The Unnamed Italian Striker Interesting Spurs

Patrick Cutrone is being followed by Spurs

I have brought you a series of articles on various players, Hugo Lloris, Erik Lamela, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, Kieran Trippier and Toby Alderweireld so hope you have enjoyed the inside track on them.

You can find many of these under the THBN Article - Further Reading section below this article or on the right-hand side of the website in the Popular Posts section.

I mentioned in my roundup article the strikers we were interested in and I have been asked who the unnamed young Italian is I referred to.

He is 21-year-old (22 next January) Italian international (1 cap) Patrick Cutrone who plays as a centre-forward for AC Milan.

His one international cap came on 23 March 2018 against Argentina in the Etihad Stadium. He came on as a substitute in a 2-0 loss for the last 18 minutes. He was also on the bench for the 1-1 draw against England 4 days later.

We have been monitoring his progress but we are not in a position to buy a striker with Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon being higher priorities after the purchase of Tanguy Ndombélé.

Spending

£55.5m + bonuses

£60m + bonuses

£30m

Total £145.5m

We would need to recoup some money before spending further, such as a new right-back for Trippier, a centre-back for Alderweireld, a striker for Janssen, a wide man for N'Koudou or indeed further midfielders for Josh Onomah, Victor Wanyama or Eric Dier.

Trippier is likely to fetch £20m+

Janssen £6m

Onomah £11m

N'Koudou £5m perhaps

Rounding things up we would see a very rough net spend of £100 million and we would want to sell players in the position we want to buy for rather than just buy and unbalance the squad.

It is one of those things with transfers when everything has to fall together. We need to replace centre-backs, but we can't buy now and have five on the books in preparation, it wastes a squad place, but our number one target is available and eager to move this window.

Anyway, we have gone on one of my forays down a different avenue again, but to the topic at hand, Patrick Cutrone.

He has come through the Milan youth system and played at all level for Italy too. He has scored 13 goals and has 5 assists in 63 Serie A games, but he has only played 2,952 minutes across all those games as he learns his craft.

That equates to 13 goals and 5 assists in the equivalent of 32.8 full games.

In the UEFA Europa League (excluding qualifying games where he has scored a further 2 goals) he has played 14 games, a total of 990 minutes, equivalent to 11 full games and has scored 8 goals with a further 2 assists.

He is an option, but he isn't our main target, that is a young Real Madrid striker.