Tottenham Hotspur still have a fair bit of business to attend to in the latter stages of the summer transfer window.
Spurs are seemingly still looking for reinforcements up front in wake of Harry Kane’s departure from Tottenham. In addition, there haven’t been many outgoings at Spurs this summer. Just four moves out of N17, in fact.
Kane and Harry Winks have been sold, Joe Rodon has gone out on loan, and Lucas Moura has left on a free.
Several players with uncertain futures, such as Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso, are still at Spurs for now. Rudy Galetti has now provided an update on the latter player, saying Tottenham remain in talks with Real Betis over a move.
Taking to Twitter, the journalist says the Spaniard are “still trying to understand if there are margins for a loan move with buy option”
Player-side, Lo Celso is apparently “pushing for his return” to the club he left to join Tottenham years ago.
As for Spurs, they’re reportedly open to letting the Argentine go. But so far, they’d only do it on a loan with obligation – rather than option – to buy. For a while, it looked like a Lo Celso remontada was on the cards at Tottenham.
He featured in pre-season under new Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou and looked good. This sparked hopes of a return to the squad.
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Sport report that Barcelona are softening their stance and are now open to the idea of loaning Clement Lenglet to Tottenham for another season.
It is said that with Lenglet’s move to Saudi Arabian club, Al-Nassr, now ruled out, Barcelona are desperate to get rid of his wages and have therefore come around on the idea of a loan. Tottenham are reportedly not willing to hand over a big transfer fee, but are happy to pay Lenglet’s wages for the 2023/24 campaign, as they did last season. Spurs would also then talk to Barcelona about a permanent transfer for next summer.
Spurs are ahead of Italian clubs in Lenglet race
There is interest in Lenglet from Serie A, but Italian clubs are apparently not able to pay his full salary, which gives Spurs the upper hand in the race. Whatever the case, Barcelona want Lenglet gone by the end of the week as they look to make new signings of their own this summer.
I would be unhappy if Tottenham signed Lenglet as the second centre-back of the summer. If he is the third summer signing, then fine, he can be Micky Van de Ven’s back-up. However, Tottenham need one more central defender chosen by Ange Postecoglou.
