Here are your Tottenham Hotspur morning headlines as Saturday, 8 August.
Ajax await Mourinho decision on Sessegnon loan request
Eredivisie champions Ajax have enquired about a loan move for Tottenham full-back Ryan Sessegnon.
The 20-year-old joined the club from Fulham for a reported £25million fee last summer but struggled to make an immediate impact, starting just four games and tallying fewer than 400 minutes in Spurs’ Premier League campaign.
According to Goal, Ajax are prioritising attacking reinforcements, suggesting the England under-21 international could feature for them out on the wing.
Jose Mourinho denied Barcelona’s request to take the youngster on loan midway through last season, and he might not have a change of heart for the upcoming campaign.
Sessegnon hasn’t featured at all since playing in the 3-0 defeat by RB Leipzig in March.
The potential £67m windfall that can fund rebuild
We’ve taken a look at all of the players in the Tottenham squad that might be considered expendable by Mourinho this summer.
Using valuation data from Transfermarkt, we’ve checked the market worth of each Spurs player that could be in line for an exit before the 2020/21 campaign.
With a total squad value believed to be in the region of £747.86m, it looks as though £67.95m worth of talent could be on their way.
Full-backs Danny Rose, Serge Aurier and Kyle Walker-Peters are tipped to depart among several others.
Here’s that transfer market analysis in full.
The seven contract decisions facing Mourinho and Levy
There are some big decisions to be made at Spurs this summer amid unprecedented economic uncertainty.
Staff writer Rob Guest has picked out the seven major contract issues that the club will be required to take action on in the coming months.
Erik Lamela, Serge Aurier, Juan Foyth, Hugo Lloris, Paulo Gazzaniga, Alfie Whiteman and Brandon Austin have all entered the final two years of their current deals.
That leaves Spurs weighing up potential sales this summer, in order to extract maximum value.
Alternatively, they could seek to tie certain players down to longer-term deals, or risk losing them for a cut-price fee in 2021 or 2022.
