Maybe Arkadiusz Milik moving to Tottenham Hotspur shouldn’t be completely ruled out.
There was no way Spurs were ever going to pay the €40m Napoli have been requesting, at least partly because the player has less than a year left on his contract.
As we’ve stated repeatedly, that €40m was looking increasingly realistic, as Juventus moved away from the chase. Sunday’s edition of Gazzetta dello Sport says AS Roma’s latest offer is €15m plus a couple of youth players.
In turn, Napoli have reduced their demands to €25m, plus some kind of bonus.
Clearly, €25m would sound a lot better for Tottenham, but perhaps they want it even lower than that.
Given Milik would quite fancy a move to the Premier League, and that his relationship has completely broken down with Napoli, there’s a chance Daniel Levy is piling the pressure on to reduce the price for a move this summer.
For all the Napoli threats of Milik getting no football if he remains with them, that makes no sense for the Serie A club.
They have a player they don’t want, who doesn’t want to be there, being paid big wages, and all the time running his contract down to free agent status.
Such a plan to put pressure not only seems plausible, but also very Spurs.
Let battle commence.