The dream signing of many Tottenham Hotspur supporters this summer may be back on the right track. According to Fabrizio Romano, Tottenham Hotspur are now working on a deal that would bring 27-year-old Crystal Palace attacking midfielder Eberechi Eze to White Hart Lane.
Notably, this deal is said to be entirely separate from the one announced yesterday that linked Spurs with a move for 20-year-old Manchester City winger Savinho.
Eze has been high on the lists of Tottenham fans for a couple of seasons now, but for a while it’s looked like he was heading to Arsenal. It’s not clear what, if anything, has changed — whether Arsenal has moved on to other targets, or if there was something else going on what prevented them from sealing the deal, but it could be to Tottenham’s benefit.
But first, Romano appears to be incorrect about the expiration of Eze’s £68m release clause, according to Dom Smith. Instead, Eze’s clause is apparently still active and doesn’t expire until this Friday, which could go a long way towards explaining Tottenham’s sudden interest. That said, because it’s Tottenham I’d also imagine these negotiations are much more about seeing if Spurs can get their man for less than the release clause than pushing their chips onto the table.
This all has the feel of a “Fabio Paratici scattergun” method, doesn’t it? That said, what is NOT clear is whether the Savinho and Eze deals are mutually exclusive. If they are, as much as I like Eze as a player I’m not sure it’d be the best deal Spurs could make. Passing up a 20-year-old Brazilian winger with good underlying numbers and an incredibly high ceiling for a player seven years older playing at his physical peak right now for approximately the same amount of money doesn’t feel like a particularly good choice.
On the other hand, we know Spurs have at bare minimum £65m to spend since that was what they offered to purchase Morgan Gibbs-White from Nottingham Forest last month. Purchasing both Savinho and Eze, along with another central defender, still leaves Spurs pretty woefully absent of central midfield passing, but it would at least be a pretty significant statement of intent.
Let’s see where this goes.
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