Tottenham Hotspur isn’t budging. Despite interest from two of Italy’s biggest clubs, Juventus and Fiorentina, Spurs have firmly rejected any notion of parting ways with left-back Destiny Udogie this summer.
New head coach Roberto De Zerbi has made the 23-year-old Italian defender a cornerstone of his rebuilding project in north London. The message to suitors is clear: Udogie stays, and it would take somewhere around £50 million to even start a conversation.
De Zerbi draws a line in the sand
De Zerbi has personally blocked the sale. Tottenham recently agreed to a £52 million deal for defender Jan Paul van Hecke. So the club is both spending big on defensive talent and refusing to let its existing defensive talent walk out the door for anything less than a premium.
Why Juventus and Fiorentina came knocking
