Timo Werner is only 30 years old, but the man once hyped as the next great German national team striker already finds himself in MLS. He failed miserably as a loan signing at Tottenham Hotspur and was unable to return to prominence back in the Bundesliga with RB Leipzig, the club where he broke out as an elite forward in European football before winning a Champions League with Chelsea in 2021.
Since that Champions League title in the COVID year where everything got all weird, Werner has been a massive flop. Tottenham signed him on loan hoping they could get the high upside player back on track, utilizing him as a left winger in rotation with Son Heung-min next to Dominic Solanke, trying to take advantage of his speed. And while Werner worked hard for the team and had a positive attitude, becoming a Europa League champion in the end, the quality clearly was not there and he barely even played by the end of the campaign.
After Tottenham made another failed loan signing for a somehow much worse player in striker Randal Kolo Muani last year at the deadline, Spurs have found another deadline deal flier in the former of a former Chelsea transfer flop on the left wing, Mykhaylo Mudryk.
Mykhaylo Mudryk won't want to 100 percent follow the Timo Werner blueprint
The Ukrainian international is still adored by Roberto De Zerbi, who helped him become one of Europe's top young prospects at Shakhtar Donetsk before he made a bloated transfer to Todd Boehly's Chelsea.
Mudryk has not played the game in literal years, and nobody knows what exactly he can offer. So while he joins Tottenham Hotspur at the age of 25, significantly younger than Timo Werner was when he arrived at N17 in 2024, he is not exactly a prospect either. And because of how long it has been since he has played at the highest level of European football, his rust makes him just as "washed" to many fans in the Premier League.
In a way, Mudryk becoming the repeat of Werner would still be a lot better than what Randal Kolo Muani "brought" to Tottenham last year, but it would be a massive disappointment. Werner scored a meager 2 goals in 31 appearances for Spurs, and that kind of a return from Mykhaylo Mudryk would reflect horribly on Roberto De Zerbi when Spurs could have easily brought in someone more impactful, like Malick Fofana (now of Sunderland). Mudryk is here to be a field stretcher with speed and a high upside low gamble like Werner; he just won't want to turn out like the original guy did.
Add us as a preferred source on Google