Tottenham are looking to sign a quality center forward this summer and West Brom’s Berahino has mainly been in the limelight.
Spurs have tried to sign the England international but their 18 million pounds offer was rejected and only a huge fee of 25 million pounds can bring the striker to White Hart Lane.
Nevertheless, Berahino is not the only striker on Tottenham’s radar. According to Russian source Tass, Spurs are closing in to sign Dynamo Moscow striker Aleksandr Kokorin.
As per the provided Tass link, Kokorin’s agent has confirmed that talks are on going with Tottenham and United and the player will end up signing for one of the mentioned clubs before the end of the summer transfer window.
The 24-year-old striker has scored 54 goals for Dynamo Moscow and Russia in over 200 senior appearances. Last season, Kokorin featured in 39 games for the club, scored 10 goals and provided 7 assists as well.
His price tag is not mentioned but the Russian will probably cost far less than Berahino. However, Saido is a PL proven player and netted 20 goals in all competitions last season.
In your opinion, should Spurs sign Kokorin or Berahino?
Spurs are Closing in to Sign 54 Goal Forward – Not Berahino
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Berahino would represent poor value at any price over £18m. I suspect Spurs will aim to pay about £22m with Levy including about £3-4m in add ons and bonuses. Or offset the fee with Fazio’s real transfer value more like £6-8m not the £5m WBA want to pay. If WBA insist on £25m, Spurs should buy Austin and another wide player with pace instead.
I just hope Levy does not leave it too late. I doubt a deal will be completed for another striker by Saturday. Also N’Jie may not be cleared to play leaving Spurs with just one striker again. Well done Levy, great support for the manager!!
Leicester are playing with great confidence. They break with great pace and fire lots of crosses into the box and will probably score at least 2 goals on Saturday unless Poch has finally sorted out the team’s defensive shape and cut down on the number of crosses going into our penalty box. Therefore, to get a result Spurs will need the attacking players to improve their finishing. Both Eriksen and Mason have failed to score from very good goal scoring positions.