5 times Tottenham Hotspur missed out on transfer targets

#5: Saido Berahino

Spurs missed out on Saido Berahino - and signed Heung Min Son instead!

After a terrible run of form that’s seen him score no Premier League goals since 2015/16, it’s easy to forget that a few years ago, Saido Berahino was hot property and came very close to sealing a move to Tottenham from West Bromwich Albion. The young England striker had scored 14 Premier League goals for West Brom in 2014/15 and so it was no surprise when Spurs looked to move for him that summer.

Unfortunately, the move never happened largely due to a similar situation as we’re currently seeing with Jack Grealish. Tottenham made a £15m bid for the player, but West Brom felt he was worth somewhere closer to £25m, and Spurs chairman Daniel Levy simply wasn’t willing to up the fee. And so despite going on a wild Twitter rant against his West Brom employers – namely chairman Jeremy Peace – Berahino never got his move to White Hart Lane.

Weeks later, Berahino was embedded into West Brom’s squad once again, and eventually Tottenham made a move for Bayer Leverkusen’s Heung Min Son instead, and the Korean arrived for a fee of around £22m.

Given Son’s success since – he’s already scored 47 goals for the Lilywhites and has become a cult favourite – and Berahino’s subsequent struggles, Spurs fans would probably count themselves lucky in this instance that they did miss out on the young Englishman. But had they signed Berahino, who knows what could’ve been for him?