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Player Xavi Simons

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COYSinnit said:
Back when Frank was being written off as ‘underwhelming’ by a few, who’d have thought he’d become the big draw for a player like Simons?
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he is cool. I reckon the manager is looking at this now as what he has worked toward over many years and as he knows what he is doing, I expect good things from this team.. pleasing on the eye like.:dude:
 

What Spurs are getting in Xavi Simons​

Kim McCauley
August 29, 2025

Hello and welcome to the Friday grab bag, which kicks off with a transfer I’m very excited about.
Following a series of embarrassing faceplants, Tottenham Hotspur finally have the attacking midfielder they’ve spent the summer chasing. Xavi Simons has signed a 5-year contract + additional option years with Spurs, making a €60m move from RB Leipzig. If you are unfamiliar with Simons, please enjoy the sizzle reel.

How and why Tottenham ordered their AM targets for this summer, I’ll never understand. The order in which they pursued the players they attempted to sign — Morgan Gibbs-White, Eberechi Eze, Nico Paz, and finally Simons — is the exact inverse of how I’d have ordered them if I worked in Tottenham’s recruitment department. Johan Lange and Co. have stumbled ass backwards into a massive W.
Simons, like the rest of the Leipzig team, had a statistical down year. Blame it on a change in the drinks formula over at Sugar Water FC. This did not scare me off for a few reasons:
  1. He was still really good
  2. He dropped off less than his teammates
  3. Holy cow look at his previous season.
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The open play assists map is very pretty.
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Simons also had a pretty ridiculous 133 successful carries into the final third in the 2023-24 season.
I was pretty shocked that Simons did not have a huge market last summer, and I think Paris Saint-Germain were too. His loan back to Leipzig, and subsequent purchase with only a 2.5 year contract, always felt extremely strange. But now he’s got the 5+ year contract from a Premier League team that he should have got last year, and Tottenham have their star playmaker.
Simons’ detractors will say that his attitude is inconsistent and he’s too small for the Premier League. I don’t have enough determination about the former to make a call either way, and I genuinely do not care about the latter. He’s elite at turning out of pressure and I don’t think his small frame is going to be a significant hinderance. His dribbling and passing ability more than make up for any deficiencies. I really think Spurs got an absolute gem of a player.
 
I don't really spend time on Twitter buy holy shit tonight has been too funny.

Pretty sure there are more Woolwich fans in the comments on Spurs' post than Spurs fans. We really do live rent free in their heads.

Gutted that they spent £70m on a lesser player who is nearing retirement age and have to try and take the sheen off our signing. When we all know they'd have given a nut to sign Simons 2 months ago.
 
The last time someone posted some useless information about the Spurs fam.they got pelters but I'm going for it anyway.
Deportivo Thader is my local club I could walk it in 20 minutes.
Shame he left before I arrived.
 
A genuinely exciting signing for a fee that seems actually pretty good in the market. Only 22 and already got 20+ caps for his country, that's impressive. He's got Micky VDV here from his national team to help him settle in, who has also made the move from Germany over here. Credit where credit is due, the club done a good 'un here
 
FightingIllini said:
I mean let's at least air the counterargument, because it's not exactly "undisputed" and Simons is at Leipzig and not PSG or Barca or Bayern for a reason.

The criticism is that he's a lightweight moments player and an arrogant off-putting personality.

The growing pains of a young player? Maybe. But Leipzig were very eager to get a not exactly eye-watering fee and move on.

The talent is there and he has been productive at a high level in Holland and Germany. We should be excited. But growth and evolution is still required here.

Yet at the end of the day, as our new gaffer says "if you don't take risks you also take risks", and we're taking a risk on a player who can conjure magic with his boots. That's the gamble for us to make, I endorse that.
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On balance - the talent level, the ability to help the first team, young with room still to grow and at a reachable transfer fee - competing with a rival for a signing and to actually WIN? This is one of our best signings in some time. Kudus looks like a fair one too, but this one seems...

Well, let's just say it, this isn't a very Spurs type of signing and that's exactly why it's left us all breathless
 
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