Chelsea outcast could be perfect for Tottenham and Daniel Levy; If they can take advantage of Club World Cup squad omission

If we are talking about this from Tottenham’s point of view, the North Londoners need depth in the squad, especially considering the gruelling UEFA Champions League return in the upcoming campaign.

Why Renato Veiga is made for the system that Thomas Frank wants to implement at Tottenham

Now Veiga is a left-footed 21-year-old who can play as a defender as well as is capable of playing in the middle of the park and would be a kind of player that Thomas Frank has built systems around, given how he is disciplined with his zones and has those multi-faceted qualities while being a physical presence on the pitch. You can play Veiga in multiple roles without losing your tactical structure, given that he can play as a left centre-back in a back three or even as a ball-carrying #6 and even hybrid left-back inverting into the midfield.

If I am thinking about the tactical fit, then I will have to maybe start filtering that as per formations. Then if I am thinking a 3-4-2-1, then the Portuguese can be played in that left centre-back role in the back there where he can be given some licence to drop into the midfield in the build-up phase whilst freeing up space for Udogie to feature high and wide.

Then let’s come into a 4-3-3 where he can play in a more progressive defensive midfielder role (so this is someone that plays between the centre-backs and makes attacking passing combinations, so you are ideally using his ability with the ball as well as his defensive ability).

Moreover, if we see how he played at Juventus in the second half of the last season, his experience should come in handy for Tottenham if the North Londoners are to sign him.

Let’s talk about his World Cup omission

Chelsea at the moment have a midfield that runs really deep given how they have all of Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo, Romeo Lavia, and Lesley Ugochukwu back into contention to start at Stamford Bridge, which ends up making the possibilities of minutes for Veiga rather difficult, and this shows in the fact that he was not being included in the Club World Cup, and it’s not about his talent (let me get that straight); it’s about his place in Maresca’s pecking order right now.

Now Daniel Levy smells these opportunities, and he barely scrambles them up, so if Veiga’s representatives think that the Club World Cup snub means that the game time under his belt will be limited at Stamford Bridge next season, then Tottenham can propose either a season’s loan with an option to buy or even a straight sale if the Blues are forced into cutting their roster slimmer with PSR considerations.

Author Opinion

If Veiga were still on the market at Basel, Tottenham would already be making their intentions known given how he is an ideal positional player for how Frank plays, and then I would classify him as an under-the-radar gem on the fringes of an overloaded squad in West London. And if you think about it, this is exactly the type of signing Levy made with Bergvall (someone who is pre-peak and post-hype while having high possibilities of heavy reward).