According to reports in the Sunday Mirror, Tottenham Hotspur are ready to spend more than £100m to sign Lazio duo Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Ciro Immobile this summer.
What’s the word, then?
Well, the Sunday Mirror says that the pair have been heavily scouted by the north London outfit in recent weeks, and while they wouldn’t come on the cheap, Spurs feel that they can afford them by offloading some of their fringe players at the end of the season.
The Sunday Mirror says that the players that could go are Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose, Mousa Dembele, Moussa Sissoko and Victor Wanyama, whom Tottenham fans on Twitter have been discussing the futures of, with the money used to strengthen the Tottenham squad before they move into their new £750m home.
The report adds that signing either Milinkovic-Savic or the 6ft 1in Immobile would be a coup, with the former being watched by several of Europe’s biggest football clubs, and the latter able to offer a strong alternative to Harry Kane up top.
How good have the duo been this season?
They have been excellent.
Striker Immobile has scored a remarkable 41 goals in 45 matches for the Serie A outfit, as well as providing a further 11 assists, while Milinkovic-Savic has found the net on 12 occasions and picked up nine assists, even though he has often been deployed as a central midfielder.
The Serbia international has shown how useful he can be at both ends of the pitch, and he has great ability on the ball, too.
Meanwhile, his Italian teammate is obviously a great finisher, but he is strong in the air too and is no stranger to scoring goals with his head.
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Would they be good signings for Spurs?
They certainly would be.
Milinkovic-Savic in only 23 years of age and looks to have a massive future ahead of him, while Immobile certainly looks as though he could be more of a success with the north London outfit than Vincent Janssen and Fernando Llorente have been.
Will they get them?
It’s difficult to say.
They will certainly have to pay through the roof to get Milinkovic-Savic, which they may not be willing to do, while they would have to convince Immobile that he could still get regular minutes on the pitch even though he would likely be Kane’s back-up.
Considering the number of goals he has scored this season that is going to be difficult to do, and it would perhaps make more sense if Pochettino has a plan to play both of them together in a new formation with two strikers.