Tottenham have presented James Maddison as their new signing. The 26-year-old Englishman comes over from the relegated Leicester City, for a transfer fee of reportedly 46 million euros.
Tottenham finally has a new playmaker in Maddison
When Leicester were relegated, it was soon clear that Maddison would be bought out. The attacking midfielder was linked to major English clubs even before The Foxes were in sporting trouble. He was taken over from Norwich City in 2018 and became an England international a year later. In the shirt of Tottenham, Maddison hopes to enforce a place in the English selection again.
There was a great need for creativity at Tottenham. The top club finished disappointingly eighth in the Premier League last season and thus missed out on qualifying for European football. The new manager Ange Postecoglou, who has come over from Celtic, must also provide more attractiveness in addition to better performances. Maddison’s arrival is in line with that.
In fact, Spurs haven’t had a real playmaker since the departure of Christian Eriksen in early 2020. Maddison also played a creditable role in that role at Leicester during the relegation season. With his kicking technique, the Englishman is threatening in standard situations and last season he was one of the twenty players in the Premier League who created the most chances from open play. Maddison had nine assists in his last season with Leicester in the league.
Chelsea let Loftus-Cheek go to AC Milan in a big clearance
In other transfer news from London, Ruben Loftus-Cheek is the next player to leave Chelsea. The midfielder started his medical examination at AC Milan on Thursday morning.
Milan reportedly pays more than twenty million euros for Loftus-Cheek, who played in 25 Chelsea league games last season. However, the ten-time international was not in the plans of the new head coach Mauricio Pochettino. At Milan, Loftus-Cheek is reunited with Fikayo Tomori and Olivier Giroud, who previously came over from Chelsea.
At Chelsea they are busy with a big cleanup. Kai Havertz was sold to Arsenal on Wednesday evening and Mateo Kovacic already went to Manchester City before that . Kalidou Koulibaly, Edouard Mendy and N’Golo Kanté left for Saudi Arabia and it is expected that Hakim Ziyech will also go there.
The 27-year-old Loftus-Cheek comes from the youth academy of Chelsea and played a total of 155 games in the first team. He was previously loaned out to Crystal Palace and Fulham; now he is leaving the city of London behind.
