There’s not a ton of Tottenham Hotspur transfer slop coming out at the moment, much to everyone’s extreme chagrin. But we do have some crumbs of rumors that have fallen from the Great Bat Country Transfer Table, courtesy of our good buddy Matt Law.
Writing in the Telegraph, Law is basically the first real journalist to confirm Tottenham’s long-rumored interest in Southampton’s 18-year old winger Tyler Dibling, and also notes that the club is looking at fellow Brit and Lille midfielder Angel Gomes.
That’s the good news! The bad news is that while Spurs have been in negotiations for both players, it’s more likely that both/either would come in the summer as opposed to this month.
Let’s start with Dibling — he’s been one of the few bright spots for Southampton in this dismal campaign. He’s been a regular starter on the wing for Soton and has 20 appearances and two goals in just over 1200 minutes. Not bad for an 18-year old, though Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall can ask him to hold their beers.
Dibling is one of those “could explode in the future” signings, but his profile is absolutely one that Spurs have coveted since Ange Postecoglou joined the club. He’s a speedy, ball-carrying winger with just under 4 progressive carries/90 and more than two successful take-ons/90. He’s young and a little inconsistent, but appears to be the dribbly boi profile that we’ve needed (and that, for all his goal scoring ability, Brennan Johnson is not).
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Angel Gomes, 24, is one of the young English stars that got away — he was a member of the England squad that won the U17 World Cup back in 2019, along with such players as Jadon Sancho, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Marc Guehi, Morgan Gibbs-White, and Phil Foden. A United academy graduate, he moved to Lille in 2020 and started to break through last season with eight assists. He profiles as more of a “floaty, passy 8/10 hybrid” and he’s not a large guy at 5’6”, but he’s definitely got some passing and creative skills in his locker. His “Similar Players To” profile on FBRef is a who’s who of excellent creators, including Ilkay Gundoguan, Luka Modric, Joshua Kimmich, Phil Foden, and Martin Ødegaard. And at age 24, he’s right in the sweet spot for potential production. Consider me intrigued.
According to Law, neither player looks likely this month, but locking down two potentially impactful players for the summer now would still be good business. And Law does state that while the January window has been “extremely challenging” for Spurs, that the club wants to bring in at least one player to help ease Postecoglou’s immediate crisis. We’ll see about that. But the above moves certainly look promising.
