The Tottenham Post
Boardroom4 Jul 2039
Pressure builds in the Tottenham boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad4 Jul 2039
13 seasons of Wilson Odobert
320 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Tottenham know what they have.
Market4 Jul 2039
Xavi Simons wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Tottenham hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Jul 2039
Tempers go at Tottenham
Adrian Lahdo 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.
Market4 Jul 2039
Archie Stevens 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.
Squad4 Jul 2039
Micky van de Ven 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.
Squad4 Jul 2039
Simon Mitchell is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom4 Jul 2039
Tottenham sign 11 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Market4 Jul 2039
The Xavi Simons talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tottenham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Boardroom $35.1M taken back off the Tottenham table
- Market Blaž Kovač placed on the list