Spurs to make first move for Lemar

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Nice-Matin is the leading newspaper in South East France and they suggest that Tottenham will make contact with AS Monaco imminently to formally launch their first bid for Thomas Lemar.

The 21-year-old (22 next March) has been offered a 5-year contract at Arsenal worth £125,000-a-week for a transfer fee of £39.80 million (€45m - AUS$67.47m - US$51.28m). I don't see us offering that wage, nor quite frankly nearly £40 million when Erik Lamela should be returning from injury. He hasn't played for quite a while now and is unsaleable as a result. We therefore, have to keep him so we have to make best use of him.

That would suggest a central attacking midfielder is more important, but we generally look at players who can play anywhere across the three behind the lone striker.

All that flies in the face of what you are being led to believe elsewhere from folk with issues they really ought to have dealt with by now.

Take Willian, he joined Chelsea because Abramovich wanted to help out a Russian mate who had just lost half his fortune. They did a private deal and Willian was told where he had to sign. It had nothing to do with Levy whatsoever.

To buy we really need to get rid of Moussa Sissoko to create space in the squad and free up wages. That is proving difficult, unsurprisingly.

It is all completely understandable if you look at it rationally though.


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