Tottenham Hotspur have had a rough go this season with injuries, and the striker position has been one of the areas on the roster hit the hardest. Dominic Solanke missed several months with a foot injury that required surgery and a low recovery, Randal Kolo Muani began the campaign with a dead leg issue after arriving from Paris, and now Richarlison is unsurprisingly back on the injured list for several weeks with a soft tissue injury.
For the most part, Spurs have gotten very little production out of the No. 9 position. Mathys Tel, on the rare occasion he gets to start at striker, was promising. Richarlison had some goals, but the all around quality was severely lacking. And Kolo Muani had a big performance against PSG in the Champions League, beginning his first games at Tottenham promisingly before utterly falling off a cliff.
Now, Tottenham fans want nothing to do with Kolo Muani going forward. Solanke finally made his return to the starting lineup recently, and after scoring against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League while providing much better all around play than the other strikers in the squad, Spurs unequivocally have their best option in the form of their 65 million pound record 2024 summer signing.
Randal Kolo Muani is now a disgrace
Meanwhile, Kolo Muani has effectively disgraced himself to the entire Tottenham Hotspur fan base with a series of lethargic, self centered displays in games that mattered, including an embarrassing cameo appearance against Dortmund despite how well his teammates played.
Kolo Muani is not going to be staying with Tottenham after his loan deal from PSG expires at the end of the season, and, now, it is not taken for granted that he will even end the January transfer window as a Spurs player.
According to a fresh report from Fabrizio Romano, Juventus have actually called up to ask about Randal Kolo Muani's availability in these last 24 to 48 hours. Juve, after all, had Kolo Muani in the 2024/25 season and liked him so much that they tried signing him again on loan this summer. But their negotiations with PSG went so poorly that the Parisians became upset with Juve and instead loaned him to Fabio Paratici and Tottenham on transfer deadline day.
Well, Juve are back in for him, but PSG reportedly do not want to send him back to the Bianconeri because of the existing bad blood between them from the summer negotiations. Meanwhile, Tottenham are reluctant to go down another striker with Richarlison still injured and Solanke only just coming off a big injury of his own.
Tottenham now have a tough question to ask themselves. Is it better to save money on Kolo Muani's wages and even get a bit of extra compensation if they can finagle it from the Old Lady? Or is it better to have the depth, even if Kolo Muani is not necessarily quality depth as he looks mentally checked out of Tottenham? Spurs can't really get much worse than this, so losing Kolo Muani isn't that big of a deal and could make a positive statement that miscreants are not tolerated. But at the same time, RKM is an experienced player, and Spurs do not have a whole lot of quality at baseline in the attack.