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This article is part of Football FanCast’s Transfer Focus series, which provides opinion and analysis on recent transfer news…
Real Madrid have placed a €50m (£44.6m) asking price on midfielder Dani Ceballos amid interest from Tottenham Hotspur, per AS.
What’s the word?
Ceballos is currently playing for Spain at the Under-21 European Championships in Italy and AS report that his situation at Real is “complex”.
Indeed, they claim that boss Zinedine Zidane would be open to selling the midfielder this summer, though Florentino Perez, the president, rates him highly.
As such, a €50m (£44.6m) asking price has been placed on the 22-year-old, with negotiations not set to start until such a bid is made.
Spurs are touted as the “best placed club” to sign him, with manager Mauricio Pochettino making him a priority addition this summer.
AS even report that they have already discussed a move with the player.
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Who does Pochettino prioritise?
This one feels a little bit bizarre.
Ceballos is hardly a heavyweight midfield star with European pedigree, despite the club he plays for.
He was included in the starting XI in La Liga just 13 times in 2018/19 and is deemed as expendable by his manager.
That Spurs would potentially make him one of their top targets makes little sense when one considers the fact that they have also been heavily linked with Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele.
Ndombele is a full France international and has made 96 appearances for the Ligue 1 club; it makes more sense for the Argentine to prioritise a move for him instead of Ceballos.
At €50m, too, the price seems just a bit too rich for Spurs as they look to reinforce their squad for the first time since January 2018.
They would be better off making Ndombele their “priority”.
