Football FanCast columnist Tim White feels that Spurs will have little option in January but bring in experience, given that the club's stock has fallen this season and has targeted Milan's Gattuso as one of many wise heads that the North Londoners should look to bring in.

You may love or loathe ENIC but no one can question what a fabulous job they have done with the club, financially, over the past few years. Bought wisely, sold on for vast profits, many would pinpoint that their financial success has been merely down to us becoming a selling club. That clearly is not the case and the board have always showed ambition in the market, year on year and their failure in the last window shouldn't taint their efforts at the club. They made a huge mistake and it will be addressed in January; it certainly wouldn't be the first balls up our club have made over the years.

What I find interesting reading various websites since the window has been shut is the type of players that people think we should sign come January. Huntelaar, Podolski, Diarra, Veloso and Arshavin are all good players, but are they realistically going to join us in our current state. The club could have got all these players in the summer, with the momentum of the ‘Ramos revolution' but that has now passed and it will be very difficult to entice them to the football club, given our start - it is a bitter pill for us to all swallow, but we have to accept that these players are unlikely to join, unless the club was to shatter their wage structure, which I feel they have no intention in doing.

I think my biggest frustration of the summer was the whole Arshavin deal and the club's reluctance to break the club record for a player that would seemingly have no sell on value, given his age. In a business sense it is understandable, given how the Director of Football role supposedly provides this rotation of players and subsequent profits, but when it becomes a detriment to the team, and then I feel something has to change. If Arshavin was going to create that much needed partnership upfront with Pavlyuchenko; then sell on values and a few extra million shouldn't matter in my opinion.

I actually feel that given our current predicament we are in the club has little option to put company policy on hold, bite the bullet and look to bring in some experience into the football club. I'm not suggesting that is what is required to get our club out of the hole, but I honestly feel we are going to be limited with the players we can bring to the club in January. Obviously the likes of Veloso and Huntelaar would be fantastic for us, but would they really join a side that will not be playing Champions League football for a bare minimum of 18months - we have to be realistic here.

I know it goes against the clubs ethics and what makes good business sense but I believe ENIC need to take a hit this January to get the club back on track. Sell on values should be discounted and finished products, maybe those looking for a last pay day need to be brought in. Ian Wright made a great point the other day in bringing in Gattuso to the club; a player of vast experience and would bring some much needed leadership to the football club. At 31 come January, the Italian's career is certainly on the wane and certainly wouldn't command a transfer fee any more than £5m. He would certainly be an excellent short term measure and you sense he would jump at the chance of the challenge in England, given how complimentary he has been of the Premier League in the past. I don't know if my fellow Spurs fans agree that moving in for experience is the right policy, but I just think come January we won't have much choice.

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