve got a great manager and you can see what he did last season.

“The fitness and the level of play at Tottenham has risen and I want to be a part of that.

“Hopefully we’ll keep progressing this season and do well.”

Not quite on a par with Heurelho Gomes’ proclamation that he’s set his sights on the top two places in the Premier League, but another confident assertion ahead of the new season starting. With Arsenal currently fourth favourites to win the Premier League, will the Gunners be the ones nervously looking over their shoulders next term?