Dragusin always felt like a weird fit at Tottenham Hotspur. He’s not a BAD defender, he’s just a bad defender for US. He was signed in January 2024 under Ange Postecoglou, which felt weird at the time since he’s not really a player built for a high line. He’s got decent positional defensive skills and is excellent in the air, but he doesn’t have the pace to excel in a high line, which made him a super odd choice for Ange’s tactics.
There was some thought he might be a better fit under Thomas Frank’s more pragmatic tactics, but he was firmly stuck behind Cuti Romero, Micky van de Ven, and Kevin Danso. Then he blew out his ACL in January 2025 and missed almost a full year. You could argue he never really got a chance at Spurs, but that’s not really true -- we saw plenty of him when he was healthy and he just didn’t have the chops to really fit in in the Premier League.
In that sense, Fabio Paratici bringing him to Fiorentina feels like our old co-Sporting Director doing us a solid, Radu was perfectly cromulent in Italy as we’ve seen in his stints at Juventus, and loans to Sampdoria, Salernitana, and Genoa. He does like the occasional marauding run forward with the ball and is positionally fine, but he’s not especially great with the ball at his feet. I don’t know enough about Fiorentina to have a sense on if they want to play out of the back, but that would worry me a bit if they do.
In short, he’s at minimum a decent squad player in Serie A. I don’t know whether he’s good enough to nail down a starting spot in La Viola’s back line.