Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz. (Picture by Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Pictures)
Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz has been urged to make a January switch to Leicester Metropolis to be taught from veteran star Jamie Vardy.
Veliz joined Spurs from Rosario Central for £13m (per BBC Sport) in the summertime of 2023.
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However since then, he’s scored only one purpose in eight senior appearances and is presently on mortgage at Spanish aspect Espanyol, solely managing 4 targets in 15 video games throughout all competitions to this point.
Veliz has been struggling for enjoying time in latest weeks and Spurs could be monitoring the state of affairs, contemplating recalling him in January and discovering him a extra fruitful alternative.
Alejo Veliz to Leicester?
Veliz’s former Rosario Central teammate and Argentina youth counterpart Facundo Buonanotte is having fun with a fruitful mortgage spell at Leicester from Brighton, registering 4 targets and two assists in 14 Premier League outings to this point.
Throughout a latest interview with Argentine newspaper Ole, Buonanotte urged Veliz to name time on his stick with Espanyol and are available to Leicester, the place he can be taught from Vardy who, at 37 years outdated, has six Premier League targets to his title this season.
“I’d inform Tanque Veliz to come back right here to be taught from Jamie Vardy,” stated Buonanotte (by way of TeamTalk).
“He’s on mortgage, however now he’s at Tottenham, so I believe he is aware of about this. Throughout the time we had been at Central, we made a pleasant duo.”
Elsewhere, Spurs are presently being linked with Ajax’s midfield teenage prodigy Rayane Bounida, who has scored two targets in two video games within the Dutch second tier with the membership’s second workforce.
Following Sunday’s 6-3 defeat to Liverpool, the Lilywhites journey to Nottingham Forest on Boxing Day seeking to shut the seven-point hole between themselves and the highest 4.
