Tottenham has made a step for the RB Leipzig Starlet in the latest turn in a summer transfer window that has brought more pain than the pleasure has.
Tottenham has turned to RB Leipzig's Xavi Simons as another candidate to fill the central creative hole in the midfield of Thomas Frank, while hoping to prevent a third transfer disaster from the summer window.
The DANE started in a positive way at Spurs with his team that scores five goals and keeps two clean sheets in back-to-back Premier League wins against Burnley and Manchester City while he only loses in the UEFA Super Cup to follow a penalty shoot-out in Udine.
However, the attempts to improve the team for Frank have brought more failures than successes and now with a handful of days left from the transfer window, Trimming Tottenham to try to offer the quality of players who the new head coach needs to challenge all four fronts on all four fronts this season.
“Then it is up to me together with the players and the staff to ensure that we can compete, and then, as I said, we do what we can do to strengthen it.”
Frank's first choice for the No. 10 role was Morgan Gibbs-White, but two weeks after a bid that Tottenham thought he had ended up in the player who all ended in legal issues around a controversial release clause, a sudden new contract and an apologetic phone call from the midfielder of the spursbaas.
Then weeks later the Ebereechi Eze -Saga came when Tottenham believed that they had bound a move to the English international with Crystal Palace and the player, only for the club he wanted from the start, Arsenal, came to the fore at the last minute and took him from their grip of their North London rivals.
Now there is a potentially painful move for another attacking midfielder who seemed to be out of the table earlier in the 22-year-old Xavi Simons.
The Dutchman looked all summer as if he would only leave RB Leipzig for Chelsea to get somewhat cold that transfer track.
On paper, Simons taps a lot of compartments for Frank and Spurs in the sense that he can play as a no. 10 and also on the left wing, so essentially he is a kind of replacement for both Maddison and Son, but Tottenham strives to bring in another player for those roles.
Simons also falls into the category of being experienced despite his age, after he has played 137 games of senior football, about spells at PSG, PSV Eindhoven and RB Leipzig after he has passed the Barcelona academy. He also proved in 13 games in the Champions League, with four targeted involvement. Spurs are back in that competition and wait for their competition phase on Thursday.
Simons achieved 11 goals and eight assists in 33 performances for Leipzig last season, despite missing two months in the middle of the season with an ankle injury. When he returned to the side, he registered 14 targeted involvement in 18 games in the Bundesliga.
Tottenham has a good relationship with the German club, just like you would take care of Timo Werner for 18 months. However, that is not the relationship for which they must be wary when it comes to this potential transfer.
It is the relationship between Simons and Chelsea, because they seem to have been his favorite option all summer. There are some suggestions that the blues must first sell before they entered the Netherlands International, but Tottenham heard all this earlier with Arsenal and Eze and that ended in shame.
Perhaps the difference in the Blues case is that they must meet a UEFA penalty that states that they have to end with a positive transfer balance with the Conference League-winning team of last season to register new signing sessions for their upcoming Champions League retirement.
Leipzig has given permission for the skilled Simons to miss the training “until further notice” and to travel to London with his representatives to sort out his future in one way or another.
Tottenham Sense is an opportunity and is assumed that they have verbally offered an amount in the neighborhood of € 70 million (£ 60.4 million) that Leipzig is looking for and that is done with the hope that a deal will be closed in the midst of those Chelsea anxes.