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 ) in the summertime of 2023.
However since then, he’s scored only one objective in eight senior appearances and is presently on mortgage at Spanish aspect Espanyol, solely managing 4 objectives in 15 video games throughout all competitions up to now.
Veliz has been struggling for taking part in time in current weeks and Spurs could be monitoring the scenario, 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 objectives and two assists in 14 Premier League outings up to now.
Throughout a current 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time on his stick with Espanyol and are available to Leicester, the place he can be taught from Vardy who, at 37 years outdated, has six Premier League objectives to his identify this season.
“I might inform Tanque Veliz to come back right here to be taught from Jamie Vardy,” mentioned Buonanotte (by way of ).
“He’s on mortgage, however now he’s at Tottenham, so I feel he is aware of about this. Throughout the time we had been at Central, we made a pleasant duo.”
Elsewhere, Spurs are with Ajax’s midfield teenage prodigy Rayane Bounida, who has scored two objectives 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.
