Antonio Conte has held a crunch transfer summit with chairman Daniel Levy and managing director of football Fabio Paratici over his plans to strengthen the Tottenham squad.
Spurs boss Conte met with members of the board’s hierarchy on Monday and spelled out in no uncertain terms what he believes the club needs during this month’s transfer window.
Tottenham will prioritise a new right wing-back, with Wolves’ Adama Traore their first choice, plus two attackers — one of whom will be a striker to supplement Harry Kane.
In terms of outgoings, Spurs will listen to offers for Matt Doherty, Dele Alli and Tanguy Ndombele.
They would also consider selling Steven Bergwijn, who is attracting interest from Ajax, provided they get a replacement through the door this month.
Tottenham are willing to use Doherty as a makeweight in incoming deals, and the club are awaiting formal offers for Alli.
On his talks with Levy and Paratici, Conte — whose team face a 2-0 deficit heading into tonight’s Carabao Cup semi-final second leg against Chelsea — added: ‘It was a good meeting. With Paratici I have the possibility to speak every day, but to have the possibility to speak with our owner was important. Also because I like to have this type of relationship, to be honest and to always tell the truth.
‘I don’t like to tell a good lie to keep a good relationship or to show myself to be too polite. It was good to tell the truth and it was a good meeting.
‘Now the situation is very clear. I was satisfied to have this conversation with the owner and now it’s OK for me.’
Levy is renowned for leaving Spurs’ transfer business as late as possible in the hope of securing the most cost efficient deals.
And Conte added: ‘The transfer situation is not easy and a lot of the time you have to wait for players at the end of this period.
‘I have the experience to know and understand this and for sure every coach would like to have the players very soon.
‘But the club have to take the best decision on this aspect and the important thing is the club know my vision about the present and the future and they have to decide the way they have to go.’
Mutamboh
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More oil to drop when he comes to spurs
theflyingdutchman
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If conte transformed Victor Moses into a top class WB I can't wait to see how he can work with Adam.He only needs to work on his delivery and finishing.
Emelie042
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well it's a good move I think
Bubaeilmry
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spurs go get u are getting late the problem with spurs is they make noise and fail to buy...dusan ,schick traore lingard kennie just showing other clubs players last time beaten by arsenal to get tomiyasu wtf
haoacenpty
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I like Conte because he is being honest about Spurs team which is not good enough to challenge teams like man city, Liverpool or Chelsea. I think under Conte, traore will be a good player because he knows best how to make players better. We see Dele, ndombele, Dorthy are not good enough not only in the perspective of fans but also in the eyes of Conte. Good luck against Chelsea in the Efl. If we can get an early goals anything is possible. Make a lot of noise in the stadium, believe spurs can do it. Coys
ijelejoe
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Tottenham fan's be like are you trying to buy a wrestler or football player 🤔🤔 bcos Traore in question doesn't look like a football player 🙃🙃
Mariosuarez2
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Traore will do wonders at that right wing under conte