Spurs player linked with a move back to homeland | OneFootball

When speaking recently, president of Fluminense, Mário Bittencourt, has admitted that the club have an interest in re-signing Tottenham Hotspur forward Richarlison. The president said: "What we have concrete today is that we express our formal interest in Richarlison. We know he's interested in returning to the National Team.

I have a great relationship with him and I brought him back there as vice president of football. We made the first document to the English club, asking about the possibility of negotiating."

Richarlison linked with move back to old stomping ground

According to the report, Spurs are not interested in negotiating for now, but are open to listening offers. They further state that the Brazilian side are "optimistic" of securing his services, due to the good relationship they have with the player, and the "several assets" they have that could interest Tottenham.

It is interesting to see who could fit the bill in terms of assets that the club may be interested in. South American football is renowned for having hidden gems at affordable prices. We can be sure it isn't their defensive backbone, made of a 44 year old goalkeeper, and 41+40 year old central defenders.

Looking at the Fluminense squad for potential young players - 18 year old forward Kaua Elias scorred six goals and provided two assists in 1486 league minutes across 2024 (calendar year system). Central midfielder Matheus Martinelli, 23, has also received plaudits for his performances in Brazil.

In truth, would need to know more about their squad, because from face value it looks like most of their players are older, with a few young players - and some of those only on loan. No doubt there is more to it than meets the eye, but there are not options staring in you face that you could see the club being interested in.

Richarlison played for Fluminense for 18 months between 2016-2017, and scored 19 goals in 67 games, before moving to Watford in the summer of 2017, where he spent one season before moving to Everton.

After a tough first season, the 27-year old did have a productive 23/24 campaign, scoring 11 goals and providing four assists in 1510 Premier League minutes. However, in turn, you have the issue. Not even 50% of league minutes played. This season has been even worse, playing just 180 minutes of football in all comps so far. The equivalent of two games. In mid-December.

Good player, good person, but for sure someone the club should look to cash in on, should the chance arise. You can have as much ability as you'd like, it's in vain if you have no availability to go along with it. He would be an asset to Spurs if fit, we saw that against Aston Villa - but he so rarely is - unfortunately.

This move would give him the chance to go home, hopefully stay injury free (although they play an obscene amount of games over there), get firing in front of goal, and play his way back into the national team plans ahead of the 2026 World Cup. He would go back with everybody's best wishes, should a deal happen.