New Football FanCast columnist Oliver Wright looks at Spurs' performance in the transfer window and doesn't feel it is quite panning out as first thought.

The summer transfer window is usually a time of excitement, and often ultimate disappointment, for Tottenham supporters. We are constantly linked with a plethora of the world's best flair players, which sets the imagination in motion, only to never sign them.

Obviously, the club have signed some top quality players in recent times, Berbatov, Woodgate and Hutton being prime examples, but none of them was truly world class at the time of purchase.

This summer was set to be different, with Ramos, one of the most respected managers on the continent, scouring world football and attracting some of the game's best talent to White Hart Lane. Or so I thought.

Instead, the story so far has been rather different, and I for one am worried with the summer's events so far now that the players are back in pre-season training and the start of the season is just four weeks away. The overriding theme has been for our best players to be linked with moves away from the club, rather than just the usual constant flow of intended transfer target rumours.

We all expected Berbatov to depart and it looks finally that Manchester United are making their move. More alarming are some of the other, largely unexpected, stories floating around. Liverpool's interest in Robbie Keane may depend on how much money they end up having to spend, but it appears real. Keane seems a man of loyalty and integrity, but if that loyalty stretches back to when he was a young boy, he may favour a move to Anfield more than we would hope. Many players would like to play for the club they supported as a boy, especially if that club is one of the biggest in the world and plays regularly in the Champions League. His departure would be the biggest blow of all.

Maybe that sale of Defoe wasn't such a great idea after all. We will need to find a suitable replacement for Berbatov, something I trust, hope at least, Ramos has under control. Finding one for Keane too is something the manager probably hadn't anticipated and may prove harder to achieve.

Aside from rumours of a depleting strike force, Steed Malbranque, Tottenham's player of the year for many supporters, has been linked with a move he might just want if he feels he won't get into Ramos's new look midfield. It's not just the players either, with Gus Poyet apparently attracting the attention of Manchester United. Even the acquisition of Gomes has taken a worrying amount of time to complete. If he is not granted a work permit, it leaves little time to find a replacement for Robinson between the sticks.

Ramos hasn't touched his cheque book since the signings of Modric and Dos Santos. The expected capture of Bentley has not materialised and we seem to have been knocked back by a variety of European strikers. And we haven't sold the dross either, although you could hardly blame the other Premier League sides for not wanting the likes of Kaboul and Boateng.

With the relative lack of activity, could time be running out for the club to ensure the right squad is assembled? If Berbatov and Keane do leave in the next couple of weeks and the Gomes transfer falls through, it will leave the club frantically trying to sign top quality players at a time when teams are trying to settle their squads before the season starts. Any late signings that do come in won't have much time to adapt and get to know their team mates either.

I suppose we just have to trust that the manager knows what he is doing, and that come August 16, the team lining up to face Middlesbrough will be one capable of competing with any team in the country. If you look at the current first team squad as it is, it's filled with top quality players. The worry is that if events don't turn out as we would want, Ramos might be left with a worse squad than he had at the end of last season.

There are rumours that Juande wants to use a 4-5-1 formation for the coming campaign, and so may be adapting the squad accordingly to fit this plan. The 1986/87 season tells us that such a line up can be conducive to exciting, attacking football and lots of goals. Just as long as Darren Bent isn't the lone striker.

Oliver Wright is the author of fan autobiography, 'From the Lane,' available from www.fromthelanebook.co.uk, amazon.co.uk, other online retailers and Waterstones high street stores.