We\u2019re used to transfer rumors. They\u2019re our bread and butter here at Carty Free Towers, and what would be the point of the summer transfer window if we didn\u2019t get to obsess over the smallest tidbits of news from dodgy media sources and ITK? But what I\u2019m NOT used to is transfer rumors coming directly from the high profile manager of one of the ten richest clubs in world football.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly what we got from Roberto De Zerbi this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the transfer market when I want one player I become like a shark, No chance to say no! The transfer market, it\u2019s not finished for sure, but we completed 60 per cent of our project in the transfer market. Now we have another bomba!\u201d<\/p>\n
De Zerbi went on to say that the player in question is an attacker, is separate from the transfer to bring in Savinho from Manchester City, and isn\u2019t yet finalized. \u201cI hope,\u201d he said later in the interview, \u201cbut it\u2019s not finished for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
OK, so first of all I had something of a visceral reaction to De Zerbi using the word \u201cbomba\u201d due to the word\u2019s overuse on social media (particularly Bluesky) when talking about transfer rumors becoming reality. But maybe I shouldn\u2019t have? After all, RDZ is Italian, and so is the word \u201cbomba.\u201d If an English manager had used the word \u201cbombshell,\u201d a direct translation of \u201cbomba,\u201d would any of us find that weird? Probably not. My point is: social media boils your brain, do better than me and go out and touch grass on occasion.<\/p>\n
But anyway, it is unusual to have a manager basically tell a journalist about the existence of a mystery transfer that hasn\u2019t hit the rumor mill yet. The speculation has now turned entirely to trying to piece together who exactly De Zerbi is referring to. Spurs have been linked with virtually every available attacker in the market this summer, precisely because they\u2019ve already demonstrated the ability and willingness to spend obscene amounts of money to refresh the squad, and since the injury to Eli Junior Kroupi, Tottenham\u2019s top target, now the field is wide open. Some speculation has centered around Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford, and Spurs have also been (very) tenuously linked with players such as Cody Gakpo, Victor Osimhen, Kenan Yildiz, and Omar Marmoush.<\/p>\n
Assuming De Zerbi\u2019s confidence manifests itself in the next week or so, we will find out who the mystery player is, but at present not even the reliable Spurs journos like Gold or Dan Kilpatrick have discovered that player\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
I guess brace yourselves? Because an attacking player is coming to Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re used to transfer rumors. They\u2019re our bread and butter here at Carty Free Towers, and what would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,52146,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719200","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=719200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}