South American football expert Tim Vickery was a guest on Sky Sports News, and predicted that Tottenham face a long hard summer of negotiations with Real Betis, if they are to prise Giovani Lo Celso away from the Estadio Benito Villamarín.
Spurs had a £53 million bid rejected for the Argentine earlier this summer, according to BBC Sport, with Betis thought to be holding out for closer to €100 million (£90 million).
Tottenham are currently in the midst of negotiations with Lyon regarding the potential signing of Tanguy Ndombele, according to Sky Sports, so any move for Lo Celso, 23, will likely have be put on the back-burner for now.
And Vickery suggested that if Spurs hope to sign the talented Argentine midfield ace, they will have to pay a fairly substantial transfer fee for his services, when speaking to Sky Sports News:
"They'll have to pay for him, Betis paid out to acquire him in order to make a big profit on him, so there'll be some long, hot summer negotiations going on with that one, but he would be a good fit for Tottenham."
Lo Celso is a real talent, but for Tottenham to be able to afford him and Ndombele, they will surely need to sell Christian Eriksen, as well as some other fringe players this summer.
And with the Dane entering the final year of his contract with Spurs, selling him whilst bringing in the Argentine and the Frenchman would be really impressive work from Daniel Levy.
Rav_Brar
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He will definitely eventually join!
Dipacmpsy
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lo celso money is too much let spurs sign mdombele, skov Olsen and one right back if our right back is going to the serie A
You have foyth. Look how good he is as a Rb at Argentina
kizbcdntu
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If Spurs announce Ndombele, Clarke and Lo Celso in the next week then we can truly say Levy is backing the manager 😆 A new RB as well as a couple of contract extensions and we might well be starting that next project 🙏
Excellent insight there. EXCEPT Juan Foyth is my favorite player so let’s get him in there as replacing Trip.
nakdkprtu
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we also need a second #9 to H Kane
nakdkprtu
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lo celso money is too much let spurs sign mdombele, skov Olsen and one right back if our right back is going to the serie A
Suyeklprz
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sign lo celso ASAP ......he is a upgrade of erikson
combination
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Eriksens been very good for us but we need something different now
iodineer
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If Spurs announce Ndombele, Clarke and Lo Celso in the next week then we can truly say Levy is backing the manager 😆 A new RB as well as a couple of contract extensions and we might well be starting that next project 🙏
Biainkobe
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Let's hope so.
Abrahames
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This plus a right back would be a dream
posod
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The word close is used way too much when it comes to spurs transfers or non transfers
wedding
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Starting to get a little nervous by the lack of announcements now...but then again it could all just be Levy playing a tight game and loss come at once 🤞🏻
Lisajust
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We looking at the wrong guy at Real Betis instead we must be interested in William Carvalho😫
Samuleley
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Levy unable to do a deal with Lyon do can't imagine two deals
oldjustjuo
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I bet his price went up after yesterday's game.
unware
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FFS I'm sure there is alot of players Tottenham want but will they pay the money or are they just window shopping
reasonable
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Since Argentina got into semis of Copa America, i suppose we are not gonna know if the signing will happen or not until mid July...
Uniqu
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i hope we can bring sessegnon in and max aarons as we really need a rb
Randoothem
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I'm sure we'll get Lo Celso, not keen on sessegnon but we do need a good backup striker and centre back.
MK3_REBELS
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sorry...lo celso younger than eriksen
MK3_REBELS
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of course....lo celso better than eriksen because lo celso older than eriksen and eriksen more expensive than lo celso. with the eriksen sale money,tottenham can buy 2 players who are less qualified than eriksen