Tottenham are set to make an offer worth up £12m to sign River Plater star Ian Subiabre, according to reports in Argentina.
Spurs in pole position for Subiabre
Subiabre is a 19 year-old winger who broke into River's first team in 2025, and has already played 36 times for the club, scoring three goals.
Spurs chiefs are confident Roberto De Zerbi will secure their Premier League status in the final seven game of the season, and have begun making plans to improve the squad with young signings with high ceilings.
Reports earlier this month claimed the Subiabre's agents were open to a move to England, and were working to lower his price from his massive £87m release clause.
Now, Argentine journalist Hernan Castillo, translated by Sport Witness, has revealed Tottenham are the club in pole position for the Argentina Under-17 international's signature.
“River is going to have a strong market in the middle of the year. They will spend, but they will also bring in money because it is very difficult for them to keep Subiabre. Very difficult. He has too much interest already.
“I know that Tottenham, Chelsea, Villarreal, Lazio are making constant enquiries. And now Tottenham are very strong.”
Castillo also claims Spurs are considering making a bid worth between €12m and €14m (£10.5m-£12m), with River rejecting a previous offer of €8m (£7m) from an unnamed club.
Subiabre could be Tottenham's next Archie Gray
Tottenham’s senior players have been urged to follow the example of Archie Gray if the club are to avoid a first relegation in 49 years.
Spurs are 17th after a 13-match winless run in the Premier League and with seven games left have turned to Roberto De Zerbi in a bid to retain top-flight status.
During a hugely disappointing season Gray has been a standout performer, and David Howells – who helped Tottenham avoid relegation twice in 1994 and 1997 – believes others must follow the lead of the 20-year-old ahead of Sunday’s trip to Sunderland.
“You definitely would hope that some of the older players would look across at Archie in the changing room and say, ‘look at this young man, he’s stepping up and it’s not fazing him, this is where we all need to be in terms of attitude and performance’. Yeah, absolutely he’s been the one consistent shining light,” Howells told the Press Association.
“I thought he was our best player again (against Nottingham Forest). I did say after the game against Atletico Madrid that he looked like an England midfielder, I did because he really looked the part.
“It is a credit to himself because a young lad like that, playing in a team that’s really struggling, he could sink but he’s actually gone the other way and been the best player in most of the games he has played.
“Yeah, massive credit to him and really exciting to see a young player like that at this time thinking about what he could become because the sky’s the limit.”