Tottenham could announce signing of Jack Clarke this week

Numerous outlets are reporting that the fee could be around £8.5m, but nothing is final yet. Start getting excited, because it looks like Tottenham Hotspur’s long transfer drought might soon be over. Numerous journalists, including Dan Kilpatrick at the Evening Standard, are reporting that Spurs are close to the signing of 18-year old Leeds winger Jack Clarke, and that the club expect a transfer fee of about £8.5m.

Contrary to reports in some of the tabloid papers in England, Kilpatrick states that no deal has been reached yet with the Championship club for the transfer of Clarke, and that’s going to probably get the caustic ire up of a lot of people who are reading this. However, the general tenor of all the reports I’ve seen on the C...