Aurier would surely love Pochettino to sign Rabiot, having tipped him as future captain

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Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly keen on Adrien Rabiot.

Tottenham Hotspur’s injury crisis has exacerbated their inability to bring in any new signings this summer, but Mauricio Pochettino may be lining up January additions already.

Spurs have a host of players unavailable right now, and face Barcelona tonight with a number of absentees, summing up just how important it is that they add new faces in January.

Just 24 hours before the Barcelona clash, The Mirror reported that Tottenham hold an interest in signing Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Adrien Rabiot, and hope to lure him to London in January.

Midfielder Rabiot, 23, is out of contract at the end of the season, and seemingly has no intention of signing a new deal with the club as he looks to engineer a 2019 move away.

Spurs want either a bargain January deal or a free transfer next summer, and one man who would surely love Pochettino to pull off such a coup is Serge Aurier.

Aurier is one of two Spurs players who played with Rabiot at PSG, along with Lucas Moura, but the Ivorian has previously commented on his great relationship with midfielder Rabiot.

Aurier told the Bros. Stories Youtube channel in 2017 that Rabiot is more like family than a friend, and predicted that he would become a captain of PSG if he stayed for long enough.

“Adri, he’s family, he’s more than a friend,” said Aurier. “I hope he stays in Paris for a long time because I see him as future captain of this team,” he added.

Now though, Aurier and Rabiot could reunite at Tottenham in what the Spurs defender would surely see as an ideal move, and having benefited from playing alongside ex-Toulouse teammate Moussa Sissoko in his early stages at Spurs, Aurier should know that he can impact Rabiot similarly.