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Midfielder Yeferson Soteldo included in Tottenham transfer speculation

By Gary Pearson

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 14: Mauricio Pochettino, Manager of Tottenham Hotspur shows appreciation to the fans during the closing ceremony after the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at White Hart Lane on May 14, 2017 in London, England. Tottenham Hotspur are playing their last ever home match at White Hart Lane after their 112 year stay at the stadium. Spurs will play at Wembley Stadium next season with a move to a newly built stadium for the 2018-19 campaign. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 14: Mauricio Pochettino, Manager of Tottenham Hotspur shows appreciation to the fans during the closing ceremony after the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United at White Hart Lane on May 14, 2017 in London, England. Tottenham Hotspur are playing their last ever home match at White Hart Lane after their 112 year stay at the stadium. Spurs will play at Wembley Stadium next season with a move to a newly built stadium for the 2018-19 campaign. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images) /
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Another speculative rumour, during a summer overflowing with such hearsay that has so far amounted to zilch, is coming out of South America, where Yeferson Soteldo has been mentioned with a potential link to Spurs.

Take this rumour not with a grain of salt but an entire salt flats of it . First reported by South American online Don Balon, a few more media outlets have built a case for the possible transfer.

I don’t see it manifesting into anything but a rumour, though.

First of all, Soteldo sounds eerily, and uncomfortably, close to Soldado and we all know how that transfer turned out.

His curse-riddled name aside, Soteldo is a completely unknown commodity in European football, the 20-year-old currently streaking up and down the wings in Chile, with Huachipato.

He was recently transferred from Zamora F.C. (no relation to Bobby Zamora) in January. Scoreless in his first eight appearances with Huachipato, he hasn’t yet had the chance to strut his goal celebration for his new club.

The pint-sized winger did, however, score 21 goals in 84 appearances with Zamora F.C. before his recent move. Soteldo stands at just 5ft 3in tall, but makes up for his lack of physical stature with a shiftiness reminiscent of a former Tottenham player with a similar center of gravity, Luka Modric.

That, however, is where the similarities start and finish. Other than in Venezuela’s domestic league, The Primera División, the diminutive winger is untested at an élite level. He has made a handful of senior appearances for the national team, but that hardly buoys him to big-boy level.

Real Madrid and Barcleona are also reported to have interest in the youngster.

Even if this purported, yet unlikely, £16 million transfer somehow came to fruition, it almost certainly wouldn’t occur until next summer.

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He has oodles of potential and may someday be an international footballing stud, but Spurs have a host of more immediate transfer dilemmas to solve before travelling down the uncertain Venezuelan route.

And anecdotally speaking, do Spurs supporters really want a player in Tottenham colours to perpetually remind them of the epic fail that was Roberto Soldado?

I think those suppressed nightmares are better left well alone.

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