It feels like a pivotal few months for Tottenham as they aim to head it back in the right direction after a disappointing few years.
Spurs have been involved in back-to-back relegation battles, finishing 17th two seasons on the bounce in the Premier League.
Tottenham Fail With Move After Talks
According to Sky Sports reporter Florian Plettenberg, Sebastian Kehl will not join Tottenham after holding concrete talks with the club.
Kehl was Tottenham’s leading candidate for a newly created director role, with discussions ongoing over the last few months, but he has now rejected a move to Spurs.
Tottenham Hotspur are currently undergoing a major summer of change, and it now looks likely that there will be yet another big departure before the transfer window slams shut.
Spurs have made six signings so far, bringing in Andy Robertson, Marcos Senesi, Martin Dubravka, Jan Paul van Hecke, Mateus Fernandes, and Sandro Tonali, while Luka Vuskovic, Djed Spence, Cristian Romero, Radu Dragusin, Will Lankshear, Manor Solomon, and Guglielmo Vicario have all departed the club.
“There will be a big competition to play because, at the end, I think we will be two players for each position. If he wants to stay, I will be happy.” – De Zerbi on Bergvall
But with Fernandes, Tonali, Bergvall, Rodrigo Bentancur, and Conor Gallagher likely making up the manager’s midfield options for the season, it means that Pape Matar Sarr may have already played his final game for the club.
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£50m Sarr Has No Spurs Future
Reports have suggested that Spurs have put a £50m asking price on the Senegal international, and they have received enquiries from Saudi Arabia, Brentford, and Aston Villa about his availability.
Sarr has also been a reliable servant, but with limited game time this season and the transfer business the club has done, he’s way down the pecking order. De Zerbi has clearly made his mind up on the midfield too, with Sarr featuring for just 87 minutes during pre-season – less than every other midfield option in the squad.
De Zerbi’s decision to keep two players for each position means it would be a long way back for him, and it now looks clear that he has already played his final game for the club.
Unai Emery is now desperate to add a replacement to the squad before the transfer deadline on September 1st, and the club are understood to be looking at a number of potential options for the position, which includes Tosin.
Tosin has been a regular at Chelsea since joining from Fulham on a free transfer two summers ago, but looks set to depart Stamford Bridge after being stripped of his squad number and made to train separately from Xabi Alonso’s first-team group.
The Nigerian, who wore number 4 last season, has seen his number given to new signing Valentin Barco and been handed the number 38. Now Villa are exploring whether they can do a deal to bring him to the Midlands.
Chelsea are ready to listen to offers for the 28-year-old, and Villa face competition from European teams such as Marseille, Benfica, and Sevilla for his signature.
Chelsea have had a very busy summer with ten new first-team signings, including central defender Maxence Lacroix, which has pushed Tosin down the pecking order.
But he had featured in every pre-season game under Xabi Alonso prior to the final clash with Real Sociedad, when he was left out of the squad entirely, and had even worn the captain’s armband. Now Villa are looking at potentially bringing him in.
Tosin’s arrival at Stamford Bridge was seen as a coup on a free transfer, but he has struggled to really cement himself as a top-level option on the pitch.
However, his role at the club has extended beyond that, with former manager Enzo Maresca revealing in an interview in September 2024 that he was a ‘leader’ in the dressing room, while it’s also well documented that he is close friends with Cole Palmer.
“Very impressed. I know Tosin since City.
“Very impressed with him, the way he has behaved on and off the pitch. He is one of the leaders in the dressing room. We are very delighted and very happy with him.”
A much-loved WWE Hall of Famer has opened up on the frustrations they felt before making the decision to part ways with the company.
Adam Copeland, formerly known as Edge, has claimed that WWE kept him ‘handcuffed’ during his most recent run.
The current AEW Tag Team Champion, with long-time best friend Christian Cage, Copeland has shed some light on why he made the switch to WWE’s biggest competitor in 2023. The Canadian appeared on the Ariel Helwani Show, where he made some pointed comments about how his final months in WWE.
Copeland first signed with WWE in 1997, making his main roster debut the following year. Across two separate stints, he worked for the company for more than 25 years.
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In WWE, as Edge, he became one of the most decorated champions in the history of the company, being a seven-time World Champion and also a fourteen-time Tag Team Champion with a whole host of different partners, from Christian to Hulk Hogan. It was thought his career was finished in 2011 when he was forced to retire due to a devastating neck injury. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame the following year.
However, at the Royal Rumble in 2020, he shocked the world and returned for another spell with the company.
For the majority of his time with WWE, former CEO Vince McMahon was in charge of overseeing storylines and creative decisions. That changed in July 2022, when Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque took over as WWE’s Chief Content Officer.
Within barely a year of Triple H being in charge, Copeland had decided to leave the company, allowing his contract to run down so he could join AEW. He wrestled his final match as Edge when he defeated Sheamus on the August 18th 2023 edition of SmackDown in his hometown of Toronto. He would debut in AEW just a few short weeks later.
WWE Hall of Famer Reveals ‘Real Reason’ He Left Company
The 52-year-old explained his dislike of how WWE was run under Triple H, in comparison with periods such as the Attitude Era. Copeland revealed that he was not having fun towards the end of his time with WWE, noting that talent had little way of expressing themselves outside what was laid out by various producers and agents.
“A lot of times in the Attitude Era, there might be a plan, but there might not be. My experience by the end of WWE was over-produced, over-rehearsed, over-everything. It kept handcuffs on you to the point where you couldn’t really explore too much.”
Copeland admitted that he enjoys the fact that the product is not as nailed down in AEW. It gives wrestlers the chance to explore and try different things out within the parameters set to them.
With the retirement of veterans over the last year, such as John Cena and AJ Styles, as well as the release of names like Sheamus and The New Day, the WWE locker room has lost a great deal of experience in recent times.
The veteran star reasoned that ‘you need a locker room with different elements’ and people who can be a ‘calming influence’ or ‘a shoulder to turn to’, and made it clear that is one of his main roles of his at this point in his career.
