Jose Mourinho’s Spurs are set to lose a young goalkeeper with Jonathan De Bie leaving the Premier League side for Anderlecht or KV Mechelen.
Young goalkeeper Jonathan De Bie is heading for a Tottenham Hotspur exit with Het Nieuwsblad reporting that Vincent Kompany’s Anderlecht are keen to recruit a soon-to-be free agent.
Maybe Spurs have one goalkeeper too many.
As it stands, Hugo Lloris and Paulo Gazzaniga are fighting for a place between the sticks under Jose Mourinho, while youngsters Alfie Whiteman, Brandon Austin and the highly-rated Joshua Oluwayemi all have plenty of admirers behind the scenes.
And with the Karadeniz Gazete reporting that Tottenham are set to make a £24 million offer for Trabzonspor’s Turkish international Ugurcan Cakir, after seeing an initial £18 million bid rejected, there may be no room at the inn any longer for De Bie.
A commanding and confident goalkeeper who joined Tottenham in 2016 from Mechelen, De Bie is now featuring for the U23s after previously captaining the London giants at U18 level.
But with his contract due to expire at the end of June, it seems that a parting of the ways is all-but inevitable. De Bie will turn 20 next month and he wants an opportunity to prove himself at first-team level with Anderlecht offering the Belgian shot-stopper a route back home.
Interestingly, Mechelen are set to provide competition for Vincent Kompany’s side, four years after they lose a 16-year-old De Bie to the bright lights of London.
In this post-Jadon Sancho world, young players are more determined than ever to play first-team football at the earliest possible opportunity. And it seems that De Bie feels he has outgrown life in the reserves.
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