Mark Critchley

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Argentina are inevitable + Ornstein on Man United transfers · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

And Andre Santos perhaps doesn't quite fit that mould just yet, but it doesn't mean he's not a talented player.

It doesn't mean he could be a useful addition.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess.

I sort of hate that phrase.

I think it's even too early to be judging last summer's window because you need the players to actually contribute to a team over an extended period of time to really make an assessment of the transfer windows.

I know that from covering United, you think a window's gone well and certainly at the end of a window, maybe at the end of a season, then you look back in three years time and you're like, what was all that about?

Yeah.

What I would say in all seriousness though is that covering the Mateus Fernandes story just last week, there is a real, I don't know, like surprise I guess and shock at just how mad Tottenham are moving.

It's Love Island season so I had to pull that phrase on you.

just how mad Tottenham are moving at the moment because I don't think a lot of people expected this.

Yes, there's been these capital injections from the Lewis family over the last year, really, 100 million recently, 100 million back in the autumn.

You've had the changes at boardroom level with Daniel Levy, of course, going and a change in tack and approach.

And I think the shockwaves that they're making in the wider industry are being felt, but then also within the club themselves because we were reporting in our story yesterday

On the inside, the deal piece about the Fernandes deal that, you know, there's people at Tottenham, they're really delighted and encouraged by the fact that the club is showing ambition, that they are pushing the boat out to sign players, sign targets and use these resources that they have and show that level of ambition, which is always something that we've questioned about Spurs.

So, yeah, look, winning the transfer window in the sense that they've been the most active, that they spent the most money, absolutely.

And maybe that's actually...

All jokes aside, maybe that's actually what Tottenham have needed to do for a while.

The World Cup is on in a minute.

Oh, wow.

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