{"id":107844,"date":"2025-08-31T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107844\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:57:07","slug":"he-cost-tottenham-28m-but-clubs-now-wont-sign-him-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/107844\/","title":{"rendered":"He cost Tottenham \u00a328m \u2013 but clubs now won\u2019t sign him for free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been a summer of upheaval at Tottenham Hotspur, with a new manager and handful of new players moving to North London.<\/p>\n<p>To balance the books and mould the first-team squad that Thomas Frank wants, a host of fringe men have also left Spurs over recent months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/what-xavi-simons-felt-immediately-after-speaking-to-thomas-frank-at-tottenham-for-the-first-time\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham have signed Xavi Simons<\/a> to add creativity to their attacking options, in what may be the last signing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/english-premier-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> club before the transfer window closes on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>But there are a host of players surplus to requirements that could well leave in the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>For one former <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham<\/a> player however, despite leaving N17 in May, he has still not found a new club.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2228259759-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"FC Bayern M\u00fcnchen vsTottenham Hotspur - pre season friendly\" class=\"wp-image-973499\" \/>Photo by Ulrik Pedersen\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThe demise of Sergio Reguilon<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham announced in May that a number of players had left the club after the culmination of their contracts.<\/p>\n<p>This included Spanish defender <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/sergio-reguilon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio Reguilon<\/a>, who ended a five-year affiliation with the North London club.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-au\/news\/tottenham-sign-28m-real-madrid-full-back-reguilon\/i4qwxfuestxf1xmx48q5u0sz2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a328 million<\/a> to sign the left-back from Real Madrid in 2020, with the deal seen as quite the coup at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Reguilon representing Spain at senior level, the defender has failed to perform consistently in England.<\/p>\n<p>With the full-back a free agent and able to join a new club for free, the fact he has not been able to secure a move to his next team after almost three months speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Wasted transfer funds by Spurs<\/p>\n<p>Reguilon was farmed out to both Brentford and Manchester United on loan during his time in England, but was not able to impress enough to secure a permanent transfer to either.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish defender joins a long list of players that Tottenham have spent significant funds on, only for them to fail to deliver in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2153255942-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Brentford FC v Newcastle United - Premier League\" class=\"wp-image-893224\" \/>Photo by Andrew Kearns \u2013 CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Reguilon clearly has quality \u2013 you don\u2019t play for Spain and Real Madrid without having a pedigree at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 28-year-old needs a fresh challenge to reignite his career \u2013 most likely back in Spain \u2013 but is yet to find an employer willing to take a chance on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a summer of upheaval at Tottenham Hotspur, with a new manager and handful of new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,9004,596,77290,85,10988],"class_list":["post-107844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-sergio-reguilon","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}