Roberto De Zerbi will finally get a chance to work with a player he has long admired now that they are both together at Tottenham Hotspur.

The new Spurs manager is getting to know his new squad, having walked through the door at Tottenham just last week.

According to reports, many Spurs players have raved about their first few training sessions with De Zerbi, who appears to have made a strong first impression on the players.

Tottenham fans have been busy speculating which players their new head coach will favour, and it turns out that the Italian is a big fan of one Spurs winger.

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Jack Pitt-Brooke has now revealed that there is at least one player in the Spurs squad whom the Italian has been keen to work with.

The journalist revealed that De Zerbi has tried to sign Mohammed Kudus in the past and suggested that the Ghanaian could be an ideal fit for the former Brighton boss’s system.

Pitt-Brooke said on The View From The Lane podcast: “Kudus has obviously not played for a few months with an injury, but he’s been improving. He’s been, I don’t know exactly where he is at the moment, in terms of time scale...