“Of course I have an idea,” Mourinho said when asked by PA Sport’s Jonathan Veal if he knows what he wants his squad to look like next season. “Of course we share our ideas. When I say we, I say myself and the structure including obviously the boss. So we know what we want.
“But at the same time, we can all expect a strange summer. I believe that it will be a bit strange in the sense of a different transfer window than in previous seasons.
“But at the moment I don’t think it is about anyone fighting for his future. It is about everyone fighting for the points we need to finish the season the best that we can.”
Over the last year or so, whilst many of you have been tucked up in your homes making Zoom calls and watching TV, businesses have been going to the wall in no small number. Over 17,000 stores closed last year and that doesn’t touch all the ones that are currently shut and will never open again. According to The Guardian, 48 shops, restaurants, and other leisure and hospitality venues closed permanently in the UK. Over 693,000 payroll jobs have disappeared.
The full extent of the carnage won’t be clear for a good while but people in the UK claiming benefits has pretty much doubled in the last year. According to the BBC 4.7million are still being furloughed. That party is scheduled to end in September.
Those fans expecting a lively transfer window this summer are surely in for a disappointment. On top of the concerns we all have at this time, Tottenham is burdened by debt and bar the odd exception, the players they might wish to move on, have little or no sell on value.
Mourinho may well have his targets, but to expect much to happen in the summer seems like a fantasy at this stage.
Fans are scheduled to return, but in numbers that will have so little economic benefit, it beggars belief. The complete fallout for business outside of football has yet to emerge and the same can be said of inside football.
This site along with thousands of others will on a daily basis peddle transfer rumours for your consideration. My advice is to enjoy the analysis where it’s offered and take the salacious, appetite-whetting stuff with copious amounts of salt. Mourinho knows.