Tottenham Hotspur are basing their new sporting project on signing the best young players in world football, and with Daniel Levy out, they aren't planning on being cheap about it either. Just this past summer transfer window, Spurs signed two of their three most expensive signings of all time in Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons. Both are already paying dividends and can be world-class players for Spurs for the next 5-10 years.
But Tottenham have also nailed less expensive young signings, too. Look no further than Lucas Bergvall, who just might be the best teenage center midfielder on the entire planet and is already among the best players in the Spurs squad alongside the likes of World Cup winner Cristian Romero and the two marquee summer signings.
Next up after Bergvall could be homegrown talent Luka Vuskovic. The teenage center back would have been capable of making the Tottenham first team squad on talent alone, but Spurs elected to loan him to Hamburg in the Bundesliga so that he could start every game.
Well, the move is paying dividends already. Vuskovic is turning in defensive monsterclass after defensive monsterclass to start the season in order to help keep the Bundesliga dinosaurs afloat in their return, and he was beyong brilliant this past weekend against Union Berlin.
A GOAT-tier nickname
In fact, Sofascore states that Vuskovic was so good that he set a record. He became the first player in five years in Europe's top five leagues to record 18 aerial duels won in a single match, which is an absurd level of dominance through the air.
The Hamburger Abendblatt and some Hamburg fans have joined in the fun, taking note of Vuskovic's aerial dominance and now endowing him with the moniker "Air Vuskovic" in honor of his ability to completely shut down the aerial attack of the opposition.
After scoring a great goal last weekend and injuring his finger in the celebration, Vuskovic's legend at Hamburg is only growing, and it is absurd how good he is as a center back at the age of 18. He and goalkeeper Daniel Heuer Fernandes are the two best players on Hamburg right now.
Tottenham have to be loving all the statistics and rave reviews that Vuskovic is already garnering in the Bundesilga, and, at this rate, he'll be ready to give Tottenham the best quartet of center backs in the world alongside Cristian Romero, Micky van de Ven, and Kevin Danso in no time.