Daniel Davis

Left Midfielder - Tottenham U18
23 Nov 2032
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Davis

284 Edition

The Tottenham Post

5 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Moisés Caicedo

Tottenham and Manchester City have settled on $150.1M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets

Tottenham make their move for Bukayo Saka

$182.0M on the table at Manchester City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Bukayo Saka

Tottenham asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

An offer of $70.0M for Nico Paz

Tottenham have gone to Borussia Dortmund with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

Jamie Gittens 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.

Squad

Daniel Davis breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Savinho is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Tottenham will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

The dugout

Dávid Strelec says Tottenham went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Tottenham say no — this time

The offer from Nottingham Forest for Eliot Matazo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

In brief

Back issues
283 Edition

The Tottenham Post

29 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Jamie Gittens's — 8.59

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.59, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Daniel Davis breaks a bone — 26 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Whatever happens, Tottenham do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Only the photograph left for Eliot Matazo

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eliot Matazo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tottenham the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Tottenham

Gavi 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.

Match

Tottenham get the job done against Crystal Palace

A 3‑1 win over Crystal Palace, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Loan watch

14 goals on loan for Ricardo Pepi

22 appearances at Ipswich Town and the goals keep coming. Tottenham are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Savinho at his very best

Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tottenham.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Phil Foden at his very best

Marked 8.10. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tottenham.

In brief

  • Squad Savinho is in the form of his life
  • Squad Words at Tottenham training over how hard people work
  • The dugout Jurriën Timber has become a man the manager trusts
282 Edition

The Tottenham Post

22 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Tottenham run riot against Hull City

5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Emanuel Emegha's — 8.66

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

34 days out for Daniel Davis after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tottenham will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jacob Ramsey takes the afternoon — 8.30

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jacob Ramsey provided it, and the 8.30 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Luca Netz puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tottenham, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Luca Netz keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tottenham may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Whatever happens, Tottenham do not lose

10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Marcus Rashford has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tottenham they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Tottenham settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Hull City spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

In brief

281 Edition

The Tottenham Post

15 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

James Wilson sends Tottenham through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and James Wilson obliged against Norwich City. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Tottenham.

Squad

A fracture rules Daniel Davis out for 42 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tottenham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Aidan Morris is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tottenham is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tottenham

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Jurriën Timber 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.

Boardroom

Alfie Dorrington has agreed to leave Tottenham for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Match

Liverpool end the Tottenham run at 8

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Pape Matar Sarr

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pape Matar Sarr, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

13 goals on loan for Ricardo Pepi

19 appearances at Ipswich Town and the goals keep coming. Tottenham are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief