Bisuma transfers to Galatasaray, Tottenham midfielder loses weight in progress

The cleaning plan in North London is accelerating. According to several transfer reporters such as Fabridge Hawkins and Ben Jacobs, Tottenham Hotspur's transfer negotiations with Turkish Super League giants Galatasaray for midfielder Yves Bisuma have entered the final stage. The transaction will be reached in the form of rent-first and then buy-out terms are mandatory. The 28-year-old Mali international has been excluded from the plan by coach Thomas Frank for discipline issues since this summer training period this year - after he was denied the qualification to participate in the European Super Cup due to his late training multiple times. With Joao Paligna joining from Bayern Munich on loan, Bisuma's career at Tottenham has already entered the countdown. Although he made 100 appearances in various competitions last season, his embarrassing data of only 16 Premier League starts (data source: Opta) has already explained the problem. Behind this transfer game is the smart abacus that the three parties each take. For Galatasaray, coach Okan Brooke urgently needs a midfielder with experience in the Premier League and Champions League to defend the Turkish Super League and strive for the European game - West Ham United had previously also extended an olive branch, but the Turks locked in the victory with a faster negotiation pace. For Tottenham, raising funds by selling marginal players is the top priority: James Madison's serious cruciate ligament injury caused a vacuum in the offensive midfield area. After the team missed two major goals, Eberec Eze (intercepted by Arsenal) and Nico Pas (the £60 million offer was rejected by Cuomo), the financial space was already stretched. Compared with Soma himself, this transfer is a chance to get rid of the redemption of the Premier League's unacceptable environment. Although he played the entire game in the Europa League final last season, his performance averaged 1.8 steals and 71.2% pass success rate (data source: FBref) was far lower than the level in the Brighton period.

From a tactical perspective, Bisuma's departure reflects the structural changes in Tottenham's midfield. Palinia's joining forms an iron triangle with Bentankur and Pap Saar, while Bisuma's high-pressure times (4.3 times per game last season) seems to be impressive, but its actual pressure efficiency (PPDA value is 10.8) is only among the middle of the league (data source: StatsBomb). This data contribution of "false fat" is a luxury that Frank's system cannot tolerate. What Tottenham needs today is not an engineer-type midfielder, but a replacement for Madison's creativity - the team's expected assist (xA) value plummeted by 12.7% last season, and it is definitely not something that can heal naturally by the existing lineup. Perhaps the real revelation of this transfer is that the law of survival in the Premier League has long shifted from talent accumulation to efficiency first, and Bisuma's wandering trajectory is the latest footnote to this cruel theory of evolution.