According to media reports Saints are about to agree a deal with Tottenham Hotspur that will see Pierre Emile Hojbjerg move to North London & Kyle Walker Peters to move to the South Coast.

Media reports on this transfer deal have varied greatly over the past few weeks, now it seems the national media seem to think that Hojbjerg is about to join Spurs and the local media down here are still saying that Spurs are way off Saints valuation and the deal is not anywhere near the line.

This seems to suggest that Tottenham are now using the media to turn up the heat and force Saints hand.

The departure of Hojbjerg will not see mass wailing from the Saints supporter base but it will leave a sour taste in the mouth and it will evoke memories of 1992 when Spurs "unsettled" Neil Ruddock and got him cheap at a tribunal and then Victor Wanyama in 2016 when Spurs again used the players desire to join Spurs to again make derisory offer for a man with a year left on his contract meaning that Saints got slightly less for a player that who with no experience in the Premier league they had signed in 2013.

Everton however where willing to pay £25 million for the player, but it seems that Saints have to accept defeat and Hojbjerg has shown his gratitude to Saints for turning hm into a Premier League player by holding them to ransom by saying it is Spurs or nowhere.

So there isn't a Saints fan in the land who is surprised about the news that the player will leave the club for barely what we paid for him 4 years ago.

Saints supporters may hate Liverpool for the way that they targeted certain players in our squad, but at least they put their money where their mouth was and didn't haggle over every last penny and paid a fair price.

Surprisingly though Spurs value Kyle Walker Peters a player who has barely played for them at almost the same price as the experienced International Hojbjerg.

To older Saints fans Spurs were a club who were known for their class back in the 1960's under Bill Nicholson and who did things the right way, that reputation was long gone by the early 1990's and the Alan Sugar /Terry Venables era and by 2001 when Rupert Lowe dubbed them North London Yobbos after the poaching of Glenn Hoddle and then Dean Richards.

Hojbjerg will do well to note though that it hasn't ended happily for those that have taken the Spurs bait, Neil Ruddock stayed just one season and left after his mentor Venables was sacked, Glenn Hoddle failed to turn Spurs into a force, Dean Richards did not produce his Saints form and Wanyama's career saw one good season and then he was a squad player, recently he joined MLS side Montreal still aged 29.

There will be a feeling of relief though to get the deal done, Walker Peters has impressed and it is felt Hojbjerg will not be missed, he has the ability but his passing and goal scoring ability often fails to impress.

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underweststand added 07:39 - Aug 6 Talk about fake news. I've always maintained that a lot of these "so-called " news sites are merely covers for agents /clubs to stir up the waters and create an atmosphere of fear/ indecision /anger / shame between "selling clubs" and their fans. Fortunately we do not have to deal with Daniel Levy so often , but this is typical of the handling of many Spurs deals. They may call him a good businessman at THFC, but not many others would not agree, so let's leave it at that. If / when this eventually pans out, we will get £ess for Hojbjerg than we ought to - and pay far more for KWP than his "unproven worth" to date deserves, but despite of that , in the final analysis, I would be happy to see them both make these moves.

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