The Tottenham Hotspur veteran is being linked with a big move away.
Barcelona have been linked with a move for a Tottenham Hotspur player.
But it isn’t Harry Kane, or Davinson Sanchez, or Son Heung-min. Actually, it’s Jan Vertonghen.
The veteran Tottenham defender turns 33 next month and it looks like he’ll be leaving North London on a free transfer this summer.
If a contract extension was going to happen, it probably would’ve been done and dusted by now.
But bizarrely, the Spanish giants are keen on the Belgium international, according to Sport.
The report adds that Barca see Vertonghen – who joined Spurs back in 2012 – as a ‘magnificent option’ by virtue of the fact that he’ll be a Bosman.
It’s an odd rumour and here’s how Tottenham fans have reacted to it:
Is it going to happen? Well, stranger things have definitely happened, but probably not.
As talented as Vertonghen was once upon a time, Barcelona is a huge upgrade on Tottenham and he simply isn’t the defender that he used to be, evident by how he has struggled in a big way since Jose Mourinho took over from Mauricio Pochettino.
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