The Serge Aurier saga at Spurs will be remembered with as much frustration as fondness. Aurier is clearly a great guy, but his concentration levels let him down repeatedly. It feels as if a move out of North London is inevitable.
Duncan Castles for The Times believes that Everton have opened talks with Lille for the services of Zeki Celik who has been with the French side for two seasons.
Celik isn’t the worst player we’ve been linked with, but I’m struggling to see the wisdom in this one. Spurs already have Japhet Tanganga to hand and his Who Scored? numbers are a whisker away – and that’s with a ridiculous disparity in minutes played as a youth prospect!
Drilling down into Zeki Celik’s match stats I can see nothing that flags him as being an inspirational purchase. The Turk’s passing accuracy average is a mediocre 79.4%.
Duncan Castles calls the 23-year a good provider of crosses which is fundamentally untrue. Celik’s success rate is 31.8%.
Thanks, but no thanks.