Could Tottenham be about to serve a £30m slice of transfer revenge?

Following a superb summer of transfer activity by Spurs, the club must have been sorely disappointed to have missed out on a key target last week.

They’d been trailing Willian, a £30m Brazilian ace for a number of days, had agreed terms with Anzhi and the player had passed a medical at White Hart Lane. But soon after, Chelsea crashed their party, agreed terms with the player and snapped him away from Tottenham’s grip.

It was the first time this summer that Spurs were bested in the transfer market. But Andre Villas-Boas could yet get his own back.

I can’t help but wonder if Jose Mourinho moved in for Willian because he started to view Tottenham as a threat. The Blues midfield is already over-stuffed with fantastically gifted midfielders. Signing another Brazilian play-maker wasn’t exactly necessary.

Unless it was a means by which Chelsea curtailed Tottenham’s attempts to advance up the Premier League this summer. Chelsea threw a spanner into Tottenham’s well-oiled transfer machine in attempt to end the club’s advances.

But it could all back-fire for Jose Mourinho. According to The Star, Spurs are convinced that Chelsea star, Juan Mata, is interested in moving to White Hart Lane.

Wouldn’t that be quite something? I can’t help but feel that Juan Mata is an improvement on Willian and if Spurs can persuade the Blues to sell and Mata to take a step down, they could pull off a real coup.

Unfortunately for Spurs, it’s clear enough that Jose Mourinho views Andre Villas-Boas as a threat. Though he doesn’t seem to rate Juan Mata as highly as everybody else, he won’t want to let a player of that level of quality leave his club to join a rival.

Still, given the Gareth Bale situation, Tottenham could have enough money to force a deal into existence. The Star suggests that Daniel Levy will sanction a £30m move for Juan Mata.

Whether this would be enough is unclear. It should certainly give Jose Mourinho pause for thought.

Signing a player like Juan Mata would revolutionise Tottenham’s midfield and would surely elevate the club back up into a Champions League position. In that sense, Mata could end up paying for himself.

This looks like a tough deal to engineer, but Tottenham’s top-brass has already pulled off a few transfer miracles this summer. Let’s hope they do it again!

What’s your take? Could Juan Mata really make a move to Tottenham?

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