Catch all the latest Tottenham news, including a round-up on a financial boost, Ben Davies and Harry Kane.
Tottenham financial boost
Tottenham are set to receive a financial boost from their overseas friendly with Newcastle at the end of the season. Spurs travel to Australia shortly after the conclusion of the campaign to face the Magpies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
While there have been questions over the match, it will give the Lilywhites a slight financial boost and more. Speaking on TalkSPORT, former Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan said: “Well that’s why I was asking the question, ‘what is it worth now?’
“Small millions, right, but clearly there is a reason behind it because you’ve got two football clubs; one of them, in Newcastle who have a completely different approach to money than the other. We know that Tottenham Hotspur and Daniel Levy runs his football club in a certain way and no one can deny the economics of it.
“It’s successful, the trophy cabinet empty. Newcastle don’t have that problem, their owners want to spend money like drunken sailors, but they can’t. [It’s about] Brand… and what does that do? It generates revenue.”
It’s the type of approach that could allow Tottenham to spend freely compared to their rivals in the transfer market.
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Tottenham player tipped for management role
Tottenham defender Ben Davies has been tipped for a potential role in management once he calls a day on his playing career. The Wales international has been working on the coaching side of the game outside of playing.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Alasdair Gold said: “Fascinating to see what he [Ben Davies] does post-playing, you know, whether he does go into the coaching side. He’s a clever guy and he is, you know, he’s worked under Pochettino, Mourinho, Conte, Nuno briefly and Postecoglou, of course, now and it will be fascinating with that kind of background, with those kinds of different influences what bits and pieces he takes from it.
“We could be talking about Ben Davies as a future top manager. Could be in a position to hang up his boots and go straight into it. I don’t know if that would work with a club like Spurs, but yeah, I think he’s definitely one to watch.”
Read more about Ben Davies coaching, here.
Gary Neville makes Harry Kane claim
Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has admitted he was surprised that Harry Kane left the Premier League in the summer to join Bayern Munich. It comes as the former Tottenham striker was closing in on the league’s top scoring record.
“I never thought he would go to Munich, I never thought he would leave the country, I thought he was destined to break Alan Shearer’s Premier League record,” Neville said on The Overlap. Do you still think he has got this in his mind, that he’s coming back to break the Premier League record?”
“As long as he comes back to Arsenal he will have a chance,” Ian Wright joked, before Neville continued: “He is not going there! I just didn’t think he would go. For me the England record, I thought he would be that hung up about it, I thought he would go to a Premier League club to break the record. He may have had to go abroad to escape to come back.”
Read more on Gary Neville and Harry Kane, here.
