Tottenham's new Ange Soldado has been found to be a 'spectacular' transfer flop

There is no way to sugarcoat it. The last few weeks have been very bad Tottenham Hotspur.

Angie Postecoglou The team bounced back from their shock loss to Ipswich Town with a 4-0 thrashing of Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium, but instead of continuing on a run after that stunning result, the north London side appear to have fallen off a cliff.

They have drawn at home to Roma and Fulham, lost to Bournemouth and Chelsea, and then last night drew against Rangers in a game they really should have lost.

Bar Dejan Kulusevski and Fraser Forster, the whole squad has been in poor form, but one player in particular has stood out for all the wrong reasons and it could be Postecoglou's Roberto Soldado.

Soldado's career with Tottenham

When it comes to Tottenham's transfer failures over the last 20 years or so, the one name that will always come up, rightly or wrongly, is striker Roberto Soldado.

The Spaniard joined the north London side in the summer of 2013 to set a club record at the time £26 million feeAlthough it was a large sum of money, it seemed reasonable at the time because he had just signed up He scored 57 goals and provided 11 assists In 97 matches in the previous two seasons for Valencia.

However, while there were certainly glimpses of brilliance during his time at N17, such as a hat-trick, the Valencia-born striker could not cope with life in the Premier League and fell away as one of the most dangerous strikers. In Europe it is below average at best.

Moreover, due to the disconnect between expectations and reality, the Spaniard became a scapegoat for the team's troubles, with Journalist Sam Tighe He described it as a “failed season”.

This simply increased the pressure on him to perform better, and as each mistake was magnified it became a downward spiral until he lost his place in the team and was eventually sold to Villarreal after two years Join the club.

It would be difficult to describe his time at the club and the transfer window as anything other than a failure, and now it looks like Postecoglou could have his own Soldado in the current squad.

Private Postecoglou

So, to get straight to the point, the player in question is Timo Werner.

The first thing to say is that given he is on loan and not a club record signing, the pressure on the German to play for the Lilywhites is not quite the same as that on Sodaldo.

However, unlike the Spaniard, the winger has shown very little quality at all during his time at the club, which he is He earned £165,000 a weekso it received the same amount of criticism from fans and critics alike.

This criticism, based primarily on his poor finishing, is at the core of why he has become the club's new scapegoat and thus, arguably, Postecoglou's version of the former Valencia player.

However, the manager is the man who made or approved the “amazing” decision talkSPORT critic Andy Townsendto re-sign him in the summer, so the criticism directed at the 28-year-old is partly directed at him as well.

However, the former Chelsea star was so dismal against Rangers that even the Australian couldn't ignore it.

He mercilessly took it off at the end of the first half and doubled down on his efforts in his post-match press conference, saying Media that the German performance “It was not acceptable,” which may be the harshest thing towards a particular player since he took over last year.

In the end, although Werner does not have a huge price tag over his head, he is paid huge amounts of money and has been more miserable in front of goal, which has caused him to become the scapegoat of the current team, similar to what eventually happened to the team. The Spaniard at Tottenham.

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