Ange Postecoglou has undertaken a major overhaul of his Tottenham squad and that means 16 players in 2024 alone left the club and are plying their trade elsewhere.
The sheer volume of outgoing stars was part of one of the largest turnover of players in Spurs' recent history with many long-serving members of Postecoglou's first team leaving, while the U21s have also seen some notable exits in the past year as the academy undergoes its own overhaul.
football.london has taken a look across England, Europe and America to see exactly how all of the former first team players and a couple of notable U21s have got on since walking out through the Tottenham Hotspur exit door on a permanent basis in 2024.
Tanguy Ndombele
Tanguy Ndombele is finally getting what he's needed for years, regular game time and feeling like he's home. He seems to have got that at Nice so far.
The 27-year-old has played 562 minutes across eight matches with a goal and an assist, since Spurs came to an agreement with him to end his contract a year early, half a decade after he became the club's record signing.
The Frenchman took a big pay cut to return home and has earned plenty of plaudits for his performances under new Nice boss Franck Haise. He has started six of the club's seven La Liga games so far this season, missing only one match with a muscle injury. Ndombele had not started five league games in a row, as he has this season, since late 2021 at Tottenham.
In the most recent draw against PSG, Ndombele was named man of the match across the board by the media.
"He is someone who needs – and he isn't the only one – a climate of trust and that is what we are trying to bring to him," said Haise. "But beyond the atmosphere around the club that has been put in place, it is Tanguy first and foremost who is ensuring that it is going well."
He added: "Little by little, we are re-discovering the player that we knew a few years ago. What I see from his matches, I think in terms of confidence, it is going pretty well. Confidence comes from working hard, through your investment."
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Giovani Lo Celso
Lo Celso is the most recent player to leave Spurs after five years and he's been in wonderful form on his return Real Betis.
The 28-year-old exited in the deadline day transfer that will net Tottenham £8.4million plus add-ons with a sell-on clause as well as an agreement to sign midfielder Johnny Cardoso for a cheaper fee in the future or get a sell-on fee of sorts for the 23-year-old USA international.
Lo Celso had his own Brennan Johnson-like run with goals in four consecutive La Liga games - five scored in total across those games - and the Argentina international has been a shining light on his homecoming.
Troy Parrott
Parrott left Tottenham for Eredivisie club AZ Alkmaar in July in a £6.7million deal which also includes a 20% sell-on clause for the north London side.
After impressing with goals in pre-season for his new club, the 22-year-old has added another six goals in 10 competitive matches so far for third-placed Alkmaar. Four of those goals came in a remarkable 9-1 victory against Heerenveen last month and the Republic of Ireland international also scored the winning goal from the spot in the Europa League match against Elfsborg.
Parrott has played a lot of football for the Dutch side with 794 minutes of action across those 10 matches - all starts - and he will soon have a reunion with Spurs as Alkmaar travel to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on October 24 in the Europa League.
Former Tottenham star Rafael van der Vaart said of Parrott recently: "He’s going to be a really big player. I saw him at Excelsior, but then he was more on the counter. Now he is a good, footballing striker who actually has everything. He just needs to develop his killer instinct a bit. He is a gem.
"He can perhaps play football a bit too well to be a killer. Then you start wandering a bit and that costs strength. In the final phase you lack some strength to score. I really think he is a gem."
Oliver Skipp
Oliver Skipp departed Spurs this summer after 18 years at the club and more than 100 first team appearances to his name to join up with fellow academy product Harry Winks at Leicester City.
The 23-year-old's deal will bring the club more than £20million plus a sell-on clause. Skipp has started five of the eight matches he's been available for since joining the Foxes.
In Leicester Live's player ratings from the weekend's win against Bournemouth, they handed Skipp a seven, saying: "A little anonymous at Arsenal, he was much more involved here. In the first half, he won loads of 50-50s to help City push Bournemouth back, while he scurried around, snapping at ankles all game. His passing was good, albeit his most ambitious through balls to Vardy didn’t come off."
Emerson Royal
It wasn't the best start in Italy for Emerson Royal, who moved to AC Milan this summer in a deal worth £12.6million plus add-ons.
Italian football expert James Horncastle initially went in hard on the 25-year-old when he said: "Milan keep conceding the same goal too, down Emerson Royal’s side. His €15million signing from Tottenham Hotspur looks like the biggest donation in the history of Fondazione Milan as the club charitably tries to make his wish to become a footballer come true."
The Brazilian has started every game since with Milan winning the bulk of them with him at right-back and he has improved, although the club's fans appear yet to be convinced by the former Tottenham man, particularly with the player he replaced, Pierre Kalulu, impressing at Juventus.
Ryan Sessegnon
Spurs decided not to take up the option of the additional year on Sessegnon's contract in the summer and he returned to Fulham, meaning that all of the arrivals in that 2019 window went back to their previous side at some point after joining Spurs.
For 24-year-old Sessegnon, he is returning to fitness and sharpness following those hamstring problems and has got two 90 minute-stints under his belt in Fulham's Carabao Cup games, getting an assist in the third round at Preston before a penalty shoot-out defeat, scoring twice during that shoot-out including his team's penultimate penalty.
His appearance against Birmingham in the previous round was the first time the left-back had started a match since January 2023, before the hamstring problems really began to take hold. With operations on both legs, Sessegnon will be hoping for more fortune in his career from now on.
He has appeared on the bench twice in the Premier League for Fulham during this stint, but is yet to play in the competition for them this time around.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg
We're including Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg even though he's on loan at Marseille as he technically joined the Ligue 1 outfit with an obligation to buy.
The 29-year-old midfielder has captained the French side three times in the past five matches, having also been named as the new skipper of Denmark, taking on the armband from Simon Kjaer ahead of previous vice-captains Christian Eriksen and Kasper Schmeichel.
Hojbjerg has only tasted defeat as a Marseille player once, against Strasbourg when he had to play as a centre-back due to injuries for Roberto De Zerbi's Ligue 1 side.
Joe Rodon
Joe Rodon has carried on where he left off with Leeds on loan last season with minutes aplenty as they try to earn promotion back to the Premier League at the second time of asking.
The Wales international moved to the Elland Road club permanently as part of the deal that brought Archie Gray in the opposite direction to N17 this summer and he has played all but four minutes of the club's 10 matches so far in the Championship and Carabao Cup.
Rodon has a Tottenham team-mate to look after during this season at the club after Manor Solomon joined up on loan in August for the campaign ahead.
Japhet Tanganga
As with Sessegnon, Spurs did not take up the option to extend Japhet Tanganga's contract by its final year. Instead the 25-year-old signed on a free transfer for Millwall after impressing for the Championship side on loan last season.
After a stop-start career at Tottenham due to injuries, the centre-back continues to be an ever-present for Millwall in the league after seeing out a three-game suspension from last season. Despite Millwall's struggles in the attacking third, Tanganga has played his part in three clean sheets already in his first seven matches.
Ivan Perisic
Ivan Perisic stopped being a Tottenham employee this summer, having already joined Hajduk Split in January on loan until the end of his contract and he agreed a deal to then play for the Croatian side this season. However, the arrival of Gennaro Gattuso altered the outlook on his future at the club and the 35-year-old's contract was mutually terminated.
He is now trying out another new league after moving to Dutch side PSV Eindhoven, where he has started the past two matches. Perisic has a one-year contract but will miss out on Champions League football in the league phase at least after signing after the registration period closed.
Eric Dier
Dier joined Harry Kane at Bayern Munich on a loan deal earlier this year with an option for the Bundesliga club to sign him permanently, which was triggered before last season ended and he moved officially when his contract ended this summer.
The 29-year-old has settled in well on the whole at the Bavarian giants, becoming a father for the first time while out there, and he's now played 23 times for the Munich club across 2024, but he is not getting much game time under new boss Vincent Kompany.
Dier has played just nine minutes across two games in the Bundesliga, with four league matches spent unused on the bench, as well as 21 minutes in the Champions League. In all he's been an unused substitute in six matches across all competitions.
Jude Soonsup-Bell
Jude Soonsup-Bell had a great season last time out for Spurs U21s and helped them to the Premier League 2 title and play-off trophy. However, a first team breakthrough wasn't on the cards in north London and the 20-year-old instead departed for Spanish second division side Cordoba in a deal that came with no fee but a 40% sell-on clause instead.
The attacker has since appeared in four matches in La Liga 2, with 45 minutes across those games and Cordoba's struggles in the attacking third could see him get more opportunities before long.
Yago Santiago
Another former Spurs player now in the Spanish second tier is Yago Santiago. The 21-year-old winger left the north London club after half a decade and returned home to Spain to sign for Elche.
Santiago's start to life in senior football began well with three starts and a goal against Soonsup-Bell's Cordoba side. However, the young wide man then suffered an injury which kept him out for a month before returning to the bench for last weekend's 1-0 defeat at Racing Ferrol.
Nile John
One of Soonsup-Bell and Santiago's former Spurs U21s team-mates is currently in Portugal in the shape of Nile John. The midfielder left Tottenham after eight years at the club, coming through the academy to make two first team appearances, before joining Portuguese second tier side Feirense in the summer.
The 21-year-old midfielder has played four games of the six he's been available for in the league and while John hasn't started since the opening couple of games after his arrival, he is getting plenty of senior minutes to his name.
Charlie Sayers
Sayers departed Tottenham this summer and signed for Scottish Championship side Partick Thistle. The 20-year-old defender, who can play as a left-back or centre-back, joined Spurs from Southend in 2021 and was involved in a first team pre-season tour to South Korea two years ago. However, an eye injury and further injury woes interrupted his progress and he was released by the club this summer.
Sayers has so far made one nine-minute league appearance for his new club, among a string of unused substitute roles but did play the full 90 minutes in the third round of the Scottish Challenge Cup as Thistle lost 3-1 at Alloa.
Hugo Lloris
The former Tottenham captain left the club back in January for a new adventure in MLS with LAFC after 11 years in north London and he has already won silverware.
The 37-year-old World Cup winner has now played 40 times for the Los Angeles side across league and cup matches, keeping 17 clean sheets and conceding 34 goals in the other games.
Lloris lifted the US Open Cup last month after LAFC's extra-time win against Kansas City as the Frenchman added another trophy to his CV and the Frenchman has been making some eye-catching saves in recent weeks for the MLS side.
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