🔵🚨 EXCLUSIVE - Folarin Balogun wants to join Everton Football Club! 🇺🇸
💰 The Toffees have submitted a proposal of €18M to their counterparts at AS Monaco and are pushing to sign the American striker.
🤝 Balogun has an agreement with Everton. #EFC#USA#ASM
🚨💣 BREAKING: Tottenham reach verbal agreement with Man City to sign Omar Marmoush, here we go!
Verbal agreement done on initial loan with buy clause to become mandatory under certain conditions at £50m.
Marmoush said yes to #THFC days ago, travel and medical on Monday. ⚪️🇪🇬
Interesting how this wasn’t a topic when Man Utd and Chelsea hoovered up every talent in the league to keep winning it back in the 2000s
But now because Spurs and Arsenal no longer have to sell to buy (even though we actually have a very healthy net spend this summer) it’s become a problem?
The league has never been more competitive than it is now when you’ve got the likes of Brentford and Bournemouth outbidding Italian giants and getting or at least close to European football
Clubs just need to be smarter is all and unfortunately for Villa and Newcastle they spent way beyond their means in an attempt to get UCL football (which they did), but isn’t sustainable to maintain
💣 #Tottenham Hotspur working on double deal to sign Savinho & Omar Marmoush from Manchester City.
Not done, but talks advancing.
[@David_Ornstein] 🥇
Summer 26'
INS
Jan-Paul Van Hecke £52m
Sandro Tonali £92.5m (£100m)
Mateus Fernandes £85m
Martin Dubravka FREE TRANSFER
Marcos Senesi FREE TRANSFER
Andrew Robertson FREE TRANSFER
OUTS
Radu Dragusin LOAN £1.3m *10%*
Djed Spence £27m
Luka Vuskovic £46m (£50m) *20%*
Cristian Romero £34.1m *15%*
Ashley Phillips £7m (£20m) *20%*
Alfie Devine £6m *20%*
Tynan Thompson £4m (£8m) *20%*
Manor Solomon £5m (£7m) *10%*
Will Lankshear £14m (£20m) *20%*
Alejo Veliz £7.7m (£8.6m) *20%*
Yang Min-Hyeok (LOAN)
Mason Melia (LOAN)
Yves Bissouma RELEASED
Joao Palhinha LOAN EXP
Randal Kolo Muani LOAN EXP
£229.5m SPENT
£152.1m RECEIVED
NET SPEND = £77.4m
*Dragusin's obligational fee (£18.8m) + departing add ons would add £48.7m onto the departures list (£200.8m). This does not even include the players' sell on fees*
@talkSPORT Prior to the billionaire that waltzed into Villa Park, here were Aston Villa’s average league positions (beyond 20th means inclusion of Championship places.. 21st, 22nd etc.)
Yeh this fucking muppet thinks it’s totally acceptable to be bought up with this CV - then throw dosh..?
Harry Kane in 2018: “My dream wasn’t to play in the Premier League. My dream was to play in the Premier League for Spurs.
So I told [André Villas-Boas], quite honestly, “I don’t want to go [on leave].”
As the words were coming out of my mouth, I thought, Oh, wow — maybe that wasn’t.…
He just kind of looked at me, a bit confused.
And then I just came straight out with it. I said, “I’m gonna prove to you that I should be starting on this team. And you can tell me every Friday before the game that I don’t deserve that, and that I’m not going to play. And that’s fine. But I don’t want to go.”
And that was that. He let me stay on and train with the first team — and it really ended up being the turning point in my confidence. I had always felt like I had the ability, but I kind of had to stand up for myself. It was like I could see my childhood dream, and it was right there in front of me … but it was just out of reach. I was waiting for somebody to hand it to me. But life never hands it to you, does it?
You’ve gotta grab it.
I was on fire in training, but I still couldn’t get a game. Then the manager was let go in the winter and Tim Sherwood took charge — and he gave me my chance. The rest, as people might say, is history. I scored three goals in my first three starts, and that was an incredible feeling, especially the first time scoring at White Hart Lane. But honestly, all the things I went through before I scored Goal Number 1 … that’s what made me who I am….
For me, the rejection is the best thing that ever happened to me. When I was lacing my up boots for my first start in the North London derby back in 2015, I had a flashback to when I was 11, playing against Arsenal’s youth team. It was like déjà vu. Before every match, I always visualize scenarios in my head of exactly how I’ll score in the match. Left-foot curler into the bottom corner. Right-foot volley from the right corner of the box. I’ve always been that way. I get really detailed about it — I’ll picture my opponents and the cut of the grass and everything.
This time, I was picturing the defenders wearing the red Arsenal kit, and I got goosebumps.
We were in the tunnel, and I thought, “O.K. Took me 12 years. But we’ll see who was right and who was wrong.”
I scored two that day, and the winner in the 86th minute was something that I’d never even dream of visualizing before a match. It was a header — probably the best header I’ve ever scored — and that feeling when it hit the back of the net … I’ve never felt a rush like that in my whole career.
I remember walking round the pitch after the final whistle … and clapping to the fans … and it felt like, Well — I told you so.” https://t.co/AIJvVbtojF
@HKane | @England
Sky Sports News' Michael Bridge explains how Tottenham Hotspur have been able to afford this summer's spending spree - and why they're not finished yet!