The collapse of of the alleged interest in Daka came as no surprise here, my source close to the club was unaware of any move for Daka when we spoke yesterday. As I wrote then, gossip is a movable feast and it looks like this one moved by the time Football London had hit the publish button.
Quite what Steve Hitchen is playing at, getting such brutal knock-backs just days before the season starts, is anyone’s guess. If the Tottenham board was running Harrods, they’d start recruiting for a Father Christmas on December the 23rd.
Elsewhere the language of the reporting only serves to emphasize the last-minute-dot-com vibe emanating from Hotspur Way. Spurs continue to ‘look at‘, ‘have become increasingly interested in…‘ I suggest you take a look at the business activity of all the other Premier League teams. Every damn season, THFC wander in late, looking confused and disparate, having had a troublesome window.
“Napoli’s Arkadiusz Milik is also on Spurs’ radar”, (no laughing at the back) according to The Evening Standard. Except the Italians want €30million, which is unlikely to be found by a club that is still trying to offload Danny Rose, and is issuing rallying cries on social media from the long time underachiever, Erik Lamela.
Today’s Mourinho presser will be fun – we’ve got that coming up shortly for you.