What people at Tottenham are now saying about Timo Werner’s role

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Timo Werner is set to sign for Tottenham on loan.

The German has reportedly been undergoing a medical with the north London club over the past few hours.

Werner is set to be announced as a Tottenham player in the coming hours, and this will be the first striker Spurs have signed since the departure of Harry Kane.

However, while Werner does look like a Kane replacement on paper, those within the club aren’t earmarking him as the Kane replacement signing.

Indeed, speaking on Last Word on Spurs, Charlie Eccleshare has stated that nobody within Tottenham sees Werner as Kane’s replacement, noting that he’s seen as much more of low-risk stopgap signing.

Werner isn’t Kane’s replacement

Eccleshare shared what he knows about Werner and his role at Spurs.

“It’s a signing you have to get right, and Timo Werner is not that signing. Nobody is suggesting at Spurs that Werner is the Harry Kane replacement or that he’s the answer necessarily. That’s a very different signing it’s a bit of a stopgap and if it’s good they can make it permanent, but that big step forward, I don’t think that should be rushed into,” Eccleshare said.

Give him a chance

We can only hope that Tottenham fans take this into account when watching Werner play.

This isn’t a player who is being signed to replicate Harry Kane’s goals. At his best, he can bang them in, but, it would be remiss to pretend that Werner can’t be a very frustrating player at times.

Werner may be someone who Spurs fans need to cut plenty of slack in his early days at the club, and he has to be judged on his own merits rather than compared to Kane.

Who ultimately replaces Kane remains to be seen, but Werner isn’t being signed for that role.

Werner is being signed more as a stopgap, and if he produces anything more than being just a depth option, that’s a bonus for Tottenham.