Tottenham Only Need One More Addition after Lo Celso
Tottenham have already handled their summer transfer business with aplomb. They only need one more player.
When Tottenham finally get Lo Celso across the threshold of the training ground it will be an important day for the club. He will likely be the second player to break their transfer record in the same summer and will immediately become one of the highest-paid players in the history of the club.
It will also signal that Tottenham are done with two-thirds of their necessary transfer business for the summer.
With respect to Jack Clarke, he is going to be left out of this calculation. He’s a fine young player but his immediate loan back to Leeds makes his addition something of a less immediate issue.
I have long said that good clubs, stable and sensible, clubs do not buy more than 2-3 players in a window. That is because they will have identified that there are only so many players who can suit their needs during a summer and they’re specifically too smart to simply take the chance at upsetting dressing room chemistry for a player who they haven’t vetted and identified for their specific needs.
That is why after the significant additions that will be both Tanguy Ndombele and Lo Celso only Ryan Sessegnon or another left-back in his ilk will be necessary.
After that Tottenham should shut their doors on the transfer silliness that too often enraptures more poorly run clubs and get down to work. With the addition of analytics, sporting science and other technological innovations in today’s game sometimes the football is forgotten. The football people are taken for granted and their hard-earned nous learned on countless training grounds in terrible conditions is forgotten.
Too many businessmen and wunderkids have come into the game and forgotten that it is a grassroots one. Sweat, blood, muscle sinew and mental toughness matter more than anything else. Other elements like transfers and technology should, of course, be embraced but too often they are considered the focal point of a clubs interest as opposed to at best an additional or peripheral one.
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Three transfers is enough. It’s good that Tottenham will have gotten them done early enough that they can do what is necessary. Train, get to know their teammates and develop those relationships that turn 11 men wearing the same color into a team. That is what football is about. The relationship between the players, the coaches, the fans and the ownership and what they all see and identify in one another. That is what makes a club.
Tottenham is moving in the right direction and seem to have identified the perfect targets. That in and of itself is a good sign for the upcoming season. It means that everyone is moving in the right direction, together, and that’s the best way to chase down Liverpool and Tottenham and win a Premier League title.