Why did Tottenham sign Timo Werner? Chelsea record, transfer fee for RB Leipzig forward signed on loan
After the cycle of optimism, brief success, drudgery and misery prompted by appointing former Chelsea managers, Ange Postecoglou has brought good times back to Tottenham.
Playing fearless, uncompromising attacking football, Spurs are a point behind neighbours Arsenal and on the heels of the top four after 20 Premier League games this season.
An exciting 2024 lies in wait. Only, they've just signed for a former Chelsea forward.
"A lot of things attracted me here — first of all, the talk with the manager," Timo Werner said after joining Tottenham on loan for the rest of the season from RB Leipzig, with Spurs having the option to buy him outright.
"I thought it was a really good talk. He gave me straight away the feeling that I need to join a club, [which is] what I want to feel when you talk to a manager, and also the tactics and the style, how he wants to play, how he lets the team play."
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Werner is not the first person to be swept up by the Postecoglou positivity and, along with Son Heung-min, Richarlison, Dejan Kulusevski and Brennan Johnson, he will be part of what looks like a devastating array of skilful and pacy forward options on paper.
On the other hand, a 27-year-old who should be in the prime of his career comes back to the Premier League having lost his starting spot at Leipzig, dropped out of the Germany squad and with the biggest transfer of his career widely considered to be a failure.
It's going to be fascinating to see how this one plays out.
Postecoglou's excellent start at Spurs has come despite losing the club's all-time record goalscorer Harry Kane to Bayern Munich.
Any player stepping directly into Kane's shoes would have been asked to shoulder an impossible
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