Tottenham Hotspur have been handed an enormous increase of their pursuit of Memphis Depay.
What’s the discuss?
That’s in line with Fabrizio Romano, with the Italian journalist revealing in a current put up on Twitter that the 28-year-old is in ongoing talks with Barcelona concerning a departure from the Camp Nou on a free switch this summer time – with the Netherlands worldwide solely mentioned to be serious about a swap to a high membership.
That is positive to return as an enormous increase to each Fabio Paratici and Antonio Conte, as Tottenham have been closely linked with a transfer to deliver the previous Olympique Lyon, Manchester United and PSV Eindhoven striker to north London in the summertime switch window.
In his tweet, Romano mentioned: “Just one participant between Memphis Depay and Pierre Aubameyang will depart Barcelona this summer time. Depay is negotiating free company with FCB as revealed final week, Memphis will solely settle for in case of high golf equipment bid – Juventus amongst these .”
An actual coup
Contemplating simply how spectacular Depay was for Barcelona final season, along with the truth that, solely a matter of weeks in the past, the Spanish facet have been reportedly demanding a €20m (£17m) payment for the Dutchman, ought to Paratici handle to get the signing of the 28-year-old on a free switch over the road this summer time, it will undoubtedly be an actual coup for Tottenham.
Certainly, over his 28 LaLiga appearances in 2021/22, the £34m-rated expertise was in sensational kind for the Catalan facet, bagging 12 objectives, offering two assists and creating 5 massive possibilities for his teammates, along with taking a median of two.2 pictures, making 1.6 key passes and finishing 1.6 dribbles per recreation.
These returns noticed the £158k-per-week attacker who Liam Canning dubbed “unreal” common a fairly astonishing SofaScore match score of 7.26, not solely rating him because the Catalan membership’s fourth-best performer within the league but additionally because the joint Tenth-best participant within the Spanish high flight as an entire.
As such, it’s clear to see that the prospect of including Depay’s innovative within the remaining third to the likes of Harry Kane, Son Heung-min, Dejan Kulusevski and Richarlison within the Tottenham Hotspur assault will probably be an especially tantalising one for Conte and Spurs supporters alike, because the Dutchman would definitely assist to take the Italian’s facet to an entire new stage of their 2022/23 marketing campaign.
Moreover, contemplating the 28-year-old’s breathtaking returns in LaLiga final outing, £17m would have already appeared to have been one thing of a cut price for the centre-forward this summer time, whereas his addition on a free would very a lot look to be one of many offers of the switch market as an entire.
