Jose Mourinho will look to offload Juan Foyth in the next transfer window, says Darren Bent, with a disappointing stint at Tottenham considered to be a case of “wrong place, wrong time” for the Argentine.
Much was expected of the 22-year-old when he was snapped up from Estudiantes in 2017.
At that time, a promising defender was considered to have plenty of potential to unlock.
Acquiring him for just £8 million ($10m) was seen as quite a coup for Spurs, with there every chance that many years would be spent in north London repaying that investment.
Foyth has, however, been restricted to just 30 appearances during his time in England – with the last of those coming on December 28, 2019.
Despite being a versatile operator capable of filling in at centre-half and right-back, the form of others is keeping the youngster stuck on the sidelines.
Jose Mourinho has been favouring alternative options, with it difficult to see how a man who has seen costly errors blight his sporadic outings can force his way back into contention.
Bent admits as much, with the former Tottenham star expecting a sale to be sanctioned.
He told Football Insider: “Do you know what it is? I think it’s a case of wrong place, wrong time.
“He came to Spurs at a time where, to be fair, Vertonghen and Alderweireld were playing really well together, fantastically well defensively, so he was never was going to get in there.
“At right-back they had Kieran Trippier, he was playing, an international playing really well for England and for Spurs so he kind of had to slot in when people weren’t really playing.
“He eventually got his chance and he was in and out, we hadn’t seen the best of him. Then obviously they bought in Davinson Sanchez and for whatever reason it hasn’t really clicked for him.
“The same thing happened to me at Spurs, I signed when there were already three strikers there and you can never really find your feet, you never really get the opportunity.
“For himself, he’s probably thinking it’s for the best. Mourinho would probably agree with him – go somewhere else, start again and rebuild.”
Foyth penned a five-year deal with Spurs upon his arrival, with those terms supposed to take him through to 2022.