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Tottenham Hotspur have so many young talents who are not getting the right amount of opportunities under Thomas Frank, and there are several key players who Spurs supporters now hae to worry about being driven out of the club by the incompetence of their manager.

The most worrisome example is that of French forward Mathys Tel, because the young man is actually considering a loan move, at best, away from Spurs because of how little Frank is playing him despite him being by far the biggest attacking threat in most games.

Meanwhile, a more established star is also pretty obviously angry at the club and the manager, as Frank could very well end up costing Spurs one of the best defensive players in the world in center back Micky van de Ven.

Tottenham can't sell him

There is one more, less talked about young talent who could be interested in leaving Spurs soon, either on loan or even a permanent transfer. Backup goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky has shown serious potential goal when given opportunities, and he is really not all that far off from starter Guglielmo Vicario with likely more future upside.

But with how little Kinsky plays, it is impossible to know if he will be able to reach that level without getting the minutes or opportunities. Kinsky needs to play more, and now Fabrizio Romano is reporting on his YouTube channel that West Ham United, one of Tottenham Hotspurs' local London rivals, are interested in stealing him away.

Most of the transfer rumors surrounding Kinsky are dealing wtih a possible loan, as it would be asinine for Spurs to let him go permanently, especially not to West Ham. And surely the Hammers would love to steal him away, given their need for a top young goalkeeper and their desire for revenge after losing Mohammed Kudus to Spurs this past summer transfer window.

There are actually more transfer rumors linking the starter, Vicario, away from Spurs due to his ridiculous mistakes, poor leadership skills, and lack of reliability. There are many Spurs fans who would rather see Kinsky stay and get more minutes, with Vicario sold in exchange for a better, younger keeper like James Trafford as the starter. But then, of course, Kinsky might still not get enough minutes.

A loan move involving Kinsky makes sense, but, alas, that would make Tottenham even thinner in goal with Vicario as the only legitimate option between the sticks. And he is barely legitimate.

Tottenham Hotspur captain Cristian Romero won the Europa League Player of the Tournament last season in Spurs first European triumph in more than 40 years for a reason. He is a Copa America and World Cup champion for a reason, too. And he took the captaincy from Son Heung-min for this season for a reason.

Romero is a leader. He is the guy who plays with a fire and lights a fire around his teammates, elevating the players around him and holding everyone to account, including on a Tottenham team where complacency and unwarranted ego are boundless while accountability and results are hard to find.

Tottenham fans have already turned on their horribly out of touch manager and their woefully entitled squad, who spend more time arguing with their own supporters than actually trying to play better football.

Cristian Romero is a hero

And it was only Romero who was brave enough to call out this decrepit organization publicly - a board so shambolic that they have pushed the mighty Spurs closer to relegation places than Champions League contention.

Instead of celebrating Romero speaking out on their behalf and wanting better for the club, there are players within the building going behind his back to undermine him to the media with leaks complaining that Cristian Romero benefited from a "double standard" for not being fined by the club, per a report from the Daily Telegraph's Matt Law.

That same report adds further evidence purported by these club sources that Romero is benefiting from a double standard by stating that he gets more freedom to do what he wants around the training ground than other players in the squad.

But the thing is, who on earth wants Romero disciplined? Why should he be punished by Thomas Frank for speaking his mind and wanting to win? And what in the world would Tottenham Hotspur accomplish as an organization by fining or suspending Romero than alienating their captain and best player and making themselves look like an even bigger train wreck to the world than they already are?

Whoever these people are leaking negative thing about Romero need to reassess their own mental capacity and intentions, because they clearly are not living in the right reality and have their own selfish interests at heart rather than the club's. Romero is having a strong season and has been a good captain thus far, and that is more than can be said about many of the people in the building, including his own teammates.

For the most part, Tottenham Hotspur have been wheeling and dealing their prospects around to start the winter transfer window, shifting loan deals. Their biggest move thus far has actually been a sale, with right winger Brennan Johnson moving to local rivals Crystal Palace just before Mohammed Kudus's injury cut down Spurs to zero healthy right wingers.

The Johnson move was right at the time, and, thus far, most of the transfer rumors around Tottenham have been for other potential sales of unwanted players like striker Richarlison, center midfielder Yves Bissouma, and center back Radu Dragusin.

But quietly, while the trail for a new forward grows colder and colder, Tottenham were able to secure a new signing that will soon be official. Except instead of landing a forward or midfielder, Spurs bagged a defender in their only major area of need on the back line.

Tottenham have a deal in place now

Per Fabrizio Romano, Tottenham Hotspur have the fabled "here we go" and a deal reportedly in place for Santos phenom Souza at left back. Spurs had been negotiating with the Brazilian powerhouse for weeks for the 19 year old fullback, and they have now agreed to a 15 million euro deal after upping their bid from a measly 8 million euros. Having already agreed to personal terms, Spurs have now struck an agreement with Santos, as well as payment terms.

Souza matches the Tottenham plan of signing young stars before they truly become stars, just as they did with Mathys Tel, Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray, and Wilson Odobert. There are few left back prospects in the world as promising as Souza, and left backs do not exactly grow on trees.

Tottenham themselves know that as well as any club in the Premier League. They have one great left back in Destiny Udogie, but he needed the help and potential competition since he is so frequently injured. And behind him, Spurs have literally nobody, flipping between veteran center back Ben Davies and right back Djed Spence as an inverted option. And it is thus telling that of the two of them, Davies has actually been better.

Souza will come right in this January and get minutes. Udogie is still currently out with an injury, and while he should return relatively soon, there is still plenty of room for Souza to soak up starts and prove that he is worth the hype as the next big thing from Brazil at left back.

Tottenham Hotspur have a serious attacking problem in the 2025/26 Premier League season, and regardless of how poor of a job new coach Thomas Frank has done tactically, the lack of quality at the forward positions is a huge reason why Spurs are stuck in 14th in the table and toiling behind the rest of the Big Six.

The best goal scorer on the team is Richarlison with six league goals, and he is nowhere near one of the better strikers in the league right now with a frustratingly inconsistent all around game. Spurs other strikers are flawed, too, with Randal Kolo Muani not really scoring much and Dominic Solanke too injured to be of any use. Meanwhile, the young left wingers Wilson Odobert and Mathys Tel are talented but not getting chances, while the best starter, right winger Mohammed Kudus, is now injured for two months.

Tottenham are going to have to make multiple attacking signings in 2026, and fans prefer if they could sign those players this January for an immediate boost. Left wing has been largely seen as the biggest area of need for Spurs, but the striker position is also a major issue for Tottenham without a proven 20 goal scorer in this post Harry Kane era.

Tottenham are better off without him

According to a recent report from the Daily Mail's Simon Jones, Tottenham Hotspur have added a somewhat bizarre name to their striker transfer wish list. Jorgen Strand Larsen recently moved from La Liga to Wolves in the Premier League, and he has been an unsurprising transfer bust. So Wolves, by far the worst team in the league this season, are willing to part ways with the 25 year old Norwegian international who was once linked to the likes of Newcastle United before the season started.

Per Jones, Spurs are interested alongside Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, Everton, and Nottingham Forest. Spurs, though, are, like Villa and Everton, said to be less than certain about Strand Larsen as a possible transfer target because of his inconsistent form. The Daily Mail journalist states that Wolves are looking for 40 million pounds for him.

While 40 million pounds is not the worst fee ever asked for a Premier League striker, Strand Larsen has found the back of the net just once with only one additional assist in 14 total Premier League starts and 19 overall appearances in the 2025/26 campaign thus far. That is an awful return, making Strand Larsen legitimately one of the worst Premier League strikers of this season thus far and someone Spurs should probably avoid at all costs, given his fee and production make him a worse option than any of the strikers - Tel included- currently in the Spurs squad.

Tottenham Hotspur are under enormous pressure to get back to winning ways this weekend, after yet another miserable night. On Wednesday, Spurs were beaten 3-2 at Dean Court, with Bournemouth's winner coming in the 95th minute, no less. That made it just two wins in 12 Premier League outings for the under-fire Thomas Frank, with the Lilywhites languishing in 14th.

Up next, Spurs face two of the bottom three, namely West Ham and Burnley. Those should be a pair of routine wins, but the curse of Dr Tottenham could easily strike once or even twice more. Before that, they host Aston Villa in the FA Cup on Saturday evening, with a major fan protest set to take place.

Defeat in the FA Cup would really crank up the pressure on Frank, facing the reality that Spurs are only three points better off in the Premier League than after 21 matches compared to last season, when, of course, Ange Postecoglou's team went on to finish 17th.

Seemingly set to miss out on the Champions League places, having finished in the top four in only one of the previous six seasons, there are serious question marks about the club's direction. So, could Spurs' prize assets be tempted with a move away, with fears growing that, arguably, their best player could push for a departure?

Micky van de Ven new contract latest

As reported by Matt Law of the Telegraph, Tottenham are eager for Micky van de Ven to sign a new contract. However, it is believed that the Dutch defender is "frustrated with the current situation at the club", so he is hesitant to do so. The 24 -year-old's current contract does not expire until 2029, meaning this is far from an urgent situation, but could be the start of a worrying trend.

This news comes after van de Ven had a rather eventful evening by the South Coast this week. The centre-back had seemingly won a penalty against Bournemouth, following a trademark burst from the back, only to be correctly booked for simulation by referee Darren England following VAR review. After the match, van de Ven then had a heated argument with a Spurs supporter in the away section, a quite surreal sight while Freed From Desire was blaring through the stadium's speakers.

That aside, van de Ven is clearly one of Tottenham's best players, widely-regarded among the best central defenders in the Premier League. Thus, with Spurs unlikely to be in next season's Champions League, potentially missing out on Europe altogether, he could depart, given that many of Europe's biggest clubs would surely be vying for his signature.

Tottenham Hotspur need to be one of the most active buyers in the January transfer market, because they sit a lowly 14th in the Premier League and just lost to the 15th placed team, handing AFC Bournemouth their first win in 11 games. And if it were not for brilliant individual goals from Joao Palhinha and Mathys Tel, it would have been a clean 3-0 defeat for Spurs, who were swept by the Cherries this season.

Spurs have serious questions about manager Thomas Frank - well, at least the fans in the building do. But even if Frank is still the manager until the 2025/26 Premier League season closes, Tottenham are going to need to bring in more talent to help the squad.

The forward positions are the biggest area of need for Spurs, but the club does need some warm bodie in midfield and left back. With Destiny Udogie out injured, Tottenham do not have a true healthy left back in the squad, as inverted option Djed Spence and versatile center back Ben Davies are the only current options, with Davies actually beating out Spence.

Tottenham will soon have a need filled

But Tottenham are soon to welcome a new left back into the building as their first signing of the January transfer window, surprisingly inking a defensive player before signing someone who can help them score goals.

After reporting that Tottenham Hotspur had already agreed to personal terms, Fabrizio Romano is now saying that Spurs and Santos have now agreed on the final transfer fee for left back Souza. After Santos rejected an eight million euro tranfser bid for the 19 year old left back, they are now accepting an updated offer of 15 million euros from Spurs for the top Brazilian defensive talent in 2026.

With personal terms between Souza and Spurs already agreed and now the final fee of 15 million euros agreed, all that is left for this deal to be confirmed as an official "Here We Go" transfer for Tottenham is the actual payment structure of how Spurs will hand that money to Santos.

Souza is an unknown commodity, but Tottenham have been by far the most interested club in the player. Johan Lange and Co. must be sold on him, just as they were on the likes of Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall before bringing them into the fold at the N17 as prospect transfers. It is anyone's guess as to how good Souza will be, but 15 million euros for a left back is not unreasonable.

Tottenham Hotspur are in a perpetual injury crisis that began before the season even started. There are ebbs and flows even amidst this constant state of missing out on key players, and, right now, Spurs are entering another rough period on the injury front.

Rodrigo Bentancur is the most recent injury after the loss to Bournemouth on Wednesday night, but the most worrisome new injury is, by far, the one to Mohammed Kudus, who left early in the match at the weekend against Sunderland with an ailment and thus missed the game against the Cherries.

Unfortunately for Kudus and Tottenham, the Ghanaian right winger's injury was worse than expected on scans, and, now, Spurs manager Thomas Frank has confirmed to reporters before the FA Cup tilt against top three side Aston Villa that Kudus will indeed be out for longer than expected.

Tottenham cannot catch a break

Spurs fans were already bracing themselves for Kudus to miss multiple weeks with his latest injury, but Spurs have really done it now a far as running Kudus into the ground because it actually looks like he will miss multiple months with this issue.

Frank told reporters, via Lilywhite Rose, "Mohammed Kudus unfortunately is a bigger one to the tendon in the quad. That is one where we expect him back after the March international break."

The March international break. Wow. Even the most pessimistic Tottenham fans did not see that one coming, and so Mohammed Kudus is going to miss several games. Kudus will thus be out against Aston Villa, former employers West Ham, Borussia Dortmund, Burnley, Eintracht Frankfurt, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Arsenal, Fulham, and Crystal Palace before potentially returning to face Liverpool after the March international break on the 14th of the month.

Those are some big ticket games that Tottenham's best attacking player, by far this season, is going to miss. There are two big Champions League opponents, as wel las three matches against Big Six clubs, including Arsenal in the North London Derby - not to mention Newcastle, as well as three local London rivals on top of Arsenal.

Kudus's injury for multiple months only increases the need for Tottenham to sign a new attacking player, specifically a winger. With Dejan Kulusevski still injured and Brennan Johnson sold to Crystal Palace, Spurs do not have a single healthy right winger in the squad, and, as of right now, their only left wing options are still Wilson Odobert and Mathys Tel.

The devastating rash of injuries that has plagued Tottenham Hotspur continued in the aftermath of the loss to Bournemouth this week. Spurs already came into the season with Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison out for an extended period, and those guys are still not anywhere near a return. Meanwhile, Dominic Solanke is still out with a nagging foot injury, while Mohammed Kudus and Destiny Udogie are two more vital players who have been added to the injury report.

Those injuries are all bad enough, and now Tottenham have one more key piece of the depth puzzle to put on the injured list. Center midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur is no longer a starter at Tottenham and has honestly been a liabilty for much of the season.

But Bentancur is still a decent footballer and a veteran depth piece who can help the team against certain opponents. Now, though, the Uruguayan international is also out for the foreseeable future, cutting down Spurs depth even more.

Tottenham keep suffering blows

Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank confirmed the Bentancur injury to reporters after the 3-2 loss to Bournemouth. He said, via Lilywhite Rose, "Rodri has a hamstring injury - looks like a bigger one, unfortunately. We don’t know the time frame. That we will know later."

Yet another important player to Tottenham injured without a definitive time table for a return. Kulusevski, Maddison, Solanke, Kudus, and now Bentancur are all experienced players with defined roles in the squad who are injured for an indefinite period.

Now, there is no reason to believe Bentancur will be out as long as Maddison, Kulu, or Solanke, but this looks like another multi week injury with an uncertain prognosis that puts more on the plates of the other Tottenham midfielders, including the load of minutes on their bodies in this ever grueling Premier League fixture slate.

Tottenham will hope that Bentancur can return sooner rather than later, but there is a silver lining to his injury, in that, for the time he is out, it will mean more minutes and more responsiblity for the young players like Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall who are truly the future bed rock players for this Spurs midifeld. And even someone who has been discarded by manager Thomas Frank as of late, Pape Matar Sarr, should benefit, in theory, from getting at least a portion of the minutes left behind by the injured Bentancur going forward.

Tottenham Hotspur captain and superstar center back Cristian Romero is the best player on the team and the most accomplished footballer in the squad, given his Copa America and World Cup title victories, as well as his status as the Europa League Player of the Tournament last season when Spurs won the prestigious European trophy for the first time in more than 40 years.

Best yet, Romero, who could have left the club in the dust this summer, is always willing to say the tough words that need to be said and wear his heart on his sleeve. And in a season filled with cowardice and figureheads at the club spending more time clashing with the supporters than with their opponents on the pitch, it was very nice to see Romero publicly call the club's horrid leadership out again on Wednesday night after the loss to Bournemouth.

Romero's words were directed at upper management, but given the poor performance of new manager Thomas Frank - and we all know how much Romero and the others loved playing for Ange Postecoglou - you could not help but read the timing of the dig as being partially and very subtly directed at Frank for being the complacent and incompetent manager appointed and galvanized by an even more complacent and incompetent board.

Cristian Romero was in the right

Well, it looks like Frank got the memo that Romero may have been speaking about him, and instead of taking the high road, the Danish coach, as he always does, decided to take a little dig at the captain in a passive aggressive way.

Frank told reporters after the 3-2 Tottenham Hotspur loss to Bournemouth, via The Spurs Watch, "When you're a young leader sometimes you make a mistake, of course it's good to keep it internally."

Why should Cristian Romero keep things internally? Frank has had no problems criticizing Xavi Simons, Mathys Tel, Wilson Odobert, Mohammed Kudus, and others all season long for his own mistakes, and he even threw young Archie Gray under the bus once for a mistake that was not even his, playing favorites with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.

Frank plays favorites and is not held accountable for his issues, and when Romero finally had enough and said what everyone who truly loves Tottenham Hotspur is thinking deep down, Frank basically pooh poohs Romero about keep things internal. But look, everything has been kept so internal at Tottenham these months that the club feels like a pressure cooker that is about to explode. Maybe Frank should have taken his own advice and kept things internal, because by opening his mouth, he proves Romero's point that there are a lot of cowards at the club who would rather take the easy way out. And Frank is one of them.

Tottenham Hotspur have been ravaged by injuries in the 2025/26 Premier League season, and they are in real need of a boost this winter as they sit 14th in the table, fresh off another humbling defeat by 3-2 to Bournemouth.

Spurs are still waiting for all of Dejan Kulusevski, James Maddison, and Dominic Solanke to return from injuries. None of these three players have been involved in meaningful minutes this season. Kulu and Maddison have played literally zero seconds for Spurs this season due to injuries carried over from the 2024/25 campaign, while Solanke has appeared in just three games due to a slow to heal foot injury that required surgery this Fall.

Meanwhile, the other injuries are ever compounding at the N17. Mohammed Kudus recently picked up a multi week ailment against Sunderland, while star left back Destiny Udogie, who is the only viable player at the position right now, has been out for multiple games with an injury of his own.

Tottenham finally get some positives

Finally, though, Tottenham Hotspur head coach Thomas Frank dropped some very positive injury news on two Spurs stars amidst the sea of negative injury energy at the club. Per Frank, Udogie and Solanke are both progressing well and may actually be close to returns.

Frank said ahead of the FA Cup battle between Tottenham and Aston Villa, via The Spurs Web, "Yeah, both of them are trained. Both of them are getting closer, definitely. Destiny is a bit closer than Dom, obviously, because he's only been out for five weeks-ish. So that's, of course, less than six months. But both of them are positive and improving."

Udogie being close to a return is not a surprise and jibes with what Frank was saying earlier, and his injury was never expected to be catastrophic; it's just more of the same of the Italian international being in and out of the Spurs lineup with constant, nagging issues. And him being closer to return than Solanke, who has been out for a whlie, is not a surprise either.

So the Solanke update is the even bigger boon. Now, Udogie is actually even more important since the left back position is so barren at Tottenham, which is why they want to sign Brazilian phenom Souza from Santos.

But as a team, Spurs biggest issues are at striker. Richarlison has been horrid all around, while Randal Kolo Muani is probably going to be one and done as a loanee. Solanke is not a superstar, but he was crucial to the Europa League title and will be an important option whenever he gets back in.