Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz. (Photograph by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Photos)
Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz has been urged to make a January switch to Leicester Metropolis to be taught from veteran star Jamie Vardy.
Veliz joined Spurs from Rosario Central for £13m (per BBC Sport) in the summertime of 2023.
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However since then, he’s scored only one objective in eight senior appearances and is at the moment on mortgage at Spanish facet Espanyol, solely managing 4 objectives in 15 video games throughout all competitions up to now.
Veliz has been struggling for enjoying time in current weeks and Spurs might be monitoring the scenario, contemplating recalling him in January and discovering him a extra fruitful alternative.
Alejo Veliz to Leicester?
Veliz’s former Rosario Central teammate and Argentina youth counterpart Facundo Buonanotte is having fun with a fruitful mortgage spell at Leicester from Brighton, registering 4 objectives and two assists in 14 Premier League outings up to now.
Throughout a current interview with Argentine newspaper Ole, Buonanotte urged Veliz to name time on his stick with Espanyol and are available to Leicester, the place he can be taught from Vardy who, at 37 years outdated, has six Premier League objectives to his identify this season.
“I might inform Tanque Veliz to return right here to be taught from Jamie Vardy,” stated Buonanotte (through TeamTalk).
“He’s on mortgage, however now he’s at Tottenham, so I believe he is aware of about this. Throughout the time we had been at Central, we made a pleasant duo.”
Elsewhere, Spurs are at the moment being linked with Ajax’s midfield teenage prodigy Rayane Bounida, who has scored two objectives in two video games within the Dutch second tier with the membership’s second staff.
Following Sunday’s 6-3 defeat to Liverpool, the Lilywhites journey to Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day seeking to shut the seven-point hole between themselves and the highest 4.
