Another Tottenham Hotspur player is out the door! According to Alasdair Gold, Tottenham has reached an agreement to sell Romanian central defender Radu Dragusin to Fiorentina this summer. The deal is reportedly a loan with a purchase obligation, with the loan fee plus obligation totaling £21.5m.
Ironically, £21.5m is exactly what Spurs paid to Genoa when they purchased Dragusin in January 2024, so that makes this transfer a pretty good deal for a player that never seemed to fit in with Tottenham or their tactics. Dragusin proved to be a little too slow, a little too poor in possession, a little too bad at playing out of the back to really establish himself at Spurs, then he went and did his knee and missed almost a year. Now it’s clear he’s surplus to requirements after Spurs went out and acquired two central defenders to play ahead of him.
I’m not wild about the “set number of games” clause to hit the full purchase price, because there’s always a chance that STUFF will happen and he might not hit those numbers. That said, this is definitely Fabio Paratici, once Spurs co-Sporting Director and now Director of Football at La Viola, doing us a solid. The 10% sell-on fee is pretty nice too. Thanks, buddy!
I don’t have anything against Radu. By all accounts he was an exemplary teammate and a good guy, and he did win the Europa League trophy with us. I’ll miss his Rubix Cube abilities and his wacky top knot hairstyle, but I won’t especially miss his football — he never did seem like he was good enough to really play at the top level (or even the bottom level) of the Premier League.
Italy seems like a good place for him to kick-start his career back in motion, and I wish him well. We’ll wait for the official announcement, but I expect it’ll come soon.
