Premier League giants Spurs are reportedly keeping a close eye on Serie A and Europa League ace Bryan Cristante.
Tottenham Hotspur are hardly a side that struggles for goals. But while Harry Kane, Heung-Min Son and Dele Alli score for fun, there is one area of Spurs’ side that could do with a little more threat in the final third.
Between them, the central midfielders Victor Wanyama, Mousa Dembele, Eric Dier, Harry Winks and Moussa Sissoko have managed just two Premier League goals between them this season.
So if Mauricio Pochettino is keen to add more goals from the centre of the park, it makes sense that they are keeping a keen eye on Atalanta’s Italian international Bryan Cristante.
According to The Telegraph, Spurs had sent scouts to watch the 23-year-old in action at Wembley against England on Tuesday night, only for him to be left on the bench by manager Luigi Di Biagio. But Cristante has done more than enough in both Serie A and the Europa League this season to justify a big bid from Spurs in the summer.
The former AC Milan youngster, who is on loan at Atalanta from Benfica, has scored eight times in Italy’s top flight plus another three in Europe’s second tier club competition – all coming against Everton in the group stage.
Cristante is a traditional central midfielder in a positional sense but is blessed with that all-too-rare innate ability to perfectly time those late runs into the penalty area and get on the end of crosses or through balls.
To describe him as an Italian Frank Lampard would not be too much of a stretch. So if Spurs do their get their man, opposition defences will have yet another goal scoring threat to watch out for.
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