Tottenham are desperately working on a deal to sign Juventus attacker Dejan Kulusevski after failing to sign transfer targets Adama Traore and Luiz Dias as they begin to hit the panic button with just days left in the transfer window.
The deal is expected to be a loan with an option or obligation to buy, according to The Athletic.
Spurs boss Antonio Conte has made it clear that the north London outfit needs to bring in reinforcements if they are to challenge near the top end of the Premier League after falling behind the front-runners in recent seasons.
Tottenham currently sit seventh in the Premier League, but have endured a frustrating transfer window so far, missing out on a number of targets.
They were in talks with Wolves over the signing of Adama Traore, who is now set to re-join Barcelona, despite reportedly being very close to joining Conte's side.
Spurs also went after Porto winger Luis Diaz but Liverpool have now beaten their fellow Premier League rival to a move.
It has also been revealed that AC Milan midfielder Franck Kessie would rather remain in Serie A than move to Spurs.
All eyes have now turned to Kulusevski, whose current contract at Juve runs until 2025, but they feel they can prize him away from the Italian club.
The 21-year-old has made 20 Serie A appearances for Juventus this season but has only started in half of those, completing the full 90 minutes just three times.
Not only have Tottenham struggled to freshen up the squad with new signings, they've also failed to offload fringe players such as Dele Alli, Tanguy Ndombele and Giovanni Lo Celso as of yet.
Time is running out for chairman Daniel Levy and managing director of football Fabio Paratici to avoid coming under huge criticism from the Spurs fan base.
Baeciknpst
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Daniel Levy is a virus... Period.
Bigmamajoe
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Panic buys are not good
Bigmamajoe
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Worst negotiating club in the world
Cotbknty
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Daniel Levey , is a worse virus than covid
Nebaceimr
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What's new with Daniel Levy? And seriously, what's wrong with him?
ludbnorsty
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Tottenham is a joke in the football world, I hope Harry Kane have his mind made up this time , and leave for somewhere else
ludbnorsty
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For Spurs to move forward , Daniel Levy has to step down and allowed someone with good football knowledge to take over . He isn't smart enough and beside , he won't take the advice of those who knows better than him
cohabkm
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maybe Conte can sack both Paratici and Levy
jonadlpstu
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Bitter truth... Conte made a wrong choice coming to a team like Spurs. They dont have money to compete same thing happen to Jose. I see him leaving pretty soon.
Johaclmosz
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we are this desperate. we are footballing joke
davidsondwane15
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New Tottenham
Gale_
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i said it since the beginning of the winter window, we gonna bring in no one new
Runadilsuz
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That shows how weak is the spurs negotiation team is, if spurs were offered what Liverpool offered in their initial state of negotiation liaz will be a spurs player by now..
Beatsbybox
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Conte won’t like Kulusevski. Lazy player not a Conte player.