✅ It is TRUE: The most likely scenario for João Palhinha is that he’ll stay put at Tottenham. We know they’re going to stay in the Premier League. I loved the scenes of the midfielder celebrating so passionately after scoring the pivotal goal against Everton to keep them in the English top-flight on the final day of the season. He was showing so much love to the supporters, so I think it’s clear that he wants to stay. But in the end, I don’t think it’s a question of if he’ll stay at Tottenham, but rather how much Spurs will bid to Bayern Munich. They can make it easy and say we want him so much, we’ll pay the release clause of €30m. That’s the route Bayern are hoping for. But I think Tottenham are going to try to negotiate the price down.
I think Palhinha is too expensive at the moment for Sporting Lisbon. I heard they tried, at first, to get another loan deal. So, I think if Tottenham make a bid of over €20m-25m [£17.3m-21.6m], he’ll stay in London. But, please, Tottenham – think of Bayern Munich! They’re not such a rich club. Go ahead and give them €30m.