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Mauricio Pochettino

As has been mentioned by many, there is no verbal agreement and no release clause in Mauricio Pochettino's new contract, that was merely a suggestion made by Marca, not something they were stating as a fact. You can find that here.

The latest is that Dario Gol have suggested Real Madrid have contacted Mauricio Pochettino to make an enquiry and the Daily Express have deliberately twisted this to give what appears to be a dishonest headline as you can see. An enquiry are not talks beginning at all.

Maurizio Sarri

That has led the Italian press to speculate that 59-year-old (60 next January) Maurizio Sarri could become Spurs boss.

Apparently, Chelsea have told Napoli they will not pay his release clause, so hardly likely we would either.

That release clause is expiring, but Napoli are set to demand £7.03 million (€8m) compensation anyway.

Gazzetta Napolista Story

Vincent Janssen

The Dutch are rather surprised about the transfer fee we have set for striker Vincent Janssen. Daniel Levy likes to make a profit on players and why not. They call it bizarre, we call it good business.

There was a £2 million (€2.27m) element of performance-related bonuses in his purchase price of £19.34million (€22m) and obviously, they have not kicked in.

Then deduct the loan fee that Turkish side Fenerbahçe paid £1.98 million (€2.25m) and he has cost us £15.32 million (€17.42m) thus anything over this is a profit. Aim high and accept a decent fee, everyone wants a goalscorer and he can score goals, the 23-year-old (24 in June) just didn't for us.

He scored 5 goals and had 4 assists in just 947 minutes of football last season, a goal every 189 minutes and a direct hand in a goal every 105.22 minutes. Janssen still has a lot to offer and has youth on his side.

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