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This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…
Mauricio Pochettino is concerned by Tottenham’s lack of Plan B, according to The Daily Mail.
What’s the word?
Spurs lost 1-0 to Newcastle United at the weekend after a 2-2 draw with Manchester City and a 3-1 victory over Aston Villa.
Of course, Fernando Llorente left the club after the expiration of his contract, leaving the club without a back-up striker to Harry Kane.
Pochettino has been unable to pick a striker on the bench for the first three games of the 2019/20 season, with the Spaniard deciding against signing an extension in north London, having been offered a new contract on vastly reduced terms to his £75,000-per-week deal, per the Mail.
The 34-year-old scored eight goals in all competitions last season, including the winning goal in the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City.
He made just six starts in the Premier League, however, though he was substituted on 14 times as Spurs looked to change games.
Keep him around
Keeping Llorente would have been a no-brainer, one would have thought.
His heroics in the Champions League should have seen him handed whatever he wanted.
Obviously, had he demanded £200,000-per-week, his exit would have made all the more sense.
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But one feels that simply offering him the same deal, for a further year, would have been the sensible option.
Llorente didn’t score that many goals in north London last season but he was a game-changing influence throughout the campaign.
He is already missed.
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