Tottenham sign Kudus from West Ham for reported £55M fee

Tottenham Hotspur have stepped up their attempt to turn a team that finished 17th in the Premier League table into a Champions League-ready outfit.

Mohammed Kudus joined Spurs from London rivals West Ham United on Thursday in a reported £55-million deal. The Ghanaian international signed a long-term contract with Tottenham and will wear the No. 20 shirt.

The unpredictable 24-year-old attacker's arrival coincides with widespread reports that Nottingham Forest talisman Morgan Gibbs-White is also joining Thomas Frank's project after Spurs triggered the midfielder's £60-million release clause. Gibbs-White was previously linked with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.

Frank appears to have targeted more incisiveness in a squad that already boasted plenty of forward-thinking and creative players in midfield and attack. Mathys Tel's loan move from Bayern Munich was already made permanent this summer and Manor Solomon returned from a successful loan spell with Championship winners Leeds United, while Dejan Kulusevski, Dominic Solanke, Brennan Johnson, Son Heung-min, and James Maddison were among the nine players who played the most Premier League minutes for Spurs over the 2024-25 campaign.

Frank's predecessor, Ange Postecoglou, was dismissed at the end of last season. The Aussie coach secured a backdoor route into the Champions League courtesy of beating Manchester United in the Europa League final, but Johnson's match-winning goal wasn't enough to ease chairman Daniel Levy's frustration with a lowly Premier League standing and disappointing domestic cup campaigns.

The Europa League triumph marked Spurs' first trophy since their 2008 League Cup success.