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Tottenham Hotspur fans are hoping that their beloved club are one of the biggest buyers in the January transfer market, because they are in need of another talented injection to an attack that would be in even mor dire straits without the recent summer acquistions of Xavi Simons, Mohammed Kudus, and Randal Kolo Muani.

When frustrating new Spurs manager Thomas Frank is actually starting the trio in their preferred roles, they are showing that they are the present and future of this club. But outside of those three, the Spurs front line is really lacking. Wilson Odobert and, especially, Mathys Tel have serious promise, but they are nowhere near ready to be the solutions on the left wing.

That is the main position Spurs fans are hoping to see addressed this winter with Premier League breakout stars Antoine Semenyo and Iliman Ndiaye potentially available for Tottenham to make a serious splash signing.

Yves Bissouma has to go

But Spurs could also make some headway on selling off players they do not need to clear out roster space for superior footballers. Yves Bissouma is the most obvious candidate to leave, and if he did not suffer yet another injury, he most likely would have been sent packing officially from the Tottenham midfield this past summer to a Turkish Super Lig club.

According to a new report from Tom Allnutt of The Sunday Times, Tottenham Hotspur are indeed keen on selling off Bissouma in the January transfer window next month, but Spurs are reportedly also considering selling off other fringe players in the squad.

There are several players besides Yves Bissouma on the Tottenham roster with no path to playing time who are simply soaking up space and wages. Defenders like Ben Davies and Radu Dragusin are non factors, and while Dragusin is young enough and not yet ready for Frank due to injury, Davies is someone Spurs fans are baffled as to why he was re-signed.

And if it were up to Tottenham fans, other candidates this past summer to have been sold alongside Bissouma would be sent packing, too. Those players would be veterans Richarlison and Rodrigo Bentancur, though, both unfortunately and bafflingly, they play such key roles under Thomas Frank that they are unlikely to be sold.

So then younger players like Brennan Johnson on the squad's periphery could be sold this winter instead. Tottenham have to make a priority to get rid of Bissouma, but if the funds for sales for players like Johnson or even loaned winger Manor Solomon can help facilitate a move for a Semenyo or Ndiaye, Spurs fans will take that to the bank as well.

There are a number of individuals at Tottenham Hotspur coming under increasing scrutiny and fire after another unacceptable performance this past weekend, as Spurs replayed their worst of the 4-1 North London Derby lost by getting their doors blown off by Nottingham Forest 3-0 on Sunday, with Sean Dyche looking like a Jose Mourinho clone in comparison to an ill prepared Thomas Frank.

The Spurs manager has more doubters than supporters at this stage, and that number only seemingly doubled with his latest disasterclass against Forest. But just as many Spurs fans are beginning to turn on goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who was viewed as a star and a top Premier League goalkeeper just a year ago.

But slowly but surely, Spurs fans are beginning to turn the narrative on the Italian goalkeeper with each gaffe between the sticks. Although Vicario's mistakes as a shot stopper are concerning, the former Empoli man is still one of the top keepers in the Premier League statistically in terms of his literal goal saving ability.

Guglielmo Vicario loses Tottenham points

The problem is that the stats do not capture all the points in the table that Vicario is hemorrhaging while he points fingers at his teammates and yells at the them as a fake leader. Vicario is the one making inexcusable errors, such as two against Nottingham Forest, that are literally costing Spurs points in the table, all the while he is throwing young players like Lucas Bergvall and Archie Gray under the bus instead of taking a modicum of accountability.

And Spurs fans are understandably sick of it. Whereas the other goalkeepers at the top Premier League clubs like Gianluigi Donnarumma, Alisson Becker, and David Raya rarely make mistakes and are the epitome of class as true professionals who take accountability, Vicario plays the game like a petulant child who whines and complains while showing no focus or discipline.

Goalkeepers, especially at the elite level, are measured by their maturity and their mistakes. They are measured by consistency and their ability to avoid throwing games away. By that measure, Vicario is a complete failure and deserves to be playing at a club like Empoli where he can dive and make flashy plays for the camera, where he is heralded as a hero for a few highlight reel plays and can be absolved of his comedic errors and poor decision making on the ball because the margins are not so fine.

Vicario is not a top goalkeeper and does not have the character, mentality, or all around ability to play for a club like Tottenham. Unless, you know, the new goal for Spurs is to be Brentford 2.0 and Vicario their Mark Flekken 2.0.

Tottenham Hotspur fans remain skeptical that Thomas Frank is the right manager to lead the club to its future direction, and although Spurs are coming off another humiliating defeat by 3-0 to Nottingham Forest, the club does not seem to be entertaining any thoughts of moving on from the Danish coach - at least, not any time soon.

Looking ahead, Tottenham are preparing for the January transfer window, and there is a strong expectation from Spurs supporters that the club will be among the most active teams in the Premir League. With breakout wingers like Antoine Semenyo and Iliman Ndiaye potentially available whlie rumors swirl around young Manchester City goalkeeper James Trafford, there are plenty of incredible options available if Spurs take the initiative.

According to a new report from Tom Allnutt of The Sunday Times, Thomas Frank has made it clear to Tottenham Hotspur that he wants to the club to sign players this winter who are experienced and will immediately help his best starting lineup for the second half of the 2025/26 Premier League campaign. Per the report, more experienced does not necessarily mean older players, but rather players who have a track record and can move the needle for the club.

Ange Postecoglou got nothing

If this transfer news update sounds eerily familiar to any Tottenham supporters reading this, then that is because it 100 percent is. This is the exact same transfer request Frank's predecessor Ange Postecoglou had of the club, and yet he received absolutely nothing from Spurs and was instead fired months later.

Although Postecoglou was a poor manager who sent Spurs into a historically poor 17th placed finish and failed even more miserably for the same Sean Dyche led Nottingham Forest that torched Spurs this past Sunday, it is nonetheless notable and a bit of a slap in the face that Spurs are at the exact same point a year later in January with Frank.

And the thing is, Frank did get the players Postecoglou did not. Frank got to benefit from the signings of Joao Palhinha, Mohammed Kudus, Xavi Simons, and even Randal Kolo Muani as four players with strong track records - and all but Kudus were already playing for perennial Champions League sides.

Frank is not wrong for wanting the players he wants to upgrade the Spurs squad this winter, and it would be foolish for Tottenham not to oblige. But Postecoglou has to sit there laughing in a form of sick contempt at Frank requesting exactly what he did - and what he did not get.

There is no question that Tottenham Hotspur have one of the finest center back partnerships in world football. Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven are two of the best all around athletes and attacking helpers in central defense while being tackling mavens and elite readers of the game who can hang with any striker in the world one on one and are rarely beaten for pace, strength, or any other athletic endeavor.

Of the two world class Tottenham center backs, Romero tends to get the most praise as a former World Cup and Copa America winner. But ask any Tottenham fan, and they will tell you that Van de Ven is just about as good defensively when factoring in his speed, consistency, and reading of the game.

Quietly, Van de Ven is boosting his stock further in the 2025/26 season for Tottenham, helping keep Spur afloat despite serious question marks about manager Thomas Frank and other aspects of this team.

Tottenham are humiliating themselves

And as Spurs continue to drop points and embarrass themselves in front of a national audience, including this past weekend with a 3-0 defeat to Sean Dyche's bottom feeding Nottingham Forest, fans are getting increasingly worried that Van de Ven will dream more and more of an exit to a truly elite club like Real Madrid. Because any club in the world would dream of a versatile, athletic, and technically skilled 24 year old center backs.

The popular The Overlap podcast just announced an exclusive interview with the Dutch sensation, and the first thing every single Tottenham Hotspur said in response to this seemingly innocuous announcement of an interview was the fear of Micky van de Ven using some sort of major platform to tease a transfer away from Tottenham.

There have been loose transfer rumors bubbling up about Van de Ven to Madrid or another big club, and earlier this year, Spurs fans already had a bit of a scare when Cristian Romero was flirting with the idea of moving to a La Liga giant, specifically Atletico Madrid.

Now, there is currently no reason to believe that Van de Ven is going to leave Spurs, and the club is actually working on extending the former Wolfsburg man further. But with the results not going in Spurs way and more and more fans around the world recognizing Van de Vens world class - and only growing - defensive talent, it is only a matter of time before the transfer interest truly accelerates. And Spurs fans are beyond paranoid about Van de Ven dropping any slight hint about thinking of leaving N17.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank is coaching himself back into the dog house of Spurs supporters. After wins over two very easy opponents in Brentford and Slavia Praha to bounce back from a string of horrid performances that included losses to rivals Arsenal and Fulham, Spurs fell back down again with another atrocious loss, 3-0 to Nottingham Forest.

Spurs cannot even hold a candle to one of the worst teams in the Premier League, as this blowout loss to Forest was the latest new low in a season filled with them. And Frank is not doing himself any favors with his team selection.

There are so many talented players who are almost completely discarded by the uninventive Spurs manager, who seems to be playing favorites with some of the most inept veteran players in the squad. The likes of Richarlison, Rodrigo Bentancur, Guglielmo Vicario, and Pedro Porro are consistently among the team's worst performers and costing them points, yet they start every week without any competition.

Pape Matar Sarr is not being rewarded

Meanwhile, over the past month, young standout midfielder Pape Matar Sarr has started just one game. Sarr is buried on the bench, merely making cameo appearances for Frank. And what makes this all the more puzzling and frustrating for Spurs fans is that he was such a huge part of the team's success early in the season when Tottenham were actually winning games, as he looked like one of the best breakout center midfielders in all of European football.

Sarr was rewarded for his literal hard work on the pitch in winning possession and progressing the ball - while scoring important goals and assists for his country of Senegal - by being stuffed on the bench with now sparing starts and no sign of reprieve from his spell in Frank's dungeon.

And the thing is, Frank can't even use the excuse of having other talented young midfielders who merit minutes, because Spurs are currently starting the plodding veterans Rodrigo Bentancur and Joao Palhinha in many of these games.

Because that is the Thomas Frank way. The Sarr benchings are an obvious admission from Frank that he has no interest in playing dynamic, front foot football. Sarr being on the bench for the likes of Bentancur and not getting any chances is a sign that Frank is not interested in playing the young players, fostering long term growth. He is about playing a select few players, playing boring football, and trying to prioritize a nebulous structure and defensive solidity that literally does not exist. Frank is clueless, and the Sarr treatment is the latest indication of this reality.

Pedro Porro is supposed to be one of the best right backs in the Premier League, if not the world. He came to Tottenham Hotspur a few years ago from Sporting CP with a big reputation and the speculation that he would develop into the next big thing at the position, with clubs as mighty as Real Madrid and Manchester City scouting the Spanish international.

He ended up at Spurs and began his career at Tottenham promisingly, but as time has gone on and with Spurs struggling horribly lately in the 2025/26 season, the 26 year old is starting to become exposed as an overrated liability to many fans.

Porro, for example, screamed at Lucas Bergvall after a recent loss to Fulham in which he was one of the worst players on the pitch, wasting possession and spamming crosses aimlessly to the forwards. He was also poor defensively, giving up any sense of marking or positional discipline in a rather selfish desire to pick up tackles.

Pedro Porro is playing selfish

A player who has been performing more for his own stats than for the team, Porro was, once again, one of the worst players on the pitch in another embarrassing loss, as Spurs were annihilated 3-0 by a more disciplined and, gulp, exciting Sean Dyche coached Nottingham Forest this weekend.

As Tottenham mull over signing Porro to an extension, many Tottenham fans are starting to see a decision to extend him as akin to the already backfired decision to extend midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur earlier this season.

Porro can no longer hide behind the tag of being a young player at the age of 26. He is supposed to be entering his prime years and is supposed to be one of the veteran players of this Tottenham squad. Instead, he is as unreliable, inconsistent, self centered, and underperforming as anyone, especially in the important games.

An inaccurate passer, wasteful dribbler, woeful crosser, and below average defender, Porro has suddenly become one of the worst right backs in the Premier League. Skating by on reputation previously, Porro was above average, if not a bit overrated, and now he has become outright subpar, with Spurs failing to provide enough support to the attack or creation on that right side with Porro's awful final ball and untenable, black hole like inefficiency.

Tottenham are going to have to figure out a different solution at right back long term than what Porro is doing, and Tottenham fans are increasingly focusing on him as a liability and a disappointment. At this point, Spurs fans are not waiting for Porro to break out as a star. They have resigned themselves to the fact that he is a mirage who only looks good to the stat watchers.

Thomas Frank seems to be intent on destroying any sliver of good will he has at Tottenham Hotspur. After taking care of two easy opponents with a 2-0 win over Brentford and a 3-0 victory against lowly Slavia Praha in the Champions League, Frank reverted Spurs back to losing ways with an abhorrent 3-0 loss to a Sean Dyche coached Nottingham Forest, one of the worst teams in the 2025/26 Premier League season.

Spurs, at no point, looked like they were in the contest at all. Frank picked a terrible starting lineup, and Spurs were out of it from the get go. They got behind early, never looked ready to come back into the game, and were poor tactically while being a lethargic as ever.

What really blows Spurs supporters minds and makes them angry about Frank is how little he trusts the young players on the team who actually should be in the games. And just when it seems like Mathys Tel is getting momentum for starts at striker or left winger above players like Richarlison, Frank keeps him stuffed on the bench with no chance at helping the team win or progressing in his own development.

Thomas Frank is making laughable errors

Frank laughably played Richarlison for a full 90 minutes and did not start Tel for this game, and Spurs thus carried no real attacking threat in a 3-0 blowout loss. Richy has been tragically poor this season, with half the talent or dynamism of Tel.

Meanwhile, the young French forward had to wait until the 79th minute to make his introduction into the game. It really feels like Frank either does not care about Tel at all or is actively trying to sabotage him with how few crumbs he gives to the developing striker to feed off of. Tel was impressie off the bench in recent weeks, yet, once again, when he had the chance to start and merited a start over Richy, Frank played favorites and went with the putrid veteran striker.

The other part that is laughable is that Spurs were down badly and desperately needed more attacking fire power, and before even putting Tel into the match 20 minutes earlier, Frank inexplicably brought in journeyman defender Ben Davies.

Chasing the game and needing a goal, Frank's response was to bring in a defender who almost never plays, rather than to bring in Tel. Embarrassing. Coaching malpractice. A fireable offense in and of itself and a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the failing Thomas Frank era at Tottenham Hotspur in 2025.

There are not many bright spots to write home about at Tottenham Hotspur, especially in the attack and especially among the attackers who are actually getting minutes. So striker Randal Kolo Muani can, in some sick way, be happy that he is among the talented forwards who are actually starting regularly under Thomas Frank.

The new Spurs manager has not shown that he understands who is best XI is every given week, as Lucas Bergvall, for example, can attest, having been unfairly snubbed from the starting lineup again before the club's embarrassing 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest at the weekend.

But even when Frank does play someone, he does not always play them in the best position for them. And that is where Kolo Muani can have serious gripes with how he was utilized by the Danish coach on Sunday against Forest.

Randal Kolo Muani deserves better

Kolo Muani started for Spurs in the 3-0 defeat, and he was one of the few players who showed the effort and quality that did not deserve to be on the losing side of a blowout. His hold up play, intelligence off the ball, and incredible dribbling skills were on display, and yet Kolo Muani ended up carrying no real goal threat and was isolated.

That was not his fault, though. Frank pretty much tactically forced Kolo Muani on the periphery of the game, forcing his best striker to play more of a secondary decoy role as a workhorse in order to accommodate one of the worst strikers in the Premier League - a player whose goal total is held up by a few fools as a sign of competency, rather than a biting indication of a selfishness that manifests itself in tap in goals born out of the hard work of others, like Kolo Muani.

Richarlison somehow played the full 90 minutes, as Frank continues to inexplicably back a striker who spends no effort creating for his teammates and seemingly half the game flopping around the floor like a dead fish.

Kolo Muani was impactful and intelligent in his 79 minutes before being booted off the pitch of a 3-0 blowout, whereas Richarlison got to play the full game. RKM created chances for his teammates and did all the dirty work for Richarlison, who got to sit pretty and shoot to no avail. Frank has catered so much to Richarlison for no apparent reason, and this latest game was another example of Frank sacrificing a better player's goal threat or chances so that Richy could walk around and boot aimless shots at the stands.

Although Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank had won himself a bit of good will with the fans after beating former club Brentford 2-0 and then Slavia Praha on Tuesday night in the Champions League to pick up back to back professional clean sheets, it did not take long for him to sink Spurs back to losing ways on Sunday afternoon in the Premier League.

Spurs produced what was probably their second worst performance of the season - behind only a three goal blowout loss to North London Derby rivals Arsenal - in a 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest. You know, the club that just fired Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou, turning to Sean Dyche instead.

Frank got it all wrong, even before the game kicked off. Yet again, the Spurs coach left one of his biggest gems and best overall players to rot on the bench, sticking Lucas Bergvall with the substitutes and instead starting the woeful Rodrigo Bentancur, who has turned in poor performance after poor performance this season.

Lucas Bergvall snubbed once more

Bentancur, as expected, did absolutely nothing at the base of the Spurs midfield. Tottenham were completely overrun by an inferior Nottingham Forest side, with young gem midfielder Elliot Anderson strongly auditioning to Spurs fans by running circles around the melting down Bentancur.

Meanwhile, Bergvall came off the bench in the 58th minute when he should have started. By then, the game was well and truly out of reach for Spurs, as Bergvall had no chance at changing the game, with Bentancur making the merciful exit at that time.

Throughout the 2025/26 season, Frank has consistently discarded Bergvall from his top midfield options despite the fact that Bergvall was the best midfielder on Spurs by the end of the 2024/25 season when the club were making their serious Europa League push. And he was only cut short by an injury at the end of the campaign when he was peaking, even scoring important goals.

Everyone thought Bergvall would be given the opportunity to take a big step forward in the 2025/26 season, but, instead, Frank has effectively sabotaged him. After the Arsenal loss, Spurs seemed to be giving Bergvall more opportunities, but, even then, Frank continued to frustrate Spurs supporters by incorrectly evaluating the young Swede as a 10 rather than an 8. And now, Frank is not even starting Bergvall at all again, and that is absolutely maddening for Tottenham fans as they watch their team continue to deliver stinkers against lousy opponents.

Once again, Tottenham Hotspur suffered a humiliating defeat, and although the one a couple of weeks ago to bitter rivals Arsenal was the worst of the season, this latest loss to Nottingham Forest was honestly quite close.

Forest have fired two Tottenham reject managers in Ange Postecoglou and Nuno Espirito Santo this season, hiring relegation specialist Sean Dyche, a literal walking meme at this point, as their manager. And the anti tactical journeyman coach pretty much put on a technical masterclass against Thomas Frank, who joined Spurs this summer as a supposed tactical genius.

Frank bears the most blame for another embarrassing display, as Spurs lost 3-0 to one of the worst teams in the Premier League this season. And yet, you cannot tell the story of this game fully without highlighting several culpable parties among the players, including goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.

Guglielmo Vicario is losing Spurs more points

Just like the Fulham game a couple of weeks ago, Vicario had Spurs losing before the game even truly began. His awful error on the ball, a pass to young midfielder Archie Gray that never should have been made, completely left his teammate out to dry and put Tottenham in a hole early.

Several times this season now, Vicario has helped Spurs lose a game to an inferior opponent by making an inexcusable error early in the match to seal defeat for his team. There have been more games in which Vicario has lost point for Spurs than he's won points, and although he is in the Premier League leaderboard for saving statistics as a goalkeeper, the stats do not fully capture the mistakes he is making that other top keepers do not.

Worse yet, his lack of leadership is appalling. Jamie Carragher may be persona non grata to Liverpool fans, but this is a pundit who calls it like it is. And even he is noticing that Vicario is making a lot of mistakes and then trying to pin the blame on his teammates for them. Carragher said on the Sky Sports broadcast, via The Spurs Express, “Every time I see a goal go in, he throws his arms at someone else. He seems to do it a lot, and he did it again today.”

Tottenham fans have BEEN noticing this, too. James Trafford could be available this winter transfer window, and young Antonin Kinsky is right behind Vicario on the depth chart. If Vicario keeps making blatant errors and losing games, Tottenham fans are going to be more and more ready to cut this guy loose because they cannot get behind him or rely on him.