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Tottenham Hotspur have arguably pulled off the Premier League's most exciting transfer of the summer already but they're not going to rest on their laurels in the final month of the summer window.

Spurs have already brought in Tanguy Ndombele for a club record £63m deal from Lyon with the 22-year-old France international being Mauricio Pochettino's priority signing this summer to fill the Mousa Dembele-shaped hole in the club.

He signed a six-year deal with the club to show his and Tottenham's commitment to each other.

Tottenham also moved to secure young Leeds United winger Jack Clarke for the future in a deal believed to be worth £9m, with the 18-year-old sent back to the Championship club on loan for a season to continue his development under Pochettino's mentor Marcelo Bielsa.

So what comes next for Tottenham?

Here's the state of play at the club and the four situations that will define the remaining month of the transfer window.

The midfield merry-go-round

Ndombele will not be the only new midfielder to walk through the door at Hotspur Way this summer to join Harry Winks and his freshly signed five-year contract.

Giovani Lo Celso has now ended his time at the Copa America after Argentina finished third in the competition in Brazil and his future can now be decided with his full involvement.

The 23-year-old Argentine is believed to be keen on working with his compatriot Pochettino but that move depends on his price tag.

His release clause is £88m but Real Betis are believed to be looking for something more around the £70m. There are reports that PSG retain a 20 per cent sell-on clause for Lo Celso which is making it harder for the La Liga club to drop their price.

Spurs however are not inclined to spend more than they did on Ndombele - which was £63m including future add-ons for one of Europe's top midfield talents.

Then there is Real Madrid's Dani Ceballos. football.london understands there is serious interest from Spurs in the 22-year-old midfielder, who is also thought to be keen on a move to Spurs.

However, the complications in the deal arise from a belief in his homeland that the player only wants a loan move away for a year before seeing what his future holds in Madrid.

Tottenham are unlikely to sanction any loan move for him unless it contains an option for them to make the deal permanent next summer as Pochettino would not want to block other Spurs players' progress for a passer-by in the team who isn't in it for the long haul.

There is another theory in the midfield merry-go-round in that Betis are also keen on bringing Ceballos back to the club where he made his first strides as a professional player before leaving for Madrid.

With Tottenham looking at both their player Lo Celso and their reported target Ceballos it could provide for some interesting dialogue between the three club's hierarchies in the coming weeks.

Then there are other rumoured links. football.london understands there was nothing in the stories linking Spurs with Dinamo Zagreb winger Dani Olmo.

Roma's Nicolo Zaniolo is another linked player. While he is a player Spurs have tracked, the stories including him in a swap deal with Toby Alderweireld make little sense.

Alderweireld has a £25m release clause which ends two weeks before the window shuts so Spurs cannot logically negotiate his transfer with any club before that time unless it is a bid for less than that amount.

Reacting to departures

On Alderweireld, the other issue this summer for Tottenham will be waiting and reacting to those who leave the club.

On the fringes, moves are being made to try to sell Vincent Janssen and Georges-Kevin Nkoudou, but the most important departure decisions will come with the trio of Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen and Kieran Trippier.

If Real Madrid enter serious negotiations for Eriksen, who is currently in Denmark before his return to the club, then Spurs will use that in their quest for Ceballos, who becomes more of a pressing need if the Dane moves on as he wants.

Alderweireld's departure could prompt one of two scenarios. Either the club go out and sign an experienced defender to bolster their ranks as Jan Vertonghen will be the only one left, or Pochettino convinces Eric Dier to return to being a centre-back to take on that experienced role as his opportunities in midfield could be limited by Ndombele's arrival.

With Trippier there is plenty of interest from abroad and if Spurs were to sell the right-back then they are eyeing up Norwich's Max Aarons as a potential replacement to vie with Serge Aurier for the right-back spot with Kyle Walker-Peters potentially heading out on loan. However, the longer it takes for Trippier to move on, the stronger the likelihood that Aarons will sign a new contract at the newly-promoted Canaries.

There is also the option of using Juan Foyth at right-back. Pochettino had begun to trust the young Argentine in the role towards the end of the season and Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni did the same at the Copa America where Foyth drew rave reviews. Scaloni stated his belief that it could end up being Foyth's long-term career position.

Others have been linked with departures, such as Victor Wanyama and Danny Rose, and Pochettino and chief scout Steve Hitchen will have potential replacements lined up in each circumstance.

The key objective is to not leave the Spurs manager with a bloated squad which makes it harder for Pochettino to create the tight-knit atmosphere his philosophy thrives in.

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Building for the future and the homegrown rule

What the Clarke signing showed is that Tottenham are also looking to get back to the model of securing homegrown talent for their future in positions where there is not an immediate alternative in the academy.

With the Rose situation in mind, the club are expected to tie up a move for Ryan Sessegnon this summer on a long-term deal.

The 19-year-old, who is currently on holiday after the European U21 Championships, could play further up the pitch to begin with, with an injury-free Ben Davies, who signed a new five-year deal on Monday, acting as the main left-back until Pochettino feels the time is right to move Sessegnon back to his original position.

Spurs have also monitored Sessegnon's twin brother Steven, who was similarly rated as a high prospect before a serious knee injury on England U16 duty knocked his development back a year in Fulham's academy. He can play across the back line in any position and also as a defensive midfielder.

Despite Tottenham's foreign player limit issues from last season lessening with the departure of Michel Vorm and the expected exit of Fernando Llorente as well as potentially others, the club are still very aware that they need to improve their homegrown quota for the coming seasons and that will also be looked at in the coming month with other targets.

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A striker or not

Llorente's situation is a strange one. His contract expired at the end of last month but, despite being removed from the club's squad list, he is technically still connected to Tottenham this month unless he agrees terms with another club.

Both sides can chose to end their relationship at any time, but it is believed that many player contracts contain the requirement for a club to pay the player one month's pay as severance if they cannot secure a move to another club within a month of their contract expiring.

If Llorente does go, and is not offered a reduced contract by Spurs if he cannot find better terms elsewhere, then the north London club are unlikely to move for yet another out and out striker.

That idea has failed on the whole with Janssen and Llorente, despite the latter's important moments in the Champions League last season.

A back-up striker does not get many chances to impress with Harry Kane ahead of them and if Spurs were to move for a new attacker it would more likely to be one who can get minutes in wide or central midfield positions as well, like Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura.

There is also 17-year-old Troy Parrott. Pochettino is a big admirer of the young Irish academy striker and he will be more of a regular feature in first team training sessions next season, along with minutes here and there in the domestic cup fixtures.

The Spurs boss must balance any needs up front in the short term with potentially blocking the path of the gifted young striker, dubbed the next Robbie Keane in his homeland.

One thing is for certain though, there is still plenty of transfer activity to come at Tottenham Hotspur in the month ahead, one way or another in Pochettino's 'painful rebuild'.