“We have managed to do some very, very important deals which makes us extremely happy,” said Villas-Boas, who also heralded the arrival of Franco Baldini as technical director. “Franco’s addition to Tottenham will be a major, major step forward and I think we’ve been seeing the impact of that already. If we can make all of the deals that we have planned for the remaining weeks hopefully we can threaten not in the league but in the other trophies.