The Hoddle of Coffee: Tottenham Hotspur news and links for Thursday, August 20

Happy Thursday, Spurs fans! Thursdays are the days when I start getting excited about the upcoming football on the weekend. Team news starts to trickle out, the transfer rumors get a little punchier, and everyone starts thinking ahead to Saturday's match.

So what better soundtrack to a Thursday before football than with the song that accompanied my football watching for several years? Here's Kasabian, with "Fire."

And now the "news"

United and Spurs both want Kokorin - TeamTalk

...According to his agent. Which means neither of them really do, but I bet some club like Dinamo Gazprom or FC Putin does.

Yannick Bolasie "would be foolish" not to consider move to Spurs - London Evening Standard

This is true, but it doesn't appear that Bolasie is the primary target for Spurs. If something happens to Little Bear? Maybe. But not now.

Where will Zlatan go next? - SB Nation

I'm very disappointed that they didn't mention Tottenham on this list. He'd be a great backup to Harry Kane.

Last breaths in a Spanish bullring - SB Nation long-form

I'm extremely anti-bullfighting, but this is some astounding writing. Read it.