Now that Tottenham no longer plan to spend half of their cash on an executive cheese room at the new White Hart Lane, they can make more room in their budget for football stuff. That means they can buy some new training bibs, take muddy kits to the launderette after every game, make sure that everyone has shin pads, get enough half-time oranges for the whole team and give Son Heung-min a new contract worth a whopping £150,000 a week. Hooray! Let the good times roll!
What’s more, it even means Mauricio Pochettino might be allowed to sign a new player. Just the one, mind you, we don’t want to go crazy. But still, giddy times for Pochettino, who has settled on rivalling Arsenal for Milan’s Suso. The former Liverpool midfielder is going for £35m. The north London rivals plan to start the bidding at a cool £3.5m.
Elsewhere in Italy, Juventus are said to be plotting a raid for Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. They reckon £44m will do the job if they also chuck in Paulo Dybala. The Mill reckons there’s more chance of Liverpool building a statue of Demba Ba outside Anfield than this one happening.
Staying with Juve, Chelsea reckon they make Gonzalo Higuaín’s loan deal permanent for less than the £31.8m they agreed with the Italian giants. Failing that, they will turn their attention to Benfica’s Luka Jovic, who could be theirs for £39.7m. Don’t think too much about the maths.
While Wolves think about signing Raúl Jiménez on a permanent basis from Benfica and challenging Everton for Porto’s Yacine Brahimi, Manchester City are feeling
chipper after learning that Barcelona cannot afford to pay £75m for Matthis De Ligt. That leaves City as the clear favourites to sign the Ajax centre-back. Another win for the little guy.
If a certain someone was still at Old Trafford, Manchester United’s top target this summer would have been Newcastle’s Jamaal Lascelles. But with Ole Gunnar Solskjær at the helm all the focus is on splurging £100m on Benfica wonderkid Joao Felix, which could give Alexis Sánchez even more time to spend with his dogs.