Tottenham become first club in transfer window history to make no summer signings

Standard Sport9 August 2018

Tottenham have made summer transfer window history for all the wrong reasons.

Deadline day finished on Thursday and in doing so confirmed Spurs as the first team to go throughout a summer window without signing a single player.

The club were linked with a number of names, notably Aston Villa midfielder Jack Grealish, for who they had a £25million bid rejected on Wednesday.

Their failure to bring anyone in is the first time a Premier League club has not made a signing in the 15 years of the summer transfer window.

The tonic to that lack of transfer activity is that Spurs have been able to keep all of their top stars, with a number of them tied down to new deals.

The window remains open to European clubs until the end of August, so there is still the possibility of players going out even after the English deadline passes.

Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose and Mousa Dembele could still leave in the next few weeks, but Pochettino has been able to keep hold of the likes of Harry Kane, Christian Eriksen and Kieran Trippier.

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Additional reporting by Press Association.

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