Opinion: Daniel Levy will fail Tottenham fans and Mauricio Pochettino by landing Eric Bailly

Tottenham Hotspur are a club in limbo as their move into the new stadium is ensuring that a cloud of uncertainty continues to loom over north London, but the promise of a state-of-the-art facility designed with strong acoustics in mind is providing sufficient to keep results ticking over. 

While there is no doubt that Spurs are in a predicament, results in the Premier League indicate that Mauricio Pochettino is doing a brilliant job in keeping his players focused on the more important matters taking place on the field of play.

Aside from the obvious stadium issue, Tottenham are facing an uncertain future in regard to a handful of first-team players, with the contracts of both Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld set to expire in June 2019.

With both players potentially in line to depart next summer, Daniel Levy will be scouting the market in the coming months to identify a handful of players who could potentially succeed the Belgian pairing.

And according to a recent report from the Daily Record, he is interested in signing Manchester United’s Eric Bailly, despite the fact he has struggled for form during his time at Old Trafford.

Bailly’s failure to establish himself as a first-team regular at United will undoubtedly be enhancing Levy’s interest in the Ivory Coast international due to his increased power on the negotiating table, but his inability to prove that he is worthy of a starting berth over the likes of Chris Smalling and Victor Lindelof is exactly why Spurs must abandon their pursuit.

If Levy is serious about taking Spurs to the next level, he simply cannot follow up a game-changing stadium move with a sideways transfer decision of this nature, especially considering the calibre of player he is likely to replace in Tottenham’s back-four.

After watching the partnership of Alderweireld and Vertonghen blossom into one of the best in world football, Mauricio Pochettino will be acutely aware of the need to sign players of immense talent to step into their shoes, and Bailly does not fit that description.

Both Pochettino and the Spurs supporters deserve better from their owner after the farce which has unfolded in 2018, and he will fail the most important people at the club if he decides to sign the unconvincing outcast.

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