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This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…
Scott Parker expects Ryan Sessegnon to stay at Fulham this summer despite interest from Tottenham Hotspur, per the Daily Express.
What’s the word?
Spurs have an interest in signing the left-back, who can also play as a winger, per Football FanCast’s sources.
The teenager was reported to have told Fulham he wanted to play under Mauricio Pochettino at the beginning of the transfer window.
But, with less than a week of the window remaining, Parker insists that he expects Sessegnon to be a part of his squad for the 2019/20 season.
He said: “At this present moment, I expect Ryan still to be here when the window shuts.
“Obviously I have read the speculation. Will it affect him? That would be up to Ryan.
“It is not as if the phone has been ringing off the hook, a bid every other day for him and Fulham are turning it down, for him to have the hump.
“I had this too as a young player. But if there is one good thing about the transfer window it is that come 5 o’clock next week when the door shuts, he can’t go anywhere.”
Stop dithering
Spurs have to make a decision over Sessegnon.
Sources have confirmed that their interest in the player is genuine but there has been precious little movement to the objective of actually signing him.
It has been suggested by one source that the club would prefer to sell Danny Rose first, in order to free up the squad slot that Sessegnon would occupy, but they run the risk of missing out.
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Indeed, Rose could still move after Thursday’s deadline – most foreign windows remain open until the end of the month – and it is approaching crunch time as to whether the north London club will get their man.
They should either table a bid or back away, allowing Sessegnon to focus on his football in the second-tier.
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