‘Very strange’: Journalist has noticed something really weird about Tottenham’s Wilson Odobert announcement

Tottenham made a signing from out of nowhere on Friday morning as Wilson Odobert joined from Burnley.

Spurs announced the signing of Odobert out of the blue on Friday, but this was a rather strange announcement.

Indeed, while Spurs announced the signings of Dominic Solanke and Archie Gray with elaborate videos and media packages, Odobert was a more low-key old-school announcement.

Speaking on The Spurs Chat Podcast, The Mail’s Josh Hughes has been discussing Tottenham’s signing of Odobert.

The journalist says that he found Tottenham’s announcement strange, claiming that the phrasing of ‘subject to formalities’ is something he hasn’t seen for a long time.

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Tottenham’s strange Wilson Odobert announcement

Hughes spoke about how Tottenham announced this deal.

“One thing I would say, and we spoke about this off air. They say ‘subject to formalities.’ That is a very strange use of words,” Hughes said.

“That is the first time in a long time I’ve seen Spurs doing a post about a deal for a player subject to formalities and not holding up the shirt with an announcement video. The whole thing is very strange.”

“You’d think considering that he’s passed a medical they would’ve put something together. However, yesterday was the media access day at Spurs and all of the focus was on getting ready for Leicester. So maybe it was just a case of this happening quickly, the whole thing is just mad isn’t it?”

Tottenham needed to rush Odobert signing

Tottenham’s announcement of this signing was rather strange, but there may be a good reason for that.

As Hughes says, Spurs’ media team was tied up yesterday, and this announcement needed to be done quickly.

Indeed, this Friday was something of a mini-deadline day as new signings needed to be done before 12PM if they were to be involved in this weekend’s games.

Tottenham announced Odobert’s arrival at 10:30, and that means that the Frenchman is now able to play against Leicester on Monday should Ange Postecoglou wish to use him.