Tottenham Hotspur need to upgrade their squad this summer transfer window, but even if they stay up in the Premier League, it is not going to be easy for them to convince the players they need to improve their squad to join a team that will not have European football and is spiraling. Roberto De Zerbi and a few quality young pieces like Archie Gray are sources of optimism, but there is so much more to be pessimistic about.
The recruitment strategy at Spurs has now devolved, somehow, after Daniel Levy's departure. Because at least Levy was bringing in high upside young players like Lucas Bergvall, Gray, Mathys Tel, Wilson Odobert, and more.
This past winter transfer window, Spurs did sign Souza, but they also signed Conor Gallagher. Now, they are after Andrew Robertson again and appear to already have a deal agreed with the aging Liverpool left back, should they stay up in the Premier League this season.
Marcos Senesi is getting closer
Well, Andy Robertson isn't the only one. The Athletic's transfer insider David Ornstein is reporting that Tottenham Hotspur are now in "advanced talks" to sign a player who had been linked to them for months and is now increasingly being linked, Bournemouth center back Marcos Senesi. Further, Ornstein says that Spurs are the "leading contender" to sign Senesi, provided, of course, as with Robertson, they do not get relegated to the EFL Championship. Ornstein cautions that a deal is far from done, but a lot of signs are pointing to Senesi to the N17.
While Senesi is having a good season for Bournemouth, the Argentinian defender's play has quietly tailed off over the past couple of months. He is a great pure ball winner and an aggressive defender, but he is a very poor man's Cristian Romero at 28.
Senesi makes all the frustrating defensive errors as Romero without the same athletic quality and technical ability on the ball. Tottenham may be interested in Senesi as a stylistic replacement for Romero on a budget play as a free agent, but that is obviously a case of Spurs moving in the wrong direction again, cheapening out for a known veteran commodity instead of replacing a star with a better star to up their chances at European football.
As Chelsea and the others quietly drop out of the Marcos Senesi transfer race and Tottenham become a bigger favorite for the center back, Spurs fans have to be even more concerned about the direction Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham are taking them in.
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