Tottenham transfer news: why Spurs aren't considering selling Souza despite strong competition

Tottenham Hotspur signed Souza for £12.75m successful January. The young left-back near Santos arsenic 1 of the position's brightest prospects, but helium has not yet had galore opportunities astatine the club, contempt already attracting involvement from large European sides.

Benfica precocious made a £17m offer for the Brazilian, but, arsenic Trivela has learned, Tottenham rejected the bid. Despite important contention for places astatine left-back, selling the 20-year-old is not portion of the English club's plans.

Destiny Udogie and precocious signed Andrew Robertson are expected to beryllium the 2 main options competing for the left-back role.

Both are established names, which makes Souza's continued beingness astatine the club, having featured successful conscionable 4 matches truthful far, each the much intriguing. The program whitethorn good beryllium linked to Roberto De Zerbi.

Benfica's connection for Souza and Tottenham's transportation market

The young full-back has attracted European involvement and could person near the London nine conscionable six months aft arriving.

Reports suggest that, alongside Benfica's authoritative offer, different clubs made enquiries astir the player, but that the determination to support him did not needfully travel from the subordinate oregon his camp, but from Tottenham themselves.

In a transportation model successful which the nine has spent astir £220m connected reinforcements, it would beryllium tenable to presume that a young subordinate with constricted playing time, generating £17m, would beryllium viewed favourably by the club.

The arrivals of Sandro Tonali, Matheus Fernandes and Jan Paul van Hecke person raised the level of the squad and required important fees.

Savinho remains different long-standing people for Spurs. The Manchester City Brazilian is portion of Enzo Maresca's pre-season squad, but the London nine stay interested, adjacent though nary authoritative connection has been made. 

How Souza could make and assistance De Zerbi's Tottenham

Souza made his sanction astatine Santos arsenic a accepted full-back who attacks the abstraction down the enactment and likes to get to the byline. He was adjacent dubbed the 'new Marcelo' erstwhile his determination to Tottenham was announced.

In Brazil, helium was important for Santos during moments of modulation and speedy counter-attacks. He offers a much attacking enactment astatine full-back, 1 susceptible of providing width further guardant successful positional attacks for a much diligent Tottenham broadside nether De Zerbi.

On the different hand, the young full-back has some Udogie and Robertson up of him, 2 well-established names successful the Premier League. However, it is precisely the information that helium offers a antithetic benignant of full-back that could beryllium decisive for his aboriginal astatine the club.

There is immoderate uncertainty implicit however Spurs' attacking operation volition look fixed the options available. Ideally, De Zerbi would support Udogie arsenic his starting left-back successful an inverted role, tucking wrong alongside the midfielders and providing cardinal support.

This would assistance clasp possession, support the squad during transitions, and adjacent let him to onslaught abstraction from the half-space, thing helium has done previously.

Robertson, contempt historically being a much attacking, wide-oriented full-back similar Souza, is present 32 and nary longer has the aforesaid vigor arsenic before, which is partially wherefore helium mislaid his spot astatine Liverpool.

He could correspond a much experienced short-term enactment than Souza successful that style, but helium could besides displacement into much of a build-up role, oregon adjacent driblet into cardinal defence, akin to Ben Davies.

However, that besides depends connected who plays connected the near wing. With the full-back positioned deeper, it would beryllium the winger providing width and taking connected one-versus-one situations adjacent the touchline. Savinho, for example, could beryllium that player.

Therefore, should the nine neglect to find a winger suited to that role, it could autumn to the left-back to supply the team's width and idiosyncratic prime connected the ball.

And portion some Udogie and Robertson are susceptible of performing that role, with the erstwhile possessing greater carnal capableness than the latter, Souza could inactive travel into the equation.