{"id":29911,"date":"2025-08-29T02:40:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29911\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T02:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T02:40:05","slug":"tottenham-submit-xavi-simons-bid-with-player-in-london-and-chelsea-deal-in-danger-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29911\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham submit Xavi Simons bid with player in London and Chelsea deal in danger | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham Hotspur have submitted a bid for Xavi Simons as they push to beat Chelsea<\/a> to the signing of the RB Leipzig attacker, according to reports. Thomas Frank is desperate to bolster his forward options before Monday’s summer transfer deadline after a frustrating window of near misses.<\/p>\n

Spurs had previously targeted Nottingham Forest midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White and Crystal Palace talisman Eberechi Eze. However, Forest blocked Gibbs-White’s exit before he signed a new contract at the City Ground, and Arsenal<\/a> successfully hijacked their rivals’ Eze interest in the 11th hour.<\/p>\n

The Lilywhites have now pivoted to Simons, who has seemed destined to land in the Premier League all summer amid Chelsea<\/a>‘s ongoing admiration.<\/p>\n

However, with the Blues having to wait until they offload Nicolas Jackson and Christopher Nkunku before pressing ahead, Spurs have taken advantage.<\/p>\n

According to Sky Germany<\/a>, Tottenham<\/a> have now submitted an official offer for Simons during direct negotiations with Leipzig on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old is already in London in anticipation of his Premier League arrival, whichever club it is with.<\/p>\n

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It’s claimed that an agreement between Spurs and Leipzig is considered a matter of time, with the north London club ready to meet Simons’ \u00a360million asking price.<\/p>\n

Frank will hope it is third time lucky in regards to his attacking midfielder hunt after a positive start to his reign at the Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> Stadium.<\/p>\n

But there will naturally be caution when it comes to the prospect of Chelsea<\/a> resurrecting their pursuit in the coming days.<\/p>\n

After overseeing an impressive 2-0 victory against Manchester City<\/a> at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, Frank insisted he was confident that Spurs would provide him with further reinforcements.<\/p>\n

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“We have a strong squad that I believe a lot in,” the former Brentford boss said. “We would like to add a bit, but only if it can strengthen the squad.<\/p>\n

“We are looking to add in and hopefully succeed. I know the club is working very hard. I trust them.”<\/p>\n

Spurs have signed Mohammed Kudus, Luka Vuskovic and Kota Takai on permanent deals, while recruiting Joao Palhinha on loan from Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n

Simons could be the next player through the door if they can strike an agreement with Leipzig before Monday’s deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur have submitted a bid for Xavi Simons as they push to beat Chelsea to the signing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[19414,18,17099,19,17,795,17100,132,16567,17101,23753],"class_list":{"0":"post-29911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chelsea-fc","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-football-section","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-premier-league","14":"tag-sport-section","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-fc","17":"tag-transfer-news-section","18":"tag-xavi-simons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}