Destiny Udogie’s agent, Stefano Antonelli, has revealed that while his client is excited to start his adventure at Tottenham, his first choice last summer while negotiating a move was to remain in the Serie A.
Spurs paid £20m to snap up Udogie from Udinese last summer on the back of his breakthrough season in Serie A and loaned the youngster back to the Italian club.
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The North London club’s decision has been vindicated as he enjoyed another astounding campaign for Andrea Sottil’s side, impressing defensively as well as going forward.
The 20-year-old, who has featured most often as a left wing-back, scored three goals and provided four assists in 33 league appearances this season (Transfermarkt).
Alasdair Gold said on his YouTube channel last month that although some at Tottenham feel that Udogie needs to improve the defensive side of his game, there is excitement around N17 regarding what he could do next season.
Udogie’s agent, Antonelli, has now revealed that it was not just Spurs who he held negotiations with last summer, and the left-back would have preferred to remain in Italy if such a move was possible.
Destiny Udogie is happy to get started at Spurs
He told Radio CRC (20/06/23 as relayed by Calcio Napoli 1926 and Sport Witness): “Before deciding to go and accept Tottenham’s offer in August last year, we visited the tables of Italian football teams many times because we wanted to stay here.
“Everyone liked him, but negotiating from an economic point of view has always been difficult.
“Going to Tottenham is something beautiful and he is happy to go there. Remaining in Italy, however, was the first goal.”
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