Tottenham transfer news: Roberto De Zerbi handed £50m boost despite second Brighton rejection

Tottenham Hotspur person failed with a 2nd attack for Brighton & Hove Albion defender Jan Paul van Hecke, Seagulls CEO Paul Barber has revealed.

The Lilywhites are undertaking a large reshuffle of their antiaircraft enactment during the summertime transportation model and person already confirmed the signing of Andy Robertson connected a escaped transfer from Liverpool.

Spurs are besides understood to person completed a woody for Marcos Senesi, who has passed his aesculapian and volition articulation Roberto De Zerbi's broadside pursuing his merchandise from Bournemouth.

In summation to those 2 low-cost signings, Tottenham are supposedly pushing to prise Van Hecke distant from Brighton, wherever the Dutchman made his Premier League breakthrough nether De Zerbi.

However, Spurs reportedly had a archetypal bid rejected past week, and speaking to talkSPORT, Barber has present revealed that Brighton person rebuffed their London counterparts for a 2nd time.

Tottenham spot 2nd Jan Paul van Hecke bid rejected by Brighton

"There's ever going to beryllium a batch of involvement successful our champion players, and surely successful the lawsuit of Jan Paul," Barber said. "We've been precise wide that that involvement has been ongoing for a while, it's coming from aggregate sources.

"Yes, we person rejected a bid from Tottenham implicit the past week oregon so, successful fact, 2 bids. From that constituent of view, it has to beryllium close for america arsenic good arsenic the player.

"We person to beryllium successful a presumption to marque the champion trades to suit our exemplary and besides to marque definite that we're supporting Fabian [Hurzeler], due to the fact that he's got different large play up of him."

Brighton paid conscionable £1.7m to motion Van Hecke from NAC Breda successful 2020, aft which the Dutchman was loaned retired to Heerenveen successful 2020-21 and Blackburn Rovers successful 2021-22 to summation elder experience.

Now 25, Van Hecke has established himself arsenic a cardinal subordinate for Brighton implicit the past 2 seasons, playing 70 Premier League matches and signaling 4 goals and 4 assists successful the process.

The 6ft 2in defender earned a call-up to the Netherlands' World Cup 2026 squad acknowledgment to his exploits connected the South Coast, including helping Brighton suffice for the upcoming Conference League.

Tottenham handed Jan Paul van Hecke boost contempt Brighton rejection

Previous reports claimed that Brighton were holding retired for a £70m interest to merchantability Van Hecke, frankincense demanding Tottenham marque the Netherlands planetary their astir costly signing of each time.

That honour is presently held by Dominic Solanke - a £65m accomplishment from Bournemouth successful 2024 - but Brighton are not successful a beardown negotiating presumption with Van Hecke, whose woody expires successful 2027.

The Seagulls are not believed to beryllium adjacent to agreeing a declaration hold with the centre-back, though, and talkSPORT has placed their valuation of Van Hecke astatine £50m, truthful Tottenham would not person to interruption their all-time grounds to motion him.

Tottenham would marque abstraction for Van Hecke if either Cristian Romero oregon Micky van de Ven left, but a antithetic Spurs centre-back is seemingly unfastened to leaving this summertime too.