Southampton Tipped To Land Spurs Defender On Loan
The latest rumours from North West London suggest that Saints will be looking to a deal with Tottenham Hotspur for a defender whom we saw a lot of last season, but do we need him.
tottenhamhotspurnews.com are linking Southampton for a loan move for Spurs defender Archie Gray, a player whom will be very familiar to Saints fans, playing against us on 3 occasions last season, firstly at St Mary's as a 73rd minute sub in our 3-1 win, then he again came on as sub in our 2-1 win at Elland Road, this time in the 62nd minute before playing the full game in the play off final at Wembley.
Despite only turning 18 in March of this year, Gray has started 40 League games for Leeds, plus 4 off the bench, since his debut at the start of last season, bizarrely 2 of those sub appearances against us.
This led to Spurs signing him in the summer for £30 million, but he has found games in the Premier League hard to come by, making just 5 appearances all of them off the bench totalling just 42 minutes.
Although he has started in all of the Europa league & Carabao cup games, it is being rumoured that Ange Postecoglou might not feel he is ready to play at regularly at the highest level yet and wants him to get games under his belt out on loan.
This is where Saints come in and he is being linked with a move to the South Coast on a temporary basis.
However primarily a right back, Saints are well served in that area, with both Yuri Sugawara and Kyle Walker Peters specialists in that position.
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