Werner near Tottenham mortgage

Former Chelsea ahead Timo Werner is poised to affix Tottenham on mortgage from RB Leipzig.

The golf equipment are finalising the small print of a mortgage deal that will see Werner transfer to north London till the tip of the 2023-24 season.

Manchester United have additionally monitored Werner, however the 27-year-old is about to hyperlink up with Ange Postecoglou’s aspect.

Whereas the proposed transfer is a mortgage, the expectation is that it may very well be made everlasting if it fits all events.

RB Leipzig later confirmed that Werner wouldn’t be concerned of their pleasant towards St Gallen on Saturday because of switch talks.

Werner swapped RB Leipzig for Chelsea in for £47.5million in 2020 however was unable to copy his Bundesliga goalscoring kind and struggled to carry down an everyday beginning spot in west London.

He scored 23 objectives in 89 appearances for the Stamford Bridge aspect, however returned to RB Leipzig in the summertime of 2022 after making solely 15 Premier League begins the earlier season.

Werner has featured 14 occasions for RB Leipzig up to now this time period, scoring two objectives and recording one help.

Time for Tottenham followers to embrace extra chaos?

Evaluation from The Athletic’s Duncan Alexander

Few modern footballers divide opinion like Timo Werner, typically inside the identical recreation, generally inside the identical part of play.

Werner’s inventory was excessive when he signed for Chelsea in 2020, having scored 28 objectives and assisted eight extra for RB Leipzig within the Bundesliga — figures that put him in the identical numerical bracket as Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski that season.

His tempo and motion regarded like an ideal match for the Premier League. However whereas these attributes had been definitely demonstrated in his two years at Stamford Bridge, what Werner turned recognized for was an unbelievable sequence of missed possibilities, maybe illustrated finest with an open objective double goalline miss towards Leeds in December of his first season.

It comes as little shock, then, that in his two years in England, Werner underperformed his anticipated objectives by extra (-8.26) than every other Premier League participant in that interval.

However the philosophical level stays: is it higher to have a participant incessantly stepping into these positions and (generally) not scoring than it’s having a extra dependable however much less chaotic power within the group?

Werner’s motion does create acres house for others, and you need to suppose that in an Ange Postecoglou aspect he may turn into unplayable in methods soccer philosophers are but to totally envisage.

And let’s not neglect that Chelsea had been fairly good when he performed for them. They received the Champions League with Timo Werner within the group, they’re unlikely to win it with out him within the aspect for a while but.

2023-24 is a season during which Tottenham followers have embraced chaos. Why not add Werner to the combo?

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