Tottenham Hotspur center back Luka Vuskovic had a rookie season for the ages in the Bundesliga, sweeping up virtually every honor given to a young player or center back as a whole, and even his peers thought he had a better season than Tottenham legend Harry Kane.
A hero for Hamburg in their easy survival bid, Vuskovic was supposed to make his triumphant return to Tottenham as a starter. But instead, Spurs have been busy signing other center backs, bagging Marcos Senesi for free while negotiating hard for Roberto De Zerbi's own golden boy, Jan Paul van Hecke.
As part of the Van Hecke deal, Brighton want Vuskovic to come back the other way, and they are lowballing Tottenham Hotspur to do it. David Ornstein of The Athletic and other highly reliable transfer reporters are stating that the bid from Brighton is 30 million pounds, as that is their valuation of Vuskovic and what they would be willing to shave off a purported 50 million pound Van Hecke deal in order to get this done. Worse yet, Ben Jacobs is even saying that Vuskovic is open to leaving Spurs.
Tottenham are under serious Luka Vuskovic pressure
Now, Luka Vuskovic being swayed by a massive club like Bayern Munich or Barcelona is one thing, and that was the main fear Tottenham had. But in that case, Spurs fans thought they would at least be getting well over 50 million pounds for a player who was literally the best in the Bundesliga after the vaunted Bayern Munich front three.
Stepping down to Brighton, regardless of the Premier League standings, would be a cruel blow, and the 30 million pound valuation for a teenage sensation at the center back position is absolutely laughable.
For Tottenham, there is only one obvious conclusion to the Vuskovic situation. Vuskovic wants to play elsewhere so he can start regularly, fine. That was the point of the loan to Hamburg, and so they can just loan him again to a bigger club - and there are bigger clubs than even Brighton that Vuskovic would feasibly start for, based on how brilliant he was in the Bundesliga last season.
That is the only logical and even acceptable solution to the Vuskovic transfer drama. Selling the Croatian superstar to a smaller club in the Premier League for half his actual valuation would be beyond laughable and the worst bit of incompetence that Johan Lange could possibly conceive here. Spurs fans have to really worry about Vuskovic stabbing Spurs in the heart and Lange twisting the knife, but the best thing to do is to maintain control and just say no to Brighton.
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