The Tottenham Post
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Tottenham rebuffed over Yasin Ayari
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brighton have kept their man, and Tottenham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tottenham sign Chadi Riad for $15.6M
The paperwork is done: Chadi Riad joins from Crystal Palace in a deal worth $15.6M. Now comes the harder part.
Market17 Aug 2026
Not going: Dante Cassanova stays at Tottenham
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Huddersfield Town had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mura come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tottenham did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Omar Marmoush in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tottenham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Chadi Riad arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Chadi Riad has, at Tottenham, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market17 Aug 2026
Portsmouth join the queue for Rodrigo Bentancur
Add another name to the list: Portsmouth have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rodrigo Bentancur. The answer from Tottenham has not changed — yet.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Tottenham
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tottenham
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Matías Arezo behind
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Aston Villa
- The dugout Mohammed Kudus keeps his manager's vote