Summer Transfer Window Day 18
Good morning once again, if it is morning where you are, and welcome to your #1 Spurs blog, Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN), the pro-Spurs blog dolloped with lashings of common sense.
Let's jump straight into Spurs chat before we look at player fatigue, Spurs income and a little bit of transfer speculation.
In a nutshell, football finances in Italy are a mess and clubs are ripe for picking. Tottenham are a different beast in the transfer market now, we are no longer a club agents use for their own agendas.
We are being offered all sorts of players and while we hear about Lenglet, which is basically the Spanish desperate for us to take him or Gvardiol, it is still Gleison Bremer who is our current number one target.
Talks are still ongoing and are progressing well thus far.
Fabio Paratici met with agent Giuseppe Riso n Forte dei Marm on Saturday.
Riso is the owner of Gr Sports which manages, among others, the business of Sandro Tonali, Davide Frattesi, Gianluca Mancini, but also Matteo Pessina, Bryan Cristante, Andrea Petagna and Nicolo Rovella.
I will repeat once again, deals are made and agreed by Fabio Paratici, Daniel Levy is not involved.
Paratici has his budget and how he spends it is up to him.
The stories you hear of Daniel Levy involvement are merely how we pay, payment structures, not how much we are going to pay.
That is a specialists area, as payments are not generally lump sums but paid over a period of time, thus you have to balance in incoming money with the outgoing money for Financial Fair Play.
As I have said before, the Djed Spence deal is all about a sell on clause, not how much we are going to pay, that has been agreed, how we pay it has not, but will be as all parties are committed to the transfer.
Player Fatigue
Jamie Harley, the former head of science at Everton and Newcastle United spoke to the Independent about the huge problem of player fatigue.
“There’s just been no rest for the players since Project Restart. It’s hard to predict how next season is going to go but it’s going to be a very challenging season for players and clubs.
“It’s almost going to be two seasons in one. There is a 15-week season and a 24-week season with a five week break [for the World Cup] in the middle."
The players have had a very gruelling schedule having competed almost non-stop since June 2020. Fatigue cause injury, especially muscle injury.
The World Cup in the middle of a season in ridiculous heat, simply because of bribes to host it, are not doing clubs any favours.
A squad will be needed to cover while international players recuperate from playing in the middle eastern heat.
I guess Toby Alderweireld will be acclimatised for Belgium, wonder if that played a part in his decision to go there or was it just money and a final payday?
Last year they were recording temperatures in the Middle East of 125 degrees, which is 51.66 degrees Celsius!
England play slow because they are preparing for playing in the heat and won't have to adjust their style of play, others might.
Spurs Income
I don't listen to kids podcasts but did bump into one on Twitter with football finance and business expert Kevin Maguire, who amongst other things trains football agents.
He confirmed what I wrote in a post, it must have been a year ago now, speculating on how much income the new stadium would generate a year and what it would mean for Tottenham.
Very briefly, he confirmed by guestimate that Spurs would make £100m (€116.31m - US$122.75m - AUS$177.43m) from matchday income and non-sporting events.
He estimated that loan repayments to build the stadium are about £25m (€29.08m -US$30.69m - AUS$44.36m) a year.
In addition, he said from talking to agents that Spurs have one of the most incentivised salary structures in the Premier League. That basically means Spurs have a lower basic wage but pay better than other on performance.
If the player does well he earns handsomely, if the club does well, even better. This is something we have known about but it is nice to have it confirmed.
Our off the field and why Alasdair Gold has got it all wrong again will be the subject of another post.
Hakan Çalhanoğlu
Il Messaggero is an Italian newspaper based in Rome and they say that Antonio Conte wants Inter Milan and Turkish playmaker Hakan Çalhanoğlu.
They suggest that Spurs are ready to include either centre-back Davinson Sánchez or midfielder Giovani Lo Celso in a deal for the 28-year-old (29 next February).
Inter need to make between £51.59m/68.8m (€60m/80m - US$63.32m/84.43m - AUS$91.56m/122.07m) this summer, being unable to invest money out of China anymore and with large debt payments to make.
Davinson Sánchez would make a readymade replacement for seemingly PSG bound Milan Škriniar.
Fabio Paratici does seem keen to take advantage of the Italian clubs financial plight.
Joško Gvardiol
Croatian daily sports newspaper Sportske Novosti are reporting that RB Leipzig centre-back Joško Gvardiol is set to sign a contract extension with club which will include a clause on how much he can leave for next summer.
The Croatian international is in no hurry to leave the Bundesliga side this summer due to it being World Cup year and with RB Leipzig being in the Champions League.
Japhet Tanganga
Mundo Deportivo is a Spanish nationwide daily sports newspaper published in Barcelona and according to them, Atlético Madrid are looking at Japhet Tanganga.
Inter Milan, Napoli, AC Milan and Juventus have all been linked with the 23-year-old (24 next March) who will be at Spurs for at least pre-season his agent said.
2 comments
I don't see Everton letting Gordon go (or him even wanting to leave) but I thought that last season, Spurs should go after Richo & Gordon. Both would need to be taught to stay on their feet though :).
Not sure what's going on at Everton... obviously financial difficulties exist, but it's hard to see them surving next season in the PL at this stage. Still plenty of time in the window though.
I found a short, interesting article looking at what he could bring to Conte's squad.
https://thetopflight.com/2022/06/28/tottenham-clement-lenglet-left-footed/