Tottenham Hotspur have one of the most talented young players in world football who is not even in their first team ranks. Teenage center back Luka Vuskovic has taken over the Bundesliga by storm for returnees Hamburg, shining from the very moment he stepped into the starting lineup early in the season.
Vuskovic is already compiling many prestigious Bundesliga awards, dominating the rookie honors while also cleaning house in defensive awards and even in Team of the Season and Player of the Season nominations.
The Croatian international has all the tools to be the Sergio Ramos regen that Tottenham fans were hyping him up as in the preseason, and even if he needs one more season of, ahem, seasoning before joining the Spurs first team, this is a guy clearly earmarked as a future star. And in the awful event that Tottenham were to lose either Cristian Romero or, more likely, Micky van de Ven, Vuskovic could potentially be even better than these world class titans.
Tottenham have to be careful with Luka Vuskovic
But the thing is, in the back of their minds, Tottenham fans are worried that their beloved club will screw things up again with another major talent. Bayern Munich are the giants in Germany and have been watching Vuskovic up close and personal and are already being linked to the young central defender.
So interestingly enough, in an appearance on the Last Word on Spurs podcast, Give Me Sport transfer insider Ben Jacobs revealed that Tottenham Hotspur are showing interest in Real Madrid center back Jacobo Ramon, who is currently shining alongside another highly prized Madrid academy standout at Como in Nico Paz.
Ramon obviously isn't a sleeper Ballon d'Or candidate on the level of Paz, but he is one of the most touted young center backs in the world. Paz was also a Spurs transfer target last summer, funny enough, but Madrid have bought him back for the 2026/27 season - and like all academy prospects, Real do have a buy back clause on Ramon.
While Ramon is a good young defender who has other Premier League clubs interested in him, per Jacobs, it is obvious this season that he is neither playing as well nor has as much future upside as Luka Vuskovic.
Ramon is a contingency plan should Tottenham royally screw up the Vuskovic process and lose him to Bayern or someone else, because he does not make sense otherwise. Tottenham already have three great center backs in their current squad, and if they were to sell Radu Dragusin in the summer, Vuskovic would be the replacement.
Now, Ramon could be Dragusin's replacement to give Vuskovic more minutes as a starter on loan in the Bundesliga, for example, but then why would Ramon sign with Tottenham to be on the bench when he could keep playing for Como and then join Real Madrid later? It sounds like, at the end of the day, Spurs should be focusing on real positions of need and on Vuskovic at center back.