Every day I check out the latest Tottenham news, I listen to podcasts and watch Youtube videos. I read the high brow stuff and the tabloid fodder, I do this because it is not just my job but because Tottenham is my deep passion.
Today was no different and I was struck by a headline from GivemeSport which proudly proclaimed “Spurs targeting £65m player”.
Now, GivemeSport is supposed to be an authority site, not your gutter press but it turns out on this occasion they decided to go in for a little bit of clickbait.
You see, they are not actually peddling falsehoods because Sevilla centre half Diego Carlos has a release clause of £65m, instead, they are playing a little bit of let’s mislead the public.
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Because, if you read their article you soon come across a link to the original article from The Telegraph and within their article they make it absolutely clear that Sevilla expects more than £35m for Carlos.
Now, expecting more is one thing but expecting an extra £30m is a whole different matter.
Whatever “more” is, you can take it to the bank it is not £30m more.
Whether Spurs will try and sign Carlos for “more” than £35m is very debatable but what is certain is that a player being touted at £65m is basically available for a whole lot less.
Will Diego Carlos sign for Tottenham? probably not but then again if Spurs were to offload a few players including Tanguy Ndombele then anything is possible I suppose.
It’s fine to say get rid of a few players including N’Dombele but we need to be strengthening our squad more better quality players,not reducing the number of players.
That’s why we are in our position and things won’t change until we have new owners.
Sadly that won’t happen anytime soon because of the financial hit ENIC are taking at present,and they would want to recoup all that and more.