🤝 Buy 👋 Sell ✋ Keep: What Tottenham need to do this summer | OneFootball

Let’s get to it.

Here is what business Tottenham should be doing in the transfer window this summer.

🤝 Buy

José Mourinho has been banging the drum for a whole raft of signings this summer but with the pandemic hitting Tottenham more than most, it could be a case of ‘one in, one out’ before the season kicks off.

With Jan Vertonghen gone, a new central defender is very much on the agenda and there are very few better available on the market right now than Gabriel Magalhães.

The Lille man has been sensational in Ligue 1 this term and has received admiring glances from the likes of Arsenal and Everton  – €30m is the likely asking price.

A new central midfielder also looks to be on the cards and rumours linking Pierre-Emile Højbjerg with the north London side make perfect sense.

👋 Sell

It’s been a consistent trend in football over the past decade but if Liverpool’s dominance over the past two seasons have taught us anything it’s that full-backs are king.

Right and left-backs who have buckets of energy, tactical awareness and a superb delivery are paramount if you are to succeed in the Premier League now, and, frankly, Spurs don’t have that right now.

In Japhet Tanganga and Ryan Sessegnon, they have two outstanding young defenders who deserve a chance. Blocking their paths, however, are Serge Aurier and Ben Davies.

Two fine players who have served Spurs well down the years but it’s time for Mourinho to be ruthless and give the kids a chance.

✋ Keep

There can surely only be answer here: Tanguy Ndombélé.

The Frenchman was signed only 12 months ago and put forward as the man who could take Spurs to the next level. A salve in their Champions League final wound. A new fulcrum for a side on the up.

Almost the exact opposite has come to pass and we’re now at a point where Tottenham are genuinely looking to cut their losses. That would be a huge mistake.

If in another year’s time, we’re still pondering what could have been with the 23-year-old then sure, allow him to leave.

But to give a young midfielder, your club record signing, just a single crack of the whip during one of your most turbulent campaigns’ in recent memory, seems illogical.

There’s a world class player in there, we know that, now Spurs need their world class coach to do his job.