5 players looking to rejuvenate their careers in 2018/19

#2 Lucas Moura

Lucas Moura should finally be settled at Tottenham - and will look to hit form in 2018/19

For Brazilian winger Lucas Moura, 2017/18 was a disappointing season, but also one that probably offered him renewed hope. Frozen out at Paris St. Germain at the start of the season, from August to January the Brazilian winger only appeared in six games for PSG and completed a grand total of 80 minutes action. The January transfer window saw Tottenham offer Lucas a lifeline, and the move made a lot of sense given their financial restrictions – he was signed for a cut-price £25m.

Unfortunately, the move to Spurs hasn’t worked out quite as well as Lucas would’ve hoped. He struggled to establish himself in Mauricio Pochettino’s first team and only made 11 appearances with his new club, many of them from the substitute’s bench. He did show flashes of his potential, though – his performance against Rochdale in the FA Cup was fantastic, as was his showing on the final day of the season against Leicester.

What that suggests is that far from being a flop signing, Lucas has simply taken a longer time to embed himself into Tottenham’s way of playing. It makes sense given his lack of activity at PSG during the first half of the season – as well as the fact that Pochettino’s heavy pressing style is difficult for a player to acclimatize to right away.

Tottenham fans might be disappointed right now that their club hasn’t made much movement into the transfer market this summer – Aston Villa’s Jack Grealish seems like the only likely signing at this moment – but they shouldn’t forget that in Lucas, they have a player who should finally be fully embedded and raring to go and rejuvenate himself in 2018/19.