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Tottenham confident of signing Pierre-Emile Højbjerg from Southampton

Tottenham are confident that they will close a deal for Southampton’s Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, even though Everton have had a bid of £25m accepted for the midfielder
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Tottenham confident of signing Pierre-Emile Højbjerg from Southampton
  • Danish midfielder determined to join Spurs
  • Southampton have accepted £25m bid from Everton
Tottenham are confident that they will close a deal for Southampton’s Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, even though Everton have had a bid of £25m accepted for the midfielder.

Højbjerg, who has one year to run on his Southampton contract, is determined to move to Spurs, where José Mourinho wants to play him in front of the back four, and he has made that desire plain.

With the will of the player in their favour, Spurs will look to conclude negotiations with Southampton, having thus far frustrated the south coast club with their valuation of Højbjerg. Southampton will use Everton’s £25m offer as the benchmark, although Spurs will try to get him for less.

Højbjerg was stripped of the Southampton captaincy after making it clear that he would not extend his deal with them and the 24-year-old has lost his place in the team since the return to action after the Premier League shutdown.

Southampton want to sign Kyle Walker-Peters on a permanent basis from Spurs, the 23-year-old right-back having been on loan with them since January. But in the interests of clarity, they are treating that and the Højbjerg deal as separate entities; the success or failure of one need not determine that of the other.
 
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joey55 said:
I like Jose and I'm certainly not one of those opposed to him being our manager. But his transfer record, with mid budget signings is quite poor. Given what he said about Bergwejin, it suggests he just part of the process and doesn't dictate who we sign, which I think is a very good thing.

If you look at the players he signed at Chelsea, that weren't that expensive and could potentially have gone to non CL clubs, had Chelsea not signed them, they are pretty average. He certainly doesn't have a knack for spotting under valued players. His track record doesn't suggest him being interested in a player that isn't a stand out star, isn't necessarily a sign that others are missing something he's spotted.

Kezman, Tiago, Jarosik, Kalou, SWP, Ben Sahar, Del Horno, Boulahrouz, Pizarro and Sidwell. I'm not saying those are terrible players and Del Horno and Tiago were pretty decent, but when you compare them to similar stature signings we've made over the years, they aren't a great bunch of signings and we'd have not done as well during that period had they signed for us instead. The Essien, Robben, Drogba type signings, aren't comparable to the market we are currently shopping in. They are players that only the worlds richest clubs could have signed at the time. During that same period, we signed Carrick, Lennon, Berbatov and Bale, all of whom you'd think Chelsea could have acquired. I'm not saying we didn't sign plenty of duds, but just showing we did at least sign some serious quality, on a budget, whilst Jose managed to sign no one really brilliant that wasn't a hugely sort after player.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I really don't ever remember Jose ever signing someone like Toby or Dembele, who had played in the Prem, but the other richest clubs didn't spot how damn good they really were.

In fact, if we sign PEH and he becomes a huge success, then I think it's will be Jose's first ever successful signing in that mold.
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Samir Khedira is an example of a Jose signing from a lesser club, for not too much money, who was a DCM.

Went on to be a key member of the Real Madrid league winning side (although the season after).

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If anyone has doubts as to Hojbjerg's quality - the fact that the two managers trying to sign him are Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti should allay those concerns somewhat, IMO.
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I quite like the guy and think he would be a good signing for us at this time and will improve a clear area of need
BUT, just playing Devils advocate here - these are the managers of the clubs currently sitting in 7th and 11th that have no way of competing for higher profile champions league quality players.
Good but let’s not pretend he’s a great player wanted by the world’s finest.
 
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hutchiniho said:
BUT, just playing Devils advocate here - these are the managers of the clubs currently sitting in 7th and 11th that have no way of competing for higher profile champions league quality players.
Good but let’s not pretend he’s a great player wanted by the world’s finest.
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Thank god for that otherwise we'd have zero chance of singing him this summer.
 
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hutchiniho said:
I quite like the guy and think he would be a good signing for us at this time and will improve a clear area of need
BUT, just playing Devils advocate here - these are the managers of the clubs currently sitting in 7th and 11th that have no way of competing for higher profile champions league quality players.
Good but let’s not pretend he’s a great player wanted by the world’s finest.
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Whilst I don't know much about the player or feel particularly excited by the signing it's more it's a position that Mourinho has seen as being a priority, decent value, but also up to Prem speed so should hit the ground running, unlike last Summer's transfers.

Plus Mourinho would have watched enough of him to know he can do a job for us. And possibly allow him to set up slightly different with an out and out DM playing.

I get a feeling this could be like the Wanyama signing for Poch who, similarly, no-one else seemed interested in at the time.
 
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I’m all for him. Breaks up play; is prem ready; and doesn’t cost the earth (like £25 million ain’t a great amount - ouch!) Then we have Tanguy: £60mill plus; ‘appears’ to have fallen foul of Jose; hasn’t had the best of appearances. I’m not implying they’re the same kind of player, but I feel we need to be savvy in our acquisitions and PEH falls into that category.. btw, not bothered by Saints fans opinions
 
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I think this gets done at some point. It’s just a matter of when. Southampton seem to be exaggerating Everton’s interest in an attempt to move us along. Levy not one to blink though. It’s just a case of waiting for them to find an acceptable middle ground. Which is hopefully in time for pre-season...
 
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Apparently he has had 46 shots this season without scoring, the most shots for any player without a goal in the premier league. Luckily he’s pretty good at tackling / interceptions.
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Guarantee he scores on his debut for us. Just like Dembele.
 
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I'm quite enjoying that the current line is that "Everton are pretty sure he's heading to us but for shits and giggles they've bid £10m more than they think he's worth." Sounds like a likely story.
 
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Cornpattbuck said:
I'm quite enjoying that the current line is that "Everton are pretty sure he's heading to us but for shits and giggles they've bid £10m more than they think he's worth." Sounds like a likely story.
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I'm fairly sure Levy did something similar to Pool when they signed Ings on a free, he bid 10m (or something) which pushed his tribunal fee way up
 
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Reading around this morning it sounded like the Everton bid is nothing but fiction. The report eminated from a certain south coast paper however it was quickly refuted by a source closer to Everton. It seems as if Southampton planted the story to try to get Levy to pay what they want.

I'm with many others who think that £25m for a player with 1 year left on his contract is on the high side.

Kondogbia has been linked in the past too and he's apparently on the list of players that Valencia are having to sell in order to not go under.
 
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