Tottenham Hotspur thoroughly embarrassed themselves in the 2025/26 Premier League season, hitting a new low by ranking 17th in the Premier League and barely escaping relegation by the skin of their teeth on the last day of the season with a Joao Palhinha fueled 1-0 win over Everton.
Spurs were ravaged by injuries, yes, but they also played genuinely awful football for most of the season before Roberto De Zerbi came in to save the day. Tottenham had an embarrassing winter transfer window when they needed reenforcements, especially attacking, the most, and while they landed some pretty big fish last summer between Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons, time has proven those additions insufficient in the face of a team that already finished 17th in the Premier League the season before.
Tottenham need to get serious again, and everyone from Vinai Venkatesham as the CEO all the way down to the players on the pitch knows it. Spurs have been the opposite of serious, though, in terms of the sporting aspect for years and years, and it has shown in how few truly elite players on the market Spurs go for.
Tottenham's best bet is in London
This summer, it's patently obvious Tottenham Hotspur need a real blockbuster transfer like a Desire Doue or Antoine Semenyo type signing - a player linked to other elite clubs who, unlike the other two players, actually goes to Spurs instead of another top club.
That player in 2026 is Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton. Linked to all the top clubs in the Premier League and even Real Madrid, Wharton is a young, English deep lying playmaking midfielder who creates clear cut chances, sees the game at a high level, and has the technical quality and range of passing to become one of the big stars of the next generation.
At 22 years of age, Wharton, as an offensive No. 6, is still just a prospect, and if Tottenham could manage to sign him from one of their London rivals and pair him with Archie Gray, they could suddenly turn one of their biggest weaknesses in the build up phase into a massive, massive strength for the next decade to come under Roberto De Zerbi.
There are other big names Tottenham fans are talking about on social media as a possible dream target like Serie A MVP pedigree forwards Victor Osimhen and current AC Milan man Rafael Leao, but these guys are expensive, potentially inconsistent or injury prone, and not as big of a long term play in a marquee position in the modern game for De Zerbi to utilize like Wharton. He is THE guy to target if Spurs want to make a statement to the rest of the Premier League.
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