Why Fernando Llorente swapped Swansea, where he was starting regularly and scoring, for Tottenham, surely knowing he would play second fiddle to Harry Kane, remains a mystery.
Sure, it’s a bigger club and they play the Champions League, but surely there were other options available that would have given him the time on the pitch he wanted without having to play in the bottom half of a league.
Either way, the veteran striker is now stuck at Spurs, where he’s gently running down his contract, and where, for the third time in his career, he’s expected to leave on a free.
One of the clubs he was reportedly offered to over the summer was Marseille in France, with the information coming from France Football in mid-August.
All we knew at the time was that the answer was ‘no’, and the reasons behind that decision weren’t given.
Fast forward to the end of October, and everything has been clarified, as football agent Yvan Le Mée revealed to Le Phocéen he was the one who presented the Tottenham striker’s profile to the Ligue 1 side.
Furthermore, he explains the reason why they didn’t want him was his age, but he remains adamant the 33-year-old could do a job for the French club, especially when you consider he’s only got six months left on his deal and would be relatively cheap.
This came during a wider discussion of who Marseille could go for in January, with neither Valère Germain nor Kostas Mitroglou finding the back of the net regularly enough.
