Tottenham Transfer News: Gylfi Sigurdsson Sale Discussed, Moussa Sissoko Rumours

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has lamented the club’s decision to sell Gylfi Sigurdsson to Swansea City ahead of the meeting between the two teams on Saturday.

The 27-year-old spent two seasons at White Hart Lane after impressing on loan with the Welsh outfit in 2012. However, he struggled to get games regularly with Spurs and made his switch to the Liberty Stadium permanent in 2014.

Pochettino, appointed Tottenham manager in the same summer, has admitted that he would have loved to have worked with Sigurdsson, per Jake Polden of the Daily Mirror:

I think he is a perfect player for us. But, in that moment, it was the club’s decision, his decision to move to Swansea and find another way.

Every time we’ve met him, he’s shown his qualities, not just as a player, but as a man. All the people here talk about him very highly. It’s a shame, but that’s football. Sometimes you spread your weight. But you never know in football.

It’s easy to see how Sigurdsson would have fitted into this version of Tottenham. Pochettino loves technically gifted, versatile and hardworking footballers; the Swans man ticks all of those boxes.

Since rejoining the Welsh side he’s added more consistency in the final third to his game, too. These numbers from Squawka Football show just how important the Iceland international has become for Swansea …

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