Tottenham Hotspur have a massive summer transfer window ahead of them, and the squad for the 2026/27 could look very different from the one that finished 17th for a second straight season and very nearly got relegated in 2025/26. Injuries or not, Spurs supporters do indeed hope the squad looks totally different, particularly from an attacking perspective.
So far, Spurs have already signed two new defenders to the team in Andrew Robertson and Marcos Senesi, and most fans fully expect a third to be on the way with Roberto De Zerbi in hot pursuit of his old Brighton star center back Jan Paul van Hecke.
But aside from the new faces at N17, Tottenham fans are hoping De Zerbi can continue to get the most out of existing players at the club. Rodrigo Bentancur, Conor Gallagher, Joao Palhinha, Pedro Porro, Antonin Kinsky, and Micky van de Ven all improved considerably under De Zerbi in just a few weeks, and Spurs are hoping that other players, particularly the young future stars, can show similar growth under the former Sassuolo and Marseille manager in 2026/27.
Eric Dier sounds hyped about Djed Spence
Tottenham Hotspur cult hero and former starting defensive player Eric Dier recently heaped high praise on new England national team World Cup call up Djed Spence as a player who could have a big season and whom he is excited to see working under De Zerbi for a full campaign.
Dier said of Spence, via Chris Cowlin, “Just to enjoy it - I've already told him to! We were together at the club for a while and we stay in touch. I spoke to him a couple of days ago. It will be one of the best experiences he's going to have in his career and, hopefully, he’ll have more. I think Djed has fantastic individual characteristics, some of them physical, some of them technical and some of them mental. I'm excited to see him with the new manager at Spurs next season. I think he has fantastic attributes. He just needs to keep working hard and stay calm. He has fantastic abilities and I like him, too. I feel like he had a tough time, you know, for a while and he showed real resilience to get through that.”
It is massive for a player like Djed Spence, who is just a backup for Tottenham Hotspur, to be at the World Cup and in a position of trust from the England manager Thomas Tuchel, as the Champions League winner is so high on Spence that the Spurs man could be getting starts.
Not only is Eric Dier optimstic about Spence at the World Cup, but he sounds legitimately hyped to watch him ball for Tottenham next season. Spence is one of those overlooked players, even by the Spurs faithful, but he is suddenly an intriguing prospect in 2026/27.
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