The Tottenham Post
Transfer targets26 Aug 2030
Tottenham agree $36.3M for Franculino
The clubs have shaken hands with Manchester City; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets26 Aug 2030
Door shut on Ryan Gravenberch
Tottenham asked and Liverpool said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad26 Aug 2030
A fracture rules Eddie Nketiah out for 29 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.
Market26 Aug 2030
Middlesbrough 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 targets26 Aug 2030
Too dear: Tottenham walk away from Owen Beck
$8.6M was the most the club would pay and Liverpool were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Player ratings26 Aug 2030
Marcus Tavernier was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Aug 2030
Pau Cubarsí 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.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
Tottenham go back to the board over Koki Saito
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $14.6M — a club that wants Koki Saito enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom26 Aug 2030
Tottenham beat the market to Altay Bayındır from Leeds United
Leeds United will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Altay Bayındır has pre-agreed a move to Tottenham, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
In brief
- Market Nicolás Domínguez has his eye on Europe
- Match Tottenham find a way past Wolverhampton
- Squad Tottenham lose Paul Cunningham