The Tottenham Post
Market7 Sep 2026
Destiny Udogie 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Brandon Austin says no to Stoke City
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Brandon Austin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market7 Sep 2026
Blackburn Rovers 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 9 signed and 11 gone
That is the business done at Tottenham until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yves Bissouma 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jan Paul van Hecke slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jan Paul van Hecke is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jindřich Staněk moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Tottenham than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jan Paul van Hecke loses the armband
The captaincy has been taken off Jan Paul van Hecke. Tottenham will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
In brief
- Looking ahead Dominic Solanke faces his old club
- The dugout Rio Kyerematen asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Micky van de Ven