Tottenham are in the market for some more attacking help in the January transfer window, and while the smart money is, unfortunately, on Spurs to make a grand total of zero moves, there has been a recent push to acquire PSG striker Randal Kolo Muani.
The talented Frenchman sits atop the list of Spurs transfer targets this winter, as the club would like to add some additional goal-scoring quality next to summer striker signing Dominic Solanke.
But in order to sign someone like Kolo Muani this January, there’s a belief that Tottenham will need to part ways with a forward they don’t need, and most of the speculation has rested on Timo Werner.
The German international signed with Tottenham again this summer for a full season on loan after a lukewarm initial six months in the 2023/24 season, and, so far, he has done nothing to prove that he has any future in North London beyond the 2024/25 season.
After links to Eintracht Frankfurt amounted to nothing, Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou admitted, via Football.London, that Werner is now expected to stay with Spurs for the remainder of the season, “Yeah [I expect him to still be here after the January window]. The last thing I want is to lose another player at the moment,”
Although it’s still possible for Tottenham to sign another attacker without Werner jumping on loan to Eintracht or any other club, Spurs are paying Werner’s wages and he is taking up a spot in their squad.
That makes it harder to free up room for a marquee addition like Kolo Muani. But if Tottenham are serious about an upgrade, they can find a way to fit one in and still keep Werner toiling away as a backup, just with even fewer minutes.
Werner is, again, on loan to Tottenham and still on the books at RB Leipzig, where his long-term future is also non-existent at this juncture. It’s been a steady decline in status for Werner since he was scoring nearly 30 goals in a season for Leipzig in 2019/20 and then winning the Champions League for Chelsea in 2020/21.
