Liverpool’s Adam Lallana Would Be a Risky Signing for Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur have won a place in the UEFA Champions League after an excellent Premier League campaign.

The squad that was good enough to get them there simply won’t be sufficient if they wish to continue to progress next season.

With the additional demands of top-level European football as well as newly elevated expectations in the Premier League, they will need reinforcements.

This summer, as many in recent years, shapes as the most important in the club’s history. The right moves could see Spurs fortify their position among the English and European elite and deliver on the promise that Mauricio Pochettino’s young team hinted at this season.

At the same time, a poor transfer window would see them forfeit that hard-won place in the top four and allow the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and possibly even West Ham United march past them.

Sami Mokbel of the Daily Mail reported Pochettino will have £60 million for transfers this summer. While that is likely a rumoured number, it seems to be a reasonable estimate that could be subsidised by selling a handful of squad players like Ryan Mason and Tom Carroll.

Among numerous transfer targets already linked, it has been suggested that Tottenham will chase Adam Lallana in the summer, with Goal.com going so far as to label him the club’s “priority” signing based off a Sun report.

Pochettino was the England international’s manager at Southampton and has never hidden his admiration for the now-Liverpool man. The Sun (via Mike Patterson of Sky Sports) reported Spurs will try to prise Lallana away from …

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