De Zerbi could not have been clearer.<\/p>\n
The Spurs manager had just kept his side up on the final day, following a 1-0 win against Everton<\/a>, but this was not a time for celebration.<\/p>\n He was already looking ahead to the summer to ensure the club were never in this situation again. <\/p>\n “My target is to start the pre-season with the team I have in my dream,” he said in his final news conference last season.<\/p>\n That dream is quickly becoming a reality for the Italian following an aggressive start to the window from Spurs.<\/p>\n Defenders Andy Robertson and Marcos Senesi have arrived on free transfers and the club could end up spending a combined \u00a3237m on centre-back Jan Paul van Hecke and midfielders Fernandes and Tonali.<\/p>\n Spurs may have finished in 17th in back-to-back seasons, but the club are feeling the benefit of strong off-the-field revenues as they look to bounce back.<\/p>\n Newcastle<\/a>, by contrast, have effectively needed to trade to reinvest.<\/p>\n The sight of Alexander Isak, Anthony Gordon and Tonali all leaving the club in the space of less than a year is sobering.<\/p>\n So the spotlight will very much now be on incomings.<\/p>\n After missing out on forward Victor Munoz, who joined Liverpool<\/a>, Newcastle<\/a> need reinforcements.<\/p>\n The club have only signed 20-year-old goalkeeper Ewen Jaouen, who will likely start the season as a deputy, having never played top-flight football before.<\/p>\n There is little margin for error with pre-season right around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"De Zerbi could not have been clearer. The Spurs manager had just kept his side up on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-668531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}