Radu Dragusin will be missed but Genoa remain proud of Radu Dragusin’s £26 million move to the Premier League as CEO Andres Blazquez praises Tottenham Hotspur’s role in the negotiations.
Patience will have to be a virtue for a man who arrived in England last month, one of the very few big-money arrivals in a window of cost-cutting and FFP-dodging.
Radu Dragusin, a £26 million signing from Genoa, has been utilised as something of an ‘emergency sub’ so far, coming off the bench in the dying seconds of Tottenham’s last three games with Ange Postecoglou looking to hang onto a result.
But, once the Romanian settles into life in the English capital, Dragusin could prove to be another inspired piece of business from a club who have transformed their backline since the Antonio Conte era, Micky van de Ven, Destiny Udogie, Pedro Porro and Guglielmo Vicario making quite the impression already.
Tottenham beat Bayern Munich to Radu Dragusin
“He received a very important offer on a personal level and, for us, on a corporate level,” Blazquez tells Tuttomercatoweb. “We tried to earn as much as possible (from selling him) knowing that that position was covered as best as possible,”
“We are happy with this transfer. Obviously, we will miss Radu both on a personal and sporting level. He is a great professional. But it is also a prestige to sell to a club like Tottenham having also had offers from Bayern.
“This says a lot about the work that Spurs have done.”
Dragusin, who turned down AC Milan, Napoli and the aforementioned Bayern Munich before putting pen to paper with Spurs, is another example of a player choosing the North London option over rival bids from some of Europe’s biggest hitters.
Timo Werner, Sky Sports say, was convinced to join after talking to Postecoglou, despite rival interest from Manchester United. Udogie and Vicario also had admirers amongst Europe’s elite, while Lucas Bergvall even turned down Barcelona in favour of joining fellow Swede Dejan Kulusevski at Tottenham.
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“They are both incredible clubs, it was a very difficult choice,” Bergvall tells SportBladet. “It was 50-50 for a very long time. But it felt like the next step for me was Tottenham. It was not very easy to say no to Barcelona, it took a very long time to decide. It was a tough decision.”
“(Kulusevski and I) talked a little before. In general, how the club works, how they work, how they train, what the days look like. It wasn’t a persuasive talk like that. He just said the club was great and I noticed that when I got there.
“I got an incredible reception. It’s a very family club but incredible people.”
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