Tottenham Transfer Talk Update: Saturday


Tottenham Transfer Talk Update: Saturday

Alderweireld-and-Rose
Alderweireld and Rose uncertainty at Spurs

Real Sociedad centre-back Diego Llorente is interesting Tottenham, Liverpool, Everton and West Ham United report Mundo Deportivo. The 25-year-old (26 in August).

That news came out yesterday but don't get excited as I have reported, Toby Alderweireld would have to be leaving for another centre-back to be coming in.

Nobody is willing to pay the release clause because it is simply too much for a player his age with no prospect of a return on their investment. Players start to lose value when they hit 30 because they have so few years left in the game and you can't get your money back when you sell them.

A transfer fee, a signing on fee, agents fee and wages are all losses. They are an unrecoverable expenditure, thus you have to work out how much you want to fork out, per year, for the next three years.

I have explained all this is a previous article so rather than write it all again, I'll give you the link to an article about Vincent Janssen that explains it all.
Unexpected Transfer Talk

That is especially true given the wages he wants. Clubs value him at half his release fee with just a year on his contract.

Daniel Levy is playing hardball and refusing to accept any less than his release fee and I hear he won't be accepting any less after his clause runs out on 26 July. That will keep Toby at Tottenham on his current wages, you only get a wage increase if you sign a contract extension and Alderweireld no longer has a contract offer to sign as he has informed the club he will not be staying.

None of that is new news, but new readers may not have known the situation. There are links to additional articles below this one, check out the two update articles at least, they give a little roundup of things you may not have read in the press. Popular posts can be found on the righthand sidebar on the Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN) website.

I'll reiterate for new readers that Christian Eriksen was told at his meeting with Pochettino and Levy, by Pochettino that he would not be a guaranteed first choice if he didn't sign a new contract.

Pochettino plans for the future and Giovani Lo Celso would then take over the first-choice playmaker role from him in preparation for the following season and beyond.

That same situation applies to Toby Alderweireld too, Davinson Sanchez will take over the first-choice role and Alderweireld will be his backup.

Well that turned into a bit of a recap, didn't it.

Right, onto the Danny Rose situation.

As you all know he has fitness issues, has had a bust-up with Pochettino and there is only one result of that, goodbye Danny. He didn't sign the one-year extension he was offered and as I explained before, with two years left on a contract you are at the time to be sold as you half in value with only a year left.

The club do not want players getting to the last year of their contracts as it becomes expensive to replace them. Thus players whose contracts end in 2021 are available for the right price.

Contracts Ending in 2021
Eric Dier (available for the right offer)
Moussa Sissoko
Victor Wanyama ( has an ongoing knee condition so fitness issues - for sale)
Danny Rose (for sale)
Cameron Carter-Vickers
Josh Onomah (for sale)
Georges-Kévin N'koudou (for sale)
Oliver Skipp (expect he'll be offered a new deal)
Luke Amos (recovering from longterm injury and out on loan to QPR)

To stay informed of what problems are coming up next season, this article will help:
Contracts and Play Situations at Spurs

Danny Rose has had his head turned by PSG and it is looking like he may well be off there for around €25m (£22.47m - $28.08m).

Now selling two homegrown players creates a problem we will need to address. We have enquired about 27-year-old (28 next January) Wolverhampton Wanderers right-back Matt Doherty, who is a homegrown player, possibly for this reason.

Ryan Sessegnon will replace Danny Rose. His hamstring injury picked up at the European Under-21 Championships have held this deal up so there has been no rush. With Rose frequently criticising the club the writing was o the wall for Rose, that isn't the public image Spurs wish to portray.

I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me if he was told to keep quiet and wouldn't. Mauricio Pochettino does not keep disruptive influences within the squad, he gets rid of them. You buy into the vision or you go.

You all know the fee for Ryan Sessegnon is £25 million (€27.82m - $31.25m) but that might be reduced with a loan fee taken off for one of our youngsters. Pochettino will not let them have Oliver Skipp, as I say, he wants to keep him and develop him.

Josh Onomah, Victor Wanyama (unlikely) and Georges-Kevin N'Koudou were offered instead. Onomah has previous experience of the Championship so that may swing things his way, especially as Fulham seem to want a central midfielder.

A medical for Sessegnon is at least a week away yet I'd say (I have not heard one is arranged yet) and Spurs now agree on all deals subject to a medial after the Wilian incident with Chelsea, so that can't happen again.

The Sessegnon fee was agreed prior to the European Under-21 Championships, That just left payment details and loaning of players or a player to sort out. His injury held any medical up so all discussions with Fulham have been over those two issues.

I am starting to see Tweets saying Alderweireld is staying.

Again you have all known the situation there for a while now and that he and Jan want to end their careers at Ajax, Jan probably next summer, Alderweireld may look for a 2-year deal elsewhere before he returns to Holland.