Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz. (Picture by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Photos)
Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz has been urged to make a January switch to Leicester Metropolis to study from veteran star Jamie Vardy.
Veliz joined Spurs from Rosario Central for £13m (per BBC Sport) in the summertime of 2023.
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However since then, he’s scored only one purpose in eight senior appearances and is at present on mortgage at Spanish facet Espanyol, solely managing 4 targets in 15 video games throughout all competitions up to now.
Veliz has been struggling for taking part in time in latest weeks and Spurs might be monitoring the scenario, contemplating recalling him in January and discovering him a extra fruitful alternative.
Alejo Veliz to Leicester?
Veliz’s former Rosario Central teammate and Argentina youth counterpart Facundo Buonanotte is having fun with a fruitful mortgage spell at Leicester from Brighton, registering 4 targets and two assists in 14 Premier League outings up to now.
Throughout a latest interview with Argentine newspaper Ole, Buonanotte urged Veliz to name time on his stick with Espanyol and are available to Leicester, the place he can study from Vardy who, at 37 years outdated, has six Premier League targets to his identify this season.
“I might inform Tanque Veliz to come back right here to study from Jamie Vardy,” mentioned Buonanotte (through TeamTalk).
“He’s on mortgage, however now he’s at Tottenham, so I feel he is aware of about this. In the course of the time we have been at Central, we made a pleasant duo.”
Elsewhere, Spurs are at present being linked with Ajax’s midfield teenage prodigy Rayane Bounida, who has scored two targets in two video games within the Dutch second tier with the membership’s second group.
Following Sunday’s 6-3 defeat to Liverpool, the Lilywhites journey to Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day trying to shut the seven-point hole between themselves and the highest 4.
