Early deals for Spurs in January

Stories circulate at this time of year and intensify the closer we get to the winter transfer window. As you are all aware transfers take place all year round, not the actual transfer but the work and discussion towards a transfer.

Early deals for Spurs in January


The not talking to a player without a clubs permission seems to have gone out the window as it was a totally unworkable system. Players would just talk to players, agents would talk to agents, it was just to easy to get around.

Tottenham need to overhaul the squad, having overhauled the squad and brought in rubbish. Traditionally we, like most clubs, wait until the end of a transfer window when clubs are forced to let a player go cheaper to get them off the books. But will January be like that for Tottenham?

The squad needs changing and fast. Waiting until the beginning of February to have your new players arrive and start training in order to learn the system we require them to play, as opposed to the stand still system we now use, means we wouldl get less than three months out of them. That would be giving up on this season already.

Mauricio Pochettino has shown that he doesn't make signings and then throw them straight into the team. They have to train for a bit first so any new signings at the end of the month might not be seen until the third week of February or even March.

Two stories are circulating at the moment of potential deals we are involved in. One we are said to be close to signing and the other we are said to be the front runners, whatever that means.

Reports from Italy now say that not only have we been speaking to Raul Abiol's agent but that we are talking to Napoli as well now. That is certainly positive news and suggests the Italians may be willing to let him leave. You can catch up with the early story in this recent article; 2 new centre-backs in January

The second player is one we have been watching for years, have played against, have tried to buy and decided their was too much off the field stuff surrounding him to get a deal done. All the top clubs have looked at Dnipro winger Yevhen Konoplyanka and several have tried to sign him, but nobody has ever been able to complete a deal.

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His agent is his Dad and reports in Italy from FC Inter News say Konoplyanka wants to sign for an English club rather than an Italian one. The Ukranian international, who gave Kyle Walker a hard time at Wembley and caused us problems in the UEFA Europa League, is available on a free transfer in June.

The Italians suggest that one of Tottenham, Liverpool or West Ham are likely to secure his services in January with Dnipro wanting to get at least get some money for him. Roma are also interested but Inter only want him on a free transfer.

Erik Lamela was brought in as the replacement for Gareth Bale but he has flopped so presumably Tottenham want 25-year-old Konoplyanka to do take that mantle now. You can never be confident about his arrival but would it mean the end of the road for Lamela at Spurs?