According to Inter Live, Tottenham are considering a move for Sami Khedira as a replacement for Mousa Dembele who is set to sign for Beijing Guoan. Khedira is a highly-experienced and talented central midfielder who would be a considerable improvement on Spurs’ current options, but the Londoners would do well to avoid signing him given his injury woes of the past and present.
Khedira has only made six Serie A appearances for Juventus this season, having spent the majority of the campaign sidelined with a muscle injury, a torn muscle and an ankle injury. He featured in all four of Juve’s league games until mid-September and has managed only two appearances in the four months that followed.
Since joining Juventus from Real Madrid in 2015, Khedira has missed 50 Serie A games. Tottenham can’t afford to sign somebody so unreliable, so it’s hard to see them setting their stall out for the midfielder. Mauricio Pochettino should be identifying transfer targets, but Khedira would be bad business.
He’s long had a history of injuries at Real Madrid and Juventus and would surely suffer the same problems for Tottenham too.
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