Harry Redknapp has stoked the fires ahead of their Champions League shootout by claiming that he would not swap any of his Spurs players for the stars of Manchester City.
The two sides go head-to-head at Eastlands on Wednesday night in a match that is likely to decide which of the two sides grabs the final qualification spot for Europe's top club competition
Spurs know that a win would guarantee they secure fourth spot in the Barclays Premier League - a massive achievement given they would have beaten mega-rich City and Liverpool.
And Redknapp has raised the temperature ahead of the crunch showdown by claiming he would rather keep all of his current players than swap them for any of City's.
The Spurs boss told ESPN Soccernet: 'We have Aaron Lennon coming back, and what a player he is, with his pace. Even behind him, there is Gareth Bale, who has come on in such leaps and bounds and has become an attacking force.
'I wouldn't swap our players for any of theirs. We have a terrific group of players, and that's a nice position to be in.'
Redknapp has also questioned the value of Carlos Tevez, saying he agrees with Sir Alex Ferguson that the former Manchester United striker was over-priced.
He added: 'There is only one point in it in for the race for the title, and that's the fine dividing lines these days and, let's face it, he has achieved that without Cristiano Ronaldo or Tevez.
'To be fair to Sir Alex, he probably thought that £45million - or whatever the true cost for Tevez was - was a bit much, plus his wages of £180,000-a-week, when he wasn't even a regular in the United team last season, spending most of his time coming off the bench.
'Sir Alex has spent £30m on Berbatov and he had Rooney and, at the start of the season, he would have thought that was enough, and so would most people.'
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Haha he really is such a fool.
So he would'nt swap any of his players for ours? Im sure i heard him say he wanted Bellamy as well as Santa Cruz and Barry after we signed come to think of it he commented on nearly all the players we signed, the tosser must be coming down with alzheimer's.
And as for his comments about Tevez not being worth the money we paid for him has he not been watching Tevez banging the goals in all season i suppose the £15-20mill he paid to get Keane back from Liverpool was a great bit of business look how that turned out.