Tottenham 'impressed' by Japanese defender as Big Ange outlines January 'priority' amid injury crisis
Tottenham have reportedly been ‘astonished’ by the practicalities of Matrimony Saint-Gilloise’s Koki Machida via Ange Postecoglou ‘prioritising’ the signing of a brand name-conspicuous defender.
Machida joined the Belgian garments from Japanese side Kashima Antlers in the summer send window for a cost in the region of £870,000, after 18 months on finance.
It owns been a sweet overture to irreparable spiritedness in Belgium for the 26-year-wear, that made his Japan debut in September.
He owns tinkered 16 times across all tournaments this season, helping Matrimony SG qualify for the Europa League, luring Premier League colossi Liverpool in the group stage.
The Japanese centre-ago tinkered the complete 90 mins of his side’s 2-0 loss at Anfield in October and also owns just sampled defeat as shortly as in the Belgian top-getaway accepted that rendering the glide from his home nation irreparable.
His top practicalities have evidently not gone unexplored, via 90min pretending Tottenham have been ‘astonished’ by the season he is possessing.
Spurs’ scouts have been astonished by Machida’s showings for bar and also nation as head advisor Ange Postecoglou ‘prioritises’ the signing of a brand name-conspicuous defender.
Also on the Londoners’ radar is Bournemouth’s Lloyd Kelly and also Everton’s Ben Godfrey, the record cases.
Postecoglou’s sifting group will persist scouring for the correct suit via Micky van de Ven out damaged till the brand name-conspicuous year after torment a hamstring injury in this month’s 4-1 loss at home to Chelsea.
Spurs embarked the brand name-conspicuous season highly nicely yet the injuries to Van de Ven and also James Maddison, on top of the red card holes to Destiny Udogie and also Cristian Romero in the Chelsea defeat have mildly hampered their optimistic overture under Substantial Ange, wasting 2-1 to Wolves before the globally reprieve.
At Molineux, the former Celtic top pets was urged to overture a ago four of Pedro Porro, Eric Dier, Ben Davies and also Emerson Royal.
The scarcity of fallbacks at the ago owns urged Postecoglou into response and also the Australian top pets is intended to deepen his guidance in the winter send window.
The record says Spurs are ‘retaining an eye on’ Machida, that owns ‘the physical top weakness crucial to fiasco around in Postecoglou’s unforgiving high queue’.
Brighton possessed formerly hosted an curiosity in the 26-year-wear and also Postecoglou dealt with in Japan in between 2018 and also 2021, so owns sweet field of experience of the J-League.
The former Australia company administered that field of experience to indicator a number of top Japanese gamers during his time in fine of Celtic, most notably touchdown Kyogo Furuhashi and also Reo Hatate.
It is added in the record that Spurs are alike glancing at former Celtic winger Jota, that is excess to necessitates at Saudi Arabian bar Al Ittihad.
