Tottenham In Talks To Sign João Palhinha On Loan From Bayern

Tottenham are hopeful of signing João Palhinha connected indebtedness aft opening talks pinch Bayern Munich complete nan Portugal midfielder.

Palhinha, who joined Bayern from Fulham past summertime successful a woody worthy up to £47.4m, is understood to beryllium keen to return to nan Premier League having seldom featured nether Vincent Kompany. He is wanted by nan caller Spurs manager, Thomas Frank, to supply other options successful cardinal midfield, pinch talks complete a woody for nan 30-year-old continuing. It appears apt that Bayern will punishment Palhinha’s departure, though it remains to beryllium seen whether immoderate woody would see an action aliases responsibility to make nan woody permanent.

Tottenham hit Arsenal 1-0 successful a pre-season friends astatine Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium connected Thursday successful nan first northbound London derby to beryllium played overseas acknowledgment to a long-range onslaught from Pape Matar Sarr. But signing Palhinha would undoubtedly supply much-needed acquisition successful cardinal midfield fixed that he made almost 80 appearances successful nan Premier League during his 2 seasons astatine Fulham, who he joined from Sporting.

Spurs person already signed Mathys Tel from Bayern this summertime for astir £30m aft nan Frenchman spent nan 2nd half of past play connected indebtedness successful northbound London. They person besides added Mohammed Kudus from West Ham but grounded successful their pursuit of Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White.