Tottenham Hotspur are weighing up a move for Leicester City’s James Maddison, player representative and Spurs fan Paul O’Keefe reports.
The lowdown
According to Dan Kilpatrick of The London Evening Standard, Antonio Conte wants to sign a creative midfielder this summer.
Spurs reportedly held an interest in bringing Christian Eriksen back to North London, but he’s now joined Manchester United.
Maddison, 25, is under contract at The King Power Stadium for another two years.
The latest
O’Keefe, an FA registered intermediary, was asked on Twitter for news about Spurs’ pursuit of a playmaker.
He replied that ‘they are very seriously considering’ a move for Maddison.
The verdict
It would seem Maddison ticks the key boxes for Conte. He provided eight assists in last season’s Premier League in addition to his 12 goals, ranking him joint-tenth in the division.
And he also ranks inside the league’s top 30 for key passes per 90 match with 1.4.
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Some Spurs fans, however, may be less than pleased with some of the player’s old tweets.
In 2013, he declared that he didn’t ‘like’ the Lilywhites and that he wanted then Liverpool striker Luis Suarez to ‘destroy’ them.
And he also ripped into Gareth Bale, whom he hated ‘with a passion’. He claimed that the former Gunners midfielder Jack Wilshere was ’10x better’ than the Welsh winger.
It seems unlikely that that would come into the club’s thinking, though, particularly when you consider that they made light of some of Matt Doherty’s tweets when he joined the club in 2020.
