Spurs are definitely about to sign stars from Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona while keeping Djed Spence and his penitentiary at left-back.<\/p>\n
Thomas Frank will enjoy spending that \u00a31.2bn so much he forgets to sign a new goalkeeper and left-back.<\/p>\n
There are also updates on Kobbie Mainoo, but also not really.<\/p>\n
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Spurred on<\/strong><\/p>\n Mediawatch does not wish to go too far into the weeds on the reported world-record takeover bid<\/strong><\/a> of Spurs splashed on the back page of The Sun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Of course it is fronted by a \u2018US TECH BRO\u2019. Of course it would provide a \u00a31.2billion \u2018player budget\u2019 from the start of the January transfer window. Of course it\u2019s actually all about Harry Kane.<\/p>\n And Martin Lipton is a renowned journalist with authority so it cannot be immediately dismissed out of hand, although the well-connected Alasdair Gold of football.london<\/strong> says \u2018no bid\u2019 has been made and the owners have reiterated that Spurs is \u2018still not for sale\u2019, a line echoed by Matt Verri in the London Evening Standard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n It is certainly newsworthy and not immediately obvious nonsense \u2013 at least not provably so.<\/p>\n The same cannot be said for this follow-up effort from The Sun website<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2018How Tottenham team could look after \u00a34.5bn takeover and huge transfer spree with Cole Palmer and Harry Kane\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Spurs are undeniably \u2018in a healthy position with PSR\u2019 even before a takeover. But it will need explaining quite how they will be able to afford Palmer, Kane, Reece James, Marc Guehi, Frenkie de bloody Jong and Vinicius sodding Jr.<\/p>\n That \u00a31.2bn \u201cplayer budget\u201d which Lipton says will be \u2018set aside\u2019 from January onwards has to go towards \u2018wages, fees and agent payments\u2019. That math ain\u2019t mathing.<\/p>\n And look, sure, Spurs \u2018could decide to take advantage of\u2019 Guehi\u2019s situation. That is entirely feasible<\/strong><\/a>. But in what world are Chelsea selling them both James and Palmer? Why are Barcelona offloading regular starter De Jong? How is Vinicius \u2018out of favour\u2019 at Real when he has started five games this season and trails only Kylian Mbappe for goals and assists?<\/p>\n The word \u2018could\u2019 is used 17 times in the story, summed up by a line about how Vinicius \u2018could fancy trying his luck in England while also retaining his massive pay package\u2019 without any real explanation as to why he would leave the biggest club in world football.<\/p>\n But the best bit is probably Spurs signing crucial players from Chelsea, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich in a \u00a31.2bn transfer spree, but still ending up with Guglielmo Vicario, Djed Spence and Pape Matar Sarr in the starting line-up.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re going to go all out and completely suspend disbelief then you might as well do it properly.<\/p>\n Mind you, fair play for resisting the usual \u2018How [x team] could look\u2026\u2019 trap of just chucking a load of Thomas Frank\u2019s old Brentford players in there, supplying long throw-ins for Cole Palmer to flick on to Vinicius Junior.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n That\u2019s gotta be Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n The accompanying story from Lipton focuses on Kane specifically, namely how \u2018Bayern chiefs admit they are powerless to stop\u2019 the striker returning to Spurs \u2018- if he wants to\u2019.<\/p>\n That last part is fairly important. Kane has scored 98 goals in 103 games for Bayern, breaking his personal trophy duck, playing regularly in the Champions League and furthering his career with England.<\/p>\n Spurs might have to replace Vicario to convince Kane it is worth coming back and that is something they are clearly unwilling to do even in a ludicrous alternate universe.<\/p>\n And that does sound weirdly desperate from Bayern. They\u2019ve said they\u2019re \u2018powerless to stop\u2019 a player leaving, have they? This is the same club which refuses to accept any instance of a German player moving elsewhere<\/strong><\/a> and spends months publicly ejecting toys from prams if it ever happens?<\/p>\n The quotes come from Max Eberl saying Kane is \u201cold enough to make his own decisions\u201d, Vincent Kompany saying \u201cthe last thing I want to do is open the door to another discussion,\u201d and both underlining how brilliant and important he is.<\/p>\n There is indeed a break clause in his Bayern deal but also, as Lipton writes, Kane \u2018has done nothing to suggest he wants to leave\u2019 while he is thriving.<\/p>\n READ MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0Harry Kane is \u00a356.7m no-brainer; he has always been only one rung below Messi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n