In recent years, Tottenham Hotspur have never had to worry about goals with the presence of Harry Kane at the top end of the pitch.
However, after the 30-year-old left the club to join Bayern Munich for £82m last summer, it left new boss Ange Postecoglou with a huge void to fill in the final third.
The club splashed £47.5m on Nottingham Forest winger Brennan Johnson in a bid to spread the goals around the frontline – subsequently taking pressure off the player trying to fill the boots of clinical striker Kane.
Whilst Kane's departure from north London allowed for needed investment in other areas of the pitch, the question was always going to be whether the club would dearly miss his unbelievable goalscoring record.
During his 430 games for Spurs, the striker scored a staggering 213 goals – a tally that would make him the club's all-time leading goalscorer. Players such as Heung-min Son and Richarlison have often featured upfront for Postecoglou's side this season, but did they miss a trick with a former striker who has excelled this term?
Vincent Janssen's time at Tottenham Hotspur
Spurs signed Dutch striker Vincent Janssen from Eredivisie side AZ Alkmaar for a fee in the region of £17m back in the summer of 2016 after the striker scored 32 goals in 49 appearances.
The striker joined the club with real promise after his spell in the Netherlands. However, his spell in north London was nothing short of a disaster.
Janssen made 42 appearances during his stint for Spurs, scoring six times – with his first open-play goal not coming until March 2017, eight months after his arrival at White Hart Lane.
He subsequently joined Fenerbache on loan for the 2017/18 campaign in the hope he could recapture his goalscoring form, but the move was unsuccessful with Janssen missing most of the campaign through injury.
He only made a handful of substitute appearances for Spurs after his loan spell in Turkey, before completing a permanent move to join Monterrey in Mexico for £8m during the summer of 2019.
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Although the Premier League is undoubtedly a tougher division than the Belgian Pro League, Janssen is showing Spurs what they're missing after selling him.
He might not have been a starter under Postecoglou, however, his goalscoring record in recent times proves that Janssen still possesses a lot of qualities that might've been of use to the Greek-Aussie.
