3. Louis Saha
Stephen Pond/EMPICS SportThe signing of a striker in the 2012 mid-season transfer window wasn't a shock at all when it came to Spurs - they only had Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor (who was merely on loan) on their books at the time, after having sold Roman Pavlyuchenko to Lokomotic Moscow on the same day and after having sold Peter Crouch and Robbie Keane, to Stoke City and Los Angeles Galaxy respectively, prior to the season starting - but Louis Saha wasn't the striker the fans had in mind to fill the gap (especially not when you consider some of the big names that were being linked to White Hart Lane at the time). Saha was 33 years old at the time and had been struggling with injuries in his final days with Everton. He was in the middle of a goalscoring drought that had lasted for 942 consecutive minutes of league football, and they had released him as a result, but Harry Redknapp saw him as the man to do a job for Spurs - for six months at least - and, initially, he did exactly that. Saha scored three goals in his first three games for Spurs, but didn't score again after that and he was released on a free transfer at the end of the season. He signed for Sunderland and then for Lazio, but failed to score at all for either team in a total of twenty competitive games, and he has subsequently retired from the game.