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The desire for Traore, Sarr and those Cristiano Ronaldo links
Adama Traore is a player who gets the fans excited. The 25-year-old Spaniard comes with great pace and ridiculous strength and he can beat an opponent with ease.
The problem often comes what happens after he does that. For someone with those physical attributes and a fair bit of skill on the ball, he should be tearing teams apart.
Instead his end product is relatively poor. Last season he played 41 times for Wolves and managed just three assists, scoring three times.
Tottenham's own wingers struggled at times last season but Steven Bergwijn had seven assists in just 35 matches, with more Premier League assists (four) in almost half the games Traore played in.
Lucas Moura registered eight assists - plus nine goals - in his 50 games, while even Dele Alli, despite his reduced game time had five assists and three goals across all competitions from 29 appearances.
Traore's abilities should be bringing far more of an end product.
In his Premier League years so far, he provided two assists in his first season with Aston Villa, one in his second campaign with Middlesbrough, 10 in the Championship with Wolves, one in his return to the Premier League with Espirito Santo's side, while the following season brought a career best nine before those three in the last campaign.
He is yet to provide an assist in the 180 minutes he has played this season against Leicester and Tottenham despite all of the excitement he brings when he's on the ball.
However, sometimes it's not about the stats or the end product, it's simply about the feeling a manager or head coach has for a player.
Tottenham are expected to try to bring Traore to the club in the final eight days of the transfer window because, without putting too fine a point on it, Espirito Santo loves him.
"I think Wolves have a very good team and created us enormous problems, big big problems. One of those was Adama. Everyone knows Adama is unique and he's very hard to stop," admitted the Portuguese on Sunday afternoon.
The other key element in the interest is that Paratici is also a big fan of the player and is understood to have offered more than £50m to Wolves to try to sign him when he was at Juventus.
There has been talk of a loan to buy move and the belief among Espirito Santo and Paratici is that within a team that can boast, on paper, more attacking talent around Traore, his ability to draw two to three players to him because of the fear and the need to doubling up he creates, will create space galore for his team-mates to profit in.
While his arrival would seem to block the path of at least one or two of the other wingers that include Bergwijn, who pulled off a sublime bit of skill before setting up Kane for a big chance in a good performance, Lucas Moura or new signing Bryan Gil, there is also the option mooted within the club that he instead replaces Son's position as a winger in order to push the latter further up the pitch.
That would mean changing the system to a two up front with the South Korean up alongside Kane, in a partnership that brought plenty of success for both last season. Traore is also able to play as a support striker if required through the middle.
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The desire for Traore, Sarr and those Cristiano Ronaldo links
Adama Traore is a player who gets the fans excited. The 25-year-old Spaniard comes with great pace and ridiculous strength and he can beat an opponent with ease.
The problem often comes what happens after he does that. For someone with those physical attributes and a fair bit of skill on the ball, he should be tearing teams apart.
Instead his end product is relatively poor. Last season he played 41 times for Wolves and managed just three assists, scoring three times.
Tottenham's own wingers struggled at times last season but Steven Bergwijn had seven assists in just 35 matches, with more Premier League assists (four) in almost half the games Traore played in.
Lucas Moura registered eight assists - plus nine goals - in his 50 games, while even Dele Alli, despite his reduced game time had five assists and three goals across all competitions from 29 appearances.
Traore's abilities should be bringing far more of an end product.
In his Premier League years so far, he provided two assists in his first season with Aston Villa, one in his second campaign with Middlesbrough, 10 in the Championship with Wolves, one in his return to the Premier League with Espirito Santo's side, while the following season brought a career best nine before those three in the last campaign.
He is yet to provide an assist in the 180 minutes he has played this season against Leicester and Tottenham despite all of the excitement he brings when he's on the ball.
However, sometimes it's not about the stats or the end product, it's simply about the feeling a manager or head coach has for a player.
Tottenham are expected to try to bring Traore to the club in the final eight days of the transfer window because, without putting too fine a point on it, Espirito Santo loves him.
"I think Wolves have a very good team and created us enormous problems, big big problems. One of those was Adama. Everyone knows Adama is unique and he's very hard to stop," admitted the Portuguese on Sunday afternoon.
The other key element in the interest is that Paratici is also a big fan of the player and is understood to have offered more than £50m to Wolves to try to sign him when he was at Juventus.
There has been talk of a loan to buy move and the belief among Espirito Santo and Paratici is that within a team that can boast, on paper, more attacking talent around Traore, his ability to draw two to three players to him because of the fear and the need to doubling up he creates, will create space galore for his team-mates to profit in.
While his arrival would seem to block the path of at least one or two of the other wingers that include Bergwijn, who pulled off a sublime bit of skill before setting up Kane for a big chance in a good performance, Lucas Moura or new signing Bryan Gil, there is also the option mooted within the club that he instead replaces Son's position as a winger in order to push the latter further up the pitch.
That would mean changing the system to a two up front with the South Korean up alongside Kane, in a partnership that brought plenty of success for both last season. Traore is also able to play as a support striker if required through the middle.
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