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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.

The 2025/26 Premier League season has been filled with garish results for Tottenham Hotspur, and after yet another embarrassing result with a 3-0 blowout loss to Nottingham Forest, there are serious concerns about both Thomas Frank as a manager and the overall quality of the squad.

There are a number of players who Frank likes above the others, mostly veterans, but whom fans are becoming increasingly skeptical of. And although goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario has some of the best pure shot stopping statistics in the Premier League and is not one of the worst players on the team, but his errors are proving costly.

After watching Vicario make two more costly errors in another awful loss this past weekend, many Tottenham fans are fully in the camp of wanting a new goalkeeper, because there is a realization that all the top teams in the Premier League have goalkeepers who do not make basic handling, positional, and distribution errors that cost their teams double digit points in the table.

Tottenham are ready to move on

According to new information from journalist Paul O Keefe, via The Spurs Watch, Tottenham Hotspur are now starting to have the same opinion of their goalkeepers as many of the fans do. Per O Keefe, Tottenham are now looking at possible Guglielmo Vicario replacements in goal for the upcoming transfer windows. While the move for a goalkeeper likely will not be in January, O Keefe admits that while Spurs would have never considered moving on from the ex Empoli man in between the sticks, that has changed. And now if they have the chance to upgrade from Vicario, Spurs will take it.

The player Tottenham fans have their eyes on as a dream upgrade on Vicario in 2026 is James Trafford. He was putting up crazy numbers at Burnley and is a goalkeeping phenom, but Manchster City kind of screwed him over by signing Gianluigi Donnarumma shortly after they signed him this past summer, thus rendering Trafford obsolete.

While Trafford could eventually fight himself into starts over the Champions League hero at PSG because of Donnarumma's distribution issues, it is more likely that Trafford calls it quits and tries to join another top club like Tottenham where he would be an immediate starter. Vicario isn't a bad goalkepeer, but Trafford is younger, even better at shot stopping, and already much less prone to mistakes. There is also the matter that Vicario has a small club mentality and likes to throw teammates under the bus instead of fixing his own mental gaffes.

Tottenham Hotspur are preparing for another active transfer window ahead. Their start to the 2025/26 season has been anything but idyllic, and as questions abound about Thomas Frank's competency as this club's manager going forward, Spurs instead seem prepared to double down on the embattled Danish coach.

What Spurs fans want to see is progress, and regardless of who manages the team in 2026 or 2027 for that matter, there are still upgrades to be made to the first team squad. And although most of those wishes from the fans focus on new attacking talents to upgrade the left wing and striker positions, there are a litany of other needs for Tottenham to address.

Chiefly among those is a deep lying playmaker. Tottenham are slowly but surely unearthing a long term gem in summer 2024 signing Archie Gray, who is finally earning starts from Frank. But as Spurs fans dream of a double pivot of Adam Wharton and Gray in 2026, Johan Lange and the Tottenham decision makers are currently looking at the bargain bin at prospects.

Tottenham are looking at a teenage midfielder

That well has yielded great results before, though, and Tottenham appear to be hoping to repeat the wonderful Lucas Bergvall trick in the middle of the park. According to a reply from top Tottenham transfer insider Paul O Keefe, 17 year old Belgian league midfielder Nathan De Cat is one player Lange likes, and while it is unclear how interested Tottenham Hotspur are at this early stage, O Keefe believes he is one to watch for the future.

De Cat is a total unknown at this point. He is a teenager who starts regularly for a good club in Anderlecht, which has a great historical track record for producing top Belgian talents. And as a country, Belgium have done a great job of producing young players, though it is very rare for someone to make a successful jump straight from the Jupiler Pro League to the Premier League off the cuff.

Bergvall made the leap from Sweden, of course, but he was a rare case and a special talent. Now, De Cat has been very, very good for Anderlecht at such a young age in a position where most teenagers wouldn't even get a lick. But when you compare him to, say, what Gray was doing for Leeds United, it's hard to see De Cat is doing anything that should make Tottenham leap up to sign him just yet.

For months, since Tottenham Hotspur parted ways with former CEO Daniel Levy, the club has been selling to the fans major investments, including an immediate splash in the January transfer window. Tottenham fans are now expecting a 100 million pound cash windfall and the signing of one more marquee attacker to join Xavi Simons and Mohammed Kudus, who are already paying dividends for the Spurs side.

Tottenham, though, have been dreadful for the majority of the 2025/26 campaign under Thomas Frank. There are more problems than just one position, but the gaping hole vacated by Son Heung-min on the left wing remains palpable and an issue that Tottenham fans are bringing up over and over again.

This January transfer window, Tottenham and the other interested Big Six clubs have the unique opportunity to sign Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo, as he has a 65 million pound release clause available, making him a tad bit cheaper than what Spurs were quoted to sign him this past summer transfer window.

Antoine Semenyo is a breakout superstar

Semenyo was a great breakout right winger for Bournemouth last season, but he has been even more effective for the exciting underdog Cherries attack in 2025/26 now that he has pivoted to the left wing. Only Erling Haaland has been a better attacker in the Premier League this season.

According to the latest report from Sky Sports News editor Lyall Thomas, Tottenham Hotspur, unfortunately, remain behind the eight ball for the Premier League star who is entering his prime. Manchester City and Manchester United are pushing very hard for Antoine Semenyo right now, and Sky Sports say that Man City are now seen as the favorites to snag the Ghanaian superstar.

Tottenham are very much in the mix for Semenyo and mentioned as among the leading candidates by Sky Sports, with Man City and Man United now apparently bigger threats to sign Semenyo than Arsenal and Liverpool, who were previously viewed as possible favorites.

Now, Man City are launching ahead. If they were to sign Semenyo, that would be a potentially title changing maneuver in the Premier League with additional ramifications for Tottenham. Although Spurs would hate to, like with Rayan Cherki, lose out on another great young forward to the Citizens, Semenyo could help take another title away from Arsenal's grasps. And it could make summer transfer target Savinho available to Spurs, though the Brazilian's poor Premier League performances this season have made him a much less appealing left wing candidate for Spurs anyway.

Thomas Frank was a highly rated coach when he was at Brentford. He achieved promotion from the Championship with the Bees and established them in the Premier League. Tottenham Hotspur chose him as Ange Postecoglou's replacement, but it has not worked out so far.

Last season, Postecoglou led Spurs to winning the Europa League, but they finished 17th in the Premier League. It felt like a new era for Tottenham as they ended their trophy drought, and Daniel Levy soon departed the club. However, Frank has not been able to make the impact that he would have wanted to so far.

Tottenham are currently 11th in the Premier League, and they have won just one of their last seven games in the division. The recent 3-0 thrashing by Nottingham Forest has heaped pressure on Frank. Contenders to replace the Dane are already being talked about.

Xavi Hernandez

Xavi Hernandez would be a big-name appointment, which would certainly make a huge statement. He is a soccer legend from his playing days with Barcelona and the Spanish national team. The midfielder won the Champions League four times and La Liga eight times with Barca. With Spain, he won the World Cup and the European Championships twice.

He ended his playing career with Al-Sadd and went on to start his managerial career with the Qatari side. Xavi won the Qatar Stars League with Al-Sadd before taking over at Barcelona. At his former club, Xavi won La Liga and the Supercopa de España. However, he was replaced by Hansi Flick after a tumultuous season.

It would be a gamble for Tottenham to take a chance on Xavi. He has won the Spanish league as manager of Barca, but his final season with the club was a disaster. After losing 5-3 to Villarreal mid-way through the campaign, Xavi said that he would leave the club at the end of the season. He reversed his decision, but Flick ended up replacing him anyway.

Xavi also has no experience of English soccer. He has played and managed against Premier League opposition in the Champions League. However, it is a different kettle of fish competing in England. His mentor, Pep Guardiola, even had to adapt his playing style when taking over at Manchester City. It would be very difficult for Xavi to implement his style of play at Tottenham mid-way through the season.

Oliver Glasner

Oliver Glasner has worked wonders at Crystal Palace, winning them the FA Cup and the Community Shield. He currently has the Eagles fifth in the Premier League, but all is not well at Selhurst Park. They sold Eberechi Eze to Arsenal last summer, and were close to losing Marc Guehi to Liverpool.

There were rumors that Glasner would quit Palace if Guehi was sold. The defender is in the final year of his contract and will no doubt leave at the end of the campaign. Glasner will be getting frustrated at Palace continuing to lose their best players, which could make him an option for Tottenham.

Glasner hit the ground running when replacing Roy Hodgson last year. He has now finally won the club silverware and got them competing in Europe. Spurs would be hoping that he could have a similar impact at their club. The Austrian is also a proven winner as he claimed the Europa League title with Eintracht Frankfurt.

Marco Silva

There have been recent reports that Marco Silva is seriously considering his position at Fulham. He believes he has not been backed by the club in the transfer market, which is why he cannot take the club to the next level.

Last summer, Fulham did buy Kevin from Shakhtar Donetsk for £34.6 million. They also signed Samuel Chukwueze and Jonah Kusi-Asare on loan deals from AC Milan and Bayern Munich, respectively. Benjamin Lecomte also joined the club from Montpellier.

Fulham are currently 14th in the Premier League, and only two points behind Tottenham. Silva's side also defeated Spurs 2-1 recently at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Silva knows English soccer very well, having also managed Hull City, Watford, and Everton. He is ambitious, having turned down offers from two Saudi Pro League sides. Both Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal were rejected, whilst Silva has been at Fulham.

His Premier League experience makes him a strong candidate, but he may be seen as too much of a like-for-like switch at Tottenham. He and Frank have both done very well at getting Fulham and Brentford promoted to the Premier League. They also established their clubs in the division, but did not win any major silverware.

Spurs will be craving to add more silverware to their cabinet to build on their Europa League triumph. More trophies are not guaranteed by appointing Silva. Possibly at a bigger club than Fulham, Silva could lead a team to more success.

Even considering Xabi Alonso over at the cauldron that is Real Madrid, there may not be a single manager in European football under more pressure right now than what Thomas Frank is facing from his own fan base at Tottenham Hotspur. The club itself may have no current thoughts about moving on from Frank, but Spurs supporters are quickly growing fed up with watching the same set of results and the same awful product making blood pour out of every orifice of their bodies.

Frank football has been an unbearable watch, and whereas he can kick the teeth out of such dignitaries as Slavia Praha and former employers Brentford, he could not even a muster a semi decent performance this past weekend against Nottingham Forest, with Sean Dyche teaching the Spurs coach a humiliating lesson in a 3-0 loss for the Lilywhites. And that was not even their most embarrassing performance of the season, as Spurs are mere weeks away from a historically putrid - and cowardly - 4-1 loss to all time rivals Arsenal FC.

Despite all of this, Tottenham Hotspur are going to back Thomas Frank to the fullest. According to a new report from talkSPORT's Ciaran Wiseman, Tottenham are going to stick with the former Brentford man for the foreseeable future. Not only that, but Spurs have promised to Frank that they are going to back him in the coming January transfer window, too.

Thomas Frank has earned no faith from fans, though

Ange Postecoglou has to be throwing a fit somewhere, and while Big Ange's incompetence should not be shrouded over by Frank performing just as ineptly in the manager's chair, it must be said that Postecoglou did not receive a fraction of the backing that Frank has. Frank got Joao Palhinha, Randal Kolo Muani, Xavi Simons, and Mohammed Kudus in his first summer transfer window, after all.

And based on this apprent promise from Tottenham management, Frank could yet get a real gem in the winter window, too, as Antoine Semenyo is easily available for a left wing coup on a 65 million pound release clause. And then the likes of Iliman Ndiaye and even old summer transfer flame Morgan Gibbs-White could yet be topics of transfer discussion when January opens.

Look, Tottenham have to back whoever the manager is on the transfer window. It is not wrong and it is entirely obvious for Spurs to do so. However, at the same time, Spurs are playing a dangerous game if they make any signings specifically tailored to Frank and give him more talents to waste and to hold onto, given how badly he has struggled through four months.

Thomas Frank is many people's favorite to be the next Premier League manager sacked. In that scenario, there's now an obvious replacement in Oliver Glasner.

When Thomas Frank was appointed as the new head coach of Tottenham, there was a sense of excitement in the air. Frank had done a marvellous job at Tottenham, and his step up to a bigger Premier League team was a long time coming.

However, a few months into his spell at Hotspur Way, it's fair to say it hasn't gone to plan. After several bizarre lineup selections and randomly throwing players under the bus unnecessarily, Tottenham fans haven't been this disgruntled since, well, last season.

So, naturally, what better way to go about it than sack Thomas Frank, right? What's so good about keeping a manager and giving them the time to overcome adversity? That's so 2010.

Tottenham's best Thomas Frank replacement is hiding in plain sight

In the likelihood that Tottenham decides to part ways with Thomas Frank, an obvious replacement has just opened up in the shape of Oliver Glasner.

According to a report from Bruno Alemany, Oliver Glasner will not renew his Crystal Palace contract when it runs out this summer. It is believed that, due to their knowledge of this, Palace is already looking at his replacement.

Obviously, this news pertains to Tottenham fans. The section of fans that wants Thomas Frank gone might look at Glasner, and for obvious reasons, declare him fit enough to coach Tottenham. Heck, he sure has the credentials.

Oliver Glasner has already won the FA Cup and the Community Shield with the London team. If that wasn't impressive enough, Glasner also won the Europa League with Frankfurt before joining Crystal Palace.

If there's one word that you could use to summarize Glasner's career to date, it would be overachievement. That's a compliment of the highest order, by the way.

Glasner plays the beautiful football that Thomas Frank was hired to play. However, he one-ups Frank with his impressive record of winning trophies.

Now, the confusing part. The small print that we have to enlarge. Oliver Glasner is under contract until the 2026 summer, and as far as Crystal Palace is concerned, they have no reason to end that relationship early. If anything, they would want to prolong it for as long as possible.

So, do Tottenham ride out the poor form under Thomas Frank, knowing they can get Oliver Glasner in the summer, or do they jump ship now? We know better than to predict anything Tottenham decides to do...