Eric Dier has not found unfettered success as a centre back. That’s not opinion, that’s a statement of fact, a recent series of undesirable performances finally culminated in the lad getting dropped from his starting XI spot by José Mourinho. Toby Alderweireld is 32. Another statement of fact.
Whilst Joe Rodon is in the pipeline, but when competing on as many as 4 four fronts, José will know that he needs more. Football is a contact sport, there could be injuries. And, as a big club, Spurs could under Mourinho find themselves playing lots of games.
Tom Hopkinson for The Mirror believes that Tottenham has shortlisted the name of Southampton centre-back Jannick Vestergaard. The former Borussia Mönchengladbach star has been a regular starter for Ralph Hasenhuttl at Southampton.
Transfermarkt (amongst many) believe that the versatile Saints’ defender is somewhere in the region of £13.5million. Which places him straight into a similar price bracket to that of Pierre Hojbjerg.
I take a view that Spurs ought to have churned the squad to a greater degree many seasons sooner, so the idea of rinsing Dier and hoping to improve our situation with an unreliable and now ageing player would be a positive one.