Mohammed Kudus set to sign for Tottenham Hotspur

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Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a £55m deal to sign Mohammed Kudus from bitter rivals West Ham - what will he bring to Thomas Frank's new-look side?

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00:00Yeah, on other positions in terms of an out-and-out winger,

00:04obviously Mateus Tell's joined.

00:06Whether he's going to play out wide is obviously still to be determined.

00:10But Mohamed Koudas is a player who is very exciting at West Ham.

00:14He maybe fell away from the page a little bit over last season

00:17and couldn't quite find his feet underground.

00:19Potter, when he came in, obviously, with the managerial changes as well,

00:22with Lopetegui's tenure not going too well at West Ham.

00:27I mean, it's great to be linked to him.

00:29And hopefully, you know, is this a deal that Spurs fans are really hoping

00:33they can get over the line?

00:34Because, you know, that first season, his first season in England,

00:37he was one of the best players in the league by, you know, by a long way as well.

00:42Yeah, he was.

00:43And he's a real emerging talent again.

00:45I mean, I think you'd probably call him a typical Spurs player

00:48and a typical Spurs signing at the moment, showing bags of potential,

00:51but does lack inconsistency, like you say there.

00:54First season, extremely strong, really good numbers.

00:56Spurs' second season, not so good, albeit West Ham obviously struggled last season.

01:01But, you know, you could argue that Spurs struggled last season

01:03and we still managed to get a number of players into the double figures

01:07in terms of goals and assists.

01:08So I think the problem for Koudis at West Ham has been he wants to play off the right

01:12and obviously Jared Bowen is the, you know, sort of the captain,

01:14he's the leader of that team and, you know, he's not going anywhere.

01:17So he's first pick on the right-hand side.

01:19And when you look at his numbers overall, Koudis, they're pretty average.

01:23But then when you look at the games he has played off the right,

01:27they've been quite impressive.

01:28So I think that's what Spurs are looking for.

01:31They like the idea of a player who can play across the front three.

01:34You know, he can play in the ten, he can play off the left,

01:36but I think ideally he wants to play off the right.

01:39All the noises are that he wants Spurs.

01:41He's not interested in anybody else.

01:43I think there was a little bit of rumour earlier that Bayern Munich might be in for him.

01:46He's not interested in that.

01:47Saudi Arabia as well.

01:48He's got an £85 million release clause, which is valid until the middle of the month.

01:53Now Spurs are certainly not going to pay that.

01:55And I think they're sort of leaning on West Ham and their financial difficulties.

01:59There's talk they might have to pay back certain loans

02:02and they need to do some business to comply with PSR.

02:05So it's a little bit of a Mexican standoff, I think, at the moment.

02:08Spurs hanging on the price, as we always do, which is highly frustrating.

02:11As Spurs fans, you just think, just get the money down and let's get him in.

02:15You know, pre-season's already started and we're already behind the eight ball.

02:17So that is a frustration.

02:20But then I suppose you've got the sort of added caveat with West Ham

02:23that Spurs and West Ham don't like each other.

02:26Going back to the days of the Olympic Stadium debacle

02:29and the last player, I think, to be traded between Spurs and West Ham

02:34was Scott Parker back in the Harry Redknapp era.

02:36So we don't deal with West Ham often.

02:39I think West Ham would ideally like a bidding war to come in.

02:42There's been a little bit of talk of Chelsea coming in

02:44should Madweki go to Arsenal.

02:45But all the noises are that Spurs, he wants Spurs.

02:49He'd be a very, very good addition to Spurs' squad.

02:51We just need to get the money out and get it over the line.

02:54So I'm hoping that gets done.

02:56I think it'd be a real signal of intent.

02:57And we're backing Thomas Frank there,

02:59which would be a really good barometer going forward.

03:02But, you know, as always with Spurs,

03:04until you see the here we go from Fabrizio Romano

03:08or you see the official video coming out on the Spurs website,

03:11it's never done till it's done.

03:12So I'd say it's in the balance,

03:14but hopefully the balance will tip towards Spurs

03:16and we'll get that one done.

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