Kakamega Homeboyz chairman Cleophas Shimanyula has urged Victor Wanyama to leave Tottenham following a season where the Kenyan midfielder has hardly featured for Spurs.
Speaking to Goal, Shimanyula voiced his concerns over Wanyama’s severe lack of playing time under Jose Mourinho this season, with stats from Transfermarkt showing that the former Southampton midfielder has only played 122 minutes of football this campaign in all competitions.
Wanyama has been linked with a move from Tottenham for the past two transfer windows, with the Kenya national team captain coming close last summer to a move to Club Brugge, but as reported by The Evening Standard, a deal to move to the Belgian side broke down in the final hours of the window, and Shimanyula believes that the 28-year-old must leave north London as soon as he can.
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The Kakamega Homeboyz chairman said about Wanyama: “He doesn’t deserve the treatment he is getting now at Spurs. Clearly, (Wanyama) has helped Spurs and was one of the key players when they reached the Champions League final last season and the kind of humiliation he is going through now is not acceptable. It is time for (Wanyama) to make a sober decision, but if you ask me, I will tell him to move to another club, the way (Mourinho) is talking means he doesn’t have a future at the club.”
With Wanyama unlikely to feature for Tottenham anytime this season barring a midfield injury crisis, Mourinho and the club transfer committee have seemingly made a mistake in not offloading the former Celtic star in the January window, and in the summer, Spurs need to ensure the Kenyan midfielder leaves the club for good.
The 28-year-old is not in Mourinho’s plans in any capacity, and Tottenham would be a lot better off moving on Wanyama whilst they still can with interest likely to be high in the former Southampton man, and Spurs will be giving the midfielder the chance to play first-team football again if they allow him to leave.