We have less than a week left until the summer transfer window closes, so Tottenham Hotspur are running out of time to add their very first player of this signing period. When deadline day comes and goes, Spurs are hoping to be able to boast of two new arrivals acquired this summer.
Let’s take a spin through the latest transfer rumors and gossip making the rounds on the internet today. As always, until it’s actually an officially done deal, take the rumors with a grain of salt. For more Spurs news and transfer talk, be sure to visit Spurs for Life.
Spurs “will consider any potential offers for Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose and Mousa Dembele in this window, Sky Sports News understands.”
So where could each member of the trio be moving on to? We’ll look at potential suitors/eventual destinations.
Let’s start with Alderweireld. Likely to miss out on Leicester City’s Harry Maguire, the other co-primary favorite centre back target for Manchester United is the Spurs man, but this doesn’t look likely to happen either.
With Spurs reportedly asking £75 million for him, United just won’t bite. That would make him among the most expensive defenders in history, and at age 29, it’s just not going to happen.
Next summer though this deal could indeed be on. United may be able to land their long time target in 2019 due to the fact his contract is structured so favorably towards a transfer. His Tottenham deal expires next year, and if White Hart Lane exercise the one year option, he can be had for just £25 million. The Mirror explains it all here.
United have also long been regarded as the favorites to sign Rose, but it’s still doubtful that deal gets done between now and Thursday. As for Dembele, he’s been linked to Inter, among other teams, but selling him now could be a major mistake. Here is the City published a well written, proficiently thought out case for not letting him go right now.
Although Dembele has fallen out of favor at White Hart Lane, he still has a ton of potential, and that promise has been flashed here and there. The only redeeming quality of this nearly moribund Tottenham summer transfer window has been the fact they have been able to hold on to top talent. You might not be able to say that if Dembele bolts.
Shifting from selling to buying, Jack Grealish is the only name getting traction now, but even that is a stretch at best.
The Evening Standard writes that Spurs are nowhere the valuation Aston Villa have placed on the 21-year-old midfielder.
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