Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino has allegedly snubbed the chance to sign Gylfi Sigurdsson.
According to the Daily Mail, Tottenham Hotspur were ready to try and bring Everton’s Gylfi Sigurdsson back to the club – but Mauricio Pochettino was ‘unconvinced’.
Sigurdsson, 29, joined Everton from Swansea City back in the summer of 2017, with the Toffees forking out a huge £45million to sign him, as noted by The Guardian.
The playmaker hasn’t quite hit the heights expected of him at Goodison Park, though he has notched nine goals and three assists so far this season.
Sigurdsson had become a hero with Swansea following a 2014 switch from Tottenham, in which Swansea received Sigurdsson and cash for Michel Vorm and Ben Davies.
Now, the Daily Mail report that Tottenham has planned to sanction a deal to re-sign Sigurdsson at some point in the last 12 months, but boss Pochettino wasn’t keen.
Pochettino was the manager who oversaw Sigurdsson’s exit in 2014, and despite admitting to The Guardian in 2016 that he regretted selling the Iceland international, he seemingly didn’t want him back in North London.
One would assume that the interest from Spurs came last summer rather than in a January transfer window, and Everton may have been tempted to sell given Sigurdsson’s disappointing first season with the club.
Yet as he’s approaching his 30’s now, he doesn’t really fit the bill for Pochettino. It’s one thing to regret selling Sigurdsson in his mid-20’s, but another one entirely to bring him back at almost 30.
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