Guglielmo Vicario, Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s first choice keeper for the past three seasons, hasn\u2019t played a minute of preseason football for Spurs this summer, amidst links to clubs in Italy. His countryman and Spurs head coach Roberto De Zerbi has settled on Antonin Kinsky, who replaced Vicario in last season\u2019s stretch run when Vicario was injured, as Spurs\u2019 new #1 keeper, with Martin Dubravka and Brandon Austin backing him up.<\/p>\n
That said, it feels like we\u2019ve been waiting for Vicario to leave for home and Nona\u2019s cooking all summer. Thankfully, thanks to Fabrizio Romano (sigh), we now know that Juventus are now in active negotiations with Spurs to sign Googly Elmo\u2026 though they want a loan-to-buy rather than an outright sale.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear what Romano means by a \u201cbuy clause\u201d \u2014 whether that\u2019s a purchase OPTION or purchase OBLIGATION. I\u2019m sure Spurs will push for the obligation, but it\u2019s not clear whether that\u2019s what Juventus is going for. I\u2019d guess that\u2019s what the active negotiations are for. It\u2019ll never not be funny to me that Juventus are broke bois but a Vicario loan is more or less what I expected the longer this saga dragged on.<\/p>\n
Vic is a good keeper. He\u2019s proven that over the past few seasons at Spurs, but it\u2019s also clear that he has notable deficiencies in his game, and a return to Italy is best for all parties. I hope that this ends up being a quick negotiating process and we\u2019ll get a confirmation of his loan + purchase clause sooner rather than later, for everyone\u2019s sake, including Vicario\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guglielmo Vicario, Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s first choice keeper for the past three seasons, hasn\u2019t played a minute of preseason…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,52146,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-transfer-news-rumors","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}