Vincent Janssen struggled in a big way at Tottenham Hotspur.
Vincent Janssen has suggested that Mauricio Pochettino didn’t appreciate him at Tottenham.
The Dutch striker joined Spurs in 2016 but had a rotten three-year spell in North London.
Janssen, a £17 million signing, started only three Premier League games under Pochettino and spent the second half of last season playing with the Under-23s.
The former AZ Alkmaar star managed just two league goals during a poor first season under the Argentine, who loaned him to Fenerbahce for the 2017-18 campaign.
And Janssen, who now plies his trade with Monterrey in Mexico, told VTBL that he didn’t feel valued enough at the Lilywhites.
He said: “As a 22 year old boy from AZ this was a great step [joining Spurs], but I didn’t make the minutes there that I expected. Also I did not reach my level there. Ultimately you want to play again, be a footballer and be appreciated.”
If Janssen didn’t get the minutes at Tottenham then it’s because Harry Kane was there.
And Kane was at the club when he joined, so the Dutchman knew that he was signing up to be the club’s second-choice striker.
You can’t really blame Pochettino for Janssen’s struggles. The bottom line is that he simply wasn’t good enough.
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