Tottenham: Mourinho blames a disrupted pre-season for defeat
Jose Mourinho is reportedly hoping to sign Bayer Leverkusen star Leon Bailey before the October 5 transfer deadline and the 23-year-old is keen on moving to the Premier League.
Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho has identified his next target (Image: GETTY)
Spurs will struggle to meet that sum without offloading any players.
It is a positive sign that both the player and club want to make the transfer happen and the ball is in the north Londoners' court.
Mourinho has spoken to his superiors and made it crystal clear exactly what he needs to challenge for a top-four place.
"I want to make it very clear that the club - if you want to call it the club or the structure above me - knows I need a striker and they also want a striker," he said.
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Bayer Leverkusen want Tottenham to pay £40m for Leon Bailey (Image: GETTY)
"So it’s not for me to convince him, it’s for him to convince me. If he says, 'I don't want to go because I don’t want to be in a squad where we have Harry Kane and Sonny, Lamela, Lucas, I don’t want to go to that squad', then goodbye.
"You look to all the other top clubs and they have many options as centre-forwards and that question doesn’t appear."
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