What qualities are people seeing that make us think he’ll be the ideal wing back under Conte? I haven’t watched him a bunch but he doesn’t appear that technically gifted. He’s athletic but I’m not seeing supremely fast. He really looks a lot like Royal. So if we swap him for Royal I’m pretty sure we’ve atleast gotten worse in the short term. Royal has his limitations but he got better as the year progressed and showed he can play against the big boys while Spence was playing in the championship. In Conte and Paratici I trust but I hope this is more of one for the future. Or maybe this is all about the homegrown.
1 There really are not a lot of good RWB's available atm
2. Spurs are short of HG players (under UEFA definitions) - and there are not a lot of quality HG players available especially at a sensible price.
So solution is to find the best young HG player who we think can develop in a position we need to fill ..... hello Mr Spence