I can't deny that deadline day is all about wheeling and dealing, but how do Spurs hope to buy Jay Rodriguez when there starting price is way too low.
Deadline day is about moving quickly, the time for haggling is over ad its about putting money on the nose and rushing through medicals and paperwork before the 11pm deadline.
With all this being the case you have to question whether Spurs alleged £14 million offer for Jay Rodriguez is serious or just trying to unsettle the player ready for the January transfer window when hopefully the player will be back to full fitness again and has recaptured his form of old.
Indeed it would be a big risk to sign Rodriguez, the player would be unable to pass a medical at the moment and there would be no guarantee he would be the same player he was when he comes back to playing again.
The other issue would be just how much football Spurs would get out of Rodriguez before the next transfer window opens, depending on his his recovery has gone the former Burnley player is unlikely to be back much before the end of October and it could be anytime between then and the start of December before he is firing on all cylinders again.
Also the price is far too low, given what we have received for Adam Lallana and Calum Chambers, £14 million is far too low and this is where I am starting to think this is nothing more than Spurs trying to throw in a few spanners into the works, they know an offer of this level would be turned down flat although co incidentally (or not) its a very similar fee to the one they are looking for, for Andros Townsend.
All of this would tend to suggest that Spurs are not that serious about Rodriguez, at least not until January, they are testing the water in the hope that we are stupid enough to take the bait, perhaps we might do, after all as I have mentioned we will get little out of Rodriguez this side of the transfer window and perhaps our medical staff know something theirs will not.
Either way its still a cheeky bid by Tottenham who after their humiliation at the hands of Liverpool might be starting to worry that with West ham and QPR not looking the strongest teams in the league at present, that their good start might not be as big a guide to the season ahead as they had hoped.