Tottenham Hotspur legend Ledley King has revealed that it would be difficult for Antonio Conte to sign players in the January transfer window. Ledley King is a first team coach at Spurs under the Conte managerial era and he believes that it won’t be easy to sign quality players that would boost the first team squad at the club.
Spurs have already been linked with a lot of players especially from the Italian Serie A mainly due to the influence of sporting director Fabio Paratici and new manager Antonio Conte who was appointed as the Spurs manager at the start of last month and he’s unbeaten in his four Premier League games including three straight wins.
Some of the transfer targets linked with Spurs ahead of the January transfer window include highly rated Fiorentinaattacker DusanVlahovic, AC Milan midfielder Franck Kessie amongst the others.
Serbian senior national team star Vlahovicis attracting serious interest from a lot of the big clubs on the European football scene and Spurs are not left behind. Apart from North London club Tottenham Hotspur, other big European teamssuch as Premier League champions Manchester City, Italian side Juventus and North London side Arsenal are keen on signing Vlahovic who’s the leading goalscorer in the Italian top flight this season.
Vlahovic has 15 goals in the Italian Serie A this season thus making him the player with the most goals in the competition for this season. The next player with the most goals is Lazio hitman Ciro Immobile who has 13 goals.Vlahovic has 18 months left on his current Fiorentina contract.
On his part, Milan midfielder Kessie has six months left on his current deal at the San Siro and he has been linked with Premier League teams.