Tottenham Hotspur enjoyed a splendid summer transfer window as they adhered to their blueprint to influx Ange Postecoglou‘s squad with abundant talent, and as the off-season concluded, the officials at Hotspur Way have already started laying blueprints for upcoming windows, with Sporting Lisbon forward Geovany Quenda piquing interest among the chiefs at White Hart Lane. 

The Lilywhites have tweaked their transfer strategy off late as they prefer to sign highly regarded young players who can contribute at N17 in the long term as Ange Postecoglou shapes them as per his liking. And a move for the 17-year-old forward ticks about all boxes on Daniel Levy’s checklist.

Spurs linked to Sporting Lisbon starlet Quenda

Spurs have been named as one of the interested parties for the Portuguese talent who is also linked with the North Londoners’ Premier League rivals Manchester City, Manchester United, and Chelsea. However, his current employers have already handed the player a £84 million release clause to protect European elites to ward off the talent off their hands, per Graeme Bailey.

Let’s put the numbers into prospective. 

Sporting Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim said last week that any club interested in acquiring in-form forward Viktor Gyokeres would have to put their money where their mouth is with the Portuguese giants expecting to land a £80 million-plus price tag for the former Coventry City striker. And if the Swede is worth such an amount, Sporting Lisbon is asking interest parties to put a similar fee on the table for Geovany Quenda.

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The club believes that they have a special talent in Quenda, and hence they have gone on to bundle his release clause to a staggering 100 million euros. 

Tottenham unlikely to pursue 17-year-old

For Tottenham, it is tough to see Daniel Levy doing such transfers despite aggressive links. To put it into perspective, Spurs paid £65 million for Dominic Solanke, and they expect the ex-Liverpool striker to replace Harry Kane’s void upfront. Paying a hefty price tag of over eighty million for a seventeen-year-old is not something you expect Daniel Levy to do.

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There is a lot for Quenda to prove his worth, and any move for him looks highly unlikely now.