{"id":316077,"date":"2025-08-04T02:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316077\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T02:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:35:10","slug":"done-deal-tottenham-confirm-loan-signing-of-palhinha-from-bayern-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/316077\/","title":{"rendered":"DONE DEAL: Tottenham confirm loan signing of Palhinha from Bayern Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"djd7hN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> have officially what is their third new signing of the summer, confirming the acquisition of Portuguese defensive midfielder Palhinha from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bavarianfootballworks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayern Munich<\/a> on loan for the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are delighted to announce the signing of Jo\u00e3o Palhinha on loan from FC Bayern, subject to international clearance and work permit \u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1952083464695710135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 3, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"V99BNR\">The loan includes a \u20ac30m purchase option at the end of this coming season, and Tottenham will assume the entirety of Palhinha\u2019s wages, estimated to be about \u00a3165k\/wk.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ciXDY7\">Palhinha\u2019s signing continues what has felt like a theme among players linked to Tottenham this summer under Johan Lange: Premier League experience. Palhinha did well as a pure ball-winning midfielder at Fulham before being signed by Bayern Munich last summer. The Portuguese man didn\u2019t really fit in with Vincent Kompany\u2019s tactics in Germany, however, and he saw his playing time reduce to an extent that Bayern have been actively shopping him around trying to ship him elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gICv3o\">I know I\u2019ve voiced my reservations about Palhinha\u2019s skill set and how it impacts Spurs\u2019 midfield under Thomas Frank. I stand by those assertions, but a one season loan is much different than an outright purchase. Palhinha is 30, a tough tackling ball winner and defensive stalwart at the base of midfield. He\u2019ll no doubt add some heft to the midfield when he plays and there is no doubt that he\u2019ll be a very useful contributor in some games and against certain opponents. He could also be a very good mentor for someone like Archie Gray, assuming the club feels Gray is the heir apparent to that role under Frank in the future.<\/p>\n<p id=\"LAShoN\">What continues to irk me is that Spurs are still desperately needing creativity and passing in the midfield, and this signing makes me suspect we might not get that, which has a long tail effect on how Frank will set up and play this season. Maybe it\u2019ll work out! Maybe I\u2019m just an idiot! This just feels like an unambitious move, and I honestly hope I\u2019m wrong about that and look forward to when I can tell you how wrong I was.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7BR8XV\">In the meantime, Palhinha is now officially a Tottenham player, and because of that I am now a fan of his and will be rooting for him to succeed. Welcome, Palhinha!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur have officially what is their third new signing of the summer, confirming the acquisition of Portuguese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[16759,6702,6701,72562,19289,73809,94,5899,21003,163,41512,16760,3577,83756,40393,79,1368,75560,75559,25034,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-316077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bayern","9":"tag-captain","10":"tag-cartilage","11":"tag-confirm","12":"tag-deal","13":"tag-done","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-free","16":"tag-from","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-loan","19":"tag-munich","20":"tag-of","21":"tag-palhinha","22":"tag-signing","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-tottenham","25":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfer-news-rumours","26":"tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfers-rumors","27":"tag-transfer-rumors","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114968168079639899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}