The Club can announce that the registration of goalkeeper Cesar Sanchez has been cancelled by mutual consent.
The 37-year-old joined from Real Zaragoza in August to provide goalkeeping cover and has featured on the substitutes bench in all but three of our fixtures this season - replacing the injured Heurelho Gomes on one occasion in the second half of the Carling Cup 4th round against Liverpool in November.
We wish Cesar every success for the future.
We are delighted to announce that we have reached agreement for the transfer of Wilson Palacios from Wigan Athletic.
Personal terms have been agreed and a medical completed, we now await the Honduran international receiving his work permit before completing his registration.
The midfielder made 41 appearances for the Latics after joining in January, 2008 having started the 2007/08 campaign on loan with Birmingham City, where he featured on eight occasions.
The 24-year-old had previously played for Honduran top-flight side Olimpia where he scored 32 goals in 102 appearances.
Roman Pavlyuchenko and Jermain Defoe clawed back a 3-0 deficit on the night at Burnley to book a place in the Carling Cup Final by a 6-4 aggregate margin.
It appeared that Burnley were on their way to Wembley after our 4-1 lead from White Hart Lane was cancelled out with one first half goal and two in the second half at Turf Moor.
With three minutes of extra time remaining and the aggregate score locked at 4-4 we were on our way out with Burnley's goal from the first leg set to count double.
Thankfully, Pavlyuchenko popped up with another fine finish to tip the semi-final back in our favour. Defoe made sure with seconds left to make it 3-2 on the night, 6-4 on aggregate.
The wind was swirling the rain around under the pylons suspending the lights at Turf Moor as a thunderous reception received the teams onto the pitch. The first leg deficit did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of the home crowd and this came very close to being reduced via an unlikely source in the sixth minute.
To echoes of 'when the Spurs' behind the goal, debut-making goalkeeper Ben Alnwick was forced into an emergency stop. A Benoit Assou-Ekotto interception was somewhat overcooked and the ball looked to the sailing over the head of the advanced Alnwick and into an empty net when the goalkeeper stretched every sinew and managed to tip just around the post.
It was an early warning shot that said clearly that we were going to be offered no easy ticket to Wembley, although Burnley's task would have been steeper had Brian Jensen not managed to thwart Jermain Defoe - although not altogether convincingly - just moments later.
After the initial flurry, goalscoring chances were at a premium for the next 20 minutes, there was no lessening of the intensity level, but the defending became more regimented and opportunity was not knocking for either side.
Robbie Blake fizzed across the face of goal with 32 minutes on the clock as Burnley attempted to raise the tempo ahead of the break and they got their boost two minutes later from set piece a few yards outside the area.
Blake curled around the assembled wall and beyond the reach of Alnwick to hand Burnley a pre-interval tonic, before David Bentley free-kick from the right caused a good degree of panic in the home guard a few minutes later.
It should perhaps be noted that Burnley were playing with the wind in the first half, with the icy rain blowing into their backs as opposed to their faces. Whether this was an advantage or not that would become clear later.
A Luka Modric turn and shot provided our opening salvo of the second half, where the conditions were now firmly against the home team and it was certainly showing in their approach play early on that was lacking the zip of the first period.
Gareth Bale replaced Jamie O'Hara just after the hour in our first change of the game. He looked like he'd made an instant impact with a cross that landed at the feet of Bentley, but his effort struck a post and he was deemed to be offside anyway.
The young Welshman then burst down the left, leaving his markers in his wake, before unfortunately dragging his shot wide. Modric was then withdrawn, with Roman Pavlyuchenko taking over in attack.
Defoe seized on a slip by Clarke Carlisle and forced Jensen to foil bravely off his line, but it was the home side who struck again at the other end on 72 minutes. Blake did the crucial work down the left flank, evading challenges to fizz low across goal to where Chris McCann was waiting to gleefully force home at the far post.
The aggregate lead was whittled down to 4-3. This should have been extended on 77 minutes when Bale sped down the left and dispatched a low centre into the feet of Pavlyuchenko in front of goal. The Russian striker could not keep his first time shot down and Turf Moor remained in raptures.
Michael Dawson made a vital interception from a Jay Rodriguez cross before Defoe was denied in front of the travelling thousands seconds later.
Burnley secured a fortunate third with just over two minutes remaining when a Blake free-kick was not gathered by Alnwick and Rodriguez was on hand knock in the loose ball.
A Pavlyuchenko effort from distance was deflected wide in the final minute, so extra time it was - a prospect that appeared highly unlikely just over two weeks ago.
We now had to score, Burnley needed to simply see it out without conceding.
Adel Taarabt was given the chance to make an impression, with Chris Gunter withdrawn and Zokora moved to right-back.
Bale worked Jensen in the opening moments of the second period of extra time after the first passed without major incident.
Three minutes from time Pavlyuchenko saved the night.
Assou-Ekotto squared the ball inside where the Russian was in place to ping past Jensen to huge relief. Jermain Defoe then inflicted punishment that Burnley did not deserve when he slipped a further goal past Jensen to reduce the score on the night to 3-2.
Young striker Jon Obika has signed his first professional contract at the club.
A Second Year trainee in our Academy, Jon, 18, has scored 11 goals for the Under-18s this season, including a hat-trick in the FA Youth Cup third round victory over Sheffield United.
His form has earned him a place in the First Team squad on three occasions this term, and he came off the the bench to make his senior debut in the UEFA Cup game with NEC Nijmegen in November.
Jon also netted on his only appearance for the Reserves so far this season.
Jermain Defoe scored his first goal since rejoining the Club to rescue a vital point against Portsmouth at White Hart Lane.
We went into the game at the foot of the Barclays Premier League table and in desperate need of a win, but a 59th minute thunderbolt from David Nugent could have made our situation a whole lot worse.
Thankfully, JD popped up with the goods 11 minutes later, but a flurry of chances late on should have seen us to victory.
As it is, the point takes us out of the bottom three on goal difference, even though it could have been so much better.
Harry Redknapp reverted back to a 4-4-2 formation having experimented with a diamond midfield in the defeat at Wigan a week ago.
Michael Dawson made way for captain Ledley King to partner Jonathan Woodgate at the heart of the defence, while Aaron Lennon came back into the side on the right of midfield.
Defoe was making his second Spurs home debut against the club from whom he rejoined us less than a fortnight ago.
And he was gifted a chance to put us in the lead after just nine minutes. Former Spur Sean Davis misplaced a cross-field ball right into the striker's path, but with only David James to beat, Defoe slashed his shot wide.
He was nearly left to rue that miss three minutes later when Heurelho Gomes failed to hold onto a Glen Johnson shot, but just managed to palm the loose ball away from the lurking Peter Crouch.
The middle third of the first half belonged to us, with our best chance coming on 20 minutes.
Lennon went on a run and shot that was tipped round the post, and from the resulting corner, Woodgate rose to meet the ball and glanced to the back post where Roman Pavlyuchenko was on hand to sweep home, only for Defoe to accidentally block the shot.
Defoe nearly atoned for that and his earlier miss three minutes later when Lennon stood up a cross for him from the by-line, but the header was well saved by James.
At the other end, some fantastic defending was required by Vedran Corluka when Nugent was sent clean through to slide across the area for Armand Traore, who was denied by the Croatian's last ditch tackle.
Corluka nearly turned provider on 34 minutes when his in-swinging cross was glanced goalwards by King, but James was once again equal to it.
The football was end-to-end at this stage, and three minutes later Jamie O'Hara was dispossessed by Niko Kranjcar who sent Younes Kaboul through to go on and shoot into the side-netting.
O'Hara did the same at the other end with a promising 25 yard effort, but the last action of the half was Portsmouth's.
Kranjcar sent a ball over the top of our defence and Nugent beat the offside trap to go clean through on goal, only for some great goalkeeping from Gomes to deny him.
Just before the break, skipper King limped off with what appeared to be a hamstring strain and was replaced by Dawson.
Earlier on, Pavlyuchenko was also removed and replaced by Darren Bent after going down under a challenge from Davis.
As the second half began, it was clear this game was there for the taking for both teams, but it was the visitors who got themselves in front on 59 minutes.
Moments beforehand Lennon had jinked past Nadir Belhadj and hit a cross against Sylvain Distin. The deflection looked like it had beaten James, but somehow the goalkeeper clawed the ball back off the goal line.
Pompey went down the other end with Traore who played a cross-field ball to Nugent, and his sweet first-time shot arrowed into Gomes' bottom right-hand corner.
We knew this was a game we could ill afford to lose, and 10 minutes later we were back on level terms.
Modric teed up Defoe on the edge of the box for an equally unstoppable effort that went through the legs of Sol Campbell and past James.
For JD it was a repeat of his last home debut at The Lane nearly four years ago, when he netted against Portsmouth in a 4-3 win. And it was three points were looking for again on this occasion.
Corluka cut inside from the right and hit a left foot shot inches wide moments after the equaliser, and from here it looked as if only one team would go on to win it.
David Bentley was introduced for Gareth Bale in an attacking substitution, and his in-swinging free-kick on 75 minutes had to be tipped round the post by James.
The England midfielder took the resulting corner, and Corluka's looping header had James beaten, but not Davis defending on the line who cleared.
It was left to our front pairing of Defoe and Bent to go and win it, and both had guilt-edged chances to do so.
Ten minutes from time, Bentley stood up a cross to the back post for Bent who only had to nod home with James stranded. But somehow, he put it wide.
Six minutes later, Corluka played a long ball to release Defoe, but his second of the afternoon was not forthcoming as he put wide.
So we had the chances to win it, but we will have to settle for just the single point at the end of the day as we continue to try to drag ourselves away from the foot of the table.
Spurs (4-4-2): Gomes; Corluka, Woodgate, King (Dawson, 44), Bale (Bentley, 68); Lennon, Zokora, Modric, O'Hara; Pavlyuchenko (Bent, 30) Defoe
Subs not used: Alnwick, Huddlestone, Campbell, Taarabt
David Button has joined AFC Bournemouth on a month's loan.
The 19-year-old goalkeeper has previously spent time out on loan this season with Grays Athletic.
Kevin-Prince Boateng has joined Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund on loan for the rest of the season.
The German midfielder joined us from Hertha Berlin in July, 2007 and has gone on to appear on 23 occasions for the Club.
