Tottenham Hotspur are working hard to support Roberto De Zerbi with a pair of world class signings in the midfield this summer, as Sandro Tonali and Mateus Fernandes are squarely on the club's radar. Spurs are negotiating to sign both potential 85 million pound standouts, and there is optimism Spurs can land at least one of them.
In the meantime, though, Spurs are having to deal with transfer requests from two of their most promising young players in center midfielder Lucas Bergvall and center back Luka Vuskovic. They were always prepared for the possibility of having to sell one of them in the future, but things are coming up faster than expected.
Vuskovic was the first to want out. He has been mired in transfer rumors with Brighton, whom Tottenham bought Roberto De Zerbi's center back of choice Jan Paul van Hecke from for a cool 60 million euros. Brighton have been trying to buy Vuskovic back for less than that, though Spurs have rejected their offers and are looking for at least 60 million pounds in return.
Tottenham never seemed to mean much to him
Meanwhile, Vuskovic's issue is that he does not want to be loaned again, even though he had always said he wanted to stay on loan in 2026/27 at Hamburg to play alongside his brother. Well, now, after being on the Bundesliga Team of the Season, Vuskovic either wants to start for Tottenham Hotspur or a club like Brighton that will start him right from the get go.
According to a report from Sky Sports's Michael Bridges on the Last Word on Spurs show, Luka Vuskovic thinks that a transfer to Brighton is what his career needs. Apparently Vuskovic and his management team believe that with two to three years of shining at Brighton, the Croatian center back will be playing for Barcelona.
What is infuriating from a Tottenham Hotspur perspective is that if Vuskovic sees himself at Barcelona in a few years, then he always saw himself at Barcelona in a few years. And unlike players like Harry Kane, Son Heung-min, Christian Eriksen, Toby Alderweireld, Hugo Lloris, and all the real legends of this club, he merely saw Spurs as a stepping stone from Day 1.
And worse yet, now he thinks that Brighton are a better stepping stone than Tottenham are, which is wild to think about. The wildest thing is that even at Hamburg, Vuskovic was getting links to Barcelona and Bayern Munich, so this idea that he needs Brighton to go to Barcelona is absurd.
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