Spurs: Paratici handed Depay boost

Tottenham Hotspur have been handed an enormous increase of their bid to carry Memphis Depay to the Premier League in the summertime switch window.

What’s the speak?

That’s in line with a report by Spanish publication SPORT (by way of TEAMtalk), who declare that, following a number of stories linking Fabio Paratici with a transfer for the 28-year-old centre-forward in current weeks, Barcelona have now lowered their preliminary €20m (£17m) asking value for the Netherlands worldwide to simply £12m.

That is certain to return as an enormous increase to Spurs, with AS beforehand reporting that Paratci was ready to supply the LaLiga aspect a determine within the area of €17m (£14.5m) so as to carry the striker to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this summer season.

“Enormous signing”

Contemplating simply how spectacular Depay was for Barcelona final season, the information that Barcelona now look to have given Paratici the inexperienced mild to make a £12m transfer for the 28-year-old is undeniably implausible information for the Italian sporting director.

Certainly, over his 28 LaLiga appearances in 2021/22, the £34m-rated Dutchman was in breathtaking kind for Xavi’s aspect, scoring 12 objectives, registering two assists and creating 5 large probabilities for his teammates, in addition to taking a median of two.2 pictures, making 1.6 key passes and finishing 1.6 dribbles per recreation.

These returns noticed £158k-per-week expertise who was labelled a “huge signing” for Barca and Liam Canning dubbed “unreal” common a merely sensational SofaScore match score of 7.26, not solely rating him because the Catalan membership’s fourth-best performer within the league but additionally because the joint 10th-best participant within the Spanish prime flight as a complete.

As such, ought to Paratici handle to get a £12m deal over the road for Depay this summer season – a determine that may be a whopping £22m decrease than the centre-forward’s present market worth – it might undoubtedly symbolize an infinite coup for Spurs, who might nicely land one of many bargains of the summer season within the 28-year-old attacker.

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