A couple of days ago Sport Witness covered an article from Record which referred to Jeremy Toljan and Tottenham. The Portuguese newspaper explained Benfica had been very interested, but were now walking away, because they believe Toljan is very close to signing for Spurs.
Record didn’t elaborate further, and haven’t said anything since, but the story quickly spread out across the English media, and has made its way to Germany.
Bild say Tottenham are ‘hot’ on Toljan, but don’t pretend it’s their scoop, crediting Record with the claim.
The German newspaper do add their own bits, though. Toljan’s market value, via Transfermarkrt, is €3.5m, and Bild believe the player could leave for an amount around this, because his contract ends next summer.
That amount is ‘peanuts’ for Tottenham, reckon Bild, and it’s probably the reason Benfica were interested in the first place.
Interestingly, Bild quote Hoffenheim director of football Alex Rosen as recently saying: “If Tottenham comes up offering him three-fold salary, then you can wrongly say: London is an unattractive city, or Tottenham is a bad club.”
It’s hard to work out if there’s something genuine here, or if speculation is feeding speculation, and the whole thing living off itself.
A fee of €3.5m would be a remarkably cheap investment in a right back after the sale of Kyle Walker.
