Tottenham Hotspur may yet be without a Premier League trophy as the competition enters the fourth decade of its existence, but they have not been without their moments, moments in which they have shone probably better than the rest.
After all, After three decades of continuous Premier League action, Spurs are widely regarded as a side known for playing attractive football and fielding some of the most exciting players to have ever graced the league.
In this article, we present to you our top 5 picks for the best signings Tottenham have made in the Premier League era.
Son Heung-min
There are few signings Spurs have made in the last decade that have worked out for them as well as that of Son Heung-min, especially in the few seasons after Gareth Bale’s departure.
Son arrived at Spurs from Bayer Leverkusen for €30 million ahead of the 2015/16 season. Nine years later, he’s still at the club. Now in his tenth season, he leads the team out on matchdays, and with his tally of 164 goals and 84 assists from 411 appearances, he is already one of the club’s all-time top goal-scorers as well as an all-time great.
Gareth Bale
When he arrived at Hotspur Way in 2007 from Southampton for €14.7 million, Gareth Bale was a promising teenage left-back. By the time he left for Madrid six years later as the most expensive player at the time, the Welshman had become one of the most lethal forwards in world football.
At Spurs, Bale notched up 71 goals and 53 assists in 237 appearances, also including numbers from his one-year loan spell during the 2020/21 season.
Luka Modrić
If you’re going down in the history books as one of the best players of all time, you naturally enter the “greatest signings” lists of all the clubs you have played or are going to play for.
Modrić arrived at Spurs in the summer of ’08 from Dinamo Zagreb for €22.5 million. He would go on to play his trade his North London for four seasons, delivering 17 goals and 24 assists in 160 appearances, before moving to Real Madrid in 2012 for €35 million, where he miraculously still is at 38 years of age.
Hugo Lloris
Arguably one of the best signings Spurs made in the last deacde. The 2018 World Cup winner arrived at White Hart Lane in the summer 0f 2012 from Lyon on the back of a €12.6m move. He made almost 450 appearances for Spurs before leaving the club earlier this year for Major League Soccer side Lon Angeles FC.
David Ginola
What puts Ginola apart from the rest of the players here? Well, he won a trophy with Spurs.
That alone would make Ginola a unique PL player, though thankfully he has a lot going for him. Now widely regarded as one of the best players of the league in the ’90s, the former 13-cap France international arrived at White Hart Lane in 1997 for €2.85 million after dazzling for Newcaslte for two years. For Spurs, he went on to make 125 appearances across all competitions, delivering 21 goals and assists each.
What do you make of our picks? Which other Tottenham signing of the Premier League era do you think should be given some spotlight instead of one of the names here? Let us know in the comments.
