Football FanCast columnist Jake Walters fears that Spurs may settle for 2nd best

If someone can please tell me why it took until 3pm this afternoon for Dimitar Berbatov to fly up to Manchester, then I would like to hear it. Here we are on deadline deal, needing the sale of the Bulgarian to broker moves elsewhere and we wait until mid afternoon to send him up; shouldn't he have been in Manchester first thing?

I have found today's events an absolute nonsense and with Zenit turning down an Arshavin move, Milito seemingly on his way to Genoa; the strong rumour coming out is that we have now lined up Emile Heskey and Sergio Garcia, once the Berbatov deal is confirmed - I don't know what other fans feel but I am hardly bowled over; hardly suitable replacements for Keane and Defoe, let alone Berbatov.

Of course we only have ourselves to blame. We have dragged our feet, hoping to get the best deal and why many will point to the benefit, with Manchester City coming in at the 11th hour, I hardly see how selling them to our rivals in the race for the top 5 finish and the UEFA Cup warrants a good idea - strengthening Man United is disappointing, but doing it to Man City is totally unacceptable. I can understand Levy wanting to sell to City to get one over on Fergie, but surely a little common sense here has to prevail.

So what do Spurs fans feel about the day's proceedings and do you share my reservations about Garcia and Heskey? Do you feel we would be making a grave mistake in potentially selling to our immediate rivals or is it the best deal for the football club?