The idea of Cody Gakpo being a top target for Tottenham Hotspur has been floated off and on over the summer, with a smattering of reports over the weekend from Spurs-connected journos suggesting he just might be the big transfer bomba hinted at by manager Roberto De Zerbi last week.
At the time, though, there wasn’t much to the rumour beyond the idea that Spurs might be seriously interested. Now, there’s a little bit more. From everybody’s favourite transfer chancer Fabrizio Romano to TalkSport’s
Ben Jacobs (who at least has known connections to failed Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes), today the idea of Spurs wanting Gakpo is going mainstream.
A fee of around £70M, which is what Barcelona paid for Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon, has been floated as the that just might get Liverpool to consider a sale—and given Gakpo’s numbers are slightly superior even if he had a very bad 2025-26 season along with basically every other Red, you’d hope that’s the floor.
Still, from a Liverpool point of view the idea of losing yet another player when the squad is already dangerously thin and unbalanced with between four and five signings seemingly still needed this summer and rumours Curtis Jones’ head is already in Milan is bracing.
Liverpool currently need at least one top winger (and maybe another all-purpose forward, too), they need a right back, they need a centre half who can stay fit, and if Jones goes they need to replace Jones. Meanwhile, Hughes and the club rather seem to be twiddling their thumbs, having brought in Victor Muñoz six weeks ago and since then having done we’re not quite sure what.
Well, actually, that’s not entirely true. They made a play for Yan Diomande and then it turned out Yan Diomande was only using Liverpool to try to get a move to Paris Saint-Germain or Real Madrid. And now they’re probably trying to get Bradley Barcola out of PSG but those rumours have been treading water for a few weeks.
In scientific terms, there’s a metric crapload of work to do and if the season kicked off today you’d say head coach Andoni Iraola is being set up for failure by a sporting director who was handed a title calibre squad in 2024 and has turned it into a side looking like it needs a full rebuild under a new head coach who looks like he’s being set up for failure job work, Richard, good process.
So sure let’s sell Gakpo for £70M then fail to sign the necessary replacement along with half of the other players this squad needs (but don’t worry, when the window closes Hughes is heading for a Saudi payday so at least things are gonna work out for one person just it’s the person who’s screwed everything up at Liverpool).
