Romano: Tottenham reach full agreement with Santos for Souza

Prepare, as a result of when the Spurs go marching in they are going to quickly have a brand new gladiator. In keeping with Fabrizio Romano, Tottenham Hotspur have reached their arms throughout the ocean and now have full settlement with Brazilian first division facet Santos for the switch of left again Souza. The switch payment is claimed to be someplace within the realm of €15m (£13m).

That seems like a fairly good worth for a brand new defensive sabre for Spurs, particularly after Santos rejected an £8m bid final week. Spurs have had a flirtation with a brand new left again for some time now, for the reason that summer time switch window ended with Future Udogie as the one pure left again on the membership. The choice to focus on Souza, a participant with solely 18 months expertise with prime division soccer in Brazil is probably a little bit dangerous — he’s maybe not the fairest of the honest — however he’s additionally been on the radar of some golf equipment recently together with Bayern Munich. It’s clear that regardless of an absence of expertise he has a sure esprit-de-corps that make him a beautiful developmental goal, one who can fill in as a backup left again in our loyal legion throughout damage crises whereas selecting up loads of rotational minutes. In that context the resumption of Spurs’ curiosity after having their first bid rejected is a constructive, since they’ve clearly had loads of time to evaluation what he can do.

The hope is that the deal can be accomplished over the weekend with an official announcement made early subsequent week, which might put Souza in line to get some minutes when Dortmund come throughout the Danube to play Spurs within the Champions League in London.

With left again quickly to be in place, hopefully Spurs can flip their consideration to a revival of midfield and attacking targets, because it’s fairly clear that Spurs nonetheless desperately want strong males to the entrance. We’ll control all of our ordinary sources, together with the Washington Put up, for additional developments.

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