Tottenham have £15m transfer no-brainer for Daniel Levy as Postecoglou eyes first summer deal

Timo Werner has now played enough minutes to be compared to other wingers in the Premier League and drilling into his numbers make a permanent move to Tottenham Hotspur look all the more sensible.

The German arrived on loan from RB Leipzig in January with an option to make his move permanent worth around £15million. Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou has so far remained non-committal about whether the club will make the 28-year-old's switch to north London a more permanent arrangement and has said that will be decided after the end of the season.

So is it worth Tottenham's time to make a move permanent for a player who struggled at Chelsea during his last two-year spell in the Premier League?

The answer when it comes to the data — something Spurs are heavily into — would appear to suggest yes, especially when you go beyond the five direct goal involvements Werner has had in his 12 Premier League games so far under Postecoglou, not including passes that led to own goals.

Data provided by the Data MB website shows that now the German has played enough minutes — 784 in the Premier League — to be compared to other wingers in the English top flight, he emerges on top or at least highly in many metrics against his counterparts across the division.

Werner is top among Premier League wingers for putting in crosses as well as putting crosses into the six-yard box and he also tops the charts in the division for his dribble success rate and winning offensive duels. Bearing in mind Postecoglou's wingers are expected to race down the flank and fire low crosses into the six-yard box over and over again then the Leipzig man appears to be doing exactly what is expected.

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