114-goal star could join Spurs: Ndombele replacement, can solve big Conte problem - opinion

Earlier this week, Antonio Conte revealed that he would love to work with Christian Eriksen once again, which may leave the door slightly open for a possible Tottenham Hotspur return in the future.

The Denmark international made a sensational return to football and the Premier League after overcoming the heart problem he suffered at Euro 2020, and Conte has suggested that it would be good for him, the player and Tottenham if Eriksen could return.

But what might such a scenario mean for Spurs? Here are two potential consequences…

It’s quite ironic that when Eriksen left for Antonio Conte’s Inter in 2020, Tottenham Hotspur had brought in Tanguy Ndombele for a club-record fee just a few months earlier to essentially replace him – but with Ndombele having been shipped out on loan to Lyon, Spurs could do much worse than to swoop for Eriksen in the summer to fill the Frenchman’s void.

While Eriksen is still yet to prove himself once again in English football, having only just sealed a move to Brentford, there’s no doubting how good he really can be, as during his six and a half seasons with Spurs, he managed to rack up 63 assists in the top flight, which is the most of any Spurs player in Premier League history.

He’s still the better side of 30, and if Lyon take up Ndombele’s option to buy, which will cost them £54 million, Spurs could well tempt Eriksen with a return via the offer of big wages and a sizeable signing-on bonus when he becomes a free agent in the summer.

While Ndombele may have had a lot of promise and potential when he arrived from Lyon, he was never seemingly at the same level as Eriksen, with his last season in Ligue 1 returning one goal and seven assists, whereas the Dane’s last full campaign with Tottenham