{"id":614029,"date":"2022-06-21T13:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=614029"},"modified":"2022-06-21T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:55:43","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-chairman-djed-spence-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/tottenham-hotspur-chairman-djed-spence-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur Chairman Personally Driving Negotiations to Buy Highly-Rated Championship Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/christian-eriksen-manchester-united-tottenham-2\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> are set to have more talks with Middlesbrough over the possibility of signing defender Djed Spence this summer, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsLyall\/status\/1539241550609276928?t=tqKbI4yHGJHg9D-WseoLGQ&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lyall Thomas<\/a>. Spurs have earmarked the 21-year-old as the priority option to improve their right-back position after watching him fire up the Championship last season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tottenham?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Tottenham<\/a> set for further talks over signing Djed Spence. Daniel Levy personally driving this deal as Fabio Paratici concentrates on other targets. Initial talks did not find agreement but Spence wants <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spurs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Spurs<\/a> move. More coming on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SSN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SSN<\/a> and here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OzHTtF6aQx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/OzHTtF6aQx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pxWoxKMau9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pxWoxKMau9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lyall Thomas (@SkySportsLyall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsLyall\/status\/1539241550609276928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tottenham Hotspur Set for More Talks Over Djed Spence Signing<\/h2>\n<h3>Spurs Chairman Daniel Levy Personally Overseeing Djed Spence Transfer<\/h3>\n<p>Djed Spence is <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/18\/djed-spence-transfer-rumours-middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_self\">highly rated by those at Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> after playing a key role on loan with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/07\/nottingham-forest-brice-sambra-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Nottingham Forest<\/a> in their impressive campaign last season. He helped them gain promotion to the Premier League after a two-decade-long wait. Spurs did have initial talks with the Championship side over the defender, but could not come to any agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Their chairman, Daniel Levy, has now personally intervened to spearhead the negotiations over this deal. Levy hasn&#8217;t normally been involved in too many transfers since the appointment of Managing Director Fabio Paratici. However, with the Italian executive focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/tottenham-hotspur-target-stuttgart-striker\/\" target=\"_self\">securing other transfer targets<\/a>, Levy is looking to handle this move by himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/christian-eriksen-manchester-united-tottenham-2\/\" target=\"_self\">Huge Twist: Favourites to Sign \u2018World-Class\u2019 Free Transfer Revealed in Race Between Manchester United and Tottenham<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Levy now has to find an agreement over the fee for Spence. Despite his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/djed-spence\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/483348\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a37 million valuation<\/a>, Middlesbrough will not let Spence go that cheaply and are trying to hold out for a relatively bigger fee and demanding around \u00a320 million.<\/p>\n<h3>Spence\u2019s Preference to North London Move<\/h3>\n<p>The 21-year-old defender is personally <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/14\/djed-spence-tottenham-hotspur-hint\/\" target=\"_self\">ready to make the big move<\/a> to a Premier League heavyweight like Tottenham Hotspur as well. Spence wants the move himself and is personally pushing for it to happen as well, improving Spurs&#8217; chances of convincing Middlesbrough to get it done.<\/p>\n<p>A London boy himself, Spence played for Fulham at the academy level and wants to play for a club close to home. The youngster should be a solid fit for Antonio Conte&#8217;s system because of his ability to play both as a right-back as well as a right-wing-back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/01\/18\/djed-spence-transfer-rumours-middlesbrough\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur Join Race for Championship Hotshot Djed Spence<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spence is also an impressive crosser of the ball and has the qualities &#8211; both defensively and attacking &#8211; to be a solid fit for the current Spurs side. He will now hope the deal can get through quickly so that he can start his pre-season training with Spurs next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur are set to have more talks with Middlesbrough over the possibility of signing defender Djed Spence this summer, according to Lyall Thomas. Spurs have earmarked the 21-year-old as the priority option to improve their right-back position after watching him fire up the Championship last season. Exclusive: #Tottenham set for further talks over signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":614034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,32,19,3,7188,28],"tags":[4869],"class_list":["post-614029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tottenham","category-league-football","category-middlesborough","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-djed-spence"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}