Tottenham are now said to have been given the green light to sign former Arsenal star Folarin Balogun. Spurs are hoping to add a couple of forwards to their record-spending summer, having so far concentrated on bolstering their defence and midfield.

Roberto De Zerbi has already spent £237million on new recruits, with Sandro Tonali, Mateus Fernandes and Jan Paul van Hecke taking up much of that spend. But he is yet to add any forwards, and that is expected to change over the coming weeks.

Tottenham are said to be prioritising a move for a winger currently, but they could yet add another striker, as long as the right deal comes up, or if they can shift one of their current frontmen.

According to new reports, Monaco and USMNT World Cup star Balogun is of interest, and the player is said to have approved a move, despite having come up through the ranks at Arsenal. Balogun grew up in London but ended up playing for the US due to being born Stateside.

Footmercato journalist Santi Aouna posted on X: “Folarin Balogun has given his green light to join Tottenham. As revealed on @footmercato, the Monaco striker is the Spurs’ priority. No official offer yet, but discussions are progressing between the various parties.”

Balogun has scored 24 goals in 72 league games for Monaco, and he scored three goals in five games as USMNT reached the World Cup Round of 16. Of course, he was notably at the centre of a controversy that saw him sent off and then dodge a suspension after a supposed Donald Trump interference.

The 25-year-old didn’t have a say in that, though, in his defence, and he will be looking to build on his impressive World Cup form at club level this coming season. Spurs are reportedly hoping that will be in North London, and they will reportedly have to pay €60million to get the deal done, which works out as £51.2million.

The last five players to play for both Arsenal and Tottenham

• Emmanuel Adebayor — Arsenal (2006–09), Tottenham (2011–15)
• William Gallas — Arsenal (2006–10), Tottenham (2010–13)
• David Bentley — Arsenal (2004), Tottenham (2008–11)
• Sol Campbell — Tottenham (1992–2001), Arsenal (2001–06, 2010)
• Rohan Ricketts — Arsenal (2001–02), Tottenham (2002–05)

What Spurs can expect from Balogun

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Balogon has received high praise over recent times, having established himself as a goalscorer for club and country. USMNT teammate Weston McKennie has said: “Obviously he’s a striker who’s very versatile. He can hurt you on the dribble, hurt you in behind, he’s a clinical finisher.” Meanwhile, Christian Pulisic has described him as ‘insane’.

Back in 2023, Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said: “He’s got something special. That’s why we gave him a long-term contract and have faith in him, and give him the long period that he’s having now, because the period he’s having now is different to the one before at Middlesbrough.”

Former WWE star Dawn Marie has joined X-rated site OnlyFans.

Longtime wrestling fans were shocked to hear the news that the former superstar had joined the raunchy subscription service this past week.

Dawn, now aged 55, is also currently a nurse as well as consistently appearing on the convention circuit where she meets fans and reunites with old colleagues.

Dawn Marie’s Most Memorable WWE Storyline

Long-time WWE fans will likely remember Dawn Marie for her feud with Torrie Wilson on SmackDown in the early 2000s. During their storyline, Marie married Wilson’s real-life dad, Al, in a highly controversial moment.

After weeks of back-and-forth between Torrie and Dawn, the angle climaxed in a bizarre wedding on Friday night SmackDown when the pair, stripped down to their underwear, were ‘married’ live on television.

The angle would culminate when Al Wilson passed away whilst, shall we say, celebrating his marriage on the couple’s honeymoon. Marie would then attack Torrie Wilson at the funeral whilst she sobbed over her father’s open casket in an angle that is best left in the history books.

Sadly, Al died in real life in April 2019, just two days before Torrie was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.

‘Don’t Be Shy’ – Dawn Marie Launches OnlyFans Account

Fans have certainly expressed their excitement on social media following the news of the former ECW originals’ new venture, but Dawn was quick to warn potential subscribers not to expect anything too extreme.

“Please note only sexy shoots and implied nudity will ever be shown here. No full nudity or overtly sexual/adult content is allowed,” she wrote on OnlyFans.

“I’d love to hear from you in [direct messages] so don’t be shy, send me a message! Keep it fun, flirty and respectful.”

Marie would exit WWE in 2005 after falling pregnant and would later sue the company for wrongful termination, which was settled out of court in 2007.

She is not the only wrestler to turn to subscription-based platforms in recent years, and even Torrie Wilson herself joined the website Passes, which is a more PG-friendly version of OnlyFans.

‘I’ve had people come up to me and say, “You’d make so much money on OnlyFans!” But I don’t wanna do anything nude, and I feel like people expect [OnlyFans] to go there,’

‘I love that Passes is a cleaner platform, so people aren’t gonna come on there expecting [nudity],’ she added.

Perhaps the most successful wrestler who has gone down this route is former NXT Women’s Champion, Mandy Rose, who, upon sharing explicit images on the site FanTime, was fired from WWE. This publicity sent a surge of subscribers in support of Rose, who made $1 million in a single month.

Tottenham Hotspur will name their 25-man squad for the Premier League after the transfer window closes on September 1 and one key man may be left off the list.

All Premier League clubs are allowed to use whichever players they want in their squad for the first few weeks of the season, with clubs not expected to name their final 25-man squad until after the transfer window closes – giving them the ability to add new signings if they wish.

But there are certain rules that every club has to abide by when naming their squads for the campaign ahead.

The rules when naming a 25-man squad:

• Every squad must have no more than 17 players deemed as non-homegrown in it.
• Every squad should therefore have eight homegrown players in it. For every homegrown player a team does not have, the squad size depreciates by one.
• A homegrown player is someone who, irrespective of nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons, or 36 months, before his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21).
• All U21 players can be left off the squad list and can be used at any time during the season. For the 2026/27 Premier League season, U21 players will have been born on or after January 1, 2005.

With little more than a week until the new Premier League season gets under way, there is still plenty of work to be done when it comes to incoming and outgoing transfers across the board.

And that is no more apparent than at Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs have already made six new signings and allowed eight players to leave.

All of Tottenham’s transfer business so far in summer 2026:

Tottenham may have let more players leave than they have signed currently, but at the time of writing, heading into the 2026/27 campaign, they have 28 senior players on the books, with 20 classed as non homegrown and eight homegrown.

Non-homegrown: Guglielmo Vicario, Antonin Kinsky, Martin Dubravka, Andy Robertson, Pedro Porro, Destiny Udogie, Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, Marcos Senesi, Jan Paul van Hecke, Kota Takai, Mateus Fernandes, Sandro Tonali, Rodrigo Bentancur, Pape Matar Sarr, Dejan Kulusevski, Mohammed Kudus, Xavi Simons, Wilson Odobert, Richarlison. Homegrown: Brandon Austin, Kevin Danso, Ben Davies, Djed Spence, Conor Gallagher, James Maddison, Dominic Solanke, Dane Scarlett.

As it stands, three of those players would miss out on a place in De Zerbi’s Premier League squad.

That may not be too difficult to work out, with Vicario, Romero and Spence all linked with exits from the club this summer and Takai likely to go out on loan.

Those four exits would open up one space in the squad for the season, although De Zerbi has admitted that there are likely to be “two or three” more signings coming into the club. Scarlett could also depart the club this summer, but if three new signings arrive, another player would have to be left off the final squad list for the first half of the campaign.

The big-name player De Zerbi could leave out of his squad

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Clubs are permitted to make changes to their squad halfway through the season, to incorporate new signings in the January transfer window, and as a result £52million signing Xavi Simons could be a major omission from the Premier League squad when it is announced a the beginning of September.

Simons suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury in just De Zerbi’s third game in charge in 2025/26. Such an injury will see him miss nine months of action, with his expected return to action being the end of January.

With the Dutchman unlikely to play any part during the first five months of the season, it would make sense to leave him off the squad list to allow any other new signings to take up a spot in the squad instead.

Tottenham remain in talks with Manchester City over a move to sign Brazilian Savinho, while De Zerbi’s comments about a “bomba” signing were about someone completely different.