Maxi Gomez has taken La Liga by storm for Celta Vigo – and has earned the admiration of Spurs ahead of a potential move to the Premier League.
Third time lucky for Tottenham Hotspur?
After the failures of Vincent Janssen and Fernando Llorente, Spurs will once again go into the summer transfer market looking for a striker capable of providing some competition for their talisman Harry Kane.
Janssen will spend another season on loan at Fenerbahce and The Standard believes Llorente, who has scored once since his £14 million move from Swansea last summer, is up for sale at the right price.
So Tottenham would be crossing their fingers and hoping that, in Maxi Gomez, they have finally struck gold.
Diario AS claimed in March that the 21-year-old Celta Vigo frontman has played his way onto Mauricio Pochettino’s radar just one year after moving to Spain from Defensor Sporting. And you can see why.
A powerful and aggressive old-school centre-forward who has 13 goals and 10 bookings in La Liga, the burly Gomez would offer a viable Plan B to the more cerebral Kane. But it is his nickname that should have Spurs fans salivating.
A two-time Uruguay international, Gomez has been frequently compared to none other than compatriot and Barcelona goal-machine Luis Suarez – and the similarities go beyond the country of their birth.
“People back in Uruguay say that I’m going to be Luis Suárez’s successor in the national team and I hope that will turn out to be the case,” Gomez, who has a £44 million release clause in his Celta contract, admitted to Tifo.
Now, Suarez has been one of the world’s top strikers for years now and tore Spurs apart again and again during his stellar spell at Liverpool.
If Gomez is half as good, Spurs will have a remarkable talent on their hands.
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