As the transfer window reopens, teams will begin to look at transfer targets that they will add to their team ahead of the new season, and Tottenham isn’t left out.
The Lilywhites have managed to end this season in the sixth position, but Jose Mourinho knows that he will need to add some players to his team if he is serious about winning the Europa League next season.
The Portuguese manager will see his transfer plans affected by the financial hit that Spurs have taken due to covid19, but he still expects to sign some players and his apparent wishlist has been revealed by Standard Sports.
The report claims that the “special one” will have to focus on loans, part exchanges and free transfers as he conducts his transfer business.
It goes on to name five players that the Portuguese manager hopes to bring along to the Tottenham Stadium before next season and they include Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, David Brooks, Callum Wilson, Timothy Castagne, and Kim-min Jae.
These players are midfielders, strikers and defenders, which shows that the former Chelsea boss wants to add at least one player each in the three main areas on his team.
The Lilywhites will also be open to selling some of their players, and some of them will be made available for loan deals.
Of those named players I have mixed feelings, Wilson would be a no no, I do not know much about Kim-min jae but he appears highly rated. Hojbjerg I am not convinced about, Brooks the same but Castagne seems decent.
It will be interesting to see how many of these five actually sign on the dotted line before the window shuts.
Great post, couldn’t have put it better myself.
He bleated about our high net spend this summer but this was against the backdrop of the previous three years of doing nothing at all meaningful in the transfer market at all. The 12 months before we signed nobody whatsoever. Quite staggering really.
Who has he bought in with that sudden rise in spending? A 19 year old from the Championship and two prospects under the age of 23 from overseas, only one of those three has looked anything like comfortable in their environment.
It’s just the same old ‘strategy’ of keeping things ticking along and managing the fan’s expectations, which has been going on for 20 years.
The truth is that Pochettino’s overachieving put Danny boy in a very uncomfortable position. The fans suddenly had hope that we were joining the biggest clubs and sat at the top table. Beating Madrid over two games, getting to a Champions League final, stuff like that.
The sooner Levy could undermine Poch, get him out the door and put a stop to all this ambitious nonsense the better. Notice how he only pulled the trigger once we were in the new stadium?
We haven’t replaced Eriksen with a decent playmaker,please don’t say LoCelso. Zero goals & two assists after 28 games.
Listen just because a player does reasonably well for a bottom club doesn’t mean he’s automatically going to do the same at the other end of the table. If it was that simple all the big clubs would need to do would be to buy up all the players in the bottom half of the table that had a few goals and assists wouldn’t they? Do you see any other teams in the top 6 targeting him?
He might be worth a punt if we can get him cheap enough but do we really need more AM’s? For me the problem areas that need addressing are DM, RB, LB and striker. We don’t need to get players for other areas right now, we also need players that can perform straight away, Jose is not interested in the future.
It’s the same amount of goals and assists Mason Mount has in his first season in the PL playing alongside better players at Chelsea,and everyone is banging on about him.Have you ever seen Brooks play? Or do you make your mind up on their ability down to what they cost? If he was coming out of a Barcelona or Real Madrid academy fans would be chomping at the bit,but because he is currently at Bournemouth a relegated team he’s not good enough.
That’s not exactly an amazing return for a club allegedly wanting CL and trophies. Sounds more like raiding the relegated clubs for some cheap players to me.
Yeah, obviously the best thing for us fans would be to have Man City style owners. I bet there’s not many of us who wouldn’t vote for that. But if we don’t have that, what can we do? Every fan in every club probably wishes for the same thing, that one day their club will be bank rolled to success. We can either hold onto the fantasy or deal with reality.
I haven’t seen much of either but I like the sound of Castagne especially. Belgian international playing an important role in a very good team. Definitely the most exciting rumour of the bunch. Brooks plays on the wing so I don’t see what extra he’ll add – is he playing ahead of Son or Moura/Bergwijn? That’s not a problem position for us.
I know that’s what frustrates just about everybody who visits this site.We just have to suck it up in the meantime.
I think Brookes and Castagne would be substantial upgrades. Then again even a championship full back would be.
You either change it or make peace with it – or it will drive you nuts. We can’t make Lewis invest and we can’t force him out, so we have to accept that we are run as a business. Lewis won’t change his MO. I wouldn’t sit around hoping for this to happen.
Brooks scored seven and created five last season 18/19 ,great wee player.
Brookes I think is a good player,he was unlucky last season with injuries.Whether they would reoccur is anyone’s guess.
Every team has been affected in the PL.However our club is very wealthy it’s just that the owners will not spend the money necessary.That is why our master negotiator will be cruising the bargain basement aisles again.
Jose won’t want prospects,he’ll want ready to go experienced players.He doesn’t have the time for them to hopefully come good.
The problem positions were already clearly identifiable last summer, when the club’s stock was at an all-time high. There was a fleeting opportunity, as CL finalists, to attract top-quality full backs, DM, another striker, etc, and get back to challenging for the title.
It was predictably spurned, with enic preferring half measures and punts like J Clarke. The problem positions were left as weak as before (or weaker still in the case of RB).That’s because in the enic mind there was no imperative to be challenging for the title last season. There never is.
Fortunately for them the title has returned safely to the realm of fantasy, allowing levy to retreat unmolested back to his comfort zone — rummagng through relegated carcasses, Chinese super leagues, etc, for what he perceives to be bargain “prospects”. The master has resumed his timeless project, with Mourinho just the latest front row spectator.
If we get two good full backs and a defensive midfielder we’ll look like a a far better team with far better shape and even harder to break down. I’m sure few Liverpool fans were over the moon when they were signing James Milner or Andy Robertson. Not the most exciting names at the time but vital pieces of the jigsaw. That’s what we need solid, battle hardened honest players and players who can stay fit.
These names are a bit depressing really, I know Danny Rose would probably agree. Top players cost money and we don’t have it right now. We won’t improve that much and Kane will be sold next summer – unless Mourinho is capable of managerial witchcraft.
That said, most teams are in the same boat. Small improvements might be all we need to get back in the top 4 and win a cup. We can still hope for that.
We’ll be diluting the squad with more average players and hence making ourselves more average except for a world class striker. I believe Wilson has had serious injury problems too, will he be able to stay fit for all those ropey games?
I don’t see any of those players improving us to any meaningful extent. Personally I can’t see us getting back to the level we’d been at before this season for a very long time…