If Mohammed Kudus has been the best player on Tottenham Hotspur this season, then Luka Vuskovic is hands down the club's best overall performer of the 2025/26 season. Vuskovic has been even better than advertised during the preseason, when some Spurs fans were being chided over calling the Croatian standout a potential Sergio Ramos regen.
Crazy enough, they may have been underselling Vuskovic, because the teenage center back has been so good on loan at Hamburg and even for the Croatian national team that he is outperforming even how good Sergio Ramos was for Sevilla at about the same age - and Ramos was obviously quite good, having been sold shortly afterwards to mighty Real Madrid for a record fee for a defender.
Now, Vuskovic should be going for even more than that if he were to leave, and Tottenham Hotspur fans are increasingly worried that these kinds of elite clubs like Bayern Munich, Barcelona, and Madrid are only going to come knocking harder this summer.
Luka Vuskovic scored another great goal
Vuskovic added another highlight reel feather to his cap this week, scoring a goal from outside the box to open the scoring in the sixth minute of a friendly match between Croatia and Colombia. Though hopefully more the scouts at the elite clubs were watching France vs. Brazil or one of the many World Cup qualifying matches, Luka Vuskovic is so popular by now that nothing he does will slip under the radar.
Harry Kane is the odds on favorite to win Bundesliga Player of the Season, but Vuskovic has been so brilliant that you will find diehard Bundesliga fans who are backing the Hamburg man as a candidate, too. He has been mature beyond his years, drawing rave reviews from a very interested Bayern, as well as many Bundesliga legends like Lothar Matthaus who are simply blown away by his reading of the game, athleticism, and maturity.
With goals like this one against Colombia and Vuskovic's ability to be able to do seemingly everything at a high level, holding onto the Croatian star is becoming an even taller order than Tottenham had imagined. Now, Vuskovic himself has maintained he wants to stay one more year in northern Germany to play with his brother, and, astoundingly, Hamburg and not Tottenham are the ones who have already guaranteed top flight safety in 2026. Vuskovic is in high demand, and Spurs have to keep watching their backs.