Tottenham hit transfer panic button in bid to salvage January window with late move for Juventus forward

Tottenham Hotspur have hit the panic button ahead of the final three days of the January transfer window after missing out on three of their main targets.

Managing director of football Fabio Paratici has now turned to Juventus attacker Dejan Kulusevski as Spurs attempt to placate growing concern.

The London club have seen deals for Adama Traore and Luis Diaz hijacked by Barcelona and Liverpool, while Italian sources have claimed midfielder Franck Kessie would rather remain in Serie A than move to Spurs.

That has forced Tottenham to quickly change their plans with time running out for chairman Daniel Levy and Paratici to avoid a huge backlash from the club’s supporters.

Even worse, Levy and Paratici may well upset head coach Antonio Conte, who identified the need to sign at least a right wing-back, a midfielder and an attacker.

This month represented Tottenham’s opportunity to show the size of the club’s ambition to Conte, who has been careful not to give any public guarantees over his future beyond this season. But the gap the Italian has highlighted between Spurs and the top three of the Premier League will only widen with Liverpool beating them to Porto star Diaz. 

Sources have claimed that a state of panic has now gripped Tottenham, along with anger at missing out on both Traore and Diaz inside the space of 24 hours.

There is still time, just about, to rescue the situation but pressure is already growing on Levy, who was in the Bahamas at the start of the January transfer window, and Paratici who is understood to have returned to his native Italy during the international break.

Spurs are still working on a deal to sign midfielder Sofyan Amrabat on loan from Fiorentina, where he has spent the first half of the season