{"id":611246,"date":"2026-09-01T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611246\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:06:11","slug":"romano-tottenham-will-complete-major-signing-in-next-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611246\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano: Tottenham Will Complete Major Signing in &#8216;Next Two Hours&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur will complete the signing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/db\/sports-team\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chelsea<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/tag\/mykhailo-mudryk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mykhailo Mudryk<\/a> in the next few hours, Fabrizio Romano has told GIVEMESPORT&#8217;s Market Madness podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Mudryk hasn&#8217;t played football for well over a year after being suspended following a positive doping test. The Ukrainian has featured in no capacity for the Blues since December 2024, but has now been cleared to play after the charges against him were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no room for him at Stamford Bridge, with Enzo Maresca deeming the pacey wide man surplus to requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/db\/sports-team\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spurs<\/a> have swooped in to land Mudryk on an initial loan deal with an option to buy for in the region of \u00a375 million.<\/p>\n<p>The player&#8217;s medical was conducted on Tuesday morning, ahead of an official announcement later on transfer deadline day.<\/p>\n<p>                        Tottenham Hotspur Close in on Shock Loan Deal<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mykhailo Mudryk\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mykhailo-mudryk.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mykhailo-mudryk.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n        Action Images via Reuters\/Andrew Couldridge<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham have been in the market for a left-sided attacker throughout the summer. While new signing Savinho can be deployed off this side, the Brazilian is expected to be primarily used on the opposite flank due to a paucity of options on that side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/tottenham-cody-gakpo-transfer-update-barcola-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cody Gakpo had been Spurs&#8217; primary target<\/a> for this position, but Liverpool ultimately opted to keep the Dutchman. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/romano-tottenham-ndiaye-richarlison-swap-deal-transfer-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Lilywhites then turned their attention to Iliman Ndiaye<\/a>, but the Senegalese wide man is instead set to join Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Out of nowhere on Monday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/breaking-tottenham-agree-deal-tosin-mudryk-chelsea-transfers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mudryk emerged as Tottenham&#8217;s man<\/a> to fill this position, and the move is now imminent. Speaking on the Market Madness podcast, Fabrizio Romano told GIVEMESPORT that the 25-year-old will sign his Spurs contract on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Mykhailo Mudryk will be a Tottenham player, he will sign his contract at Tottenham in the next two hours,&#8221; the transfer guru said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Loan deal with an option to buy clause at \u00a375million. He did his medical in the morning, so everything okay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mudryk is going to be new winger for Tottenham, and as you said, a big change of plans because they wanted to sign Cody Gakpo at the beginning, then they considered the possibility of a deal with Iliman Ndiaye joining Tottenham and Richarlison going to Everton, but there was no agreement between Richarlison and Everton on personal terms. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So there were some complications, and that&#8217;s why Tottenham decided to go for the easiest option in Mykhailo Mudryk. It&#8217;s a loan deal with an option to buy set at \u00a375million that Tottenham would pay the salary of the player, and there is also a loan fee involved in the deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mudryk could be in line for his Spurs debut away at Nottingham Forest on Saturday, although it&#8217;s likely he&#8217;ll need to be eased back into the action having not played for such a long time.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/breaking-tottenham-archie-gray-update-deadline-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img width=\"440\" height=\"248\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"archie gray\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/archie-gray.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/archie-gray.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Related<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/breaking-tottenham-archie-gray-update-deadline-day\/\" title=\"Alasdair Gold Issues Big Update on Archie Gray&#039;s Tottenham Future on Deadline Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAlasdair Gold Issues Big Update on Archie Gray&#8217;s Tottenham Future on Deadline Day<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">A number of Premier League clubs have enquired about Archie Gray, but Tottenham Hotspur have no intention of selling the player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur will complete the signing of Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk in the next few hours, Fabrizio Romano&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-611246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}