There have been plenty of problems at Tottenham Hotspur this season, but scoring goals hasn’t really been one of them.
Ange Postecoglou’s side have found the back of the net on 53 occasions in the Premier League, joint with Manchester City and second only to runaway leaders Liverpool.
However, while that sounds brilliant, and to some extent it is, the North Londoners have had a habit of scoring a lot in some games and then, as many of their fans will attest, losing others by a single goal.
Liverpool
66
1
Tottenham
53
13
Man City
53
4
Chelsea
52
5
Arsenal
51
2
So, even though it’s one of their strengths, Spurs would be further improved by more goalscorers, and it just so happens the club sold one in the summer for a pittance, who’s now worth significantly more.
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Before getting to the player in question, it’s worth first looking at Spurs’ top scorers across all competitions, starting with Brennan Johnson.
The Welsh international endured a rough start to the campaign and has only just returned from injury, yet he’s still the club’s top scorer this season, with an impressive 14 strikes to his name in 35 games, and he’s provided three assists for good measure.
Not far behind is summer and record signing Dominic Solanke, who’s certainly not buckled under his £65m price tag this year, as, following a middling start of his own, has raced to 11 goals in 29 appearances, and he’s even chipped in with six assists to boot.
There are three players hot on the coattails of the Englishman, as Dejan Kulusevski, Son Heung-min, and James Maddison have all found the back of the net ten times this season, doing so in 42, 36 and 34 games, respectively.
It’s quite a drop-down to Pape Matar Sarr after that, who has five goals to his name in 39 games, and then rounding out the list it’s Richarlison, who has racked up a tally of just three goals in 14 appearances this season.
Johnson
35
14
3
Solanke
29
11
6
Kulusevski
42
10
10
Son
36
10
10
Maddison
34
10
7
Sarr
39
5
2
Richarlison
14
3
1
In short, while Tottenham haven’t had a brilliant campaign by any stretch of the imagination, the fans have seen their side score plenty of goals. With that said, an academy player sold in the summer has outscored everyone on this list and has seen his valuation soar because of it.
The ex-Spurs ace worth millions more today
When it comes to goalscoring academy stars, Tottenham have quite a track record with Peter Crouch and Harry Kane, but in this case, the striker in question is plying his trade away from the Premier League.
After spending last season on loan in the Netherlands with Excelsior, where he racked up a reasonable enough tally of 17 goals and five assists in 32 games, Troy Parrott finally left the Lilywhites after joining the club as a 15-year-old back in the summer of 2017.
However, instead of moving to another club in England, the Irishman opted to remain in the Eredivisie and joined Dutch giants AZ Alkmaar for a fee of around €8m, which converts to about £7m.
While that might have seemed like a decent enough fee for an academy graduate at the time, we reckon Daniel Levy and Co will wish they had asked for more now.
For example, since moving to De Kaasboeren, the “phenomenal” marksman, as dubbed by former Preston North End boss Ryan Lowe, has racked up a sensational tally of 17 goals and three assists in 36 appearances, totalling 2642 minutes.
Appearances
36
Starts
32
Minutes
2642′
Goals
17
Assists
3
Goal Involvements per Match
0.55
Minutes per Goal Involvement
132.1′
That means the Dublin-born poacher is outscoring everyone in the Tottenham squad and averaging a goal involvement every 1.8 games, or every 132.1 minutes.
Unsurprisingly, this has seen the 23-year-old’s valuation soar, with the CIES Football Observatory now pricing him at around €31m, which converts to about £25.5m, or a staggering 193% increase on the fee AZ paid in the summer.
Ultimately, selling Parrott was probably the right thing to do for his own career, but with how well he’s played this season, we can’t help imagining he’d have been a brilliant bench option for Postecoglou this year.
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