Tottenham Transfer Talk Wednesday Eve Update

Spurs are hopeful of getting Giovani Lo Celso and Bruno Fernandes cross the line

Well, you all keep telling me you like these quick updates with snippets you don't get in the press so I'll rush out another one for you.

I am expecting Bruno Fernandes, medical is delayed as these so often are, we still haven't agreed a fee with Sporting but have an agent over in Portugal working on the deal on our behalf.

That all then gets relayed to Daniel Levy who basically agrees or disagree. He will eventually sign off on every deal so he doesn't actually do all negotiation himself, as most fans seem to think he does.

Real Betis came back to us last night and once again, I think this is the third or fourth time, have agreed our payment structure of the deal. Naturally, we don't trust them one bit having reneged on the payment structure several times already.

With time running out they need to get the deal done and it should all go through now and the Argentinian join us. Real Betis have a friendly against Las Palmas tonight and he will not be taking part.

He would only have been available to us since last Monday so this isn't really an issue that it has taken so long.

He may be 2 weeks behind, but he has been doing pre-season with Real Betis so it isn't as if he hasn't had any pre-season at all.

Payments structures on our transfers, as a couple of articles, have explained now, are over the term of a players initial contract, so 4 or 5 years. When you see a transfer fee, you need to divide it by 4 or 5 to find the annual cost and how much the club are actually spending in that window.

Paulo Dybala

This is perfectly possible as I have said before. The transfer fee isn't an issue, personal terms and image rights through a third party company

Fabio Paratici is his agent and Star Image- a Maltese company (I believe the tax rate is 5% in Malta), held Dybala's full image rights from 2016 to 2017 and they're now reportedly claiming legality in any deal.

They are asking for €40m (£36.95m - $44.91m) from either Dybala or Spurs as the last Juventus deal he signed compromised those image rights so they didn't receive all of them.

It is matters like this to resolve that are the stumbling blocks to a deal.

Bruno Fernandes, you know all about, Ryan Sessegnon we are waiting for Fulham to agree to release him, you know all about that too, nothing has changed with either.

No player can sign for another club, even when a deal is agreed until the selling club decide to release them and there is nothing the buying club can do so the situation is out of their hands.

Christian Eriksen

I'm hearing he turned down Manchester United, could never understand why he would want Europa League football unless he went there for wages and he has constantly said money is not his motivating factor.

If you want my opinion, Eriksen is going to leave even if the Premier League window is shut, hence why we are looking to bring in attacking players.