Andy Robertson welcomes competitors for a spot at Tottenham and believes it’s going to assist them transfer up the Premier League desk.
Spurs defeated Everton on the ultimate day of the 2025-26 season, securing a seventeenth place end and avoiding relegation.
They completed seventeenth within the earlier season, however this was the primary time Spurs had completed lowest within the prime flight in consecutive seasons since successful the league in 1912-13 and 1914-15 (seventeenth, seventeenth and twentieth).
The arrival of Roberto De Zerbi helped flip round Spurs’ fortunes on the finish of the 2025-26 season, with the membership busy in the summertime switch window.
Spurs spent a club-record £100m to signal Sandro Tonali from Newcastle United, in addition to signing Matheus Fernandes for £85m and Jan Paul van Hecke for £52m.
Robertson is considered one of three free transfers accomplished by the north London facet, who additionally introduced in Marcos Senesi and Martin Dubravka as free brokers.
Robertson should battle Future Udogui, Souza and probably Jed Spence for a beginning spot, however the Scot feels the competitors for locations is an efficient factor.
“Whenever you go to an enormous membership, it doesn’t matter what large membership you take a look at, it is by no means simple in any place,” Robertson stated.
“Pre-season is essential. They’re making an attempt to get us all settled in as shortly as doable.”
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“The membership, the supervisor and the individuals above them try to construct a workforce that may compete in each place.
“In the event you’re not able to combat for locations, in case you’re not able to combat for locations, you possibly can’t keep on the prime, you possibly can’t play for large golf equipment, and that is true for everybody.
“For me, it is one thing I have been used to for the final 9 years, one thing I have been used to till the top of my profession. It is nothing new for me.
“The standard of gamers on this workforce is excellent. If we will get extra out of it. Because the supervisor stated, the final two seasons within the Premier League haven’t been passable for Tottenham.”
“They’ve fallen into a nasty spot within the desk and I believe we’re all decided that that will not occur this season. So long as we’re all pulling in the identical route and we’re all competing, I believe our workforce could be a lot increased than the place they had been.”
