Tottenham Hotspur signing £20m attacker James Maddison would be own goal from Levy

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Tottenham Hotspur are looking at signing James Maddison from Norwich City.

Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Norwich City’s James Maddison, with the Evening Standard reporting the attacking midfielder is valued at £20 million.

Spurs are battling a host of clubs for the talented playmaker, who could become an ideal deputy for Christian Eriksen.

Maddison would on one level be a fine addition, but paying £20 million for him would be an admission of failure from Tottenham.

Spurs were eyeing him up two years ago when Maddison was at Coventry City.

The Times reported David Pleat scouted Maddison ‘extensively’ and recommended Spurs follow up their acquisition of Dele Alli a year earlier by buying the youngster.

Tottenham were linked with making a £5 million bid and loaning Maddison back to Coventry.

Days later at the January transfer deadline, Norwich City stole in to sign Maddison.

The Coventry Telegraph claimed the fee was as low as £3.5 million, with Maddison loaned back to the Sky Blues for the remainder of the campaign.

It was bizarre for Tottenham to let this go through unchallenged considering their success with Alli a year earlier, and the scouting work done with regard to Maddison.

Paying £20 million for him now would be an uncharacteristic admission of failure by Spurs chairman Daniel Levy.