While Vincent Janssen is yet to hit the net from open play, Rondon can’t stop scoring for West Brom.
Tottenham might have found their form again in one of their more cohesive performances of the season to date against Hull, but many Spurs fans had their eye elsewhere on Wednesday night. The Hawthorns, to be precise, as Salomon Rondon’s hat-trick of headers swept aside a shambolic Swansea City.
After all, four years ago Spurs and Rondon rarely appeared apart in the gossip columns, with Sky Sports reporting that Tottenham were readying a bid of £10 million after the Venezuelan caught the eye following an 11-goal breakthrough season with Malaga in La Liga.
However, it took another three years for the now-27-year-old to arrive in English football and West Brom, up in the nosebleed territory of seventh, are reaping the rewards on a regular basis.
The old-school centre-forward has seven goals in 15 games already this season, with flying Scotsman Duncan Ferguson the last player to bang in three with his bonce all the way back in 1997.
If Wedensday’s 3-0 cruise against Hull is anything to go by, Harry Kane is not far away from getting back to his predatory peak. And with great timing to, as Vincent Janssen is hardly the most reliable reserve.
And Spurs might have made bigger, more expensive transfer blunders in the last few years, but their failure to land Rondon is looking rather costly in hindsight.
Would love a player like Rondon at spurs..would be perfect for a plan b..which we dont have at the moment #COYS
— Stephen (@stephenpay444) December 11, 2016
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