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Tottenham Hotspur have a great collection of young up and coming talent in their first time. Micky van de Ven, Destiny Udogie, Lucas Bergvall, Xavi Simons, and Mohammed Kudus are already among the best in the league in their respective roles, and the likes of Archie Gray, Pape Matar Sarr, Wilson Odobert, and Mathys Tel may soon join them in the future.

Meanwhile, the Tottenham loan army is incredibly strong, too. Young winger Mikey Moore and Hamburg center back Luka Vuskovic have been two of the most impressive loanees in all of European football, with Vuskovic currently standing out as one of the best center backs in the entire Bundesliga in just his first season as a senior player.

There is another young gem on loan worth watching, too. Yang Min-Hyeok is quietly having a strong season at Portsmouth despite not getting many chances to shine in the first team, especially with Portsmouth playing such negative, defensive football in the Championship.

Tottenham may terminate young winger's loan

Therefore, Spurs have been contemplating getting the promising teenager a bigger loan. That could be in the Championship, but he could also follow in the foot steps of Vuskovic and join a Bundesliga - or even a Ligue 1 - side as a rotational piece in a top five league.

However, it sounds like Portsmouth are not interested in letting go. As reported by Neil Allen for The Portsmouth News, Portsmouth FC manager John Mousinho (not related to former Spurs coach Jose Mourinho) maintained that he feels Yang Min-Hyeok will be staying with the club for the remainder of the 2025/26 Championship campaign.

Mousinho said, "I think Min-hyeok will be here for the rest of the season. Spurs have a recall, as most of these loan contracts. Spurs have a recall if they want to recall him. I think he’s been a really bright spark in a lot of the performances we’ve had, particularly in the early part of the season. At times you have probably seen what you can sometimes expect from young players, but, as a 19-year-old coming into a struggling side, he has done very well. He will be staying until the end of the season. We have tried Min-hyeok on the right over the past couple of games. It’s just about trying to find the best place for him to fit into the team."

Min-hyeok has been a key player for Portsmouth with three goal contributions in nine starts, and if given more starts and more opportunities to play an attacking role, he would have better creative and even progressive and one on one statistics than he currently does. The 19 year old left (or right) South Korean winger is ready for a bigger gig, and although Portsmouth sound like they value him too much to let him go, Tottenham hold most of the cards with Min-Hyeok.

Tottenham Hotspur have found one real attacking gem in 2025, as new right wing signing Mohammed Kudus has been an immediate, rousing success since joining Spurs in the summer 2025 transfer window. Meanwhile, fellow new attacking signings Xavi Simons and Randal Kolo Muani have also shown they can be key parts of the solution, and there is plenty of hope that permanent Bayern Munich addition Mathys Tel can one day develop into a star left winger.

But neither Tel nor summer 2024 signing Wilson Odobert are quite there yet. Even if Spurs say they have the striker, right winger, and No. 10 positions settled with Kolo Muani, Kudus, and Simons, respectively, they do need immediate left wing help.

Antoine Semenyo has thus been picked out as the No. 1 top transfer target for Tottenham to sign in the January transfer window, as his 65 million pound release clause will be active. Every single top team in England wants to get their hands on Semenyo, who has only been bested by Erling Haaland in terms of individual performance in the current campaign. So, naturally, there are Spurs fans who think the club have already lost the battle before January has even opened up.

Tottenham could pay up for Antoine Semenyo

According to a report from David Ornstein of The Athletic in an appearance on Sky Sports's Back Pages podcast, Tottenham Hotspur will make the money available for the right profile and signing this January transfer window, and he specifically names Antoine Semenyo and Manchester City star Savinho, who could become even more available if Spurs lose out on Semenyo to Man City, as the two star forwards Spurs could sign this coming year.

Ornstein said, "Spurs will have the opportunity to improve the squad in the January transfer window. There will be money available if the right profile comes to them, and if it will improve the team in their eyes. They like Antoine Semenyo, for example, if it’s not going to be him, maybe some other players in that wide attacking position, which is something they looked at last summer with Savinho from Manchester City. It didn’t come to fruition. Maybe it will in January, and they’ll hope that Thomas Frank can bring the results over time.”

So the Savinho transfer links are very much alive for Tottenham. They went hard after him at the end of the transfer window, but not hard enough to pay up the requisite money to convince City to sell. Since Savinho has struggled a bit, maybe Man City will be more open to selling. They really only didn't in the summer because Rodrygo Goes did not move.

There is no question that Tottenham Hotspur will be one of the most active teams in the Premier League this coming January transfer window when it comes to seeking further attacking upgrades. Spurs were already lacking a lot in the goals department for years after watching club legend Harry Kane join Bayern Munich, and now that Son Heung-min has also left the N17, Spurs are missing even more goals from the left wing position.

Currently, there is not a single proven goal scorer in the Tottenham first team, and the left wing position is entirely vacant with young, raw players Mathys Tel and Wilson Odobert being the only possible options at all.

But now, Spurs are looking to make a big move beyond just the goal scorers. The transfer may not happen in the winter, but Tottenham are having serious doubts about Guglielmo Vicario after his latest disasterclass. The Italian international gifted Nottingham Forest two goals in an inexcusable 3-0 defeat, and this is just the latest of a handful of games in which Vicario has screwed over Spurs by directly dropping points in the table with his errors.

Just stick with James Trafford or anyone else

Young Manchester City goalkeeper James Trafford is the clear dream option Spurs supporters have in mind as the Vicario replacement, but he and other top options like Andriy Lunin and Mike Maignan may not be available or realistic for Spurs. Worse yet, though, the second name concetely linked to Spurs at goalkeeper after Trafford is one no true Tottenham fan would ever want.

According to a report from journalist Gabriel Sans of Mundo Deportivo, Tottenham Hotspur are among a number of clubs watching Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen ahead of a possible transfer. Per Sans, two other Premier League powerhouses in Newcastle and Manchester United are also interested, as is, surprisingly, Bayern Munich, who already have the uber talented Jonas Urbig as the under study to long time Ter Stegen nemesis Manuel Neuer. Monaco and Besiktas are more reasonable clubs linked to Ter Stegen, given their affinities for signing finisher players.

And Ter Stegen is beyond finished. Accused of being the mole by Barcelona fans, Ter Stegen has caused more problems than solutions over the years, and outside of one purple patch season in 2022/23, he has been a comfortably below average goalkeeper. He was so bad that Barca fans already value Wojciech Szczesny over him, and his lack of leadership skills have made him a despised figure by many Culers who no longer see him as a club icon. After signing Joan Garcia, Ter Stegen is nothing but a fading memory for Barcelona.

So it would be quite insane for Tottenham to spend any money on Ter Stegen's wages. He is not a better option than Vicario now and certainly not in the future. The links to Tottenham may just be Mundo Deportivo or an agent trying to fill papers or strum up falsified interest in a player who should have nobody interested beyond Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

Tottenham Hotspur fans are busy worrying about whether or not they have a real coaching problem, as new manager Thomas Frank has not exactly gotten off to a swimming start as the Ange Postecoglou replacement. He most recently embarrassed himself in totality against Sean Dyche, who had taken over at Nottingham Forest from former Spurs rejects Big Ange and Nuno Espirito Santo. Forest completely tore Spurs to shreds 3-0.

Not everything can be put entirely on Frank, of course. The Tottenham attack certainly improved this past summer transfer window with the signings of Xavi Simons, Mohammed Kudus, and even loan acquisition Randal Kolo Muani, but the left wing position remains a major hole for Spurs.

Although there are some fans who are bizarrely against his signing, the majority of fans and the transfer rumor mill are clearly pointing towards Bournemouth breakout star Antoine Semenyo, whom Spurs were initially interested in last summer window, as the biggest fish possible to upgrade the left wing position vacated by club legend Son Heung-min (now at LAFC).

Tottenham are among three pushing hard

According to new information from top transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, Tottenham Hotspur have been "very interested" in signing Semenyo and are actually being "very aggressive" in their approach to signing him. They recently made calls for the Bournemouth star, as did their newest transfer rivals in the race Manchester City and Manchester United, with Fab backing up other reporting from around England that defending Premier League champions Liverpool have cooled their interest in him.

Based on what Fabrizio Romano is reporting, Tottenham are fully on board with signing Antoine Semenyo and are 100 percent all in, making a big push and spending their time and resources on the player with a 65 million pound release clause that will be active this January transfer window. However, Romano states that as much as Tottenham are trying to sign him, there is an understanding that it all comes down to what Semenyo wants as the big clubs in the Premier League all make overtures for him.

So Spurs fans can not run the risk of falling in love with Semenyo, and when it comes to competing with the elite of the elite in European football like Manchester City or PSG, Spurs have consistently fallen short in the transfer battles. But with wins over Barcelona for Lucas Bergvall and Chelsea for Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons in 2024 and 2025, there is no need to write the Semenyo chase as 100 percent over either.

Tottenham Hotspur supporters already had very little patience to begin with, as nobody has forgotten the debacle rivalry losses to Arsenal and Chelsea that seemed to prove both Thomas Frank's cowardice as manager and the club's overall standing as being significantly inferior to both of their Big Six London rivals.

But things are really back to a crisis level again after a 3-0 loss to Sean Dyche and Nottingham Forest, with so many of Tottenham's players struggling to produce even a modicum of respectability against one of the Premier League's worst teams. Spurs fans want to see some heads rolling.

The first player to draw the ire of Spurs fans is Richarlison, whose goal scoring record is only held up as a positive by the most ignorant of box score mongering supporters. Richarlison has scored the goals set up beautifully for him by far better teammates like Mathys Tel and Randal Kolo Muani, while the Brazilian international hogs the most starts - and also hogs the ball. He has been lethargic and useless all around, legitimately one of the worst strikers in the entire Premier League in 2025/26.

Rodrigo Bentancur is on the list

Behind him, center midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur is also deep in the dog house of the fan base, and most Tottenham supporters would like to see both Benta and Richy swiftly sold. Every time Bentancur starts, it is a disaster, and his cowardice, even hiding so he does not receive the ball, is both jarring and the epitome of everything wrong with Spurs. Him starting over either Archie Gray or Lucas Bergvall is straight up managerial malpractice on the part of Thomas Frank.

Finally, goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario is fully on the hit list for Spurs supporters after two more awful gaffes in the 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest. He drops the ball, flails at crosses, passes teammates into trouble, and gifts possession to the opposition all the while waving his arms and yelling at younger teammates who have no reason to answer for his own inexcusable errors.

Vicario has some positives and is not the worst player on the team, but Tottenham fans are sick of the selfishness combined with the costly errors. Many of them would like to see young Antonin Kinsky get starts, because even though he has real growing pains, Spurs fans feel that he has more long term upside and can not possiblly make this many costly errors in the short term anyway.

Tottenham Hotspur fans are beginning to be fed up with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario and his litany of errors. He is one of the best pure shot stoppers in the Premier League, but the Italian goalkeeper has honestly cost Spurs more points in the league this season than he has saved. And after making two more comedic errors in an embarrassing blowout loss to bottom feeders Nottingham Forest - while throwing his teammates under the bus again - both Spurs and the fan base are thinking about moving on from Vicario.

The biggest dream replacement for Vicario in the 2026 summer and winter tranfer windows would be James Trafford. Newly minted at Manchester City after an amazing time at Burnley, Trafford is the next big thing in goal in English football, but he is buried behind Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Manchester City are not going to want to sell him unless they absolutely have to, but if he keeps sitting on the bench for the coming months, he could force City's hand into a summer 2026 transfer and become the ideal Vicario replacement.

Gregor Kobel and Mike Maignan are world class

Mike Maignan has been linked to various big clubs on an expiring contract. For a small fee, Tottenham could pry him away six months before free agency opens, doing a similar move to what Bayern Munich did a couple of years ago when they plucked Yann Sommer in the winter from Borussia Monchengladbach. Maignan is a similar quality keeper and has made a career out of winning league titles with times that would not have won without him.

Gregor Kobel has not won any league titles at Borussia Dortmund, but the Swiss goalkeeper is still young and has his reputation intact despite playing on a horrid team both in terms of coaching and personnel.

He never lets his head drop and, unlike Vicario, is a real leader while minimizing mistakes and being an even better shot stopper. If there is a snowball's chance in heck that Kobel wants out of Dortmund and will take Spurs over another elite club, then forget all about Trafford and go for him instead.

The last two possible Vicario goalkeeping replacements for Tottenham Hotspur in 2026 are Andiy Lunin and Diogo Costa. Lunin is ready to start for almost any team in Europe and has a Champions League winning track record; it's just that he is stuck behind literally the best keeper in the world in Thibaut Courtois. He might even be the best player on this list.

Meanwhile, Costa is a penalty saving specialist at FC Porto and an accomplished international player at Portugal with a whole lot of future upside. He is worth placing on the Tottenham transfer wish list.

Tottenham Hotspur signed two of the world's best up and coming young stars in Xavi Simons and Mohammed Kudus. So far, Kudus has been a revelation and one of the best wingers in the Premier League, and while Simons has taken time to get things going and earn the trust of Thomas Frank, he, too, has proven that Spurs are a lot better with him than without him.

But Tottenham still need more attacking help. Richarlison is eating away ineffective minutes at striker, while the left wing position remains a prime area of need for Tottenham to address in the January transfer window. Antoine Semenyo is the clear No. 1 transfer target for Spurs this coming winter, but Spurs also need to broaden their horizons with so many top clubs in England also going hard after the Ghanaian winger - clubs like Manchester City and Liverpool.

According to a new report from BILD in Germany, FC Koln breakout forward Said El Mala, who is one of the players near the top of the fabled Bayern Munich tranfer wish list, is now being hotly pursued by both Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United. Per BILD, El Mala could be purchased for between 30 and 40 million euros in 2026.

Tottenham will have to compete with Bayern Munich

El Mala has been playing as a striker or a goal scoring left winger and has impressed mightily for Koln, even though he has been eased along with six starts compared to eight appearances off the bench. But even splitting half his appearances between the starting XI and bench, El Mala is still doing a whole lot from an end product perspective with six goals and two assists.

Everyone who watches the Bundesliga is raving about El Mala and his long term upside. Much like Mathys Tel explodes past defenders and has that mentality to go for the shot instead of mucking around uselessly with the ball, El Mala has that explosiveness and killer mentality, except the 19 year old German youth international already has the quality in front of goal to deliver with as many goals as starts (six).

It is highly unlikely Tottenham are able to beat Bayern out to El Mala with Die Roten so intent on grabbing the latest breakout future superstar in the attack in Germany. But you never know until you try, and Tottenham have both the opportunity and clout to make a swoop for El Mala, who is honestly priced pretty reasonably.

Tottenham Hotspur have been wanting to sign young players from Manchester City since the summer transfer window. After barely putting up a fight for Rayan Cherki and watching the gem of a French playmaker join Pep Guardiola's side, Tottenham began to show considerable interest in young Manchester City winger Savinho in the final weeks of the transfer window.

Despite Savinho's bit role at Man City, the Citizens were reluctant to sell the Brazilian talent to a Premier League top four rival, especially with Rodrygo Goes not being able to move to the Etihad from Real Madrid. So Savinho stayed put in the summer window.

Savinho's poor performances in 2025/26 have drawn the ire of Man City fans, and the former Girona star could be made available for a Tottenham transfer in 2026. But even as Spurs remain interested in another winger, their main priority is a better target they will be fighting hard with Man City to sign in Bournemouth breakout superstar Antoine Semenyo.

The dream upgrade for Tottenham

Meanwhile, Tottenham now have a new transfer need on their radar in the goalkeeper position, as Guglielmo Vicario's comedic errors on the ball, poor distribution, and mishandling have shrouded his positives, while both the fans and the club itself are fed up with his poor leadership and his constant habit of throwing young players under the bus for his own mistakes.

Young Manchester City goalkeeper James Trafford is THE player at his position to watch in Europe this winter transfer window. He just joined the Citizens in the summer from Burnley after an insane season in the Championship, but his dream transfer quickly turned into a nightmare as he has been buried on the bench behind one of the world's best keepers in Champions League hero Gianluigi Donnarumma of PSG fame.

But despite the rampant transfer rumors of James Trafford wanting away in order to start every week, Manchester City do not sound one bit interested in selling. Via top transfer insider Fabrizio Romano, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola told reporters at a recent press conference that Trafford is going nowhere in January, “James Trafford stays in January. He’s staying with us this season, absolutely”.

Tottenham fans can, for now, kiss their dream Vicario upgrade in the winter goodbye. Players like Mike Maignan and Andriy Lunin could be other dream upgrades to watch, but Trafford is the sort of tailor made replacement ready for stardom in the Premier League. They will continue to hope Man City change their minds and sell him.

Tottenham Hotspur have two of the best young players in the Premier League out on loan this season. Center back Luka Vuskovic has been a sensation and somehow even better than Spurs supporters were advertising him to the world this past summer, as he is a legitimate Bundesliga Team of the Season level player for Hamburg and a big reason why the Bundesliga dinosaurs are optimistic they can cobble together a survival season in 2025/26.

Meanwhile, the big attacking gem, winger Mikey Moore, is scoring some wonderful goals and dazzling on a near weekly basis for Rangers. His start to the season was definitely a rough one, but with a better manager and upgraded performances from the players around him, the England youth international has the confidence to let his quality shine through.

Moore and Vuksovic are almost written in permanent marker as future Tottenham superstars, but there is one more young forward who is turning heads. Winger Yang Min-Hyeok has been quietly showing his stuff for Portsmouth in the Championship with three goal contributions despite only starting about 75 percent of his matches for the former Premier League side.

Could Tottenham recall the loan?

According to a new report from Football Asian's Han June, there is now a high likelihood that Tottenham Hotspur look to change Min-Hyeok's loan from Portsmouth to another club when the January transfer window kicks off.

There are multiple options on the table that Spurs are mulling over right now. The first is sending Min-Hyeok from Portsmouth to a bigger club in the Championship that is more attacking so that he can get more reps and more chances to score and assist, which makes a ton of sense. Min-Hyeok is playing so well, too, that scouts around Europe are taking notice, leading clubs in the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 to show interest in acquiring Min-Hyeok this January as well. Finally, June reports that there is also the possibility Spurs recall his loan to the first team.

Although Tottenham Hotspur fans like to poke fun at Arsenal for still not winning major silverware despite the hype around Mikel Arteta, all banter aside, it is remarkable how far the Gunners have lapped Spurs in terms of competitiveness over the last five years when, in the Mauricio Pochettino era, Tottenham were the ones competing for Premier League and even Champions League titles.

Now, Arsenal are the ones regularly in Premier League title contention and into the Champions League semifinals, beating up on such dignitaries of the competition as Real Madrid, whereas Spurs are a team playing closer to the level of a club in the bottom half of the Premier League table.

And the appointment of Thomas Frank has not, as many had expected and were sold directly by the club, raised the competitive level of Spurs. If anything, after watching Spurs get dominated 4-1 by Arteta and Arsenal couple of weeks ago, it honestly feels like Spurs are sinking further back.

Tottenham have to be real about Mikel Arteta

But the refrain being fed again by the club to the fans is that Tottenham need to give Frank more time. They are drawing parallels to the time Arsenal have given Arteta as their manager and how he has taken them from the doldrums of irrelevancy to the cusp of winning it all, and now, in 2025/26, they have been the best team in the Premier League thus far.

As much as Tottenham fans, again, like to make fun of Arteta and Arsenal, even the biggest homers in the fan base have to admit the clear truth that Frank is no Arteta. Maybe he can form a cogent tactical plan and identity, and there have been positive signs in his tenure despite some of the horrid lows, including that North London Derby loss. He did, after all, destroy Manchester City and go toe to toe with defending Champions League winners PSG in his very first game.

The thing is, Frank is not Arteta. He does not have any semblance of a tactical plan or clear vision, and Arteta did have a clear vision and a level of discipline and class he brought to Arsenal from a get go. We have not seen that, we have not seen real progress, and we have not seen any sort of impetus for a buy in from the fans that has been created by Frank. Tottenham fans have to fear that Spurs are giving Frank time for the sake of giving him time because they are afraid of blowing through another manager, conflating this with the prudence Arsenal showed to a better manager in Arteta.