Tottenham Hotspur are set to seal their seventh signing of the summer season switch window, in line with an replace from Fabrizio Romano…
What’s the phrase?
The Italian journalist stated on Twitter:
“Future Udogie to Tottenham, right here we go. Full settlement reached with Udinese for greater than €20m – after private phrases in place. Gifted Italian fullback will probably be Spurs participant in 2023, wished by [Fabio] Paratici.
“Udogie will keep at Udinese for yet one more 12 months on mortgage.”
It’s thought that the Italy U21 worldwide will value Spurs within the area of £21m, taking their spending over the £120m mark, having splashed out £60m on Richarlison, £25m on Yves Bissouma and £15m on Djed Spence already this summer season.
Is Udogie a very good signing for Spurs?
Sure, 100%!
No method!!
Seventh heaven
Fabio Paratici, the Lilywhites’ sporting director, is about to land one other tenacious and thrilling signing to make it a improbable seven arrivals via the door at Hotspur Approach, which is nearly unprecedented on the membership – no less than in latest instances.
Spurs supporters is not going to get to see Udogie within the flesh till 2023 on the earliest but it surely’s clear that this signing has been completed with the long-term future in thoughts.
Regardless of solely being 19 years of age, the younger defender was solely crushed by soon-to-be teammate Ivan Perisic (ten) for wing and full-back objective contributions within the Serie A final season, offering a complete of eight, as per WhoScored.
He’s greater than able to providing strong defensive contributions, too.
Udogie ranked inside the high 10% of his positional friends throughout Europe for tackles received (1.91 per 90), by way of FBref, while he’s additionally among the many high 3% for targets scored (0.18 per 90) and the highest 12% for touches within the opposition’s field (2.73 per 90), demonstrating his tenacious perspective throughout all areas of the pitch.
These credentials has seen {the teenager} lauded as being “extraordinary” by his former Udinese boss Gabriele Cioffi, while the participant himself believes his finest qualities are his tempo, dribbling and abilities.
And while he stated he ‘likes to assault’, expertise scout Jacek Kulig has described him as an “correct and tenacious tackler” who’s “versatile” and has “high tempo and physicality.”
It very a lot looks as if he’s an all-round monster and solely goes to point out why supervisor Antonio Conte and Paratici would need him signed to Tottenham.
He’s set to proceed his improvement over within the Serie A for an additional 12 months however on the above proof, he’s a mighty expertise that might excite many round north London within the coming years.
AND in different information, Spurs dealt switch setback over £50m “particular expertise”, it’s a gutting blow for Conte…
