Has Deadline Day lost its appeal?

This hasn't just been the case this January, but for a few years now. What was once a source of excitement, fevered speculation and player spotting has now become a bit of a bind, a bit of a chore, something most fans are happy to see the end of.

Of course, there's still excitement (or despair) when your club is linked with a certain player, but transfer deadline day definitely seems to have lost its lustre. For a few years, it was a real event, something to mark in the diary, something to follow religiously until the deadline hit. Torres, Carroll, Robinho, Kaka, Berbatov, Suarez, Defoe, Fellaini, Ozil - all felt like big transfers or big news, often with complicated strings and backstories attached.

Like anything else, though, transfer deadline day has suffered from the law of diminishing returns. It's become more tired, more predictable, more repetitive. The endless efforts to make it exciting or shocking, even when it isn't, grow tiresome, while Jim White's levels of hyperbole go into overdrive and start to grate. Sky Sports News seems to exist, these days, for two days a year. That's all they are there for.

I don't believe we can actually do away with the transfer window without FIFA's permission - and that seems unlikely to be granted - but has anyone else got transfer deadline day fatigue? For me, it reached its peak the year Torres went to Chelsea and Carroll went to Liverpool. That day, deals and madness seemed to be happening all over the place, with players coming and going like nothing else.

Favourite deadline day moments from a Spurs perspective - Levy landing VDV from Real for a bargain price of about £8m. And Levy pulling off another steal with the Lloris signing in 2012.

Worst moment - signing Gregor Rasiak at the very last-minute in what can be best described as a panic buy. And replacing Berba with a young Frazier Campbell.