With the prospect of Harry Kane leaving Tottenham this summer, it’s only natural that Spurs would be looking at potential replacements, such as Jonathan David, as per Friday’s edition of L’Equipe.
The striker has been linked with a move to Bayern Munich, who appear rather desperate to sign the England international, although they still have to overcome the Daniel Levy hurdle.
Tottenham would rather not lose Kane, but if they were to, you would think the prospect of getting a lot of money for him would be the preferable route, which would then give the Premier League side more leeway to find an adequate successor.
Whether Jonathan David is that man remains to be seen, but the aforementioned French newspaper believe he is one of the candidates.
Looking at the Canada international’s future, they reveal that Lille have ‘set their price’ for the star striker at €60m.
The hope was for someone to come in with that amount, but the striker merry-go-round has yet to start, with Kane seemingly holding everybody up.
Either way, Tottenham are ‘observing’ David in case they have to sell their striker, but there is a lot of competition, with Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and even Newcastle all also keen on a player who scored 26 goals in 40 appearances last season for the Ligu
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Football London journalist Gold spoke about how Richarlison was ‘absolutely torn apart’ by the Italian ‘for two hours in front of the squad’ last season.
But it seems as though Ange Postecoglou has cottoned onto the fact that the 26-year-old is someone who needs ‘a bit of an arm around the shoulder’, as he told his own YouTube channel.
The player himself hasn’t helped himself by scoring only one Premier League goal last term, despite being Spurs’ club-record transfer.
But after hitting a hat-trick in pre-season recently, fans will be hoping it gives the all-action forward that bit of confidence and belief heading into the new campaign.
I can definitely tell that Postecoglou is developing a bit of an affection for Richarlison,” said Gold. “You can tell that, by just the way he acts and talks about him.
“Don’t forget, this is the Richarlison who has spoken recently about getting absolutely torn apart by Conte for two hours in front of the squad and ripping him apart.
“Maybe Postecoglou has seen that he is the kind of guy that needs a bit of arm around his shoulder. When he was asked about his confidence being up with that hat-trick, he said, ‘I hope so, I have said it before that I really like Richy. He is someone who has all the attributes that I look for in a striker and he has a strong work ethic.
