{"id":256267,"date":"2026-08-05T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/tottenham-threatening-to-hijack-aston-villa-to-sign-65m-ex-bayern-munich-star\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:43:49","slug":"tottenham-threatening-to-hijack-aston-villa-to-sign-65m-ex-bayern-munich-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/tottenham-threatening-to-hijack-aston-villa-to-sign-65m-ex-bayern-munich-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham threatening to hijack Aston Villa to sign \u00a365m ex-Bayern Munich star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/roberto-de-zerbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roberto De Zerbi<\/a> admitted during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tag\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>&#8216;s pre-season tour of Australia that the club&#8217;s business is only 60 per cent complete, and that should be music to the ears of those in North London.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<p>The Lilywhites have already spent more than \u00a3150m on reinforcements this summer, welcoming big money signings like Sandro Tonali, Jan Paul van Hecke and Mateus Fernandes, and the manager is not finished yet, promising more &#8216;bombas&#8217;.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"display-card  article article-card small  no-badge  active-content                              \" data-include-community-rating=\"false\" id=\"tottenham-transfers-signings\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<p>                                                                                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tottenham-transfers-signings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n                        <\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\"><label>Related<\/label><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-display-card-content regular article-block\">\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tottenham-transfers-signings\/\" title=\"All Completed Tottenham Transfers in 2026\/27\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAll Completed Tottenham Transfers in 2026\/27<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Every completed Tottenham transfer and confirmed signing in 2026\/27, plus their all-time record signings and sales.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The next position on their agenda seems to be a striker. And with Eli Junior Kroupi off the table following his injury at Bournemouth, Nicolas Jackson has become one to watch as Tottenham eye a transfer battle against Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-container\">\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" style=\"\" align=\"\" summary=\"\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"2\" scope=\"col\">\n<p>The race to sign Nicolas Jackson<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Aston Villa<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Aston Villa and Unai Emery have been admirers of Jackson for some time and have opened talks to sign the Chelsea man this summer. Whilst the sale of Morgan Rogers has helped their financial woes, the Villans have still been hesitant to reach the forward&#8217;s \u00a365m asking price.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Tottenham<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Villa&#8217;s hesitation has left the door ajar for Tottenham to make their move. Those in North London are also long-term admirers of Jackson and money is no issue these days. With Richarlison potentially heading for the exit door, the Chelsea forward could arrive to solve Spurs&#8217; striker problem.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s become clear over the course of the transfer window that Chelsea need to sell at least one of their strikers, especially after signing Danny Welbeck from Brighton recently, and Jackson is a strong candidate to leave. Whether Spurs formalise their hijack on Aston Villa remains to be seen, however.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tottenham-eyeing-nicolas-jackson-move\">\n                        <strong>Tottenham eyeing Nicolas Jackson move<\/strong><br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape \">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:50%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;REUTERS\\\/Thilo Schmuelgen&quot;\">\n<figure><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/><img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nicolas-jackson-bayern-munich\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mixcollage-05-aug-2026-11-10-am-7995.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/>\n        <\/picture><small class=\"body-img-caption\">REUTERS\/Thilo Schmuelgen<\/small><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As reported by the Daily Mail, Tottenham are now threatening to sign Jackson ahead of Aston Villa as De Zerbi and the club&#8217;s owners go into overdrive working to ensure last season&#8217;s disastrous scrape with relegation never happens again.<\/p>\n<p>Villa have long looked the most likely club to sign the Chelsea forward, who spent last season on loan at Bayern Munich, but Spurs have now set their sights on his signature.<\/p>\n<p>Any move is still in its early stages, with the North London club admiring from afar for the time being, but the threat is certainly there. De Zerbi claimed the club&#8217;s business is still far from finished and adding another striker would surely put the initial stages of his project close to completion.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- No AdsNinja v10 Client! --><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tottenham-hold-talks-to-sign-cody-gakpo\">\n                        <strong>Tottenham hold talks to sign Cody Gakpo<\/strong><br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<div class=\"body-img landscape \">\n<div class=\"responsive-img  image-expandable  img-article-item\" style=\"padding-bottom:50%\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg\" data-modal-id=\"single-image-modal\" data-modal-container-id=\"single-image-modal-container\" data-img-caption=\"&quot;&quot;\">\n                                                                                            <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 480px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=500&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=800&amp;dpr=2\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 1023px)\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/><img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cody-Gakpo-Netherlands\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.footballfancastimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cody-gakpo-netherlands.jpg?q=49&amp;fit=crop&amp;w=825&amp;dpr=2\"\/>\n        <\/picture>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Attack certainly seems to be the priority for the Lilywhites. Alongside Jackson, they&#8217;ve also turned their focus towards Cody Gakpo. Reports have even gone as far as to suggest that they&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/liverpools-stance-on-selling-cody-gakpo-tottenham-transfer-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held positive talks<\/a> to sign the Liverpool winger.<\/p>\n<p>As those at Anfield push on in the race to welcome Ibrahim Mbaye and Bradley Barcola from Paris Saint-Germain, the exit door could swing open for Gakpo &#8211; leaving Tottenham with a decision to make.<\/p>\n<p>With less than a month to go until the window slams shut, Spurs&#8217; business looks far from over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tottenham-nicolas-jackson-transfer-update-aston-villa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberto De Zerbi admitted during Tottenham Hotspur&#8216;s pre-season tour of Australia that the club&#8217;s business is only 60 per cent complete, and that should be music to the ears of those in North London. The Lilywhites have already spent more than \u00a3150m on reinforcements this summer, welcoming big money signings like Sandro Tonali, Jan Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6808],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}