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So Tottenham have agreed an initial loan deal for R.B. Leipzig's Timo Verna, a player who, it's fair to say, was a disappointment at Chelsea.

He's kept you out.

He has certainly done that.

Timo Werner.

Cannot believe what's just happened.

But if the German international fits the profile

and style spurs are looking for,

can Ange Postercoglu be the one to unlock his potential?

I'm Adam Leventhal. Welcome to the Athletic

Football Podcast. Well, joining me, the Athletics, Spurs writer Jack Pitt Brook, Liam,omey, who as one of our Chelsea writers, was there to witness Werner's time at Stanford Bridge and Seb Stafford Bloor, who writes about football across Europe, in particular, Germany, which is where he resides and he's a Tottenham fan. So he ticks all the boxes. He covers all the bases. Jack, let's start

with you in terms of this deal, the loan deal from Leipzig to Spurs. Where are we on it at time

of recording? So right now, I think it's just down to find details. It moved pretty quickly over the weekend.

This has not really been heralded before.

I don't think anybody knew much about it until Saturday morning.

Clearly, Poster Coglu had said that he wanted to get players in early.

I wasn't expecting Spurs to get in anyone this early,

but it does sound right now as if it will happen over the course of this week

and then he'll be ready to play for spurs soon enough.

And there seemingly is an option to buy.

What are the details of that?

Because I guess we're probably viewing this as quite a low risk situation for spurs,

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