Comolli faces Spurs axe after bungled transfer attempts anger Levy

Damien Comolli's position as sporting director is under review following his disastrous dealings on transfer deadline day.

Angry chairman Daniel Levy has left the country to spend time on his yacht and reflect on Monday night's events. A Spurs official confirmed that Levy is 'letting the dust settle' before making a decision on Comolli's future.

Shaken not Spurs? Comolli (left) poses with Juande Ramos at the Spaniard's unveiling as Tottenham manager

Incredibly, three of Comolli's signings - Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ricardo Rocha and Adel Taarabt - have not even been given squad numbers at Spurs this season, but it is his performance on Monday which is under intense scrutiny.

Levy told Comolli, along with manager Juande Ramos, that he would personally oversee the Berbatov deal to United and the club's sporting director was expected to line up a series of recruits that Spurs could sign at a stroke.

Instead he failed in a deal to bring in Sergio Garcia from Real Zaragoza - 'nailed on' to sign for Spurs early on Monday - and the striker instead joined Real Betis.

Ramos, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Spanish league, had made the striker his top priority.

Although the deal for Emile Heskey was always unlikely, the situation surrounding the proposed acquisition of Kevin Doyle was farcical. Reading boss Steve Coppell had made it clear last weekend that potential suitors had the whole of the summer to pick at the carcass of his relegated club and that he had no intention of selling players on transfer deadline day.

Comolli had been expected to make inroads on Doyle's potential purchase long before Reading took a phone call from a desperate Tottenham at around 10.30pm on Monday. Doyle, away with the Ireland squad, was well aware of Spurs' interest and was desperate to make the move, but Tottenham had left it far too late.

Instead, Spurs were left scrambling for the season-long loan signing of Fraizer Campbell to increase their limited attacking options.

Levy realised that United are winners all round after Spurs effectively agreed to give Campbell experience in the Barclays Premier League and then hand him back next May.

Although Comolli, who joined Spurs in 2005, brought in Russia striker Roman Pavlyuchenko, his summer pursuit of Andrei Arshavin ended in embarrassment and acrimony when Zenit St Petersburg pulled the plug on the deal.