The Tottenham Post
Market19 Jun 2028
Kaoru Mitoma is a Tottenham player
The fee is $59.6M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Brighton drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market19 Jun 2028
Business is business: Xavi Simons goes
Bournemouth paid $83.7M and Tottenham took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market19 Jun 2028
Not going: Savinho stays at Tottenham
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Sheffield Wednesday had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
A $83.7M sale, and a town that did not want it
Xavi Simons has gone, the accounts have $83.7M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market19 Jun 2028
Bristol City 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.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Tottenham baulk at the price for Ármin Pécsi
Liverpool wanted more than $1.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A move Michael Dike would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Michael Dike is living that version at Tottenham, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Tottenham
Francisco Trincão and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
The town asked, and Tottenham paid $59.6M
Kaoru Mitoma was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $59.6M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
In brief
- Transfer targets Tottenham rebuffed over Mamour N'Diaye
- Squad Kaoru Mitoma falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad Julio Enciso wants to go home