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The Tottenham Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Xavi Simons

47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tottenham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Alexander Aravena

Tottenham and Portland Timbers have settled on $11.5M. 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

Alex Meret is a medical away from Tottenham

The deal with Napoli is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nəriman Axundzadə

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

Market

Tottenham turn down Young Boys for Richarlison

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Sandro Tonali signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sandro Tonali and Tottenham agree another 5 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tottenham

Sandro Tonali and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Marcos Senesi wants more than Tottenham are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Burnley watching Brandon Austin

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Tottenham have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

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The Tottenham Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Tottenham make their move for Alex Meret

$7.8M on the table at Napoli. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Ben Davies: 12 seasons and counting

316 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Tottenham know exactly what they have.

Market

Tottenham turn down Olympique Lyonnais for Yves Bissouma

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Jan Paul van Hecke signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jan Paul van Hecke and Tottenham agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Tottenham

Sandro Tonali and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Savinho raises the bar for Tottenham

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Tottenham heard it as anything else.

Squad

Words at Tottenham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Paul van Hecke is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Rodrigo Bentancur wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

Eyes on Wilson Odobert again

The phone has started ringing about Wilson Odobert again, and this time the name on the line is Sheffield Wednesday. Tottenham are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief