The Tottenham Post
Match21 Aug 2027
A derby to forget for Tottenham
Beaten 1‑2 by Arsenal in the one fixture where losing is not allowed. The football was bad enough; the week ahead will be worse.
Market23 Aug 2027
Óscar De Marcos hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tottenham can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Tottenham
Dejan Kulusevski was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Kota Takai at Tottenham
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kota Takai is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Cristian Romero falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A late step up for Destiny Udogie
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Milton Keynes Dons are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Tottenham will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Peter Harris joins the Tottenham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Harris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Paul Hill joins the Tottenham first team
- Boardroom A promise the Tottenham board did not keep
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Xavi Simons