Although Tottenham Hotspur haven't gotten a whole lot right in the 2025/26 season, one thing they have to be very proud about is signing West Ham star Mohammed Kudus in the summer 2025 transfer window, and you really have to shudder to think where this Spurs team would be as a whole without Kudus's fine work on the right wing each and every week.
At this point, Kudus has to be exhausted by being the main man to carry this attack. He scored the lone goal over the weekend against Fulham in order to help Spurs try to save some face, volleying brilliantly into the near corner. Then this Tuesday night, Kudus provided the assist for Spurs first goal of Cristian Romero's double pack.
All around, Kudus was excellent for Spurs in the 2-2 draw with Newcastle, and they would have lost yet again without him. The Ghanaian international won a couple of tackles to chip in defensively and did his usual great work on the right wing as a creator, producing a couple of chances while winning several one on one duels.
Mohammed Kudus is cut from a different cloth
Kudus's strong game was a huge head to head message to former Manchester United and Nottingham Forest man Anthony Elanga. Another high priced summer transfer on the wings, Elanga joined Newcastle from Forest for a cool 55 million pounds, which, funnily enough, is exactly the amount of money Spurs paid to West Ham for Kudus.
While it is early, Elanga has been dreadful for Newcastle and one of the least productive summer signings of the last window. He is still a couple of years younger than Kudus, but, even then, watching Elanga struggle to make any sort of impact as a bench player for Newcastle on Tuesday night while Kudus helped keep Spurs in the game was enough to at least make Tottenham feel good about this.
The Kudus signing is one of the few things that has gone right for Spurs in the new Thomas Frank era, and he certainly sent that message to Newcastle that he and Elanga are trending in very different directions. And they are likely different calibers of player entirely, with Kudus offering more creativity and dynamism, especially in terms of his ball progression and skill in one on ones.
You can only imagine what Kudus would be capable of if Tottenham were a more cogent attacking side and with a better left wing and striker situation surrounding the team's primary wide playmaker.