Tottenham have submitted a player plus cash bid for Southampton’s Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg after the Dane rejected offers of a new deal from the South Coast team. This is according to transfer pundit, Duncan Castle.
Southampton has stripped the midfielder of their captain’s armband (BBC) as they look to move him on in the summer.
Hojbjerg will be out of a contract at the end of next season and he has told Southampton that he wants to play for a bigger team (90mins).
Jose Mourinho has been told that he wouldn’t be able to make any big-money signings in the next transfer window (The Sun), but according to Castles, the former Manchester United boss likes the idea of having Hojbjerg in his team.
Castle claims that Southampton has received a number of offers for Hojbjerg some of which haven’t impressed them and they have also received a player plus cash offer, which he claims is from Tottenham, although he didn’t reveal the Tottenham player that has been offered to the Saints.
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“Southampton see him as a player they have to sell in this market,” Castles said on the Transfer Window podcast.
“They, I’m told, have three offers so far for the player, none of them are satisfactory, one extremely low at a financial level, and they have an offer of cash plus players in exchange, which I understand has come from Tottenham Hotspur.
“My information is that Jose Mourinho likes Hojbjerg and he sees him as a player obviously with substantial Premier League experience who he can bring into the centre of his midfield, can play a couple of positions in midfield at a relatively low cost, and solves some of the problems he sees in that squad.
“We’ve seen Mourinho talk about how he sees the market developing this year.
“We told you on the podcast I think two months ago now that Daniel Levy basically told him there would be no money for large transfer fees and he would have to look for players who are free agents or could be signed on loan with an option to buy in a year’s time.”
It’ll be a player they won’t want, a Rose, Walker-Peters or Foyth and a low ball cash offer.