Tottenham Talk on Monday 26th
Tottenham Talk on Monday 26th
Good day all you apples and pears, although I think I have a few bananas in my readership.
After a day off from Tottenham Transfer Talk on Sunday, it returns today for you but first let's have our little chat.
Tottenham had to show their credit worthiness to get the cheapest loans to pay for the building of the stadium, that in turn generates the money to invest in the team.
That is/was the clear and obvious plan.
That also enabled us to receive the top credit rating from the Bank of England, one of only two Premier League clubs, Manchester United being the other, granted the cheapest level of loans.
We took out a loan over 12 months and it could not be used for transfers. After a year, we refinanced that loan through other sources, which lifted the restrictions and enabled us to use the money as we see fit.
That is explained in an article on June 7th entitled: Spurs Have Money To Spend This Summer
That featured the views of University of Liverpool football finance expert Kieran Maguire and showed the transfer expenditure of the top clubs over the last 29 years.
- Chelsea have spent £5.3 billion in 29 years
- Manchester United have spent £5.29 billion in 29 years
- Manchester City have spent £4.4 billion in 29 years
- Liverpool have spent £4.4 billion in 29 years
- Arsenal have spent £4 billion in 29 years
- Tottenham have spent £2.9 billion in 29 years
Those figure show Spurs need a greater income to compete and we also know that UEFA wish to stop Sugar Daddy owners and make clubs self-sufficient, the model Tottenham operate.
The conclusion of the article was that Tottenham, thanks to the refinancing of the Bank of England loan have money to spend this summer.
I might add, while I was writing this, all the journalists were telling you we had no money to spend this summer and indeed until my research uncovered this refinancing I was of the same view.
We are seeing now there are more swap deals and loans, as again I predicted a while back before the window had started.
You add those two together and it would seem Tottenham are going to have a better rebuilding window than we had last summer under Mourinho.
What is happening now with Fabio Paratici rather shows the importance of having contacts and of communicating with the fans.
Nothing was going to happen while the build up to international summer tournaments was taking place, or during the tournament, or during the players holidays afterwards.
Ok, you can talk to agents, but the players have to focus and not be distracted by transfer talk and negotiation.
Neither, generally, can they actually sign a deal.
Transfers were never going to take place early, common sense told us that.
Now though, now we are seeing the market move.
Wasn't it a good idea to have the Italian National team stay and train at Spurs to show off the facilities we have.
Quite apart from the revenue it brings for both England and Italy to use the facilities, it helps to promote the club as players do talk.
Indeed Gollini has asked some of them about the facilities and was told they are amazing. Touches like that only help to convince a player that Spurs is the right opportunity for them.
Paratici comes with a reputation in Italy and clearly his word means something to players playing there.
What will this week bring in our exciting rebuild?
Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu confirmed Tomiyasu’s injury after the game adding that he hopes the defender will be available on Sunday when they meet Mexico.
Takehiro Tomiyasu
Takehiro Tomiyasu has picked up an ankle injury while on international duty.
So it doesn't sound serious, but it does highlight a problem and explains to frustrated Spurs fans why the deal, which is completed in principle, has not been finalised yet.
This shows why you don't sign a player before they represent their country before even playing for yourself.
If you sign someone and they pick up an injury that keeps them out for a long period, even all season, then you have to make another signing to replace them or your squad is light or weakened.
While you agree a deal, you wait until he has completed his international duty before both sides put pen to paper or you wait until after their holiday to actually sign them.
That is just a common sense approach to conducting business in the millions.
Steven Bergwijn
As you know, Ajax want Steven Bergwijn.The sale of Edson Álvarez to Rennes would open the door for the purchase of Bergwijn.
Ajax have rejected the French club's opening bid of €18m (£15.41m - US$21.19m - AUS$28.77m).
Dutch journalist and Ajax watcher Mike Verweij spoke about the Ajax pursuit of Bergwijn in the De Telegraaf football podcast.
"I think Ajax would like to sell him in order to eventually make the transfer of Bergwijn possible."Bergwijn is a very serious option, Ajax really wants him. They have tried to hire him, but the Spurs do not want to cooperate."So €25m (£21.39m - US$29.43m - AUS$39.95m) will have to be on the table."After Álvarez's departure, the commissioners may agree that Ajax will put that amount on the table for Bergwijn."
Cameron Carter-Vickers
Norwich City have asked about USA international centre-back Cameron Carter-Vickers last week.
The 23-year-old (24 in December) is available for £10m (€11.68m - US$13.73m - AUS$18.69m).
Joe Hart
Tottenham number 2 Joe Hart is available for transfer now we have signed 26-year-old (27 next March) Pierluigi Gollini to push 34-year-old (35 in December) Hugo Lloris
He and we hope, take over from the Frenchman in the future.
The 34-year-old (35 next April) departure of Hart would leave Alfie Whiteman as our number three.
Celtic are interested in signing him.
Harry Winks
In addition to Aston Villa and Everton, I forgot to mention, as I have before, Wolves are interested too.
Skipp is in front of him in the pecking order so unless there are lengthy injuries he is going to have another season of little football.
Spurs just hope he gets the message before the window shuts, if you want to play, leave. He has been told.
Last season he downed tools and ran crying to the press. He was not a positive influence behind the scenes, as I said then, he needs to go.
We don't want players who only put the effort in on their terms.
A bid has been accepted over the weekend for him which I believe has come from Everton.
Both Aston Villa and Wolves will be informed of the bid, if they want to match it, then it'll be down to Winks to choose.
Harry Kane
I have been asked about him and well, nothing has changed.
Nobody is going to pay the £200m it would cost to prise him away and what we see in the press are Real Madrid tactics.
Plenty of stories that Manchester City are not prepared to pay anywhere near £160m, let alone the £200m they need to so unless they have a big change of heart they can continue to dream.
He is a Spurs player with three years remaining on his contract and is the England captain so can't be seen to be refusing to train.
As the England captain, he has an image to uphold to the children who watch so unless he wants to be stripped of the England captaincy, which he doesn't, he can't kick up a fuss.
There you have it, that's my view.
Toby Alderweireld
As I reported last summer and indeed earlier this summer, Toby Alderweireld would have liked to have joined Ajax this window but the circumstances haven't fallen into place as explained in a previous article.You miss stuff if you don't read regularly you see so keep taking a couple of minutes out of your day to have a read.
Tottenham and Toby have had to look elsewhere and The Telegraph broke the news that a deal was agreed on Friday for the Belgian international to join Qatar Stars League side Al-Duhail in Qatar for €13m (£11.13m - US$15.30m - AUS$20.78m).
The deal is subject to agreeing personal terms and flying to Qatar to complete a medical.
A little premature to say a done deal but his departure would make way for Romero to come in while the departure of Dávinson Sánchez, preferably in a swap to bring in Jules Koundé, would change two non-homegrown players for two more.
I sounded like a lone voice at times when I kept saying the abuse Dier gets is all wrong, that Sánchez is the cause of his defensive lapses after being one of the first names on the teamsheet at the beginning of the season.
With Toby already earmarked to leave, Sánchez was always going to be the other.
Whilst Dier is not homegrown, he plays for the badge. He isn't perfect but he isn't to blame for some of the perceived errors a section of our fanbase level against him.
Perhaps fans will now put their hatred away and support the team.
Dávinson Sánchez
We all know Dávinson Sánchez is being offered to everybody in swaps and his agent is also working to secure his exit from Tottenham.
I have spoken for a while now that he needs to go, that his error prone performances affect the other defenders and particularly affected what was a good start to a season for Eric Dier.
Who can get the memory of Sánchez falling over as first one player and then a Man City player simply twists and turns in front of him, or Sigurdsson, skipping past him as if he wasn't there to help Everton score another.
I had Sánchez down for three of the four Everton goals in that game or how about in the UEFA Europa League where he had to be rescued by Lloris when there was nobody within 15 feet of him, he simply beat himself!
How can you have any confidence playing alongside someone like that?
He needs to rebuild his confidence somewhere else and from what I hear, that somewhere else will be Spain, where there is plenty of interest in him.
If it isn't Sevilla, then I believe it will be another Spanish club, but again, from what I hear, he is definitely going.
The Tottenham Rebuild
At the end of the last season, Spurs had the fifth oldest squad in the Premier League.
Fabio Paratici, despite what some anti-Levy fans think, was given the authority to handle all transfers, ingoing and outgoing.
He would not have come to the club without the ability to handle the financial side of transfer deals. Daniel Levy merely rubber stamps each deal.
Paratici knows what he has to work with financially and was tasked with carrying out a rebuild of the squad.
He had to improve the quality and reduce the age of the squad so they could grow together.
Players left or expected to leave
- Joe Hart 34 - Free
- Toby Alderweireld 32 - €13m
- Danny Rose 31 - Free
- Moussa Sissoko 31 - €10m
- Gareth Bale 31 - Loan ended
- Paulo Gazzaniga 29 - Free
- Érik Lamela 29 - part of Gil swap deal
- Serge Aurier 28 - €20m
- Carlos Vinícius 26 - end of loan
- Dávinson Sánchez 25 - part of Koundé swap deal
- Harry Winks 25 - €30m
- Juan Foyth 23 - €13m
- Cameron Carter-Vickers 23 - €10m
Total Expected Incoming = €96m
Players coming in or expected to come in
- Bryan Gil 20 - €25m + Lamela
- Takhiro Tomiyasu 22 - €10m
- Cristian Romero 23 - €40m + €10m bonuses
- Jules Koundé 22 - €30m + Sánchez
- Pierluigi Gollini 26 - €15m
- Ryan Sessegnon 21 - return from loan
- Oliver Skipp 20 - return from loan
- Alfie Whiteman 22 - promoted from U-23's
Total Expected Outgoing = €120m
Net Spend = €24m
I would expect another €30m to be spent on a midfielder and €20m for a striker.
Caleb Chukwuemeka
Tottenham have opened talks with League Two club Northampton Town for 19-year-old (20 next January) centre-forward Caleb Chukwuemeka.The England and Nigerian qualified striker is wanted by Spurs and we are in discussions about offering one of our youngsters in exchange.
Aston Villa have had a bid rejected, Newcastle United, Norwich City and Rangers are all following his progress.
His contract expires next summer.
Enjoy your day folks, speak to you tomorrow.
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