Tottenham should add Mauro Icardi as soon as possible

Tottenham Hotspur should take advantage of Inter Milan’s rapidly devolving Mauro Icardi situation as soon as possible.

It’s true Mauro Icardi is a handful. He has terrible judgement off the field. His wife seeks more attention than a heat seeking missile and he has a boat load of baggage in his past. That said there are very few players his age with his goalscoring ability and most importantly for the price Mauro Icardi is believed to be available for.

Rarely even before the transfer market exploded to the insane and unsustainable level that it currently occupies is a striker of Mauro Icardi’s ability available for the price that he is. Marca have reported that Inter Milan are willing to let Icardi leave for 50 million euros. That equates to roughly 44 million pounds.

That would be 44 million pounds for a striker who has scored 124 goals in 6 seasons in the most defensive and difficult league in which to score a single goal.

Every single time someone has an issue with Icardi the truth is that it has nothing to do with football. I can be included in this on numerous occasions by the way. People reference the Maxi Lopez incident, his wife’s embarassing public behavior on tiki-taka (an Italian TV show named after the popular tactic) and the weird attention seeking social media behaviors of both in general.

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They also talk about the fact that he had the captain’s armband taken away from him. That he made disparaging and controversial comments about his clubs supporters in his much too early published autobiography and that he’s had public feuds with pretty much every other star player at Inter during his time.

Not a good look. We all acknowlege this. But here’s why it would be different at Tottenham.

Inter Milan are a dramatic club. “Pazza Inter” is a common phrase in Italian football and it literally translates to “Crazy Inter”. They’re a club that traditionally has huge ambitions and yet also huge forrays into the world madness.

For a long time Icardi was the only star around and that was amplified because of the mentality around Inter. Every single mistake, foolish decision and otherwise dramatic thing was blown out of proportion because that is the way that Inter are. They don’t have the sort of mentality that can easily absorb big and dramatic personalities.

Tottenham aren’t like that at all. They’re stable. They have competent and coherent management structure and everyone pulls in the same direction. The most important thing that they have also however is stars with good heads on their shoulders. Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Jan Vertonghen are all leaders and big personalities who could wrestle the madness that follows Icardi back where it belongs, on the pitch.

There’s no chance that Icardi is even the 2nd biggest star when he’s at Tottenham and that’s important. He should be kept out of the limelight and forced to focus on his football and nothing else.

Finally, as always, comes the secret weapon. Mauricio Pochettino is one of the most respected managers in the world. He is a disciplinarian, a leader and perhaps most importantly he’s Argentinean. That middle ground could be a valuable place in the middle to meet Icardi and understand him better.

No one has ever questioned whether or not Icardi is among the best strikers in the world. It has always been about the external stuff with him and Tottenham can handle that. Adding a world class talent and harnessing him to play alongside Harry Kane and supported by the strength of Tottenham’s lineup suddenly makes Spurs a very different side.

Adding Icardi elevates Tottenham to the next level. A level that could very possibly win a Premier League title.

It would be great to get him in with enough time to train with his teammates on Tottenham’s preseason tour.

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