TA: Tottenham want to trade Doherty in Traore, which is not attractive to Wolves

Over the past month, Spurs director Paratic has asked a large number of transfer targets, including Jesse Lingard, Casey and others, and finally Palatic turned to his former club Juventus, completing the signing of striker Kulusevski and midfielder Bentancourt.

These are all after missing Traore and Díaz, paratic tried to save Tottenham's transfer window. Whether he will ultimately be able to do this will only be known after understanding the performance of Kulusevsky and Bentankur. At the start of the transfer window, Tottenham's priority was attacking right-backs and strikers.

One of Tottenham's earliest targets in the winter window was Traore, and five months ago, when Nuno was head coach, Spurs struck a deal with Wolves in principle to loan Traore. But Traore had a strong start to the season, including after a match with Tottenham on the 22nd, wolves decided not to sell the player. In early January, Palatic was very eager to sign Traore to play right-back, as Chelsea's Moses had done before. Spurs know Traore will leave the squad as he has not renewed his contract with Wolves and his contract expires in the summer of 2023. They expect Wolves to ask for £20 million and hope to lower the price by adding Doherty to the deal.

Spurs believe Traore will be up to the right-back role, he is very fast, which is very helpful for counter-attack, as was the case against Chelsea in January. Manager Conte was also in favour of the move, according to Athenic, who tried to sign Traore for the Blues in January 2017, when the player played for Middlesbrough.

Last month, Conte and Traore finally seemed to be working together. On January 6, Athletic revealed that Spurs were considering a new deal with Traore as right-back. The night before, in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals, Spurs had lost 2-0 to Chelsea. After the game, an enraged Conte said: "Tottenham's level has gone down, dropped a lot and now you have to rebuild. ”

During this time, Levi met club owner Joe Lewis in the Bahamas. It is reported that the transfer issue in January this year has also been put on the agenda. When Levy returned, he sat down to discuss the situation at Spurs in January with Paratic and Conte. The discussion was seen as a frank exchange of views, with Conte reiterating how much Tottenham need to improve to close the gap with teams like Chelsea.

Spurs want to get Traore to join, but they want to add Doherty to the deal, which is not attractive to Wolves. Some sources with close ties to Spurs believe their main problem is that there are no players of interest to other clubs.

With some important players not signed or left, the team needs a lot of personnel changes and the last week of the transfer window is always very important for Tottenham. It's even more dramatic than most people expect.

At the start of last week, it was also expected that Spurs and Wolves would finally reach an agreement on Traore. However, Levy was skeptical of the move, with Tottenham insiders having consistently denied the club had bid £15m for Traore last week, and as they weighed their options, Barcelona pounced on them. Two days later, Athletic revealed that Traore would be heading to Gabasa. Levy wasn't frustrated by missing Traoré, and his attention turned elsewhere.

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