Tottenham Hotspur face doubtlessly dropping a £60 million participant subsequent 12 months, with the person in query now ready to go away Spurs subsequent 12 months after pulling a switch U-turn.
Tottenham face Rangers as Ange Postecoglou offers with harm disaster
The north Londoners journey to play Rangers at Ibrox within the Europa League this night, as supervisor Ange Postecoglou travels again up north for a Glasgow reunion with fierce outdated rivals from his time at Celtic.
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The Lilywhites are in pressing want of a brand new defender.
Spurs’ head coach prepares for what can be a tense, atmospheric event towards Rangers underneath mounting strain, with studies this week having to make clear Tottenham’s stance on sacking Postecoglou amid a disappointing run of type.
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Tottenham’s subsequent 5 Premier League video games |
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Southampton vs Tottenham |
December 15 |
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Tottenham vs Liverpool |
December 22 |
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Nottingham Forest vs Tottenham |
December 26 |
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Tottenham vs Wolves |
December 29 |
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Tottenham vs Newcastle |
January 4 |
Chairman Daniel Levy is outwardly ready to offer the Australian extra time to show issues round at N17, factoring within the membership’s mounting harm issues, with each Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero struggling new accidents and returning to the sidelines after briefly coming again towards Chelsea.
Van de Ven and Romero be part of Mikey Moore, Ben Davies, Guglielmo Vicario, Wilson Odobert and Richarlison as simply among the key first-team gamers unavailable by way of harm, whereas each Yves Bissouma and Rodrigo Bentancur are serving home suspensions proper now.
Rangers has been described as a “must-not-lose” for Postecoglou, with GiveMeSport additionally reporting that Tottenham’s subsequent 4 video games will enormously decide whether or not they go down the Postecoglou sack route.
Forward of their go to to Scotland, and with only one senior centre-back obtainable in Radu Dragusin, Postecoglou has instructed that summer season signing Archie Grey may very well be a daily at centre-half.
“I’ve to get artistic,” mentioned Postecoglou on using Gray as a centre-back.
“I believe Archie’s in all probability the one for us in the intervening time that we have to try to get to fill in there. He is performed proper again, left again for us. Needed to play at centre-back a little bit bit this 12 months, he did throughout the pre-season. With him and Radu, they’re the 2 principal form of defenders. We have nonetheless received 5 or 6 video games to navigate, so we could should get artistic sooner or later and cope with it otherwise.”
Within the meantime, some gamers are contemplating their futures forward of subsequent 12 months, with injured ahead Richarlison apparently amongst them.
Richarlison ready to go away Tottenham after switch U-turn
The “fantastic” Brazilian, who price £60 million to signal from Everton in 2022, is rumoured to have turned down affords from Saudi Arabia earlier this 12 months in favour of difficult for a spot at Spurs.
He was apparently decided to stay at Hotspur Manner, however now dependable journalist Ben Jacobs claims that Richarlison is willing to leave Tottenham after altering his thoughts behind-the-scenes.
“The state of affairs with Richarlison, the participant was completely adamant final summer season that he needed to struggle for his place at Spurs and we had been all happy to see him completely happy, most of us needed it to work at Spurs, and Richarlison to be that £60m participant and thrive,” mentioned Jacobs on NUFC Issues.
“However now, I’m informed the participant has modified his thoughts in the previous few months, and he’s keen to go away Spurs in 2025.”
The 27-year-old loved a mid-season purple patch this time final 12 months, scoring targets galore for Postecoglou, and the 59-year-old can be hoping he can a minimum of rediscover that sort of type earlier than the quantity 9 doubtlessly departs.
