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Tottenham have yet to announce any new signings this summer.

Mathys Tel has made his move from Bayern Munich permanent, having been on loan with Spurs for the second half of last season, while Kevin Danso's loan move was also turned into a permanent deal, as per the terms of the contract.

football.london reported last week that Tottenham had agreed a deal to sign Kota Takai from J.League team Kawasaki Frontale, but that transfer has not been made official by the club as yet, meaning there are no new faces in the building at Hotspur Way right now. Apart from the very new face of head coach Thomas Frank, of course.

The Spurs players will be filtering back to the training ground from today onwards, with pre-season training under the new boss beginning.

But the supporters are keen to see some new faces arrive at the club. Spurs will have the Champions League to worry about in 2025/26, as well as the Premier League and FA Cup and Carabao Cup after their heroics in Bilbao in winning the Europa League under former boss Ange Postecoglou.

Tottenham have been linked with a number of players, but there are no concrete deals ready to be completed, which could be down to a number of reasons. Here football.london takes a look at those signings which could be made.

Mohammed Kudus

The West Ham forward looks to be the one Spurs are going after to bolster their attack for the 2025/26 season. Kudus had a quiet last campaign as West Ham struggled in the Premier League, but his talent is clear.

The Ghanaian can play anywhere across the front line and even in the No.10 role although he is best on the right-hand side of the attack.

If he came in he could play in any of the three spots behind main striker Dominic Solanke. He might have some making up to do with his new teammates, however, having been sent off in the derby last season after hitting both Micky van de Ven and Pape Matar Sarr in the face!

Kudus has an £85million release clause in place for the first ten days of July, but it is understood the Hammers may well be open to selling for around £60million to ease their financial concerns.

Kyle Walker-Peters

This, in theory, should be an easy deal to get over the line.

The former Tottenham player is now a free agent following the end of his contract with relegated Southampton and is looking for a new club.

Spurs have an issue when it comes to UEFA competition, with only one club-trained player on the books in the shape of Brandon Austin. They should have four, per UEFA rules and if they do not their Champions League squad size must reduce accordingly.

Walker-Peters came through the Spurs academy and is therefore club trained. Spurs need added strength in depth at full-back and this would appear to be a no-brainer.

Christian Norgaard

The Brentford midfielder looks set to join Arsenal, with a deal seemingly all-but agreed. But what if Tottenham made a late move to hijack the deal?

Spurs need another No.6 and with Thomas Frank now in place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, he could well hold sway over his countryman to make the move to the white half of north London instead.

At £10million rising to £15million, it is a reasonably cheap deal, albeit for a 31-year-old, but it would be quite something if Spurs swooped in and stole him away from Arsenal.

Pedro Porro has shown why he's arguably the fittest player at Tottenham Hotspur after turning up at the club's training ground early ahead of pre-season training.

In a Spurs season packed with injuries to his team-mates, the 25-year-old Spaniard was one of the few players not to suffer a single one across the last campaign and he ended up playing 51 matches and a remarkable 4,130 minutes of football for the club on the way to that Europa League triumph and another 503 for his country after returning to the international set-up.

His former boss Ange Postecoglou told football.london about the right-back: "He's played more than anyone else this year, he's been unbelievable for us, not just in his durability which has been important because with so many players going down, we've needed at least a few to be durable like he has, but also the quality he's shown.

"[His playmaking ability is] really important and it's something we're continually working on to get him on the ball in more key areas and also work on his positioning a little bit as well. He does have such quality with his ability to hit the longer pass, but also the quality of his crosses, every time he puts the ball in the box, whether that's a set piece or just a cross in general, it causes oppositions problems."

It looks like Porro is preparing his body for another big season under a new head coach at Spurs in the shape of Thomas Frank.

Although the Tottenham players are due to start returning to Hotspur Way on Saturday, with the internationals like Porro due in next week, the Spaniard was already back at the training ground in Enfield on Friday. He posted an image of himself smiling inside the club's gym with the caption: "The champ is here! Glad to be back @spursofficial."

Porro told football.london earlier this year about some of the work that goes into creating the amazing engine he has within to keep running up and down the flank for 90-plus minutes.

"I train at the club but I also do my own work outside the club, recovery work, prevention of injury," he said.

"It's okay because I work with the physio in the gym. The people outside don't understand this situation, they say Pedro you have to rest, you haven't rested. For me and Deki, we've played full minutes this season, this is normal, this is football. Too many games, but I'm ready. If the gaffer asks 'are you ready?', I say 'yeah, no problem'. Everything for the team, for the fans and for the club, it's the most important thing for me."

It looks like Frank will benefit from a super-fit Porro himself this season and the Spaniard appears to be ready and raring to go.

Work has begun at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to clear last season's pitch with a new one to be laid for Thomas Frank's first home game in charge next month.

Spurs' season ended on May 25 and following a series of events at the stadium on the surface beneath the roll-away pitch such as Beyoncé and 50 Cent concerts, work has now taken place to remove the old pitch from the stadium during a lull in events. Pitch specialists Fineturf released a series of images of their work in removing last season's turf while revealing when the new one will be laid.

"The removal of last season's pitch at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium marks the first step in preparing for the 2025/26 season, with a brand new Hybrid playing surface set to be installed this August in collaboration with Tillers Turf and Lakeland Earthworks," said the company on social media.

Spurs' first match at their N17 home will be the one they kick off the 2025/26 Premier League season with as Scott Parker's Burnley come to town on Saturday, August 16. It will technically be the second competitive game of the Frank era as just a few days before on the Wednesday night, Tottenham will take on Champions League winners PSG in the UEFA Super Cup in Udine, Italy.

Pitch work has also been taking place at Tottenham's Hotspur Way training complex with the first stages of the reconstruction of a string of academy pitches now complete.

"This phase involved removing the existing surface, excavating 150mm of material around the perimeter to improve levels and drainage, and replacing the upper rootzone across the entire pitch footprint," said Fineturf on social media.

The first team pitches are all ready for the return of the Spurs players from tomorrow onwards, with the international stars coming back next week.

Tottenham Hotspur are yet to bring a new face through the door in the transfer window and that has brought some frustration among the fanbase.

Spurs are not alone in failing to get going in the market yet with Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool the only real big movers so far, the first two due to their Club World Cup commitments. However, after that Europa League win and the prospect of Champions League football next season, this was meant to be a summer of building without dallying.

Add to that the change in head coach with Thomas Frank replacing Ange Postecoglou and then chairman Daniel Levy making it clear that the Europa League trophy was not enough and that he wants Tottenham to win the Premier League and Champions League and you've got the recipe for a summer in which there needs to be plenty of evidence for the supporters of trying to make those declarations more than just wishful thinking.

So far the arrivals have been for players already within the walls. Mathys Tel's loan from Bayern Munich became permanent, costing Spurs £29.8million (€35million), plus a potential further £4.2million (€5million) in add-ons. Kevin Danso's £21million loan from Lens also officially became permanent on Tuesday. Luka Vuskovic was signed from Hajduk Split back in 2023 but had to wait two years and turning 18 before he could officially make his £12million move following loans in Poland and Belgium.

The first new arrival is currently likely to be the £5million transfer of Kota Takai from Kawasaki Frontale, with the 20-year-old Japan international centre-back set to tie up the move next week following a goodbye to the J.League club's fans this Saturday.

But why the lack of big money transfer movement a Tottenham during a period when all the talk has been about pushing on and improving? Here we look at five potential reasons.

Waiting for investment

Transfers cost money obviously and if there's one thing that's been said a lot about Tottenham in recent years it's that despite being one of the most high-value sides in the world, they are an asset-rich club rather than a cash-rich one, particularly after the losses made in recent seasons. That is the reason Levy publicly admitted to a need for new investment a year ago in order for the club to properly compete against their rivals.

So far that new investment has not arrived but there is an expectation among many that it will this summer. With no apparent movement in terms of outside investment as of yet, it may well be that ENIC is required to pump funds into the club in exchange for a bigger stake in Tottenham.

They did that in 2022 with a £150million capital increase which the club appeared to end up only taking £100million of. Then in December last year, ENIC injected £35million of capital into the club, increasing their holding within Spurs slightly to an 86.91% share, up from 86.58%.

Of that majority ENIC share of the club, a trust of which Joe Lewis' family are beneficiaries owns 70.12% while Levy and his family are potential beneficiaries of discretionary trusts which own 29.88% of that share capital.

Spurs will make money from their Champions League qualification but that will be offset by the £32million or so they lost from the drop in Premier League prize money for finishing 17th rather than the previous season's fifth-place finish.

That's all of no consolation to supporters who were told that the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium would be a game changer for the club. It's certainly brought in record revenues but Spurs' need for new investment shows that they require far more than that.

That all could be one reason for not being able to invest in transfers yet, particularly ones where there is a significant portion of the fee required up front.

That wage structure

Much has been made of Spurs being bottom of the Premier League table when it comes to the revenue to wages ratio.

Tottenham's wage structure has always been explained away as being performance-driven in terms of being one of the league's most lucrative for players if they reach certain targets and hit various triggers. It will certainly be interesting to see what winning the Europa League meant in terms of bonus pay-outs to players as Postecoglou reportedly got with his contract. That might have been a very expensive night in Bilbao.

The obvious downside to having a lower wage ceiling than your rivals is that targets will often go for the guaranteed money rather than the potential money. Football is a team sport rather than an individual one, so meeting performance-related bonuses is reliant on others helping out.

Some of the wages at the Premier League's biggest clubs are two to three times what Tottenham are believed to offer in terms of a weekly salary and that's going to put them at a disadvantage if they can't sell the rest of the project as being brighter than their consistently challenging competitors.

Thomas Frank's squad analysis

There is also the fact that with any managerial change, the new man will want time to look at the squad that he has inherited and make a decision on what players he wants to keep and which areas need strengthening.

Frank will not start working with his players until a few return through the doors on Saturday and then the international stars start filing back into Hotspur Way next week.

So in the coming week or so the Dane will start to form a better image of the squad he has at his disposal from working with them face to face. There may be players who were key under Postecoglou that the new man believes need to be replaced while some who looked out of the picture could suddenly become vital under Frank.

That's not to say that some clear needs could not have been addressed yet in conversations between the Dane and his compatriot Spurs' technical director Johan Lange, but the bulk of the club's transfer window work will be decided by what comes in this next month of pre-season.

Uncertainty and that club-trained issue

Frank also needs to have some conversations with his key men, for the futures of both captain Son Heung-min and vice-captain Cristian Romero will need to be clarified with the Dane. The South Korean has reached the stage where after a decade of service the club will let him drive what comes next for him but obviously Frank's opinion on his amount of game time will help inform his decision in the season before the World Cup.

football.london reported almost a month ago that an MLS move was something of interest to Son and it may be that like Hugo Lloris, he ends up starting the campaign at Spurs before moving in January ahead of the new season in the USA. It could also be that the Tottenham skipper will want another crack at the Champions League after that heartbreak in 2019.

The conversation between Son and Frank in the coming week will go a long way to shaping what comes next for the captain, who turns 33 on Tuesday.

The new Spurs head coach wants to keep Romero in the fold and with two years left on the 27-year-old's contract compared to Son's 12 months, it's more about whether a club like Atletico Madrid will seriously offer the sort of major fee that might turn Tottenham's head for the World Cup winner, who was named player of the tournament in the Europa League.

The other issue at Spurs is the long-standing club-trained problem with a lack of senior players that have come through at the club. That leaves Frank having to fit 31 players into 22 spots in the Champions League squad if we are including the incoming Takai. The new manager needs to decide on a bucket load of departures before the squad can keep being added to otherwise it will just sit there bloated and financially draining.

Lack of decisiveness

There's also the possibility of course that Spurs just simply haven't been decisive enough in the transfer market so far in their pursuit of various players.

Tottenham have been long-term admirers of more players than you can shake a stick at but that doesn't mean a move materialises. There are various targets over the years where the club has played the long game and ended up without their target, none more so than the failure to sign Jack Grealish from Aston Villa under Mauricio Pochettino.

In an ideal world transfers would get done in time for pre-season. Despite the need for Frank to analyse his squad, that did not stop Postecoglou getting new signings through the door by this point in his first year with James Maddison and Guglielmo Vicario already at Hotspur Way by the end of June, so it can be done and for key players as well.

Mohammed Kudus is one of the versatile attacker names on Tottenham's list this summer and there is a feeling within the market that West Ham desperately need to sell the Ghana international to fund their own forays into the market to rebuild Graham Potter's squad. With a reported £85million release clause for the first 10 days of July it is unlikely the Hammers are going to get anything near that after a disappointing second season in England from Kudus.

Tottenham could be waiting to see exactly what their fellow London side will drop their expectations to, if there's not competition for the player. That of course is a dangerous game to play and the past has shown that more decisive clubs will jump in if Tottenham wait too long.

Some selling sides will have been waiting for the new financial year when it comes to the PSR rules and sales going towards whatever they do in terms of incomings in the 12 months ahead.

Tottenham need to get moving though because all of those grand words will come back to haunt them if they cannot provide Frank with the tools to make their dreams a reality and his appointment a success.

Tottenham Hotspur Women have appointed Martin Ho as their new head coach on a three-year contract.

The 35-year-old has been making a name for himself in recent seasons with his work in Norway, guiding SK Brann in his first season into the group stages of the Women's Champions League, the first Norwegian side in history to do so, as they won all four of their qualifiers.

They then finished second in a group consisting of eight-time winners Lyon, Slavia Praha and St Polten, before bowing out to three-time winners and eventual champions Barcelona in the quarter-final, losing 5-2 on aggregate.

Ho, born in Liverpool, then took Brann took a second-place league finish in Norway while reaching the semi-final of the domestic cup and the Bergen-based club are currently one point behind leaders Valerenga after 14 matches of the current season.

The new Tottenham boss has plenty of Women's Super League experience, having been an assistant coach with Manchester United for three years as they reached the FA Cup final in 2023 and finished second in the league, and he was a key member of the staff during their most successful league season since getting promoted in 2019. Before that he spent three years with Everton Women and had a spell as the head coach of Liverpool Women's U21s.

Now Ho is hoping to take Spurs on in their seventh season in the Women's Super League and build on Robert Vilahamn's FA Cup final appearance with the club before a poor league campaign last time out.

He already has a new signing in the bag for his squad after the club announced this week the signing of Toko Koga from Feyenoord, subject to international clearance and work permit. The 19-year-old Japan international has agreed a deal with Spurs that will run until June 2029, and she will wear the number 32 shirt.

New Tottenham CEO Vinai Venkatesham has big plans for the club and has three areas of focus to work on with one big change on the agenda.

The former Arsenal man began in his newly-created role last month at Spurs and has already made a positive impact behind the scenes at the club. One of his aims is to make the Premier League outfit more communicative and transparent in the way they act and build a bridge between the hierarchy and the supporters.

Venkatesham played a key role in the hiring of Thomas Frank as the club's new head coach after Ange Postecoglou was sacked. The new chief executive officer forged a strong bond with fan groups on the other side of north London across his years with the Gunners and he has already begun that process at Tottenham. Part of building that relationship came while taking part in a two-hours plus meeting with the club's fans' advisory board last week.

The new CEO introduced himself to the members and explained that he will oversee day-to-day operations and made it clear that the club's aim is to make supporters proud "especially through a desire to create more memorable nights like Bilbao and to compete for trophies consistently".

Venkatesham shared that after joining the club, his three areas of focus are "football, supporters and staff". The minutes of the meeting stated that he "is taking the time to learn as much as possible from staff and supporters. He has already met with supporter representatives since joining the club and committed to attending all FAB meetings and wants to operate on the basis of openness and transparency. He stated that the wider fanbase will continue to hear from the board and senior staff at points throughout the year."

That in itself will be a major change from the previous policy at the club where moments of public communication from the hierarchy were few and far between and it looks like Venkatesham will take on a role as the face of the powers-that-be at Spurs.

The 2025/26 season could be the year where Tottenham fans see the real Wilson Odobert. New head coach Thomas Frank will certainly be hoping that is the case as he looks to take the club forward and challenge for silverware.

Arriving from Burnley last August in a deal worth £30million, the Frenchman was restricted to 21 appearances in all competitions due to injury. Odobert did finish the season with a Europa League final winners' medal around his neck and he also played a huge role on the team's way to the final.

It was his double in a 3-1 round of 16 second leg win over AZ Alkmaar that saw Tottenham overturn a 1-0 deficit from the first leg to crucially secure a place in the quarter-finals of the competition. A few weeks later he then scored his first Premier League goal for the club in a 1-1 draw away at West Ham.

Odobert showed glimpses of his quality in his Tottenham appearances, perhaps most notably on his Premier League home debut against Everton, but there were occasions where he found himself on the periphery of a game and unfortunately having little influence. The hamstring injury he suffered in the Carabao Cup win at Coventry City ultimately had a big impact on his season and meant he was playing catch-up from the moment he returned five months later.

Speaking after his European double against AZ Alkmaar, Ange Postecoglou lavished praise on the winger and touched upon the "enormously exciting talent" at the club.

“Super pleased for him because he’s worked awfully hard," said the Australian. “I’d be surprised if I have to explain why I selected him, if you didn’t see that today… I was excited when we signed him. He’s one of these players who has the ability to take players on, find space, great technician and super pleased for him to get his goals. He’s worked hard silently to get back in the team.

“Obviously, he came to a new club, a big club and a big move for him and it didn’t work out for him through no fault of his own, through the injury and it’s been frustrating for me not to be able to showcase him and know how much he can develop and that’s just the starting point for him.

“He’s still working his way to full fitness. When you look at the likes of him and Lucas and Archie and two or three others we’ve got, there’s some enormously exciting talent there.”

It will be Frank rather than Postecoglou who hopefully benefits from the talented Odobert in the months and seasons ahead. The France Under-21 international did not feature in either of Tottenham's games against Brentford last term due to injury but he did play twice against the Bees the previous campaign when he was a Burnley player.

In his second outing against them as the Clarets won 2-1, Odobert teed up David Datro Fofana for the winning goal with a lovely disguised pass that the striker finished off. Frank will certainly know all about the qualities his player possesses and he has a track record of extracting even more out of his players, which hopefully will in turn result in Tottenham fans seeing the very best of the 20-year-old.

It won't be so straightforward in terms of the Meaux-born player securing a place in Tottenham's strongest XI but it will be a task he relishes. As things stand right now, Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski, Mathys Tel, Manor Solomon, Mikey Moore, Bryan Gil, Yang Min-hyeok, Son Heung-min and Richarlison are all options to play on the wing.

A few of the aforementioned players will head for the exit door and there is also the possibility of further incomings in that area of the pitch, with West Ham's Mohammed Kudus linked with a big-money move across the capital. Following a summer where he got even more minutes under his belt after playing for France Under-21s at the recent UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Odobert now has to make his mark in pre-season and put himself in the best possible position to start against former club Burnley on the opening weekend of the season.

It is a big year for the player and it could prove to be a very exciting one with Frank now the man tasked with his development.

Thomas Frank will get into the nitty gritty of his new job as Tottenham head coach as this week comes to a close and he will have plenty on his to-do list.

The Dane will be back at Hotspur Way this week to prepare as the pre-season fixture programme begins with a match against Reading on July 19 with his first press conference as Tottenham boss expected before that. A trip to Luton comes on July 26 before the tour to Hong Kong and South Korea with games in Asia against Arsenal and Newcastle.

Harry Kane's Bayern Munich are the hosts on August 7 before Frank's first competitive encounter at the north London club arrives on August 13 with the UEFA Super Cup final against Champions League winners PSG in Udine. There is little time to recover as just a few days later and the Premier League season kicks off with Scott Parker's Burnley the visitors to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Before all of that begins, Frank must spend the 16 days ahead working through plenty of items on his to-do list.

Finalise and prepare his staff

The 51-year-old will now have a clear idea what his coaching staff is going to look like at Tottenham with the last few additional members set to be finalised and confirmed in the days ahead.

That Frank has brought his two right-hand men across from Brentford in Justin Cochrane and Chris Haslam will be a huge help in not starting from scratch at Tottenham. As with all managers, the work begins with the coaching staff preparing for those early pre-season training sessions before the players step back into the training ground.

So as with his predecessors, Frank and his staff will be at Hotspur Way on Friday preparing what the players will go through on the grass in the following days once they have completed their blood work and tests in the gym.

Get his message across

The reason that Frank and his coaches must be prepared to their utmost as the players start to return on Saturday is because they have to hit the ground running.

Spurs made a big decision in sacking the man who won them their first trophy in 17 years in order to bring in the Dane and that call will be scrutinised from the off, with even pre-season games overanalysed to the extreme, particularly with a north London derby tucked in there.

The problem for Frank is that he has been notoriously a slow starter in his past two jobs, taking a good eight to 10 games to get going at both Brentford and before that at Brondby with defeats aplenty.

He of course has learned and experience a lot since then, but he and his coaches need to move quickly and get his ideas across in the most direct of ways as the sooner Tottenham are playing the way he wants them to the better.

Meet the key players

While the first few players will return on Saturday, those players who had international games last month will start to file back into the training ground from next week.

That group of players will contain some key names that Frank will want to have conversations with like skipper Son Heung-min and vice-captain Cristian Romero, both of whom have uncertain futures at the club and will be waiting to hear face to face what Frank has in mind for them while delivering their own views on what they want to come next.

Frank has already met James Maddison but will also want to have a proper chat with Spurs' other vice-captain, while goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario will be another key figure for the Dane to get on his side early on.

Assess the returning loanees

With a new manager comes fresh chances and some of those fringe players under Ange Postecoglou might become key men under Frank. The same goes for the loan players returning to the club after seasons spent elsewhere.

football.london has previously reported that Spurs have been rebuffing early loan advances for the likes of Jamie Donley and Will Lankshear because Frank wants to take a good look at the youngsters before deciding if they head out again.

He will also want to look at players like Manor Solomon, Josh Keeley, Yang Min-hyeok, Alfie Devine, Ashley Phillips, Alfie Dorrington and George Abbott, although Bryan Gil and Alejo Veliz look like their futures have already been decided, barring a remarkable turnaround.

Sometimes players who were the wrong fit under a previous manager can suddenly look a different prospect under another and Frank will be wary of losing an unexpected gem for his system.

Transfer chats with Lange

While plenty of transfer chats will have already taken place between Frank and Spurs' technical director Johan Lange, despite the lack of new players coming into the club so far, there will be more to come as the head coach expands his knowledge of the squad at his disposal while working up close and personal with the players.

Frank needs to assess certain areas of his squad and decide who the club need to move on and in which departments he does and doesn't need new faces.

Lange knows the new Tottenham head coach well, the two having a long history together which began with sharing an office together at Danish side Lyngby. He will have plenty of ideas about what Frank needs but ultimately only the new man at the helm can make those final decisions.

Mohammed Kudus is in the headlines right now regarding a potential transfer away from West Ham. Joining the Hammers from Ajax two years ago, the versatile attacker has been linked with a switch across the capital to either Tottenham or Chelsea.

Tottenham need to upgrade their options in the final third and Kudus is one of a number of players of interest to Thomas Frank's team ahead of the new season. Across the capital at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea have been very busy in the transfer market after confirming deals for Liam Delap, Dario Essugo, Mamadou Sarr and Joao Pedro.

Jamie Gittens will become summer addition No.5 once his £55million move from Borussia Dortmund is finalised. Despite adding to their attacking options, and with Estevao Willian to join Chelsea once his participation at the FIFA Club World Cup with Palmeiras is over, the Blues may not be done in terms of new attacking players just yet.

football.london understands that Chelsea have not ruled out making a move for Kudus despite confirming the signing of Pedro from Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday afternoon. So should Kudus head to Tottenham or Chelsea if he is to leave West Ham this summer? football.london's football writers have had their say below:

Rob Guest

I would be picking Tottenham over Chelsea if I was in Kudus' position this summer. His versatility is a huge bonus, and so is his Champions League experience, and there's a very good chance Thomas Frank could bring even more out of his game.

The Dane has a great record of extracting the very best from his players and Spurs fans could see a different side to Kudus after his struggles at West Ham last season. Given the amount of attacking options Chelsea have at their disposal, there's probably a better chance he features regularly for Spurs.

After all, it's highly unlikely Spurs would splash a big amount of a money on a player for him to be sat on the bench most weeks. Tottenham and West Ham very rarely do deals, though, but they could come to an agreement here if the Hammers need to bring in some money this summer, which in turn could see Spurs get a good deal for the 24-year-old.

Kieran Horn

Kudus would be a great signing for Tottenham and for one clear reason, he is better off joining Thomas Frank's side than Chelsea.

It is surprising to see the Blues still being linked with attackers having announced the signings of Joao Pedro and Liam Delap and agreed to sign Jamie Gittens. Already at the club is Noni Madueke and Pedro Neto, two very direct left-footed wingers and trying to sign a third would just be excessive.

Tottenham do have Dejan Kulusevski on their books but he is a very different profile in comparison to Kudus. Both clubs are in the Champions League while also having won trophies during the 2024/25 season which means there is unlikely to be a team he favours because of the competitions they are in.

However, Enzo Maresca's side are certainly in a better position to enjoy prolonged success but Kudus would be afforded more minutes in north London while also not having to worry about his future with the likes of Christopher Nkunku and Joao Felix set to be moved on after making just 12 Premier League starts between them in the last two years.

Alasdair Gold

Mohammed Kudus certainly has plenty of ability and he fits into Tottenham's regular transfer profile of being able to play in various positions.

Spurs like a Swiss Army Knife-type of player - or Swiss Archie Knife in terms of one of last summer's signings - and Kudus will provide quality across the three behind the front man in a 4-2-3-1 and provide another striker option when called upon.

The big question mark would be consistency and last season was not a good one for the 24-year-old for various reasons and he will need to prove that he hasn't been found out by Premier League defences. He will need to provide far more goals and assists. There's no comparison between his goal involvements when it comes to the likes of Brennan Johnson and Son Heung-min.

However, the quality is there and if Spurs could get the Kudus from season one under Thomas Frank then he would be more than worth the money and the competition in attacking areas in the Dane's squad would jump up.

Deals between Tottenham and West Ham are rare things and haven't happened since 2011 but with the Hammers desperate for funds this might just mark the return of positive transfer talks between the two London clubs.

Unless Lange has a better option up his sleeve, a Premier League and Champions League-experienced player in Kudus would be an impressive addition to the squad.

Sam Truelove

Kudus could quickly get lost at Chelsea if he does make the move to Stamford Bridge. Enzo Maresca already has a number of options in the forward line, with Liam Delap and Joao Pedro joining this summer. Jamie Gittens is expected to follow soon, so I'm not even sure where Kudus fits in.

Tottenham, on the other hand, could be the ideal move for the 24-year-old. Capable of playing on either wing, in the No.10 or as a striker, Kudus would be a decent option for Thomas Frank. He's electric and not afraid to take on his man, which could suit Frank's style of play.

I would still prefer the Lilywhites to sign Eberechi Eze, but it may be easier to get Kudus out of West Ham so don't be surprised if this deal happens fairly quickly over the coming weeks.

Tottenham player James Maddison has paid tribute to Diogo Jota on social media following the Liverpool star's tragic death. The Portuguese international died along with his younger brother, Andre Silva, in a car crash in northern Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning.

“Liverpool Football Club are devastated by the tragic passing of Diogo Jota,” read a Liverpool statement. “The club have been informed the 28-year-old has passed away following a road traffic accident in Spain along with his brother, Andre.

“Liverpool FC will be making no further comment at this time and request the privacy of Diogo and Andre’s family, friends, team-mates and club staff is respected as they try to come to terms with an unimaginable loss. We will continue to provide them with our full support.”

Following the heartbreaking update from Liverpool, Tottenham released their own statement after the sad news that has sent shockwaves throughout football. The statement read: "Everyone at Tottenham Hotspur is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Diogo Jota. Our thoughts and condolences are with his family, friends and all at Liverpool Football Club at this incredibly difficult time."

A number of Tottenham players have since taken to their social media accounts to pay tribute to the Liverpool Premier League title winner. James Maddison was one of those as he penned two classy messages on his Instagram Stories.

"Oh Diogo. So soooo sad. Honestly devastating," wrote Maddison. "Sending all the love I possess from me and my family to your wife and your family. Rest in peace Diogo & Andre."

He added: "Such an unbelievable player as well and lovely guy to go with it. Can't even believe it."

Maddison wasn't the only one to send his condolences as Richarlison also did likewise with a lengthy Instagram post.

"Diogo has always been a great opponent, a talented and respectful player on the pitch. We are all devastated by your departure," wrote the Brazilian

"My condolences to families, friends and all the fans, especially Liverpool, Portugal and all other clubs where you passed and left your mark. May God receive Diogo and his brother Andre in all his glory. May you rest in peace."