Move over, BIG WILLY LANKS, because Tottenham Hotspur appear to be working on signing another player with a memeable name. According to L’Equipe, Tottenham and Burnley have restarted negotiations over 23-year-old central defender Maxime Estève.
That’s right — MAXIMUM STEVE. BRING ME MAXIMUM STEVE!!
The report is short, and notes that Tottenham made a €24m approach for Estève back in January. I remember this because it happened on transfer deadline day and, y’know, MAXIMUM STEVE. You tend to remember things like that. I also remember that a Burnley beat writer almost immediately rubbished this. But now that report is getting new credence from L’Equipe, so what is even reality? I don’t know, and neither do you. We are through the looking glass, people!
The difference between then and now is that Spurs now have Champions League football, whereas in January they did not. All else is the same — Good ol’ Steve is a young, French, ball-playing defender who can pass the crap out of the ball and has experience playing in a possession football system — first under Vincent Kompany and then RAF Captain Scott Parker. With Thomas Frank likely to deploy some flavor of possession ball at Spurs this season, that would make him an attractive target. He’s also a left footed defender, and we need another one of those.