Tottenham Hotspur are in pole place to convey Ruslan Malinovskyi to the Premier League within the January switch window.
What’s the discuss?
That’s in response to a report by Italian media outlet Sport Mediaset (through Sport Witness), who declare that Antonio Conte and Fabio Paratici are actually in ‘pole position’ to land the Atalanta BC attacking midfielder in an €18m (£15.5m) deal this winter.
An extra report by Calciomercato additionally declare that, after making exploratory contact for the 29-year-old in the summertime switch window, the Premier League facet have a ‘more concrete’ probability of touchdown the Ukraine worldwide in January.
Finally, Gazzetta dello Sport (through Sport Witness) reported on Monday that ‘talks are expected’ between Tottenham and Atalanta within the close to future, earlier than the Italian publication claimed that ‘more will be known in the coming weeks’.
Dream Conte signing
Considering simply how a lot Malinovskyi affords in an attacking capability from the center of the park, the argument that the 29-year-old would make a dream addition to Conte’s present midfield choices on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is an especially simple one to make.
Indeed, whereas it’s true that Rodrigo Bentancur has began chipping in with objectives in latest weeks, in whole, the Uruguayan, Pierre-Emile Höjbjerg, Yves Bissouma and Oliver Skipp have scored simply seven objectives and registered an additional 4 assists over their mixed 48 Premier League appearances thus far this season.
In comparability, over Malinovskyi’s 30 Serie A fixtures final trip, the £17.5m-rated expertise bagged six objectives, supplied 4 assists and created 13 large possibilities for his teammates on his personal, along with taking a median of 1.9 pictures, making 1.5 key passes and finishing 1.6 dribbles per sport.
These returns noticed the participant who Carlo Garganese dubbed “unreal” common a merely sensational SofaScore match ranking of 7.22, not solely rating him as Atalanta’s second-best performer within the league but additionally because the joint 18th-best participant within the high flight of Italian soccer as a complete.
Furthermore, with the £22k-per-week attacking midfielder additionally able to operate on the left wing and as a left or proper wing-back, Malinovskyi might simply match into both of Conte’s 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 tactical set-ups in north London.
As such, it’s clear to see that the Ukrainian sensation would make an unreal addition to the 53-year-old supervisor’s facet in January, main us to imagine the news that Paratici is in pole place to seal a transfer for the 29-year-old is undoubtedly implausible news for everybody concerned with the Premier League facet.