The Spurs goalie is yet to feature for the club on his loan spell.
(L-R) Arsenal’s Wojciech Szczesny, Emiliano Viviano and Lukasz Fabianski during training
Tottenham Hotspur were dumped out of the EFL Cup last night, losing 2-1 to Liverpool at Anfield. With that exit a chance of first-team football for many Spurs players went down the pan – including for goalkeeper Pau Lopez.
The goalie was signed from Espanyol on loan in the summer but he has not yet featured for the Spurs first-team – with Hugo Lloris and Michel Vorm ahead of him in the pecking order.
So could he end up like a former Arsenal flop?
Tottenham’s Pau Lopez and Son Heung-min during training
Emiliano Viviano signed for Arsenal on loan back in September 2013. The deal included a buying option but he never made an impact for the Gunners.
Viviano played a grand total of zero games in his one season at Arsenal and left the club in the summer of 2014 to return to Italy.
It was a surprise move in the first place and one which did not really benefit anyone.
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Lopez looks like he is in a similar position at Spurs with no real hope of playing first-team football in the near future and the deal looking like a mistake from all parties involved.
Hopefully he can have a bigger impact at Spurs then Viviano did at Arsenal.
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