Tottenham’s transfer target confirmed by Postecoglou as Spurs get Solanke encouragement

Robin Bairner

Updated: 3 Aug 2024 15:27 BST
2 min read

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou has confirmed which area of the field Spurs’ transfer focus will be on before the end of the summer window.

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Spurs have already moved for two 18-year-old central midfielders this summer, splashing out €41 million on Archie Gray from Leeds and €10m to pinch Djurgarden prodigy Lucas Bergvall from under the noses of Barcelona.

Tottenham, though, have yet to replace Harry Kane, who left for Bayern Munich in a €95m deal last summer.

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Postecoglou says that he does not want another season without a centre-forward.

Speaking to football.london, the Spurs boss said: "At Celtic, I had Kyogo Furuhashi, who was a sort of out and out number nine and in Japan, I've always had a striker.

"It just depends, like last year we had to be a bit creative, it's fair to say. You know but if Harry Kane would have stayed I definitely would have used him!

"So I think for us what's more important is the type of striker we get. You know we play a certain way. We demand certain things from a physical perspective from the technical aspects of it that it's going be a striker that fits that mould.

"It's still the area of the park we're really probably the thinnest when I talk about squad-wise at the moment, so obviously that's a focus for us."

Current ETV

Dominic Solanke

F (C)

B'mouth

Dominic Solanke

F (C)

B'mouth

ETV Range

€28.8M - €48.1M

Solanke the answer to Spurs problem?

Dominic Solanke is a player heavily linked with a move to Spurs, but The Times indicates that Bournemouth do not want to sell and that Postecoglou’s side are unlikely to match the player’s €76m (£65m) release fee.

TeamTalk, though, suggests that the Cherries could offer a discount of €6m to Tottenham, which could be enough to drive the deal.

Solanke has an Estimated Transfer Value (ETV) of €38.5m, which suggests Tottenham will struggle to get real value in a deal for the 26-year-old, who is under contract at Bournemouth until 2027.