This summer’s transfer window was never going to be a straightforward one for any Premier League side, but with Spurs there’s always certain amount of confusion and misdirection.
Voetbal International are reporting that Ajax are now in for Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg from Southampton. Hojbjerg was the Saints’ skipper until recently, when the 24-year-old refused to sign a new deal with the south coast club and the arm band was removed. During the same period, HojbJerg was spotted ‘liking’ a social media post linking him with a move to Spurs.
Spurs badly need a defensive midfielder of Wanyama 2016-17 standard to complement a potentially exciting pairing of Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso just ahead of him. Could the answer again lie at St Mary’s?
Rated at £35million, this is precisely the type of player that Tottenham need, before we all collapse from fatigue waiting to see if Harry Winks and Moussa Sissokko are capable of creating a coherent midfield.
Ajax’s arrival on the scene won’t make the Dane’s future any clearer.
I think describing our much loved chairman’s transfer strategy as a mixture of confusion and misdirection is overly kind. I would describe it as sheer incompetence It looks as if the three clubs that are going down are Villa, Bournemouth and Norwich, but you cannot rule out West Ham and Watford. Taking the first three I mentioned, there are a number of players we could look at if our anally retentive chairman could avert his gaze from cheap tat in the French League where I am sure there are some good players whom we never manage to buy.
Norwich have Godfrey, rumoured to be priced at £50 mill, Aarons, Lewis and Cantwell, although I have always had an aversion to any professional footballer who wears a hairband.
Bournemouth have Ake who will go to a bigger club than us, (the eighth richest club in the world), King and Wilson as potential support for Kane although they are probably not young enough, (we should go for Luca Jovic as Kane’s stand in) and David Brooks who is the player with the most potential even though we are well stocked in that area.
Villa have Grealish, but that ship has sailed, another gold star on Levy’s transfer record, and McGinn whom I prefer. He is tough, left footed as has a great engine.
I agree with Spurs est1882 that we should bring in Ten Hag and recruit the entire Ajax scouting, coaching and fitness team.
I have a solution – bring in ten Hag and Hojbjerg?