Tottenham urged to sign former Arsenal star in shock £10m transfer

Tony Cascarino has told Roberto De Zerbi that one Tottenham star is ‘not the answer’ and urged him to sign a former Arsenal player to replace him.

This comes after Tottenham kicked-off the new Premier League season in the worst possible way, with a 3-0 defeat at Brentford on Saturday.

Goals from Keane Lewis-Potter, Vitaly Janelt and Michael Kayode sealed a deserved win for the Bees against a Spurs side that have so far spent over £228million this summer.

Janelt’s goal came after Mathias Jensen’s shot from the edge of the box was parried straight to the feet of the German by goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky.

Kinsky, who was infamously subbed off after just 17 minutes of Spurs’ Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid last season, has been promoted to No.1 keeper, with Guglielmo Vicario loaned out to Juventus.

But following this latest blunder, the young Czech star has once again come under stern criticism, not least from former Chelsea striker Cascarino, who told talkSPORT:

‘Watching them yesterday was scary and the goalkeeper Kinsky for the second goal, you cannot… I’m watching goalkeepers who can’t catch the ball. Catching the ball!

‘He could palm it around the post or whatever but it’s, to me, an effort that goalkeepers used to catch.’

Asked if he thought it was the right decision for De Zerbi to stick with Kinsky as his No.1 goalkeeper, Cascarino replied: ‘No, I thought they needed a new goalkeeper.

‘They could have got Emiliano Martinez out of Aston Villa because he looks like he could go. I’d have taken him an experienced goalkeeper, a lot more solid.

‘I wasn’t a fan of Vicario. It’s been a tough period for Spurs, but Kinsky doesn’t look like the answer to me.

‘We’ve all had bad games. I’ve had plenty of them in my career, but when you do certain things, a simple catch that ends up making it 2-0 for Janelt, who was on the end of that effort that he just blocks basically.

‘He’s basically set up Janelt to just knock it in the back of the net.’

Martinez, who spent eight years at Tottenham’s arch-rivals Arsenal, is looking to leave Villa Park this summer and is almost certain to do so afterUnai Emery signed highly-rated Japan keeper Zion Suzuki.

The 33-year-old has played a key part in Villa’s success this decade, including last season’s Europa League triumph, and played a huge role in Argentina’s World Cup triumph four years ago.

A transfer to Juventus was on the cards but the Italian giants opted to sign Vicario on loan instead, with Villa holding out for £10m for the shot-stopper.

Tottenham have already signed one goalkeeper this summer, bring in veteran Martin Dubravka from Burnley to support Kinsky. He could well make his debut on Wednesday night, when Spurs host Charlton in the Carabao Cup.

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