{"id":700728,"date":"2026-05-28T20:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:31:26","slug":"marcos-senesi-tottenham-close-to-signing-bournemouth-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/700728\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos Senesi: Tottenham close to signing Bournemouth defender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham<\/a> are close to signing Bournemouth<\/a> defender Marcos Senesi on a free transfer.<\/p>\n

Personal terms are yet to be finalised but the deal for the 29-year-old is advancing towards completion, as is Spurs’ move for Scotland full-back Andy Robertson<\/a>, who is out of contract after leaving Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a> abandoned efforts to retain centre-back Senesi after he turned down a third new contract offer in December and began talks with major overseas clubs.<\/p>\n

However, the three-cap Argentina international now looks set to remain in the Premier League, barring any last-minute change of heart.<\/p>\n

Senesi played all but one of Bournemouth<\/a>‘s league games this season as they finished sixth and qualified for Europe for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n

In four years on the south coast, Senesi made 128 appearances for Bournemouth<\/a> having joined from Dutch side Feyenoord in 2022.<\/p>\n

Spurs, meanwhile, finished 17th in the Premier League and improved after appointing Roberto de Zerbi as head coach in March, narrowly avoiding relegation to the Championship.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Sport this week, Spurs chief executive Vinai Venkatesham said: “The squad needs work and the squad hasn’t got the right balance.<\/p>\n

“We need experience and leadership and also that kind of physical robustness to play in the most demanding league that exists.<\/p>\n

“We need to strengthen the club over multiple transfer windows but this transfer window, in particular, is going to be critical.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham are close to signing Bournemouth defender Marcos Senesi on a free transfer. Personal terms are yet to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-700728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700728","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=700728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}