Ranking every player to wear No.9 for Tottenham in the Premier League

Tottenham have had some brilliant forwards over the years – but few of them have worn the traditional No.9 shirt.

Harry Kane famously wears the No.10 shirt, while Son Heung-min wears No.7. In fact, Spurs didn’t even have a No.9 during the 2021-22 campaign and may yet keep it vacant if they don’t sign another forward this summer.

We’ve ranked every player to wear the No.9 shirt for Spurs since the Premier League introduced official squad numbers for the 1993-94 season, from worst to best.

The definition of a panic buy.

Signed from Derby for around £3million in 2005, Rasiak failed to score in his eight Premier League appearances for Spurs and was sold to Southampton a few months later.

Having won the Eredivisie Golden Boot with AZ Alkmaar in 2015-16, expectations were high when Janssen completed a £17million move to Tottenham.

He failed to justify the hype, however, and scored just six goals in 42 appearances for the club, with four of those coming from the penalty spot.

The striker spent the 2017-18 season on loan at Fenerbache before Spurs took an £11million loss by selling him to Monterrey in 2019.

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Brought in from Valencia for £26million in 2013, Soldado had some serious pedigree, having netted 81 goals in 141 appearances for Los Che.

Despite scoring on his debut, he failed to hit the same heights in the Premier League and was eventually usurped by an emerging Harry Kane.

The Spain international was then sold to Villarreal in 2015, having scored 16 goals in 76 appearances for Spurs.

“I think in the end what let me down at Tottenham was my head; for whatever reason, it wasn’t right,” Soldado told The Guardian in 2016.

“Perhaps my transfer fee