A year after returning to Spurs from Liverpool, Keane, who had fallen behind Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe in the White Hart Lane pecking order, moved north in search of first-team football with the decision made easier for him by Tottenham’s decision to sign Eidur Gudjohnsen, a similar style of player, on loan from Monaco, earlier this week. Spurs boss Harry Redknapp admitted: “Robbie wants to play and I have Crouch, Defoe and (Roman) Pavlyuchenko and I signed Gudjohnsen so it will be difficult to guarantee him a starting place and he has to be playing regularly so I have decided to let him go on loan until the end of the season.” Spurs also released Alan Hutton on loan with the Scotland defender joining Sunderland until the end of the season. The biggest deal of the day was Manchester City’s signing of Adam Johnson from Middlesbrough on a four-and-a-half-year deal, although the reported transfer fee of six million pounds (9.5 million dollars) underlined how the recession and high debt levels have taken their toll on spending at England’s leading clubs. Business advisory firm Deloitte put total spending in this transfer window at 30 million pounds, the lowest total since…