There are only a couple of days left in the summer transfer window, and Tottenham Hotspur still have a bit of work to do. One of their agenda items is to figure out what the heck to do about Giovani Lo Celso, who is not in Ange Postecoglou’s plans and who has reportedly turned down several moves this summer.
Well, according to Matteo Moretto, one option could be a return to Real Betis. Moretto tweeted today that Lo Celso is the “chosen target” for the La Liga club, where Lo Celso spent a happy season on loan and actually signed for briefly before heading to Tottenham on a loan-to-buy deal in 2019.
Con la marcha de Nabil Fekir, el Betis quiere ahora intentar acelerar por Giovani Lo Celso. Él es el perfil elegido. https://t.co/EzlW3wSM8v
— Matteo Moretto (@MatteMoretto) August 28, 2024
So is this a permanent deal? A loan with an option? What’s going on? Well, we don’t know. Of course we don’t know! This is one short tweet with no real context, and since Johan Lange moves in and through near total darkness like a reclusive transfer vampire, we might not know whether this is even a real rumor or not until it actually happens.
But I’d like it to happen, and so would Spurs because Gio’s contract runs through next summer and getting something, anything at all really, for him would be better than letting him walk on a free. And it’s not like he’s going to play for Spurs this season. In fact, although he still technically has a squad number, he absolutely wouldn’t get registered for the Europa League, and would be paid to train.
So at this point I’m just hoping he heads somewhere, because anywhere is better than here, apparently. And then we can finally turn the page — and close the book — on the summer transfer window of 2019 which started out so full of promise and ended up an abject disaster. Don’t we all want that, really? Let’s collectively manifest it.
