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Tottenham Hotspur remain in the chase to sign Bryan Mbeumo in the summer transfer window.

Mbeumo had his best ever Premier League season for Brentford last time out, scoring 20 goals - a figure only beaten by Mohamed Salah, Alexander Isak and Erling Haaland - and providing nine assists.

Mbeumo has spent the past six seasons in west London with the Bees, but now looks set to move on, should another club put up the required cash to prise him away.

Manchester United looks like the Cameroonian's most likely destination, with the Red Devils in talks over a deal for some time now, although Brentford want more than the £60million they have been offered so far.

Thomas Frank's move to replace Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham, however, changed things, with Spurs naturally linked with a making a move for Mbeumo to reunite the duo who worked so well as manager and main striker in west London.

And Tottenham could hand Mbeumo the perfect welcome gift of his desired shirt number - on one condition.

Mbeumo has been wearing the No.19 shirt at Brentford since he joined the Bees in 2019/20. There would have been opportunities to switch numbers in that time, but he has stuck with 19.

Now that number is currently worn by Spurs frontman Dominic Solanke - one of the few players Frank namechecked in his first interview at the club this week.

Solanke is going nowhere, but the Englishman may well want to swap shirt numbers. He wore No.9 at Bournemouth and wore 29 at Liverpool in two separate seasons, clearly wanting a number with nine in it.

The No.9 shirt currently belongs to Richarlison at Spurs, but there are question marks over his future at the club. He has not always been available over the last few seasons due to injuries and as well as links with the Saudi Pro League, there are suggestions a return to Everton could be on the cards too.

Were Richarlison to leave, Solanke would likely take the No.9 shirt for his own as the club's main striker and that would leave 19 free for Mbeumo to wear should he complete a £70million move to join Frank at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Frank would surely be looking to bring another attacker into the club if Richarlison was to leave, which would add credence to the links with Mbeumo, as would a departure for Son Heung-min, who is more open to leaving N17 than ever before, with the Spurs captain not mentioned in Frank's first interview with the club.

Thomas Frank has just about managed to settle into his new surroundings at Hotspur Way and there are plenty of conversations that need to be had if they haven't already.

The Dane has now got his feet under his desk in his new office and the new Tottenham head coach has been shown everything that he needs to see at the Enfield training complex. The 51-year-old has a big job on his hands to shape and coach a squad that must compete on all fronts next season with the Champions League on the schedule as well.

Ahead of that, Frank's first competitive match brings with it the chance of silverware as Spurs face the Champions League winners PSG in the UEFA Super Cup in Udine on August 13.

To prepare for that and the new Premier League season, which begins just three days later, there are plenty of conversations Frank will need to have with various key people around the north London outfit. Here are just five (technically six) of those people that conversations need to take place with.

Johan Lange

Frank and Lange go way back, all the way back to their time sharing an office together at Lyngby, a club that lies in the suburbs of Copenhagen.

Birger Jorgensen, the man who hired them both, said: "Thomas is Thomas, he walks the talk. He has always been the same and will always be the same. He is very hardworking and always in a good mood. Johan is the opposite of Thomas, he keeps his cards close to his chest. But he is a fantastic guy, very smart."

The two men have remained in touch over the years and Lange wanted to take Frank to Aston Villa when he worked there, only for Steven Gerrard to end up getting the head coach gig in the end.

Now they have been reunited and Lange must switch from building a team for Ange Postecoglou to one for his old colleague. Lange will know his compatriot's needs inside out and that will help the conversations the duo will have already had and will continue to have in the weeks ahead to shape a squad that can handle the game's biggest club competition (yes it's bigger than that current summer thing going on).

Daniel Levy and Vinai Venkatesham

We're grouping this as one conversation with the hierarchy but of course it's going to be a series of chats with the chairman and the new CEO of Tottenham. Frank is a man full of energy and charisma and he will have to use all of that to succeed where others have failed; he needs time to bring what he did at Brentford to a bigger stage.

Frank will have to help Lange make a convincing case for pushing out the boat for the specific signings that they believe will transform Tottenham. Levy after all expects the club to compete on all fronts and has made big statements about wanting to win the Premier League and Champions League now Spurs have finally ended their trophy drought, so he will have to greenlight the kind of squad building that can achieve that, rather than the long-term building that is yet to succeed after 24 years.

Venkatesham will be a key ally for Frank in that the 44-year-old was CEO at Arsenal and pushed for stability under Mikel Arteta and backing him rather than the constant chopping and changing and fresh starts that normally occur a few miles down the road at Tottenham.

The new CEO has more power than any person has had below Levy in almost a quarter of a century and Frank's conversations and communication with Venkatesham will be key to the success of both of their tenures.

The medical team

It's fair to say that Tottenham managers and the various club medical teams over the years have not always had the most mutually affectionate relationships. Jose Mourinho's frustration was clear in that Amazon All or Nothing documentary and Antonio Conte was never shy in offering up his opinions on the medical side at the club.

Ange Postecoglou clearly had issues with the medical side of things at Spurs last season with an injury crisis the likes of which had not been seen in recent memory, including re-injuries galore. The medical department would no doubt have had their own views on the situation.

Spurs are expected to make major changes once again to their medical and sports science teams and the arrival of Head of Performance and first team assistant coach Chris Haslam with Frank will be a vital bridge between them and the coaching staff. Haslam had a great reputation in the game through his time at Brentford and will be looking for similar synergy between all departments at Tottenham and Adam Brett, who was appointed as Director of Performance Services for Spurs a year ago, overseeing their sports science, medical, nutrition and psychology departments across the club.

Frank will want a clear and open communication with the new-look medical department and no more of the chaos that struck throughout last season.

Cristian Romero

One of the key player conversations for the new head coach this summer will be with Cristian Romero. There's no doubting that Frank would want to keep the World Cup-winning centre-back, who was named player of the tournament in the Europa League and man of the match in the final.

The 27-year-old had a lot of respect for Postecoglou and his strongly-worded thank you post to the Australian, six days after his sacking and just 56 minutes after Frank was announced, showed his feelings on the subject.

The Argentine has made no secret of his desire to play in La Liga at some point but the reality of the situation is that with two years left on his contract, Spurs can still ask for a big fee for a defender Lionel Messi called the best in the world. It remains to be seen whether any club will come in with the sort of money that would tempt the north London club into parting company with the Romero.

Frank's style of football will suit Romero with its aggression and speed of moving the ball around and the Dane is an engaging character that the Argentine will quickly warm to as well. That first conversation, whether it comes before the centre-back returns to Hotspur early next month or not, is going to be key to deciding what happens next for all concerned.

Son Heung-min

Another key player chat for Frank is with the club captain Son Heung-min. The South Korean star turns 33 next month and is now in the final 12 months of his contract at Tottenham and is believed to be more open than ever before about leaving the club this summer after finally lifting the trophy he has longed for.

An honest conversation needs to take place between Son and Frank now over how much the skipper wants to move on and exactly what the Dane's plans are for him if he remains.

After 10 years of service at Tottenham, becoming a club legend in the process, Son should really be in charge of his own destiny but Frank's opinion on how and where he would use him will play a key role as well.

It's an exciting time to be a Tottenham Hotspur supporter. The Lilywhites are coming into the new 2025/26 season having claimed their first piece of silverware in 17 years by winning the UEFA Europa League at the end of 2024/25.

That means Spurs will play in the Champions League next season and they will be doing so under a new manager too.

Ange Postecoglou, who ended that trophy drought, was sacked at the end of the 2024/25 campaign after a dismal run in the Premier League in which Spurs finished the campaign in 17th place.

Thomas Frank is the man charged with leading the team to the next level, signing a three-year deal to make the move from Brentford, where he established the Bees as a Premier League team.

Frank will be looking to strengthen his new squad in the summer transfer window, with technical director Johan Lange doing all the work behind the scenes to provide him with a strong enough squad to challenge on multiple fronts.

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Tottenham Hotspur will have to look at some smart options to help their European squad as well as moving for their main transfer targets in this summer window.

Spurs will be looking to bolster new head coach Thomas Frank's squad this summer with the quality required to meet chairman Daniel Levy's expectations of challenging on multiple fronts this season. The Tottenham supremo declared this week that the Europa League triumph - the club's first trophy in 17 years - was not enough and that he wanted to win the Premier League and Champions League in the seasons ahead.

That will require the north London club to splash the cash on proven players as well as their usual youth model and Tottenham have been linked with the likes of Crystal Palace's Eberechi Eze, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa at Frank's former club Brentford as well as Bournemouth's Antoine Semenyo and Southampton's Tyler Dibling.

The club also must remain wary of their squad issues when it comes to registering players for the Champions League this season with Frank set to have to make some difficult decisions as his predecessors have on players needing to be left out of European competition.

football.londonreported earlier this month that Spurs' lack of 'club-trained players' continues to be an issue in Europe, with Alfie Whiteman's departure meaning goalkeeper Brandon Austin is the only such senior player they can register in the Champions League who would not already be on the B list.

While the Premier League is far more relaxed, UEFA's rules state that no club can have more than 25 players on their Champions League A-List during the season, of whom at least two must be goalkeepers. The rules then say that "as a minimum, eight of those 25 places are reserved exclusively for 'locally trained players' and no club may have more than four 'association-trained players' listed among those eight places. If a club have fewer than eight locally trained players in their squad, then the maximum number of players on List A is reduced accordingly".

There are two kinds of a locally-trained player. One is those 'club-trained players', those on a club's books for three entire seasons or 36 months between the ages of 15 and 21. The other is 'association-trained players', who were on another club's books in the same association for three entire seasons or 36 months between the ages of 15 and 21.

Then there is a B-List for players born on, or after, January 1, 2004 and who have been eligible to play for the club for any uninterrupted period of two years since their 15th birthday – or for a total of three consecutive years with a maximum of one loan period to a club from the same association for a period not longer than one year. In the 2026/27 season players such as Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall will able to move to the B list.

With all of that in mind and only one club-trained player in Austin when they need to register four, Tottenham would have to leave three spots open this season in what should be a 25-man squad, but instead becomes a 22-man one. Spurs currently have 23 players to fit into 17 non-locally trained spots and seven association-trained players for four other spots. Any association-trained players over those four spots would then need to be crowbarred into the main group.

The simplest way to look at it is that Tottenham currently have 30 senior players to fit into 22 spots, including new permanent arrivals Kevin Danso, Mathys Tel and Luka Vuskovic, and that's before they even try to sign new players this window.

So Frank will have to move players on either on loan or permanently and another option is to look at players who could return to N17 in order to be club-trained.

While full-back is not a priority area this summer with Pedro Porro, Destiny Udogie, Djed Spence, Gray and Ben Davies all able to play there at this time, football.london understands that Spurs have considered a move later in the window to bring Kyle Walker-Peters back as a free agent and club-trained option to fill one of those spots.

The experienced 28-year-old, who has a couple of England appearances to his name, can play on either flank and is at the end of his contract at relegated Southampton. A string of Premier League sides are believed to be looking at signing the full-back, including Everton and Wolves, who are understood to be considering him as a potential replacement for Nelson Semedo if the Portuguese were to depart this summer.

Walker-Peters would be keen on a return to his boyhood club, but Tottenham are likely to focus on other key areas first this summer which could allow other clubs to seal a deal for a defender who has played 202 times for Southampton since his 24 games for Spurs.

In terms of other club-trained players the north London side could look at, many are more unlikely this summer. There is record goalscorer Harry Kane, who seems happy enough at Bayern Munich, and Harry Winks and Oliver Skipp who were relegated at Leicester.

Spurs have looked at the past in bringing back 23-year-old left-back Dennis Cirkin, who has impressed at Sunderland. He made 39 appearances this season as the Black Cats returned to the Premier League through the play-offs and he has 12 months remaining on his contract. Tottenham are in line for a sell-on percentage for the player if he leaves this summer, meaning they would get him for a cheaper price, although a buy-back clause reportedly expired last year.

Marcus Edwards has just signed permanently for Burnley while Troy Parrott wants to remain at AZ Alkmaar this season. Chelsea's Noni Madueke has been linked with a move away but in terms of the club-trained angle, he left Spurs at the age of 16 and remember you need to have been on the books for three entire seasons or 36 months between the ages of 15 and 21.

So while Tottenham's focus will be on their main high profile signings to bolster Frank's squad this summer they must also be aware that they are going to run into problems with their European squad this season and make some decisions accordingly.

The Tottenham Hotspur players are set to return in stages to begin their pre-season training under Thomas Frank in around a fortnight's time as the Dane's era at the club begins.

The 51-year-old was appointed as the Spurs head coach on a three-year contract last week and for the first time in three pre-seasons it will be a different man leading the way for the players as they return to summer training at Hotspur Way in the wake of Ange Postecoglou's exit after two years in charge.

While Frank has already met some of the long-term injured players who have been going through rehabilitation at the Enfield training ground like James Maddison and Radu Dragusin, with Dejan Kulusevski expected to return during his own rehab after his honeymoon, the work will truly begin for the new head coach when the squad start to filter back to the club from their holidays and international duty.

football.london understands that the first group of Tottenham players will return to the training ground towards the back end of the first week of July to start going through their various tests, blood work and then begin training with Frank and his new-look coaching staff. Some of those players who went on international duty after the end of the season will get a few more days off if they choose to accept them and return in the second week of July.

Then there are those taking part at the U21 and U19 European Championships such as Archie Gray, Mathys Tel and Wilson Odobert in the former and Mikey Moore and development squad player Reiss-Alexander Russell-Denny in the latter. The quintet of young players will be offered further time off once their exploits at the tournaments come to an end.

Spurs' pre-season friendlies currently begin with the game at Luton Town on Saturday, July 26, but there is expected to be at least one more official match before that on the previous weekend. Tottenham also often arrange a training ground friendly or two behind closed doors to start sharpening up the players during pre-season.

At the end of July, Tottenham will embark on their pre-season tour to Asia, first to Hong Kong to face Arsenal on July 31 and then South Korea to take on Newcastle on August 3. Four days later and Spurs are in action in Germany against Harry Kane's Bayern Munich after the Bavarian's return from their post-Club World Cup holidays.

The strong tests will go towards preparing Tottenham for Frank's first competitive fixture and a chance to immediately challenge for a trophy with the UEFA Super Cup against PSG on August 13 in Udine. Luis Enrique's side will also be fresh back from their post-Club World Cup rest.

There appears to be no time for the usual home Spurs friendly just before the season because of that Super Cup clash and the Bayern game as the Premier League campaign then begins on Saturday, August 16 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with the visit of Scott Parker's promoted Burnley side.

Tottenham could be in the market for a new centre-back this summer, although much will depend on the future of vice-captain Cristian Romero.

Spurs actually have a good batch of centre-backs to choose from currently, having added Kevin Danso to the squad in the January transfer window and with youngster Luka Vuskovic to finally arive at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this summer.

Romero and Micky van de Ven are the undisputed first-choice pairing, having struck up a really good understanding together, but that duo could be broken up with question marks over the Argentine's future.

Romero has just two years left to run on his existing contract in N17 and has been outspoken - in his own way - about the way things have gone at Spurs in the last few weeks.

The 27-year-old made a point of saying Tottenham needed to stick together in the aftermath of the incredible UEFA Europa League triumph in Bilbao, with plenty of speculation around Ange Postecoglou's future at the club.

Then, when Postecoglou was sacked by Daniel Levy, rather than joining the hordes of teammates to pay tribute to the Australian head coach, Romero waited until after Thomas Frank was appointed as new boss to send his message to Postecoglou - sending a very different message in the process, with Frank picking up an awkward situation now.

Tottenham are reluctant to sell the defender, despite interest from the likes of Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, but could end up having their hand forced somewhat by the player himself.

Replacing Romero would be crucial and Crystal Palace centre-back Marc Guehi has long been linked with a move to Spurs, with the Lilywhites admirers of the England international.

Guehi has plenty of suitors, however, with Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle United all also showing an interest in the 24-year-old. And now a new team has emerged for his signature - Liverpool.

The Reds have already spent big this summer on Jeremie Frimpong, with Bayer Leverkusen teammate Florian Wirtz expected to join in a whopping £116million deal too.

Liverpool want to add Milos Kerkez from Brounemouth and with Jarrel Quansah tipped to sweeten the Wirtz deal by moving to Leverkusen, a new centre-back will be required by Arne Slot.

The Reds have been getting their business done quickly so far this summer and they are preparing a "significant offer" for Guehi, according to reports.

Guehi has only 12 months left on his Eagles contract and Palace will not be able to demand the £70million-plus they wanted for the England star last summer.

With Liverpool working quickly and efficiently in the market so far, Spurs have been handed something of a new deadline if they are to complete a deal for the centre-back.

As his predecessor did before him, Thomas Frank has inherited a rather awkward situation at Tottenham when it comes to the club's star man.

Two years ago and Ange Postecoglou had to manage a situation where he knew Harry Kane was likely to leave the north London club but he could not say that as Spurs looked to negotiate the highest possible fee from Bayern Munich. Ultimately the Australian had to use Kane in friendly matches, while planning for a season in which he would not be replaced.

Frank arrived this week with a similar but not identical situation with Spurs' most well-known and respected player Son Heung-min. Unlike Kane there is no certainty that the South Korean star will be departing this summer after 10 years at the club, but with just 12 months left on his contract the likelihood is growing higher with each passing month.

football.london reported earlier this month that Son himself is also more open to a move than he ever has been before, having finally made history in lifting a European title as captain of the north London club. The attacker had admitted to Korean media ahead of the Europa League final last month that he had remained at Spurs in previous years purely because he wanted to do something so few others had been unable to.

Now Son is a legend in the club's history books, if he wasn't already, and what he has done for Tottenham over the past decade with 173 goals and 101 assists in 454 appearances means he should be able to decide what comes next for him.

"For now, I think it’s right to wait rather than say anything here since my contract remains," he told Korean journalists earlier this month. "Many people, including reporters and fans, are very curious. Rather than thinking about the future, I think it’s better to wait and see what happens in my current position. No matter where I am, I'm still a player who has always done my best and worked hard, so I think I should do well."

In just 18 days' time, Son will turn 33 and both he and the north London club will reach a crossroads in their long journey together. Son still has the ability to play at whatever level he wants - that could yet be at Spurs with Champions League back on the menu next season - while it is the last chance for the club to get a sizeable fee for a man who remains their most marketable name.

That is despite the fact that Son has locked down most of his own image rights himself across Asia. That's why you are less likely to see him in a Spurs shirt on billboards on that continent but instead advertising other major companies. Where Tottenham make their money from Son is in not only the shirt deals in the UK, but also the sponsorship and branding that come in partly because of his popularity around the world.

There are also the lucrative tours to Asia, which include contracted appearances by Son, and for the third time in four years Spurs will travel to South Korea this summer, after a few days first in Hong Kong, with games against Arsenal and then Newcastle in each country.

That creates a scenario where Tottenham cannot part with Son, if a separation is agreed, ahead of the trip to his homeland unless they would be compensated for the lost revenue. The club have a young Korean talent in Yang Min-hyeok, but the teenager has a long way to go if he is to reach the incredible levels of fame that his captain, a Premier League icon, has across Asia.

Unless a short-term new contract is signed, both Son and his new head coach will have to answer numerous questions about his future as Postecoglou did with Kane. The England captain was not made available to speak to reporters on that tour to Perth, Bangkok and Singapore in 2023, only appearing awkwardly at one event with a nod and a hello to the assembled media before getting involved in the community aspect of it with the children present.

Son will not have that luxury as he will be expected to speak and so will Frank. It is perhaps telling that the Dane did not mention the club captain at all in his first interview when speaking about the club's senior players he was looking forward to working with. It might have been a moment of forgetfulness, or something more deliberate or the Dane might have been warned against it by the club due to the uncertainty over what comes next.

One thing is for sure, it's going to be the awkward topic of the summer until a decision is made either way. For everything that he has done for Tottenham, it should be Son who makes it.

Thomas Frank could have Bryan Mbeumo unavailable for at least seven games if Tottenham complete a transfer hijack over Manchester United. The 25-year-old is expected to depart Brentford this summer - with his preferred destination being Old Trafford.

With that revealed to be the case back in May, United have since seen one formal bid rejected, with yet another offer verbalised during discussions that also fell below the Bees' £70million asking price.

The summer window then closed and, in that time, Thomas Frank was appointed as Spurs' new head coach with their chances of landing Mbeumo increasing as a result. By beating United, the side Mbeumo wants to join, in the Europa League final, the Lilywhites also secured Champions League football for the 2025/26 season.

That is two quite significant incentives for the winger to remain in London over moving up north. Nonetheless, it looks as though he is still favouring a move to United but, if a switch to Spurs becomes his priority, a serious issue has already been made clear.

Barring injury, having his services for at least 48 matches will be quite the luxury but, as things turn out, he could actually miss seven games due to international commitments.

In late December, the next edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) kicks off with Mbeumo set to represent Cameroon. Their three group-stage matches take place on Wednesday, December 24, Sunday, December 28 and Wednesday, December 30.

Mbeumo will, therefore, play at least three games at the tournament and that means that he's guaranteed to miss Premier League games against Crystal Palace and former club Brentford. Spurs also play Liverpool four days before Cameroon's first outing with it therefore possible he is absent for that, too.

If his nation reach the knock-out stages - which they are likely to do - then he would definitely miss the visit of Sunderland in early January. The FA Cup third round is the following week and a clash at Bournemouth coming in the midweek before that with progression to the AFCON quarter-finals meaning he would miss both.

A potential Carabao Cup semi-final first leg then follows for Spurs with Mbeumo sure to remain absent for that and a home game against West Ham if Cameroon reach the final.

The worst-case scenario would be that he misses a total of eight fixtures with six of those coming in the Premier League. That is a small price to pay in order to sign a player of his talent, but it is certainly something to take note of with that same problem also likely to be faced in two years.

It is also worth noting that Spurs could also be without Pape Sarr and Yves Bissouma during that period as they represent Senegal and Mali, respectively.

New Tottenham head coach Thomas Frank says he is "very, very excited" about Mathys Tel arriving at the club on a permanent deal from Bayern Munich.

The 20-year-old Frenchman became the first signing of the Frank era at Spurs after the Dane gave the green light to the move that will cost the north London club £29.8million (€35million), plus a potential further £4.2million (€5million) in add-ons. Tottenham knocked around £15million off the original £45million option to buy the player at the end of his £8.5million loan spell.

football.londonreported earlier this week that Frank was excited by the prospect of working with Tel and that he believes he can improve and that the Dane studied the Frenchman himself and felt the move was a good one. There is a feeling that the 20-year-old, who signed a six-year deal with the club, could be more suited to Frank's approach as it gives freedom to its wide players and allows them to come in off the line to link up play.

Now Frank has confirmed that report in a new interview about the attacker, who is currently at the European U21 Championships with France, alongside team-mate Wilson Odobert.

"Very, very excited about Mathys signing with a permanent deal," said the new head coach in a club interview. "I think he's a very talented player that can play across the front four positions. He's a goalscorer that we can develop even further to be more consistent in his all-round game but also to more consistently land in the right positions in the box. So I'm looking forward to it."

football.london reported this week that staff within Spurs quickly saw Tel as strong technically with an excellent training mentality as well as being a positive character and influence on the squad. He had not played many minutes for Bayern ahead of his move so needed plenty of fitness and conditioning work with the belief remaining that he still needs to improve physically, particularly in his explosiveness and the stamina required for the Premier League.

Tel is seen as promising in his one vs one duels against defenders but could benefit from extra strength to improve those moments. His finishing also requires work, as shown in some of the missed chances in the Premier League last season.

The youngster's performance against Nottingham Forest at home in April was held up internally as one of his best of the spell, with his energy and creativity from the flank, and that will be the yardstick for the player as the foundation with what can be added on top with more consistency and plenty of coaching from Frank and his team.

While the Frenchman is always eager to track back, his defensive work is also seen as requiring further development as he looks to become more than just an impact player under the new head coach.

Tottenham Hotspur have been handed a £75,000 fine for two instances of homophobic chanting during their Premier League victory at Manchester United in September last season.

A statement from the FA claimed that Spurs were fined the amount "for two breaches of FA Rule E21 in relation to crowd control misconduct at its Premier League match against Manchester United FC on Sunday 29 September 2024."

The statement explained further that: "It was alleged that Tottenham Hotspur FC failed to ensure its spectators and or supporters (and anyone purporting to be supporters or followers) conduct themselves in an orderly fashion and don’t use words or otherwise behave in an improper, offensive, abusive, indecent, or insulting way with either an express or implied reference to sexual orientation around both the 49th and 79th minutes.

"Tottenham Hotspur FC admitted both charges, and an independent Regulatory Commission imposed an action plan, £150,000 fine and warning. An independent Appeal Board reduced the fine to £75,000 following an appeal by the club."

The documents surrounding the case refer to receiving reports from Kick It Out as well as media reports of two incidents of homophobic chanting during the 3-0 win at Old Trafford. The first came in the 49th minute with chants from the crowd towards Mason Mount about his Chelsea background after a foul on Rodrigo Bentancur.

Then in the 79th minute, two minutes after a goal from Dominic Solanke, chants from the crowd regarding the Spurs striker included references to Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta.

Spurs were initially asked for their observations in October and attached a report from their Safety Officer with the response: "Tottenham Hotspur’s Safety Team contacted Manchester United in advance of our fixture (as is normal practice) and arranged to send six THFC Stewards to the match. There was no specific intelligence to suggest that there would be any behavioural problems from our visiting supporters.

"All of the THFC Stewards that travelled to Old Trafford are experienced and have attended away fixtures on several occasions. Tottenham Hotspur were made aware of the alleged chanting via Proud Lilywhites on the day of the match and the club also released a statement that same day that stated the chanting was “simply unacceptable, hugely offensive and no way to show support for the team”.

The club then made plans with Brighton for their next away fixture to proactively deal with anyone singing such chants, with stewards wearing body cameras. With a statement beforehand explaining to supporters what would be happening and that it would take the strongest possible action over any incidents, there were no such chants captured on camera.

Spurs were charged on November 5 with the two breaches of the rules at the United game and in February 2025 after evidence and documents from both sides, a verdict was reached.

The regulatory commission found that "the misconduct was aggravated by the fact that there had been two separate incidents of chanting and that he chants were particularly harmful, given their nature and contents".

Their findings went on: "This harm was aggravated by the fact that this was a Premier League match, televised live to a worldwide audience. On balance, it was not persuaded that THFC had taken all reasonable steps in its preparation and planning for the fixture, dealing effectively with the incident and trying to identify those responsible."

After giving examples of where they felt the north London club had fallen down in those respects, the commission determined that "THFC’s culpability was medium, and the nature of the harm was between medium and serious".

Spurs were fined £150,000 but on June 6 had that amount halved by an appeal board that determined their culpability was in fact "low" after finding that some of the statements made by the commission had been contrary to evidence provided by the club or were not relevant.