Spurs: Paratici struck gold on Bentancur

When Tottenham Hotspur signed Rodrigo Bentancur for £15.9m again within the January switch window – a participant who had began simply 13 Serie A fixtures for Juventus within the first half of the 2021/22 marketing campaign – there would have been few Spurs supporters who would have predicted that the 25-year-old would change into considered one of Antonio Conte’s key gamers by the top of the season.

Nonetheless, that is precisely the way it panned out for the central midfielder, that includes in all however one of Tottenham’s Premier League fixtures following his arrival on the membership final winter – together with his one absence a results of an ankle injury – and delivering various distinctive performances within the course of.

Certainly, over his 17 Premier League appearances in 2021/22, the Uruguay worldwide registered 4 assists and created six large possibilities for his teammates, along with finishing a mean of 53.3 passes – at a hit charge of 90% – successful 2.1 tackles, making 1.2 interceptions, finishing 0.9 key passes and successful 4.9 duels – at a hit charge of 53% – per recreation.

These returns noticed the midfielder, who Martin Charquero dubbed “sensational“, common a reasonably outstanding SofaScore match score of 7.24, not solely rating him as Conte’s third-best performer within the league but additionally because the 23rd-best participant within the prime flight of English soccer as an entire.

The £75k-per-week expertise, additionally dubbed a “Rolls-Royce midfielder” by South American soccer professional Tom Robinson, has been in equally superb kind to this point this season, averaging a SofaScore match score of 7.00 over his 5 Premier League fixtures, in addition to a score of 7.10 over his two outings within the Champions League.

As such, it’s no shock that Tottenham insider John Wenham revealed his disbelief at the truth that Fabio Paratici managed to land the £35m-rated midfielder for as little as he did again in January, stating in an interview with Football Insider earlier this month:

“Bentancur got here again in [against Fulham] and he was the perfect participant on the park, for me. You seen how a lot we missed him in that West Ham recreation. Simply how calm and composed he’s on the ball. He does actually good urgent and defensive work.

“We simply look a significantly better outfit when he’s within the aspect. I can’t really consider we bought him for £16m on the again of successful three straight Scudettos – it was phenomenal enterprise. We have already got a £50m participant there who is barely going to get higher.”

Certainly, contemplating the truth that Bentancur already has a market valuation that’s 120% greater than the £15.9m he price Spurs a bit underneath eight months in the past, it isn’t tough to see why Wenham seems so happy together with his membership’s deal for the Uruguayan – as, contemplating how spectacular he has been to this point for Spurs, Paratici appears to have struck gold on the 25-year-old sensation.