OPINION
Daniel Levy should open up his chequebook in the summer transfer window and give Tottenham the green light to sign Barcelona forward Malcom.
According to ESPN, the 22-year-old wants to quit the Nou Camp in the summer after a poor debut campaign with the La Liga giants.
Barcelona signed Malcom from Bordeaux for £34.6million last year but he has since made just three starts in the league and manager Ernesto Valverde has suggested that he wasn’t a player that he wanted to sign as he was “a signing made by the club.”
It now seems as though the Brazilian forward will try and leave Barca in the upcoming transfer window – and that should be music to the ears of Tottenham.
Before he signed for Barcelona, France Football reported that Spurs held face-to-face talks with Malcom while he was still at Bordeaux in a bid to get him to head to North London.
Tottenham then tried again to sign the 22-year-old in January when Sport claimed that talks were held over a potential loan-to-buy deal.
Malcom appears to be firmly on Spurs’ radar so why shouldn’t Levy push the boat out to sign the jet-heeled attacker in the summer?
He may have played a fringe role at Barcelona this season, but that does not mean that Malcom is not good enough to play for a top-six club in the Premier League.
The Brazilian has made 19 appearances in all competitions this term, scoring four goals in the process, with Real Madrid and Inter Milan being among the teams that he has netted against.
Malcom is fast, skilful, has an eye for goal and would be a major upgrade on someone like Erik Lamela at Tottenham with the Argentine failing to impress in most of his outings this term.
It would make a lot of sense for Spurs to sign Malcom up in the summer and ESPN’s latest report suggests that they stand a very good chance of doing so.
All that needs to happen is for Levy to free up some funds to sign the attacker, who would certainly shine in North London.