I know it\u2019s felt like an interminable wait (it\u2019s been eight days) but it looks like Tottenham Hotspur might actually be on the verge of making a first team signing in the January transfer window. Fabrizio Romano is reporting that Spurs have agreed personal terms with Santos left back Souza, and are in active negotiations with his club for an improved transfer fee. Spurs previously had a \u00a38m fee rejected by Santos last week.<\/p>\n
So this isn\u2019t a huge update \u2014 it\u2019s probably not very difficult to come to a personal terms agreement with a player reportedly making \u20ac4k\/wk in Brazil \u2014 but it is significant, and all signs are pointing towards an agreement, hopefully very soon. It\u2019s also worth noting that Bayern Munich were at least notionally interested in Souza this month as well, though our good buddy Florian Plettenberg says the interest was never THAT serious.<\/p>\n
We should all get our expectations in order \u2014 Souza is a player for the future, but he\u2019s being brought in to back up Destiny Udogie. That means he\u2019s almost certainly going to get minutes, but will need time to adapt. That said, Spurs desperately need a second natural left back, and Souza\u2019s stats suggest he\u2019s attack-minded, quite good at duels, good at drawing fouls, and a very good crosser of the football. He\u2019s also a cromulent defender, though keep in mind all of these stats are based on 18 months of Brazilian first team football. Even so, if you choose to be hopeful (and at this point, like why not do that?) these are pretty good signs.<\/p>\n
Good job, everyone. Now \u2014 let\u2019s go sign a freakin\u2019 passy midfielder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know it\u2019s felt like an interminable wait (it\u2019s been eight days) but it looks like Tottenham Hotspur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,55348],"class_list":{"0":"post-396014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396014","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=396014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}