The boos directed at Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario are getting surprisingly forceful, and even as he started the season brightly as a pure shot stopper, even his actual ability to make saves has deteroriated as the pressure of the Tottenham shirt and the sheer weight of a relegation battle have forced the league's least accountable goalkeeper to crack.
Spurs fans have been done with Vicario for months now, and even his biggest advocates in the fan base have found it impossible to defend a player who throws defenders under the bus, cannot complete simple passes, frequently sends the ball out of bounds into no man's land, completely misjudges shots from range, and haplessly flaps his wings at even the tamest of crosses.
At this point, it is an upset that young Antonin Kinsky still has not received his shot, and after Vic surrendered three more goals in another relegation battle opportunity lost vs. Crystal Palace, a large portion of the boos were the result of Igor Tudor not giving Kinsky that chance.
Juventus really want Guglielmo Vicario
The good news for Tottenham is that Serie A still values Vicario highly. Inter Milan have been frequently mentioned as a landing spot as the Nerazzurri look to replaced a washed Yann Sommer, and now Turin based outlet Tuttosport's Lorenzo Aprile is reporting that Juventus manager Luciano Spalletti is pushing hard for the Bianconeri to bring on Vicario as Michele Di Gregorio's replacement. Roma are also interested.
Spalletti, shockingly, is said to be desperate to sign Vicario, and what makes that even wilder is that even though Vic was Empoli's hero in Serie A, he actually was not as good of a goalkeeper as Di Gregorio was for Monza. Both Sommer and Di Gregorio have been massive disappointments this season, but even their bad campaigns are still actually way better than what Vicario is doing for Spurs.
Maybe these Serie A giants are not paying attention, or maybe they are confident enough to think that they can recover Vicario, blaming his issues on the rot of Spurs. No matter, Tottenham will be very happy to hear that Spalletti, one of Italian football's great modern managers, is such a big fan of Vicario that he's willing to cast Di Gregorio aside for him. It will make parting ways with Vic even easier if these big Serie A clubs get into a bidding war with each other, and we know how much Italian clubs, especially Juve, love doing business with Spurs.