Another transfer window and another Wilfried Zaha link to Tottenham Hotspur but is this the year when the north London club splash out mega money on the Ivory Coast international?

The answer is once again unlikely to yes as Jose Mourinho's problems lie in almost every other position on the pitch.

Spurs have not had any concrete interest in Zaha since slapping in a derisory £12million bid with £2million in add-ons for him way back in 2016.

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Every year since Tottenham have been linked with the tricky winger but without any real intention from the club to follow up on that offer more than three-and-a-half years ago.

Partly that has been due to having options aplenty in the attacking midfield slots and partly it has been to do with the enormous price tag placed on Zaha's head.

The winger, now 27, is currently believed to be valued at around £80m with three years left on his current contract and despite him changing his representation to Pini Zahavi, the super agent who brokered Mourinho's arrival at Spurs, few clubs will be looking to do a deal for anything near that price.

For Tottenham and Mourinho, Zaha is even less of a requirement than he has been in previous years.

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In the attacking midfield slots, Spurs currently have Son Heung-Min, Dele Alli, Lucas Moura, Erik Lamela, Giovani Lo Celso, Christian Eriksen, Ryan Sessegnon and Mourinho believes the injured Moussa Sissoko's best role is in a wide right attacking role. There is also teenage summer signing Jack Clarke, who is set to be loaned out again this month but the club have high hopes for the future in.

Spurs are expected to make Lo Celso's loan move a permanent one for £27.2m this month.

Even if Tottenham were to play with three attacking midfielders behind the striker, that's more than two players for every one of those positions.

The other problem in such a deal is that for the money being touted for his services, Zaha actually boasts little in the way of end product for a player of such dribbling ability and price tag.

Other than a purple patch in the second half of last season in the Premier League, which brought 10 goals and 10 assists in all competitions, the Ivorian has struggled to get into double figures in terms of goals or assists across his career other than one additional time, with 10 assists in the 2016/17 campaign.

This season Palace sit just three points behind Spurs in ninth place, enjoying a strong first half of the campaign. Zaha has started every match in the Premier League and has three goals and three assists to his name. Of course the quality of the Palace attackers around him has to be taken in account in finishing off any chances he creates.

However, the key for Spurs in this January transfer window is that the problems Mourinho is tackling lie elsewhere on the pitch.

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Tottenham's squad weaknesses right now fall at right-back, the defensive midfield position and up front, with Sissoko and Harry Kane's respective knee and hamstring injuries keeping them out for months.

If £80m is to be spent this month, which would be unheard of in a winter window for the club, then it will go on new faces in those positions, not on an overstocked area of the squad.