Arsenal completed a deal to sign the Belgian attacker Leandro Trossard from Brighton and Hove Albion this month.
The 28-year-old has been in fine form this season scoring 7 goals and picking up 3 assists in the Premier League. The player’s agent has now revealed that Tottenham Hotspur were in talks to sign the player but they were indecisive in their approach.
On the other hand, Arsenal were swift and they managed to conclude negotiations quickly and the deal was wrapped up within 24 hours.
The player’s agent revealed (h/t Mirror): “Spurs were in contact with us for the last two weeks. But it was we want him, but wait this, wait that. Wednesday we got in touch with Arsenal – 24 hours later they had an agreement.”
The 28-year-old joined the Gunners for a fee of around £27 million and the deal could look like a bargain in the coming seasons.
The Belgian International is at the peak of his career right now and the only reason Arsenal were able to sign him for a knockdown price was because of his contract situation. The player would have been a free agent at the end of the season and Brighton wanted to recoup some money for him.
Meanwhile, Harry Kane has been the only reliable attacker at Tottenham this season and Antonio Conte could have used reinforcements in the final third. Trossard could have proven to be a quality acquisition and the Belgian would have certainly improved them with his quality and versatility.
The Spurs fans will certainly be disappointed with the revelations from the player’s agent and it remains to be seen whether their indecisiveness in the market ends up costing them a place in the top four this season.
It’s easy cause we fools ruining our club and until Levi n enic sell it will always be the mangers fault and at the end of season he will give an interview that 99.5 % of our fans will fall for then spend cash on season tickets n tops etc all lining they muppets pockets while the go buy 4-5 choice players making out there our first choice 20 mil on spence but we won’t pay 39mil for porro twice the player spence is but we will low ball them and then blame it’s hard to sign anyone in Jan but it’s not just pay the bill and stop low balling teams as levy won’t sell our crap players for anything less than top money but the low balls other teams top players Levi n enic have running our club n will continue to do so enjoy wasting ur money fans as that’s all ur doing
Nobody wants to come to spurs. They have all worked out that we are going nowhere, and the manager is gone at the end of the season. How Enic have managed to hoodwink so many supporters over the years is amazing. The only way it will change is if supporters act with their feet and stop renewing season tickets.