Tottenham Hotspur are starting to make waves in the transfer market with just over a week to go, and we should probably expect a bunch of lightly sourced stories connecting Spurs with a bunch of different players.
Like this rumor! Gianluca DiMarzio writes on his website that Spurs have upped their intended offer to €50m (£43.3m) for Como attacking midfielder Nico Paz. This, according to DiMarzio, is an improvement over a previous €40m (£34.5m) bid that was rejected a while ago. It is still not a ton of money, and DiMarzio says there is currently no agreement with Como, nor with the player.
Paz is a good target and would make a lot of sense for Spurs, but his current contract is complicated. His previous club, Real Madrid, own both a buy-back clause of just €9m next summer as well as a 50% sell-on clause in his contract, so any attempt to sign Paz will no doubt involve dealing with Madrid. No idea what that would look like, but I do know that a 50% sell-on clause, which is WILD, will complicate any negotiations significantly. Spurs might need to spend additional money to buy out Madrid’s clauses, if they’re serious about landing him… or alternately agree to something like a reasonable buy-back clause to Madrid in his Tottenham contract. That’s if they can come to an agreement at all. DiMarzio doesn’t give much of the game away (probably because he doesn’t know anything more).
Meanwhile, according to the Daily Mail (lol yes I know) Tottenham are also ramping up their interest in Manchester City’s Savinho, reporting that Spurs held further talks this weekend with City officials to try and get a deal over the line. The report states that Spurs are willing to make a bid of “over £60m” to land Savinho, with the player eager to be a Premier League starter to boost his chances of making the Brazil World Cup team. No agreement yet, but the Savinho deal definitely doesn’t seem as dead as what it did about a week ago.
After failing in bids to land Morgan Gibbs-White and Eberechi Eze (and boy, isn’t that latter one starting to feel like we dodged a Sol Campbell 2.0 bullet right now), Tottenham are still planning to be active in the window. It might go down to the wire, but hey, we’re Tottenham fans — we should be used to that by now.