Sky Sport Italia are confident Antonio Conte’s Tottenham Hotspur will strike a deal with Udinese for Destiny Udogie worth €26m, leaving the Italy Under-21 international on loan in Serie A.
According to Gianluca Di Marzio, negotiations are progressing rapidly and should reach a conclusion early next week.
As a sign that perhaps something was moving, Udogie was not even on the bench for the first official Udinese match of the season, today’s 2-1 Coppa Italia victory over Feralpisalò.
The details of the transfer are reportedly a €20m fee, plus €6m in various add-ons.
Udogie will remain at Udinese on loan for the 2022-23 campaign, meaning he can play the opening Serie A match against Milan next weekend.
Still only 19 years of age, the left-back and left-sided wing-back was also linked with Lazio, Inter and Juventus, but none of them could compete with Tottenham when the asking price was €25m.
Last season he scored five goals and provided three assists in 35 Serie A games for Udinese, turning the loan move from Hellas Verona to a permanent one at a cost of €4m.
I’ve seen Juve fans wanting to sign him. I honestly don’t know how good he is. I watched maybe 3 Udinese matches last season.
Is he worth the 25 mil?
I’d have loved to see this lad in serie A some more
Yes really sad that serie a has becomed PLs supermarket
He was never going to go to Juventus. He is 20 years too young for Allegri.
I hope the deal don’t go through
Kills me to see alot of young talent going to play abroad but at the same time it could be a good thing as our clubs are such a joke, could easily see Udogie play for some of the big teams in Serie A, Casadei also, but what do inter do? Have a gem In Casadei and never play him and instead sign a washed up player from roma for free, maybe if our young players move abroad we may actually qualify for the world cup again as Serie A will just never ever ever learn, I hope one day it will but this merry-go-round of mediocrity in serie A has to stop, its all about getting players on the cheap, doesn’t even matter if they are good, this drops the quality of serie A to such a low level. Madness
@Dennis…
Absolutely correct!
Udinese – dont sell yet – play him this season and you could then sell for 35m euros with add ons – that extra 10m euros is very vital for udinese.