Tottenham Hotspur made a few moves to upgrade their squad this past summer transfer window both to help new manager Thomas Frank get off to the right start and to fortify a squad headed for Champions League football despite finishing a historically poor 17th in the Premier League.
Stars of the future Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons have obviously soaked up the most attention, but there is no question that in recent weeks, 27 year old striker Randal Kolo Muani has established himself as a real bright spot and a player who could be a key part of the future for Spurs.
Obviously, Kolo Muani's biggest performance was the three goal contributions on a Champions League night against his parent club PSG, who are the reigning winners of the competition and had previously stifled the actual Spurs forwards earlier this season in the UEFA Super Cup Final.
Randal Kolo Muani has different quality
But even in games like the most recent Champions League outing against Slavia Praha in which Kolo Muani did not start (in order to spare him after a recent injury scare), Kolo Muani does enough in meager minutes to show that he is a different class from the rest of the players aiming to start at striker for Tottenham Hotspur in 2025.
His vision, footballing intelligence, athleticism, first touch, smoothness, and skill on the ball are all separators to the others. Kolo Muani is so much more consistent and better all around than Richarlison, and with Dominic Solanke still nowhere near an actual return date, RKM is gaining even more appreciation among the Tottenham faithful going into 2026.
Kolo Muani is just a one year rental, and while it is a cardinal sin to fall in love with a loan player, Kolo Muani is on his second successful loan back to back after playing well for Juventus in 2024/25. And Juve wanted to keep him for longer; it's just that their former executive Fabio Paratici essentially stole him for Spurs on transfer deadline day this summer.
Although Kolo Muani was a star for Eintracht Frankfurt, Juventus, and now Tottenham in three different leagues, the 90 million euro striker could not cut the mustard in the crowded PSG front line, which went on to win the Champions League without him. So it is not impossible for Spurs to sign him permanently at the end of the season, and while he won't be too cheap after that initial price tag from Eintracht to Paris, Spurs fans are starting to see enough from him that they are smitten with RKM as the striker solution.