I'm sure that wasn't the point he was making all these weeks but rather the reiterated 'if we had made those January signings this summer, you people wouldn't have complained that much'.
Which is flawed thinking, as Yorkie pointed out.
They were meant to be getting a defender from Bucharest but they ran into a mental Romanian
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/transfer_talk/171606/steaua-bucharest-owner-gigi-becali-cancels-tottenhams-approach-for-vlad-chiriches-from-his-prison-cell.html
Jesus, that's a prison?
http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/158566967-former-players-ronaldo-nazario-and-zinedine-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7Qc%2BQz02n9dAzOHFR8hk3O6Yz%2FmIq2IZq4%2FWuTZcG55DxIfiCAtxr259toaP3k%2F48Pg%3D%3D
Say if we come down to the last day of the window without any signing, would people pay 6m + 60kpw for Bent?
It could well be the case that we will have to be happy to accept him as an alternative to a worrying half season ahead.
Vertonghen, Kaboul and Dawson? they have been linked with some Steaua Bucharest defender too.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/tottenham-react-to-jan-vertonghen-injury-by-increasing-interest-in-steaua-bucharest-defender-vlad-chiriches-8739952.html
Also reports in Romania say a fee has been agreed for around 8m euros.
Makes sense then.