Tottenham Hotspur may be “in two minds” about signing James Maddison this summer, according to Spurs transfer insider Dean Jones.
Maddison has been linked with both North London clubs all summer, and Newcastle United have recently expressed an interest in him as well. The latter have made two bids for the 25-year-old, the most recent of which was reportedly worth more than £40 million – with Leicester City rejecting the bid because they believe the player is worth £60 million. However, Jones had recently claimed that the player will prefer a move to Spurs.
And Jones now believes that Antonio Conte’s side could be weighing up a move for the Leicester City star. He said (This is Futbol):
“Tottenham will already know that it’s going to take £60m to get Maddison.
“They’ve got to weigh up: is that worth it, how much is he going to play, how much can he improve us.
“So, I think they’re in two minds about James Maddison at the moment.”
Spurs fans will be reassured to hear that the club is genuinely evaluating a move for the ‘outstanding‘ midfielder. James Maddison has been Leicester City’s player of the year since a couple of years and was directly involved in 30 goals last year. On paper, he would be an excellent signing for Spurs as he is the type of creative midfielder Spurs are lacking at the moment.
If Spurs have the money and the lad is available this is a good move. When we come up against teams who sit in we only need one of Hojbjerg, Biss or Bents. Man City do this for most of their games, one sitting midfielder. How many games since Jose took over have we been critical of playing 2 holding midfielders against teams with no attacking intent? On some occasions we even had Winks, which was akin to playing with 10!
Maddison has an abundance of talent, but his attitude has been questioned by Southgate. I couldn’t take another David Bentley, but Maddison has 5 years of Premier League pedigree to ease that worry.
Would Ted Boehly be swayed with a cheaper move for Conor Gallager? I think this lad is top draw.
Rotation..
Maddison is a 10, played a lot of football on the right for LC last season, and can also play in centre-mid. He scores, assists regularly. He’d be a perfect addition for me, considering he is HG too. Cover/competition. Proper players.
This one will come down to whether Conte wants him though – if he does I think we can make it happen. If he does, great. If he doesn’t, pointless pining.
All very true but it’s what ‘ big’ clubs do and win tin pots .
After being starved of decent signing for many years my brain can’t contemplate having 60 mil players on the bench but if you really want to seriously go for all cups and the league it’s what you have to do.
All the top teams have been doing it for years .
If we did ,the next season Levy would just need a centre back / rwb,, if we won stuff maybe merchandise would go through the roof and beer sales who knows?
Interesting idea but I don’t think Kane albeit a great passer can play the role of a creative midfield player. Maddison brings something special to the midfield and unlike the rest of our midfield players knows where the back of the net is.
Agreed we still need another top class centre back but if Levy does his normal and leaves us a player short then I would prefer to fill the creative midfield position
Maddison is a great player, but Antonio will never take it…too small; his dream is called Sergey Milinkovic Savic, but it is very, very expensive
60 million to bring in a 3rd midfielder to “change shape” — would mean benching one of Kulusevski or Son, both of whom produce, in favor of a CAM who might or might not work with Spurs’ personnel.
It sounds like an expensive gamble to me, very expensive.
If Spurs need to change shape, drop Kane in. That way, both Kulu and Son are still available to play, along with Richarlison when needed. Richarlison will be able to provide Kane (and Kulu) with a lot more rest this season, as will Perisic with any of Son, Kulu, Sessegnon.
It makes more sense to me to drop Kane in when needed, and make the opposition figure out where something has changed and how to deal with it… rather than to spend 60m on a maybe who takes a spot away from a producing player.
I think if Spurs spend big, it needs to be on one more world class defender.
Just my perception.
we must sign maddison as we need a playmaker in midfield because all we have is defensive midfielders and in certain games we will need to change our shape and he is just what we have been missing and levy is not sure because it means spending money but if we dont it could be the difference between winning something or nothing but knowing levy it wont happen because we are still 3 players short
He would be an excellent signing but I have read we are paying up the £ 41 mil for Romero. People who say Maddison won’t fit into Contes system are off key imo , like people who mocked Jesus going to AFC ( jokes apart) because he was going to AFC, for me Maddison p#sses over Grealish because he scores goals and creates them in a poorer team than Citeh. These players do not come along very often. Is he Modric ?.. no he isn’t is he special yes he is ..I suspect he isn’t for sale but if he is at £60 mil go and get him ..I rate Gil but if we can get 20 mil for him bin off Winks for 10 mil sell LoSellOn do it and bring Maddison in ..happy days.