Ange will get inexperienced gentle as Spurs eye January transfer for “athletic” £20m star

After Fraser Forster’s midweek errors left Tottenham Hotspur clinging onto a 4-3 victory over Manchester United within the Carabao Cup, Ange Postecoglou has reportedly been given the inexperienced gentle to signal a £20m star in January.

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A aspect able to defeating Manchester Metropolis and Manchester United but additionally the primary aspect that Ipswich City and Crystal Palace took three factors from within the present marketing campaign, Spurs have develop into inconceivable to foretell, and in no optimistic means. Postecoglou – sticking to his methods in what could possibly be construed as honourable or far too cussed – has a guessing recreation on his palms virtually each week as to which model of his aspect will probably be on show.

In midweek, it was a mixture of the very vest model and the model which has develop into susceptible to switching off and making room for shock outcomes because the Lilywhites defeated Manchester United 4-3 within the Carabao Cup. Having raced into a powerful 3-0 lead, Forster’s two errors adopted to permit United again into the sport, earlier than Spurs discovered a fourth and the Crimson Devils may solely web a late comfort.

The goalkeeper’s errors have seemingly pressured the Lilywhites to show their consideration again in the direction of the switch market too. Based on The Mirror, Postecoglou has now been given the inexperienced gentle to signal a goalkeeper from the EFL, with James Trafford, who Burnley worth at £20m forward of 2025, a goal.

The England worldwide stayed put on the Clarets regardless of a number of exit rumours final summer season and will now earn a reward for his persistence within the type of a January transfer to North London. Greater than succesful with the ball at his toes, Trafford could possibly be an instantaneous improve on Forster within the position of quantity two behind Guglielmo Vicario.

“Athletic” Trafford may substitute Forster

While Vicario is the undisputed primary at Spurs, his latest harm means that Trafford would get ample alternative to impress and supply Postecoglou an instantaneous improve on the struggling Forster. At simply 22 years outdated too, it is not absurd to recommend that the England worldwide may someday take over from 28-year-old Vicario and develop into a beginning shot-stopper inside a top-six aspect.

It is a rise that Bolton goalkeeper coach Matt Gilks noticed coming throughout Trafford’s mortgage spell on the membership, telling Sky Sports activities in 2023: “Whenever you’ve been within the recreation for 25 years, like I’ve, you come throughout tons of of goalkeepers and there are only a few that actually stand out, however James is certainly certainly one of them.

“His athletic profile, the facility he produces when he takes off, his reflexes. All of the little particulars we have a look at are up there.”

Crucially, Trafford has maintained a powerful save proportion much like Forster however stands out when requested to play with the ball at his toes in a trait that Postecoglou desperately wants his goalkeepers to have in abundance.