With just over a week into the January transfer window, Tottenham Hotspur’s links with players of certain key positions have started to intensify. Indeed, further reports have surfaced this week that Spurs’ interest in Sporting CP duo Pedro Porro and Marcus Edwards has intensified.
The latest on this double pursuit comes from Sport Witness, who relay a Portuguese report from Correio da Manhã saying that Spurs are not too far off meeting the combined fee of the release clauses of both Porro and Edwards.
The report states that Spurs’ current offer for the duo stands at €70 million, but that Sporting are standing firm on their €75 million valuation of the pair combined.
The Sport Witness report reiterates how Porro’s release clause stands at €45 million, while Edwards has a hefty clause of €60 million, but Spurs only have to pay €30 million due to the club having a 50% discount of the youngster they sold to Vitoria Guimaraes back in 2019 as part the terms that saw the Englishman depart North London in the first place.
Nevertheless, Sporting CP have continued (and rightly so, in my opinion) to stand firm on their stance on Porro and Edwards towards interested buying parties – simply, anyone interested in either player must meet their given release clauses, or go forth and multiply.
It does not take Miss Marple to figure out that the right-wing back area is in need of a spruce up, so the Pedro Porro links are justified. With doubts still persisting over the recently-resurgent Bryan Gil in the absence of Dejan Kulusevski, Richarlison, and even the much-maligned Lucas Moura, the forward areas also look in need of some form of reinforcement, hence the links with Marcus Edwards.
Whether the clubs can come to an agreement is anyone’s guess – it seems like the same cycle just keeps repeating itself, where Spurs make an offer short of either player’s release clause, Sporting remind Spurs of how much they want, Spurs walk away and then come again, and so on. We’ll see what happens.
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