If you are feeling bored with not a lot happening on the transfer front then fear ye not, this article will bring you more details hot off the press about Spurs fans wetting themselves about the skills of Pierre Emile Hojbjerg and Daniel Levy's negotiating skills.
Anyone else getting sick of the Pierre Emile Hojbjerg saga dragging on ? I certainly am, it has been in the news now for over six months and to be honest little has been said in the media that hasn't been said before.
There are basically seven strands of the story and to save you reading the dozens of articles that will pop up across the net today and indeed tomorrow, here is the gist of them, they never change.
1. Jose Mourinho - He considers Pierre Emile Hojbjerg a player of no fixed ability and a previously nondescript member of the Southampton squad since 2016, to be the missing link that will propel Spurs to the glory they have barely tasted in the their history let alone living memory, luckily Hojbjerg 's agent is a very close personal friend of Jose so it means the deal will get done quickly and in a Gentlemanly fashion, whatever anyone says, no money will change hands except between the two clubs.
2 Daniel Levy - CEO of Tottenham Hotspur football club, an institution respected in footballing circles as a club that do things in the right manner as recently as 1972, he has also been taken in by the above claim, sorry I meant agrees with Jose Mourinho, but considers missing links to be in the same price bracket as Spurs U23 players.
3. Spurs Supporters - their fan websites agree with both of the above, that Hojbjerg is the new messiah and they also applaud Levy as a shrewd operator for being able to get such a talent at such a low price, never do they consider that the player is worth less than the original asking price of a Spurs New Messiah, said to be £35 million, they worship at the feet of Levy and his ability to get New Messiahs at knock down prices.
4. Southampton FC - actually they say very little on this, as they do with all transfers, they merely accept that Hojbjerg is the new Spurs messiah and ask the going rate for him that other clubs like Everton are willing to pay, despite the fact that the Toffee's certainly do not see him as their messiah merely as a useful addition to their squad, it seems Everton have a realistic valuation of messiahs.
5. Saints supporters - They fall into two categories, those that think that Hojbjerg is a less than average Premier League player and who would accept £15 million although at that price they would not drive him to White Hart Lane, and then those that feel he is at least an average Premier League player and that if £25 million is received for him that it should spark street parties in Southampton as seen recently on Merseyside & Leeds, or that if £20 million is paid into our coffers then we should drive him to London. Strangely there is no third category, that of righteous indignant fans who claim that selling Hojbjerg shows that the club has no ambition etc etc as were prevalent in 2014/16/17/18/19, although they are expected to re emerge should we sell Harrison Reed to Fulham.
6. The rest of the footballing world - They are wondering what the hell is going on at Tottenham a club who just over a year ago where in the Champions League final, whilst their rivals like Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City, Man Utd , Liverpool etc are trying to sign players at circa £70 million and not haggling about the price, Spurs are trying to sign their number one target and are baulking at £15 million, what does that say about Spurs as a club, their ambitions and financial state. This viewpoint is magically invisible to Spurs fans who continue to believe that Hojbjerg will win them the Premier League in the coming season.
7. Pini Zahavi - Strangely nothing is coming from this man who became the players agent last season, well at least not directly, that is not surprising as he has enough transfer controversy linked to him & Mourinho already with Ashley Cole's move from Arsenal to Chelsea in 2005, beng perhaps the most infamous.
So there you have it, assuming that having got down to here that you have read the entire article, then you have no need to trawl through stories on line to find out what the viewpoint of any party is or what the current situation is, you just need to sit tight and wait for the news coming through that the deal is done and the price.
Even that will not be simple, Daniel Levy will try to claim that Saints have actually paid Spurs to take Hojbjerg such is his negotiating skills and Spurs fans will try to convince themselves that now they are going to win the League and finally equal Huddersfield in the number to titles won after 60 years of hurt and will crow about how they have got him for under half price.
Saints supporters will just snigger, something they didn't do when the likes of Lallana, Van Dijk & Mane left, that is something for Spurs fans to think about.