In a sudden change of pace, Tottenham Hotspur are not messing around. After years of never competing with the big boys for elite targets or wanting to outspend the other teams in the Premier League Big Six, Spurs have now confirmed a 185 million pound double swoop for star midfielders in this league, inking Mateus Fernandes from West Ham United as the next big thing in the defensive midfield and then former Scudetto winner Sandro Tonali from Newcastle United.
David Ornstein of The Athletic just confirmed the massive splash for Tonali, who had been linked to Premier League title contenders Manchester City and Arsenal. The final fee for the Italian international is a whopping 100 million pounds, breaking the transfer record that Spurs had broken just a day earlier when they also met West Ham's sky high valuation of 85 million pounds for the Portuguese international Fernandes.
Tottenham Hotspur now have a new look midfield, signing the exact two players Roberto De Zerbi had demanded they bring in after already signing the 60 million euro transfer he demanded in Brighton center back Jan Paul van Hecke.
Roberto De Zerbi has changed how Tottenham act
Spurs are making serious moves on the transfer market, and the Sandro Tonali deal confirms the fact that not only is De Zerbi truly in the driver's seat of this club after the contract he signed and the way he saved Spurs from Premier League relegation, but he is also moving the club in a totally different direction in terms of their ambitions and spending.
De Zerbi's appointment was initially met with a lot of rightful skeptiicsm after how his Marseille tenure ended up and with concerns over his volatility. Plus, there were a lot of Spurs fans still dreaming of the possibility of reuniting with Mauricio Pochettino, whose dismissal is still viewed as a moment the club wishes they could have had back.
But there is a new era dawning on Tottenham, and not even Pochettino was able to get the club to behave in this way and break transfer records for blockbuster targets. Manchester United and Real Madrid were both after Mateus Fernandes, while Tonali was high on both the lists of Manchester City and Arsenal this summer transfer window.
Tottenham outspent and outhustled four elite clubs to these two pivotal midfield transfers, and both moves had the finger prints of De Zerbi all over them. De Zerbi is changing the way Spurs operate, and fans have to be very thankful for that.
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