Watford winger Ismaila Sarr could be a player on the move late on in this transfer window having impressed for the Hornets in the Championship last campaign, managing 13 goals and 10 assists in 39 league appearances. The Senegalese forward scored in Xisco Munoz’s sides 3-2 victory over Aston Villa at the weekend as was subject to plenty of interest from Premier League clubs last summer.
Tottenham Hotspur are the favourites to sign the Watford man as Nuno Espirito Santo is looking to make further improvements to his squad.
As we saw on Spurs’ opening day victory over Manchester City, Spurs’ backup option behind Harry Kane is to play Son Heung-min up-front and with the Tottenham and England captain’s future looking uncertain, there is the potential that Son could become Spurs’ new striker, seeing room for another winger to join the Lilywhites, with Lucas Moura potentially becoming a backup striker, as he was when he famously scored a hat-trick for Tottenham in the Champions League semi-final against Ajax in the 2018/19 season.
At the age of 23-years-old, Sarr is a player that could significantly progress and have a high resale value if he reaches his potential, meaning that he is the ideal sort of player for Spurs to buy, as they don’t tend to pay huge transfer fees on a regular basis and have a proven record of developing players.
Liverpool are also rumoured to be interested in a move for Sarr having failed to land the Senegalese forward last summer.
At present, Jurgen Klopp’s side have plenty of wingers on the books, but the German is rumoured to be looking to sell players in order to bring them in, as both Xherdan Shaqiri and Takumi Minamino have both failed to impress in their times at Anfield, whilst we have also seen Harry Wilson sold to Fulham despite looking like a good prospect.
Sarr could give a high potential back-up to the likes of Mohamed Salah which would be more useful than having someone who is at a similar age as the Egyptian like Shaqiri, as the Watford man would have the opportunity to learn off a world-class winger and be moulded into the right-forward role at Anfield.
United are the final club on this list of clubs that have been rumoured to be interested in signing the 23-year-old winger.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side currently only have one high-quality right-winger in Jadon Sancho at the club and it looks as though Amad Diallo is set to be loaned out according to recent reports from the likes of Calciomercato. With Mason Greenwood set to take a more central role, as he did against Leeds United on the opening day, as well as the fact that Marcus Rashford is out until October following shoulder surgery, there will be plenty of opportunities for some of United’s fringe men.
Daniel James is a player that has divided opinions of those around Old Trafford since his arrival from Swansea in the summer of and Sarr could potentially be a more high-quality replacement for the Welshman in the long run.
Sarr is priced at 16/1 for a move to Old Trafford in the current transfer window.