{"id":124865,"date":"2025-09-01T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124865\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:49:07","slug":"thomas-frank-will-have-to-break-tottenham-transfer-promise-to-sign-striker-mbappe-once-called-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124865\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank will have to break Tottenham transfer promise to sign striker Mbappe once called &#8216;impressive&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur are working frantically to sign new players for Thomas Frank\u2019s squad and have opened talks with an attacker.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a summer of pure chaos at <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> with some major additions, but also some crushing rejections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/thomas-frank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Frank<\/a> will be pretty pleased with most of the work Spurs have done in the window so far, but he will be hoping for more with just a few hours left.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2196941468-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Randal Kolo Muani of Juventus FC poses with the 'Player of\" class=\"wp-image-916137\" \/>Photo by Nicol\u00f2 Campo\/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThomas Frank would be breaking transfer promise to bring Randal Kolo Muani to Tottenham<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Frank will have to forget his speech about only wanting Tottenham to sign players who want to be at the club if he is to sign Randal Kolo Muani.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/tottenham-now-working-on-deal-for-77m-striker-ange-postecoglou-said-he-wanted-in-january\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham are in talks to sign Kolo Muani<\/a>, as the North London club attempt to bring in a new attacker for Frank\u2019s squad.<\/p>\n<p>But as TBR Football revealed, <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/tottenham-gutted-after-transfer-developments-with-randal-kolo-muani-despite-daniel-levy-personally-taking-action\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kolo Muani rejected Tottenham<\/a> back in the January transfer window in favour of a move to Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>The striker had been hoping to return to Juventus, but his move to Turin has now collapsed, and he is assessing his options elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs are now discussing a deal to sign the Frenchman, but a deal would involve bringing in a player who rejected them just over seven months ago.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/how-people-inside-tottenham-are-actually-feeling-after-arsenal-snatch-eberechi-eze-away\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eze rejected Tottenham for Arsenal<\/a>, Frank told the media via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11675\/13416148\/spurs-boss-thomas-frank-says-he-does-not-want-players-who-dont-want-to-be-here-after-eberechi-eze-opts-for-arsenal-transfer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sky Sports<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of links and will continue to be. To be very general, I don\u2019t want any players who don\u2019t want to come to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they don\u2019t want to come here and wear this fantastic badge, we don\u2019t want them here. That\u2019s very clear, and I imagine the fans feel exactly the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kolo Muani had a strong loan spell at Juve, so they would be getting a good player, but also one who turned them down only recently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/after-wissa-and-strand-larsen-77m-forward-opens-talks-with-newcastle-as-liverpool-agree-isak-deal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newcastle also want Kolo Muani<\/a>, but Yoane Wissa looks set to move there instead, and the Lilywhites appear to have jumped ahead of them in the queue for the French international.<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe hails Tottenham target Randal Kolo Muani<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe is a big fan of Tottenham\u2019s target Kolo Muani and previously hailed him as \u2018impressive\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman believes that Kolo Muani\u2019s versatility makes him a great option for the national team, and that would be the same case for Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>CompAppsGoalsAssistsSerie A1681Champions League200FIFA Club World Cup321Italy Cup101Total22103Randal Kolo Muani\u2019s stats for Juventus (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/randal-kolo-muani\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/487969\/plus\/0?saison=2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Transfermarkt<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking back in 2023, Mbappe told the media, via <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2023\/03\/27\/kylian-mbappe-hails-complete-manchester-united-target-randal-kolo-muani-18507209\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Metro Sport<\/a>: \u201cHe is a striker who offers different game options to our team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is very complete and has an impressive volume of play. We are happy with the game he played on Friday and I hope he scores tomorrow. Tomorrow we will try to get him to score a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur are working frantically to sign new players for Thomas Frank\u2019s squad and have opened talks with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3339,31018,403,99,5862,4899],"class_list":["post-124865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-english-premier-league","tag-randal-kolo-muani","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-thomas-frank","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}