Van de Ven agreement, Kane future and transfer exits - What Tottenham need to do in next 19 days
The 2023/24 Premier League season is edging ever closer with August almost upon us. Currently out in Singapore on their summer tour, Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham team have three more friendlies on the agenda before they travel to Brentford for their league opener.
Lion City Sailors are first up on Wednesday, before Spurs bring down the curtain on their pre-season campaign with two matches in the space of three days against Shakhtar Donetsk and Barcelona. The cancellation of Sunday's friendly against Leicester City due to a waterlogged pitch in Bangkok means the new boss has only seen his team in action once so far, although he will have been working them extremely hard in training and getting his football philosophy across as he bids for a fast start to the new term.
Active in the transfer market already this summer with Guglielmo Vicario, James Maddison and Manor Solomon joining the club, as well as Dejan Kulusevski signing a permanent deal, Tottenham still have plenty left to do in the summer window. So what exactly does Daniel Levy need to do for Postecoglou ahead of the first league game of the season on Sunday, August 13? football.london takes a look below.
The first thing Levy must do for Postecoglou is sign two new centre-backs. Top of the club's list of transfer priorities this summer, Spurs have still to conclude a deal for a centre-back and it has left everyone very frustrated in the process.
Conceding 63 goals in the Premier League last season, Spurs' defensive woes were still clear to see in the 3-2 friendly defeat against West Ham with all three of the Hammers' goals extremely poor ones to concede from a Tottenham perspective. It needs addressing ASAP and the chairman must ensure that new centre-backs are in
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