Tottenham's failure to bring in new signings so far this month has left the club's fanbase extremely frustrated ahead of Monday's transfer deadline.
January was seen as such an important window for Tottenham with three key positions needing to be solved, but Spurs have so far missed out on both Adama Traore and Luis Diaz to Barcelona and Liverpool respectively.
The Lilywhites cannot afford for the same to happen again over the coming hours as limited time is left in the January transfer window before it closes.
Having until 11pm on Monday evening to get players in through the door at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Fabio Paratici and Daniel Levy now face a race against time to give head coach Antonio Conte exactly what he wants.
Tottenham have missed out on plenty of players in the past having failed to up their bid to an acceptable price, with Bruno Fernandes and Jack Grealish, who have since taken the Premier League by storm, two names who looked set to join the Lilywhites during Mauricio Pochettino's tenure.
This is nothing new at Tottenham, however, as Glenn Hoddle recently pointed out in his autobiography, Playmaker: My Life and the Love of Football, when speaking about his time as Spurs manager.
Enjoying such a successful playing career at the club before departing for Monaco back in 1987, Hoddle returned to White Hart Lane as manager in March 2001 after leaving Southampton.
Guiding the team to 12th in what was left of the 2000/01 season, the following campaign the Lilywhites managed to jump into the top half and claim ninth spot.
Wanting to bring in some fresh faces in the summer of 2002 to help them really kick on again, that just didn't happen as the 64-year-old revealed in his book.
"My growing frustration with life at Tottenham didn't help my mood after Dad passed away," explained Hoddle. "I wanted to build a younger squad after finishing the 2001-02 season in ninth place. It was time for the club to show ambition.
"Yet I kept running down dead ends when it came to signings. It often seemed that I wasn't on the same page as the board.
"I found it strange that I never had a single conversation with the owner Joe Lewis, and I wasn't the last Tottenham manager to discover that transfer talks tended to drag on when the chairman Daniel Levy was involved.
"I got on with Daniel, who had been given responsibility for running the football operation by Lewis, but there was always something to negotiate over with him. It wasn't easy to accept and I felt cut off at times.
"There was no link to the very top of the club, where the owner's silence was deafening, and I struggled to build a rapport with David Pleat. There was a wall between us and we drifted further apart instead of trying to find some common ground.
"Ultimately everything felt too political. It wasn't that I had unwanted signings foisted on me from above. The problem was more that we dithered when we needed to be decisive, which stopped us progressing.
"We had some promising young defenders, but other parts of the squad looked tired and frayed. We needed more energy in midfield, given that Darren Anderton and Tim Sherwood were getting on, but the lack of funds forced me into compromises like signing Jamie Redknapp on a free transfer from Liverpool.
"It wasn't the behaviour of a club looking to challenge the elite. Most of our best players were approaching retirement.
"I loved Jamie but his contract had to be incentivised because of his knee problems, and also knew that we couldn't expect our main strikers, Teddy [Sheringham] and Les [Ferdinand], to last for ever."
Now almost 20 years on from Hoddle's transfer struggles in 2002, Conte is now getting a taste of it in his first transfer window as Tottenham boss.
Given many fans believe that the Italian could depart at some point down the line if he's not backed, Spurs supporters will be hoping that Levy and Paratici can deliver before 11pm on Monday if Tottenham are to get back on track and challenge towards the top once again with Conte at the helm.
