Ben Foster is scratching his head as to why another Premier League club has not picked up a player whom Tottenham Hotspur let go earlier this summer.
Spurs strengthened their squad with seven new signings in the summer, but the club had mixed success in terms of getting players out of the door.
Tottenham waited until the last moment to find a buyer for Bryan Gil, while Spurs have been unsuccessful in their attempts to sell Yves Bissouma so far.
Gil and Heung-min Son were the only players the Lilywhites got a fee for this summer, with Manor Solomon joining Villarreal on loan in the final hours of the transfer window.
Ben Foster is surprised that a former Tottenham man has not found a new club
Tottenham also released three players at the start of the summer, one of whom was Fraser Forster, who left the North London club after three years when his contract ran out.
The England international served as Hugo Lloris’ understudy in his first season at Tottenham before deputising to Guglielmo Vicario in the next two seasons, but Ben Foster is surprised that no club has picked up the 37-year-old yet.
The former Watford man said on The Football Fill-In podcast: “I don’t understand why they don’t have a team already. Scott Carson and Fraser Forster, for me, seem like the easiest choices in the world.
“Because you’ve got to get that English core, that British homegrown talent, that’s your third-choice goalie straight away. They’re just absolute gimmes, [they] tick boxes.”
Is Fraser Forster past his sell-on by date?
Some will look at the unforced errors that Forster made last season and see it as evidence that he is past his sell-by date.
However, those errors were all down to the Englishman being asked to play out from the back, which has never been his forte. His shot-stopping was still more than serviceable.
Additionally, several Spurs players spoke about Forster’s importance for the dressing room morale, and it is surprising that no Premier League club has tried to get a player of his experience on a free transfer.
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