{"id":558498,"date":"2020-07-17T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=558498"},"modified":"2020-07-17T12:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:48:31","slug":"report-tottenham-hotspur-interested-in-leicester-city-winger-demarai-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/07\/17\/report-tottenham-hotspur-interested-in-leicester-city-winger-demarai-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Tottenham Hotspur Interested in Leicester City Winger Demarai Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> have registered an interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/leicester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leicester City<\/a> winger <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4468ec10\/Demarai-Gray?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Demarai Gray<\/a>, according to a report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/tottenham-hotspur-set-sights-on-leicester-citys-demarai-gray-gw7p7qmp5\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times<\/a> by Gary Jacob. The winger is entering into the final year of his contract and has been at Leicester since 2016. He has been a bit-part player this year for the Foxes and has only started three Premier League games.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tottenham Hotspur Interested in Leicester City Winger Demarai Gray<\/h2>\n<h3>Where Would Demarai Gray Play at Tottenham?<\/h3>\n<p>It is no surprise to see Tottenham Hotspur registering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/spurs-leicester-demarai-gray-pierre-emile-hojbjerg-arrival\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported interest<\/a> in Demarai Gray. The young winger is supremely talented and would improve every side in the Premier League to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tottenham already have many talented wingers in the shape of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/92e7e919\/Son-Heung-min?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Son Heung-min<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a29b1131\/Steven-Bergwijn?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Bergwijn<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/2b622f01\/Lucas-Moura?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Moura<\/a>, to name just some of their attacking options. Manager Jose Mourinho already has a hard time juggling all of these players&#8217; game time. It is hard to see him incorporate yet another wide player.<\/p>\n<p>All of these players can provide for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/21a66f6a\/Harry-Kane?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harry Kane<\/a> and the problem for Spurs is that the club relies too heavily on their talisman. Mourinho&#8217;s side do not have an adequate number nine to potentially replace their captain if he is injured or needs a rest.<\/p>\n<p>Gray is unlikely to take the goalscoring burden off of Kane. The young man only has two goals this season.<\/p>\n<p>This type of end product has led to manager Brendan Rodgers demanding more from Gray.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He\u2019s got wonderful talent. He can dribble, he can do everything. With Demarai, it\u2019s always been about that end product, creating goals and assisting goals on a regular basis, and then working with an intensity to fit in with the structure of the team,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/what-brendan-rodgers-said-demarai-4264808\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Rodgers.<\/p>\n<h3>Rodgers Wants the Winger to Stay<\/h3>\n<p>Despite calling Gray out in the media to improve his end product, Rodgers wants him to stay at the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s obviously a player we want to keep,\u201d Rodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leicestermercury.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/what-brendan-rodgers-said-demarai-4264808\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cWhen he\u2019s focused and concentrated, and then plays to that level (of his substitute performance against <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/watford\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watford<\/a>), you see the impact he has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoy working with him, he\u2019s a good guy, loves his football, and wants to improve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is hard, because everyone wants to play, especially when the team\u2019s been playing well and in form. He hasn\u2019t started as many games as he would want to but he&#8217;s always kept a great attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since the restart, the winger has been in splendid form. It seems that he has taken Rodgers&#8217;s advice on board and he has produced two assists in the last three games.<\/p>\n<p>If he continues this type of form, then the possibilities are endless for Demarai Gray.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"thB6jGLoRstWUMy8x3l1Mg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1222127921\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'thB6jGLoRstWUMy8x3l1Mg',sig:'WlIveEShBDIW8bGVGPezgAPDIm5PRRNCjGsmufyQDm4=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1222127921',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur have registered an interest in Leicester City winger Demarai Gray, according to a report in The Times by Gary Jacob. The winger is entering into the final year of his contract and has been at Leicester since 2016. He has been a bit-part player this year for the Foxes and has only started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":558510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2,15,3,28],"tags":[4063,1258,173,40,96,1179,37,136],"class_list":["post-558498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tottenham","category-featured","category-leicester-city","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-2019-20-premier-league","tag-demarai-gray","tag-leicester-city","tag-premier-league","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-transfer-news","tag-transfers","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}