‘Amazing’ performances and absence during a fantastic season following a failed Spurs move

Lloyd Kelly has endured a stop-start 2023/24 Premier League season after a potential summer move to Tottenham Hotspur didn’t go through

Now at the midway stage of October, it won’t be long at all until the transfer window reopens for business. Prior to then, Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham side have 12 Premier League games on the agenda and the hope will be that they can still be riding high in the table at the turn of the year.

It could prove to be a crucial transfer window for the club and what they do in the January market could have a major say on their final league position come May. A window where clubs aren’t as active as in the summer due to a limited amount of available players and high transfer fees, Johan Lange and Spurs will certainly need to find a way of adding to their numbers.

Currently slightly short at centre-back at present following Davinson Sanchez’s permanent exit to Galatasaray, it is imperative that another defender is brought in to provide cover for Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven. The Lilywhites were unsuccessful with a £20million move for Bournemouth’s Lloyd Kelly on transfer deadline day and he is someone they could possibly look at again as they look to bolster their backline.

Highly regarded at the Vitality Stadium, the former England Under-21 international has all the qualities that Postecoglou looks for in a centre-back and there’s the possibility that they could save quite a lot of money on the 25-year-old in January. Now in the final year of his contract on the south coast, the Cherries may find themselves in a position where they have to part with the defender in January for a fee rather than run the risk of losing him for nothing in the summer.