Mourinho is already preparing with Tottenham an operation valued at 145 million euros to change the spine of a Tottenham runner-up in Europe which shows signs of exhaustion after several years improving records season after season.
According to Sky Sports, the Portuguese coach wants to make six signings to change his defense and strengthen midfield, confident that his forward is well covered with two top players such as Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son, who are currently injured.
The chosen ones would be Atal (Nice), Jamal Lewis (Norwich), Sabitzer (RB Leizpig) and two LaLiga players, Eder Militao (Real Madrid) and Geoffrey Kondogbia, Valencia midfielder.
According to the market value of each player calculated by the specialized website Transfermarkt, Militao and Sabitzer would be the most expensive players with 40 each, followed by Kondogbia with 28 million and Atal by 25. Jamal Lewis, side of the canaries, would not reach fifteen million.
After being runners-up in Europe last season, Tottenham is living a fateful campaign in which Pochettino was replaced by Jose Mourinho after the team's poor results, which a plague of injuries from its best players have complicated the task for the Portuguese of return it to the top of the ranking. The Spurs stayed in eighth place before the stoppage of the competition for the coronavirus, four points behind Manchester United, which marks the European zone.
In the Champions League, they lost to RB Leizpig in the round of 16. “All the Leipzig substitutes would play for my team,” he assured the team of a Sabitzer who was a starter and now Mourinho wants to take north London along with five other signings.