Tottenham Hotspur have signed Mohammed Kudus from West Ham. It’s tough to take, but it will really benefit the Hammers. 

Spurs announced the signing of Mohammed Kudus late last night, and it has been met with a lot of negative responses from West Ham fans, with many labelling him a ‘snake’ and ‘Judas, and it’s hard to blame them.

However, despite selling one of our best players to our biggest League rivals, it was what was best for the club, and we will be better off for it.

We have been told all summer that we have to sell before we buy, and selling what is really our backup right winger and an average left winger for £55m isn’t bad on paper, it’s just that we know how good he was under Moyes and can be, but it would’ve been very hard to get anywhere close to his release clause after the awful season he had last term.

A significant portion of this £55m will be allocated directly to the transfer budget, allowing us to finally acquire the players we so desperately need.

Before more sales, we need to buy a goalkeeper, a left-back, a right-back, at least one central midfielder, a left-winger, and a striker. We’re obviously not going to sign players in all of those positions but we still need to get players in early so they get a pre-season.

The most likely signing at the moment is Malick El Hadji Malick Diouf of Slavia Prague and Senegal. However, a cryptic Instagram post yesterday seems to suggest Monaco may have crept ahead of the Hammers in the race for the left wing-back. We need to move fast if we want to get a deal done.

Zion Suzuki is also a target, but like Diouf, we were not able to make a move of that magnitude (believed to be around £20m) before selling Kudus. So, again, now that he’s gone and we’ve got money, we can make these moves and improve Graham Potter’s squad.