Tottenham Transfer Talk


Tottenham Transfer Talk



Jose Mourinho has identified central midfield as an area that needs addressing. Spurs are simply not controlling games and the positional play of our current central midfielders is not up to the standard we need, but I'm not going to go over that again.

Boubakary Soumaré has been mentioned and I can confirm he is a player of interest to us.

Soumaré is a French Under-21 international (4 caps) who plays as a defensive midfielder for Lille in Ligue 1. The 20-year-old (21 next February) joined them from PSG in July 2017.

Young QPR attacking midfielder Eberechi Eze is definitely a player we are interested in. The 21-year-old (22 next June) is an England U-21 international (2 caps) but is hardly the answer to our current problems, more part of a squad overhaul so I don't see that happening until the summer.

Negotiations have been taking place and a deal in principle discussed.

Right-back is a problem are with Serge Aurier having no competition and putting in inconsistent performances.

Kyle Walker-Peters has never been the answer and the 22-year-old (23in April) simply isn't good enough for the level we wish him to perform at, the top four.

The club are looking to offload him and bring in a relatively cheap right-back. Relatively cheap because there are more important parts of the team to spend on, the central spine, particularly at centre-back and in central midfield.

Cheap does not have to mean poor, but it could be players coming to the end of their contracts and thus are relatively cheap. It is an important market these days and one that every club scours.

Currently, we are being beaten in midfield, he who controls midfield controls the game and currently that isn't us and is rarely us against the top sides.

We have to build a squad to beat the top sides, not just the rest of the Premier League.

There are reports that Jorge Mendes is working on a deal to take Thomas Lemar to Arsenal, but there are also quiet reports that Tottenham are in discussions with a view to taking him on loan for the remainder of the season with an option to buy in the summer should he prove to be successful.

He has bee a flop at Atlético de Madrid since his move from Monaco where the 24-year-old (25 in June) was a one-season wonder.

The left-winger has 22 full international caps for France (4 goals, 1 assist) but has only played 947 minutes across 21 games this season in Spain.

In the Champions League he played 60 minutes and 26 minutes against Juventus, 13 and 17 minutes against Lokomotiv Moscow, 28 and 38 minutes against Bayer Leverkusen.

In LaLiga he has been in the squad 16 times, started 9 times, come on as a sub 6 times and been left on the bench once. His game time by minutes reads 73, 89, 78, 45, hamstring injury for 2 games, 29, 25, 36, 77, 90, 45, 15, 35, 17,on the bench, 54 and 57 minutes.

He has no goals and no assists at all. Lemar is under contract until 2023.

COYS