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After accepting defeat in pursuit of Cody Gakpo and picking up the bill from Tottenham’s transfer strategy summit over Italian food, emerged with Iliman Ndiaye in his sights.
De Zerbi insisted that ‘for once’ he was not the impatient one pushing hard and demanding more signings to ‘complete’ the team before the looming deadline.