LittleCruyff: "Is Bastoni reluctant to leave Inter and join us?"
Alasdair says: "There's two sides to this one in that Alessandro Bastoni is understood to be keen to play under Antonio Conte again at some point, but he is happy at the moment at Inter Milan and it's worth remembering that he only just turned 23 last month so he's young in terms of his career and uprooting from Italy. For someone like Romero, he had already uprooted from his homeland.
"Spurs' hope is that Bastoni can bring added quality to the left side of Tottenham's back three to complement Romero's strength and quality on the other side. They see him as a potential heir to Jan Vertonghen with a similar skilful style to the Belgian in being a ball-playing defender rather than an aggressive one like Romero. That could potentially make his adaptation to the physical nature of the Premier League slightly more gradual than the Argentine's and perhaps that is a concern the player also holds.
