Luka Vuskovic and Lucas Bergvall may not be the only two young Tottenham starlets to leave the club this summer, as Will Lankshear receives growing interest.
Vuskovic completed a £50m move to Brighton earlier this week, with the Croat leaving without making a single competitive appearance for the Lilywhites.
Many Spurs fans are not happy with the club’s decision to sell the Croat, and they may soon receive yet more bad news regarding a highly-rated midfielder.
Lucas Bergvall reportedly wants to complete a move to Nottingham Forest, who are soon expected to submit a £45m offer to Tottenham after seeing their opening bid being turned down.
Tottenham could also sell Will Lankshear under one condition
Alasdair Gold has now claimed that Spurs may also be open to cashing in on Will Lankshear if they receive a suitable offer for the striker.
Tottenham rejected three approaches for Lankshear just last week from Southampton, Sporting Lisbon and Wolverhampton. The approaches apparently involved potential offers in the eight‑figure range with either a straight permanent transfer or a loan move with an obligation to buy.
The 21-year-old is riding high on confidence after excelling on loan at Oxford United last term, scoring 14 goals and registering four assists across all competitions.
The centre-forward is now attracting plenty of interest, and a permanent exit is on the cards for the Spurs academy graduate ahead of the new season.
Gold said on his YouTube channel about the striker: “Everyone’s still trying to sign him in the Championship and at Sporting Lisbon. He’s developed so much. Have you seen him in the videos and the photos? I saw it as he was kind of going through the season at Oxford.
“He has bulked up properly with the physicality of that league, and there are a lot of clubs really seriously looking at him, and I kind of feel that there’s a very real possibility, as I was saying about Luka Vuskovic, that if someone comes in with the kind of price that Spurs would take for Lankshear, he’ll go.”
Why Spurs are selling players more liberally this summer
At the end of last season, Tottenham CEO Vinai Venkatesham admitted that the club have to become better at selling players.
That was arguably one of the club’s biggest weaknesses in the Daniel Levy era, when the Lilywhites struggled to shift the right players and often let them go after their values had tanked.
If De Zerbi feels that the likes of Bergvall are not going to start for him, it would make more sense to sell now when his value is high rather than waiting for six or 12 more months and allowing his value to drop.
However, with Lankshear, one would have thought that Spurs would be tempted to persevere with him, given the promise he showed at Oxford last season.
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