{"id":632938,"date":"2023-12-20T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=632938"},"modified":"2023-12-20T09:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T14:09:46","slug":"tottenham-radu-dragusin-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/20\/tottenham-radu-dragusin-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Eye Possible Move For &#8216;Dominant&#8217; Star After Stepping Up Transfer Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur appear to be intent on improving the state of their defensive depth by signing a new centre-back in the upcoming January transfer window. Amid this, they have been linked to another possible option in the form of Genoa centre-back Radu Dragusin.<\/p>\n<h2>Tottenham Looking Into Possible Move For Radu Dragusin<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Watch:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Every Premier League Club\u2019s Biggest Problem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Biggest Problem with YOUR Premier League Club\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GNhwMen_Qo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Are Spurs Interested In Dragusin?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2023\/12\/19\/tottenham-transfer-news-defender-genoa-radu-dragusin\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph&#8217;s Matt Law<\/a> has claimed that the Lilywhites have looked at the 21-year-old centre-back as a possible option to improve their squad in the upcoming window. He also adds that the club&#8217;s scouts watched him in action during Genoa&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Serie A title contenders Juventus last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/07\/tottenham-hotspur-juventus-samuel-iling-junior-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">Journalist Reveals Tottenham Hotspur Are \u2018Leading the Race\u2019 to Sign Former Chelsea \u2018Assist Machine\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Micky van de Ven out of action with an injury problem, They are prioritizing the signing of a new centre-back to fix the lack of depth in their backline. Law reports that they have stepped up their pursuit of signing a defender as soon as possible in January. However, it is added that Genoa are confident of signing Dragusin to a new long-term contract that can have an effect on his price tag.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 21-year-old&#8217;s agent Florin Manea recently revealed in an interview that the Premier League heavyweights had held discussions over the possibility of signing him, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prosport.ro\/fotbal-extern\/stranieri\/radu-dragusin-a-fost-senzational-cu-juventus-i-a-dat-pe-spate-pe-toti-ultimele-detalii-despre-transferul-bomba-al-noului-star-din-serie-a-exista-un-interes-excl-19793641\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ProSport<\/a>: &#8220;With Tottenham there was only a discussion about Radu. There is interest from them, we will see what will happen in the next period.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Are Tottenham Looking Into Anyone Else?<\/h3>\n<p>Ange Postecoglou basically confirmed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11675\/13028846\/ange-postecoglou-exclusive-tottenham-boss-says-signing-centre-back-is-priority-in-january-transfer-window\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent interview<\/a> that the Lilywhites will be looking to sign a new centre-back after failing to sign a replacement for the departed Davinson Sanchez in the summer window. Interestingly, Spurs are also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/transfer-news\/tottenham-open-talks-over-jean-28312594\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> looking into other options having <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/19\/tottenham-hotspur-jean-clair-todibo-nice-transfer-talks\/\" target=\"_self\">been strongly linked<\/a> to OGC Nice defender Jean-Clair Todibo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/12\/11\/tottenham-hotspur-destiny-udogie-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Club Sources Confirm Tottenham Agree To New Long-Term Contract For \u2018Outstanding\u2019 Star<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that the manager is eager to add another young defender to lower the average age of his squad as well. Dragusin, who has been hailed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FTalentScout\/status\/1359211314472751107\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as &#8220;dominant&#8221;<\/a> for his defensive skills and is a graduate of Juventus&#8217; youth academy, helped Genoa get promoted to Serie A earlier this year and helped them keep three clean sheets this season. The 21-year-old is the hard-working, progressive centre-back who can be a nice fit for Tottenham, but it remains to be seen if they can get a deal done next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur appear to be intent on improving the state of their defensive depth by signing a new centre-back in the upcoming January transfer window. Amid this, they have been linked to another possible option in the form of Genoa centre-back Radu Dragusin. Tottenham Looking Into Possible Move For Radu Dragusin Watch:\u00a0Every Premier League Club\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":632946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[3,7188,24],"tags":[7466],"class_list":["post-632938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-tottenham","tag-tottenham-hotspur-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632938","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}