Tottenham Hotspur signed four big names in the summer 2025 transfer market in Joao Palhiha, Randal Kolo Muani, Mohammed Kudus, and Xavi Simons. So far, Kudus and Palhinha have been the game-changers, but Spurs have yet to see the best of Simons and Kolo Muani, with the latter only just rounding into fitness.
The Simons signing was widely seen as the biggest splash Spurs made in the summer, as they suddenly snagged him from under the noses of Chelsea. What made the Simons move so important and uplifting for Tottenham is that it came after they were snubbed by both Morgan Gibbs-White and Eberechi Eze, with the latter choosing rivals Arsenal over Spurs.
Although Simons is having growing pains, Tottenham fans don't regret signing him over Eze, as, over the long term, he will prove to be the better signing and is younger than Eze. And the more Eze opens his mouth, the less Tottenham fans regret the decision.
Eze made it clear in an interview with The Athletic before the Premier League weekend that he never really had any intention of joining Tottenham anyway. As relayed by Fabrizio Romano, Eze told the world:
“I was prepared to go to Tottenham… but from the moment Arsenal came, it was always going to be them. Playing for Arsenal are more like a show or theatre. There’s more pressure, playing for titles, but it’s something I’ve dreamed of."
Tottenham won't regret Eberechi Eze
News flash. If a player thinks Arsenal is the holy grail and would prefer to move there, then Tottenham should have never been interested in the first place. Eze is not the kind of player Spurs would like to have in their club, because this is a bitter rivalry that runs deep and has no room for doubters or potential turncoats of the Sol Campbell ilk.
Eze is a perfectly decent footballer, but to listen to him wax poetic about Arsenal, it makes you wonder if Tottenham were simply a makeweight in all the negotiations or nothing more than a backup option - if they were even an option at all. It makes Spurs supporters who wanted him at all in the first place feel as if they were taken to be fools in all of this.
Although, for some, Eze praising Arsenal like this would make it seem like he is rubbing salt in the wounds of Tottenham, the reality is that it's just further confirmation that Spurs never really needed him to begin with. In Simons We Trust.