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Antero Henrique, the sporting director of Paris Saint-Germain and the hierarchy at the French club have been pushing Spurs to Serge Aurier, who prefers Manchester United, ahead of better offers from Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
You have to ask why and it makes you wonder if other top clubs will soon want to cultivate a good working relationship with us, given we have the likes of Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli and Harry Kane in our ranks, plus young talent coming through the ranks. Planning ahead is essential in football and getting o the wrong side of Daniel Levy is not advised.
It certainly seems that this is what PSG are doing. The contract we have offered him is 5 years, not 6 as reported in many places and an annual salary of £4.62 million (€5m - AUS$7.54m - US$5.97m). That equates to £88,900-a-week (€96,153 - AUS$144,928 - US$114,724). All the other clubs mentioned have far freater revenue than us and can offer far greater wages. PSG have been key in him coming to Tottenham.
Will Real Madrid be offering us Gareth Bale next summer for Dele Alli, informal discussions to explore the possibilities of gale returning home to Spurs have already taken place, but I stress they are only initial exploratory talks, nothing more.
Will Manchester United try and push Luke Shaw for Danny Rose next summer, they have no doubt already tried this window and may do so again. We don't have the greatest relationship with them thanks to Dimitar Berbatov arriving at Manchester despite being refused permission to talk to them.
Would it be in their best interests to look favourably on our advances toward Anthony Martial, who we are still trying to sign and will be right up the the windows close if necessary. He is a player Pochettino wants, if at all possible.
I suspect we will be looking for a new left-back over the next year with Rose perhaps leaving next summer. His recent comments seem to suggest he is money orientated, which if true, would mean even winning a trophy wouldn't keep him here.
I understand that we are looking at Ryan Sessegnon next summer, not this, unless we were to sign him and loan him back for a season with other clubs circling. he has signed a new contract which will ensure Fulham get a good fee, but as he can't command a place in a premier League side yet, looks like staying at Fulham another year.
Arsenal players would be a step down so we wouldn't be interested in them even if they weren't the enemy and Chelsea blotted their copybook over Modric, which could now come back to haunt them when they cast admiring glances at a few of our stars.
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