Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz. (Photo by Florence Tan Jun/Getty Images)
Tottenham striker Alejo Veliz has been urged to make a January move to Leicester City to learn from veteran star Jamie Vardy.
Veliz joined Spurs from Rosario Central for £13m (per BBC Sports) in the summer of 2023.
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But since then, he has scored just one goal in eight senior games and is currently on loan at Espanyol, with just four goals in 15 games in all competitions so far.
Veliz has been struggling for playing time in recent weeks and Spurs may be monitoring the situation, considering bringing him back in January and finding him a more fruitful opportunity.
I move Veliz to Leicester?
Veliz’s former Rosario Central team-mate and Argentina youth counterpart Facundo Buonanotte is enjoying a fruitful season on loan at Leicester from Brighton, registering four goals and two assists in 14 Premier League games so far.
During a recent interview with Argentinian newspaper Ole, Buonanotte urged Veliz to call time on his stay at Espanyol and come to Leicester, where he can learn from Vardy who, at 37, has six Premier League goals this season .
“I would tell Tanque Veliz to come here to learn from Jamie Vardy,” said Buonanotte (via TeamTalk).
“He’s on loan but he’s at Tottenham now so I think he knows that. During our time at Central we made a nice duo.”
Elsewhere, the Spurs currently linking with Ajax’s teenage midfield prodigy Rayane Bounida scoring twice in two games in the Dutch second division for the club’s second team.
After Sunday’s 6-3 defeat by Liverpool, the Lilywhites travel to Nottingham Forest on Christmas Day looking to close the seven-point gap between themselves and the top four.
