It is conceivable Sheffield Wednesday will add to their attacking options before the end of the January transfer window.

Losing Theo Corbeanu to League One rivals Milton Keynes Dons was not part of the plan. Wolverhampton Wanderers cut short his loan spell, ending his hit-and-miss time at Hillsborough.

One of the issues appeared to be Darren Moore's utilisation of the Canadian as a wing-back instead of a winger. However, regardless of whether Corbeanu's patchy form or the manager's choices are the primary issue, the club have lost an attacking option, whilst one of their rivals have been strengthened.

So it is highly likely the Owls will be in the market for another attacker. Rayhaan Tulloch of West Bromwich Albion has been linked, as has Josh Sims, who is currently a free agent.

Yorkshire Live has assessed some options the club could look at, primarily looking to utilise the loan market and seeking players who have yet to make the breakthrough at Premier League clubs.

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This would be an ambitious one.

Clarke has Championship experience, having spent half the season on loan at Stoke City in 2020/21 and with his form in the division for Leeds United saw Tottenham Hotspur spend 10 million to secure his signature.

However, Clarke has stagnated since moving to London and found himself primarily limited to Premier League Two football. With that in mind, a move to League One and particularly back to Yorkshire could be tempting as he could play regular football and be close to home comforts.

His direct wing play would be hugely beneficial to Moore's side as he is the third highest contributor of assists in Premier League Two this season.

Another option from Spurs, Markanday is 20-years-old and has yet to have his senior debut so would likely be seeking a move in January to get his senior career started.

His 12 goals and five assists from the right wing prove that he has outgrown U23s football and it's time for him to get a chance in league football.

One thing which might count against him is his physicality though, as he is 5 feet 8 inches with a slight build. If he played tentatively against League One defenders he could be bullied.

A 19-year-old of Zimbabwean descent, Maswanhise is one of the stars of Leicester City's U23s side.

He is a rangy winger, with excellent pace and skill. His long strides and acceleration allow him to burst past players easily. Whilst he has a slim build, he would perhaps suit League One football more than Markanday due to a little more height and better acceleration allowing him to escape defenders.

He is Leicester's top goal scorer in Premier League Two this season with five and should he be loaned out this month, it would be his first step into senior football.

West Ham's 20-year-old from Dublin, the fantastically named Armstrong Oko-Flex is a versatile forward, capable of playing on both wings or as an auxiliary striker.

He initially came through Arsenal's academy after being scouted in Dublin, before moving to Celtic and moving back to London with West Ham in the summer.

He is a powerful forward who primarily prefers playing on the left to cut in and shoot on his right foot. This has seen him become the second top goal scorer in Premier League Two this season, behind only Arsenal's Folarin Balogun. Like the two previous options, he is seeking his first opportunity in senior football.

The Leeds United forward has some senior experience as he made a handful of appearances for Birmingham City in the Championship at the end of last season.

The 19-year-old was subsequently bought by the Whites but the Premier League club could be tempted to allow him to move on loan and gain more experience at senior level. He is a left footed player but is adept at playing from the right or the left.

His best football for Leeds has come on the left, where he has been most confident taking on fullbacks and attacking the byline.

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Cresskill parents protest to open schools closed from flooding

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Cresskill and Franklin Lakes will hold special elections on Jan. 25 asking the public to vote on millions of dollars of improvements to their schools.

In Cresskill, 1,000 middle and high school students haven't returned to their school, many since March 2020, when schools statewide closed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc on the building, which sits in a flood zone on Lincoln Drive.Several feet of water rose above the auditorium stage, destroying it andthe gymnasium, the media center, desks and chairs.

Students have returned to in-person learning at least once a week on a rotating basisatSt. Thrse of Lisieux Church school in Cresskill. Two grades attend in person once every four days on a rotating schedule.

Residents will be asked to approve $21.66 million for the repairs on Jan. 25.

The district has met with the Federal Emergency Management Agency several times to process grant reimbursement applications for restoration, transportation and relocation. Any grant approvals will cover 75% of the cost, and the rest will be the responsibility of the district.

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All four boilers, univents and water pumps need to be repaired or replaced. The boilers, which will cost $5 million to $6million to repair, carry the biggest price tag.

The univents in all 52 rooms were damaged by saltwater that originated at the DPW salt garage and need to be replaced.

Parents will hold a referendum rally on Saturday to raise awareness. The rally will take place at Merritt Memorial School at 10 a.m.

The school district will also hold a virtual community forum on Tuesday at 6 p.m. The session will feature district representatives and professionals who will share information and answer residents' questions. A livestream link can be found atRestoreCresskillSchools.com.

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The local Board of Education is asking residents to approve $20.9 million in repairs in four schools.

The school board said there would be no changein taxes resulting from the spending because of another debt that will befully paid off in 2022 and theuse of capital reserve funds.

A facility assessment report in 2020 uncovered building issues and deferred maintenance items at the district's schools.

A prioritized list of urgent projects included HVAC system upgrades, boiler replacements, window replacements androof replacements.

The two towns are the only ones in Bergen County that are holding special elections. There are none in Passaic County. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 25.

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The Army hasnt yet decided which of two competitors will build the Army and Marine Corps replacement for the M4, M16 and M249 yet, but on Friday, they announced wholl be making the advanced optic to go on top of the Next Generation Squad Weapon.

Vortex Optics subsidiary Sheltered Wings has been selected to build as many as 250,000 Next Generation Squad Weapon Fire Control systems at a starting price of about $20 million over the next decade. The partnership beat out L3 Harris, the other company selected to provide a prototype for testing and evaluation.

The NGSW-FC system is a ruggedized fire control that increases accuracy and lethality for the Close Combat Force. It integrates a number of advanced technologies, including a variable magnification optic, backup etched reticle, laser rangefinder, ballistic calculator, atmospheric sensor suite, compass, Intra-Soldier Wireless, visible and infrared aiming lasers, and a digital display overlay, according to a release from the Armys Cross Functional Team-Soldier Lethality.

Beginning in earnest in 2018, the Army narrowed its decades-long attempt to replace the more than half century old weapon by selecting the 6.8mm as the intermediate caliber replacement. The round has shown in ballistics testing that it outperforms the existing 5.56mm and 7.62mm rounds for lethality, range and accuracy.

But to take full advantage of that new round and weapon combo, the Army needs a better optic.

And they want more than just nice glass.

The new optic will basically be a computer atop the weapon, calculating range, ballistics, atmospherics, directional information, digital overlay and wireless features to link to devices such as the still-developing Integrated Visual Augmentation System, the Armys new do-it-all goggle expected to begin fielding later this year.

The NGSW-FC will replace the close combat optic, rifle combat optic and machine gun optic. But neither the optic nor the weapon will be pure fleeted anytime soon, meaning all soldiers and Marines will get it.

This gear rollout is slated for the close combat forces special operations, Marine and Army infantry, combat engineers and scouts, primarily.

The Army is scheduled this year to choose between the NGSW prototype offerings from Sig Sauer, a more conventional AR-style design, and the True Velocity/LoneStar Future Weapons, an option which features a bullpup design.

Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation. Todd is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War.

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AMESBURY Window Woman of New Englands work restoring windows at the former Centre School in Dracut will be featured on an episode of This Old House, airing Thursday.

The 1898 school building, which slowly fell into disrepair over the years, is being developed into affordable housing for veterans by the Coalition for a Better Acre.

Alison Hardy, owner of Window Woman of New England on Elm Street in Amesbury, happened to be watching This Old House recently when she realized she was working on the same project being discussed on the episode.

Hardy, who did a segment for the Emmy-winning home improvement series in 2011, reached out to the producers to let them know she was restoring the windows and would be happy to discuss her part in the project for the show, and they agreed.

The building is really cool. It had just been abandoned for so long and nobody could figure out what to do with it, she said, explaining that the school is in the middle of a residential district, so converting it to housing made the most sense.

The building features 50 windows and they are large, Hardy said, noting that the upper and lower sashes each weigh about 24 pounds, which is a lot as youre trying to lift it over your head.

Hardy enjoys talking about window restoration and educating the public on how different windows were designed to function.

Its always fun when something as obscure as window restoration can get national TV coverage, she said. You just dont think about it. When anybody says windows, the word replacement comes to mind.

For Hardy, its important to get people to see the other option, which is restoration.

As explained on her website, maintaining the original windows of a building is not just about preserving the character and charm of a home; they can also have a lot longer lifespan than many people are willing to believe.

Though some people worry that restoration will cost more than replacement, thats not usually the case, according to Window Woman.

With New Englands rich history, Hardy has worked on windows from multiple centuries. Her cutoff for accepting work is typically windows from the 1960s.

The oldest windows she has worked on, or at least for which she knew the year for certain, were on the Spalding House in Lowell, which was built in 1760.

To learn more about Window Woman of New England, visit http://www.window-woman.com.

In many locations, This Old House airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on PBS. For a full schedule of local listings, visit http://thisoldhouse.com/tvschedule.

Full episodes are also available online the Sunday night after each episodes original airdate at http://thisoldhouse.com/watchtoh. Recent episodes can also be viewed on PBS.org, PBS digital apps, The Roku Channel and This Old House app.

Window Woman will appear in the next issue of This Old House magazine in January.

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Apple recently released macOS Monterey 12.2 beta, and while the update isnt a big one, it does come with a Music app that has been rewritten with native technology instead of web content. Meanwhile, the same old iTunes that was discontinued on the Mac years ago is still available on Windows and its past time for Apple to replace it with something better.

iTunes is quite an old software as it was introduced in 2001, the same year Apple released the first iPod. Over the years, iTunes has been updated with several new features, which includes the iTunes Store, support for movies and TV shows, the ability to sync and restore iOS devices, a failed social network, and access to Apple Music.

In 2019, Apple finally decided it was time to separate iTunes into different apps, so the company discontinued the software and replaced it with the Music, TV, and Podcasts apps in macOS Catalina. Having a dedicated Apple Music app is great, but this never solved the main problems of iTunes since the Music app on macOS is still almost entirely based on the old software.

As reported by 9to5Mac, the company is finally rebuilding Apple Music on macOS as a native app, which should make it more fluid and less problematic. But

While macOS users at least have access to some new Apple Music features like Live Lyrics and Spatial Audio through the Music app, Windows users are still stuck in time with iTunes. Apple has never cared much about bringing its software to other platforms, but now were talking about services and Apple Music is one of the most popular music subscription services in the world.

Before iTunes was discontinued, the Windows version of the app was always updated with the same features available on macOS not only because iTunes is the only way to manage iOS devices on Windows, but also because Windows users also used iTunes to buy songs, movies, and TV shows.

Even with the company prioritizing its own computers (and thats totally understandable), its ridiculous that Apple Music subscribers still dont have access to a truly Apple Music app on Windows. More than 74% of computers worldwide run Windows, which means that many iPhone owners have a PC instead of a Mac. If they decide to subscribe to Apple Music, they wont have a good experience.

And here I can also mention other Apple services like Apple Podcast and Apple TV+, which also dont offer a native Windows experience. If Apple really wants to be taken seriously as a service company, it needs to think more about offering multi-platform solutions in situations like this.

I personally know multiple users who want to subscribe to Apple Music on iPhone, but end up subscribing to Spotify because it offers a more consistent experience on Windows. At the same time, Apple Podcasts have been considerably losing ground to other platforms.

9to5Mac heard earlier this year that Apple has been testing both Music and Podcast apps for Microsoft platforms. While it seems that these apps are primarily focused on Xbox consoles, Apple was looking for engineers with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) experience, which suggests that Apples media apps may finally be coming to Windows.

The Apple Music app is also available for Android, Smart TVs, and even PlayStation consoles, so it would be only fair that Windows users have access to a similar app with the same features. Perhaps now that the company is improving the Music app experience on macOS, Windows users may also see a new app to replace iTunes in 2022.

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Like Payton, Detroit Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin just happened to be mic'd up for a similar moment, as Larkin skated toward the net with the puck during warmups and fired a backhander on goal. Immediately after, his momentum took him into the boards, where a fan's beer was sitting on the other side of the glass. Obviously, that beer went down and it went down hard.

After an initial apology through the glass, Larkin realized the error of his ways and repeated to himself "oh no, oh no." A teammate asked him if he knocked the brewski over, and Larkin knew he did. Watch what happens next:

Damn, a 20-spot! We know arena beers are expensive, but we'd imagine they're in the $13-to-$15 range at Little Caesars Arena. Larkin going above and beyond. No wonder he was named captain last year.

By the way, apropos of nothing, but it remains hilarious how American hockey players like Larkin still manage to sound Canadian. Of course, being from Michigan, Larkin is close to the Canadian border, so his case is a little different. But watch any of those hockey slang/cliche videos and you'll find that all these guys talk exactly the same no matter where they are from. That would also explain why they're all so polite, as Larkin proves here.

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Big decisions for the Armys Bradley Fighting Vehicle replacement are happening in 2022.

The armored, tracked troop carrier thats been covering ground since 1981 is on its way out. And the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle is being designed by multiple companies, all expecting the Armys design decision by early 2023, according to service officials.

But the OMFV is more than a better ride for troops. Thats kind of in the name, especially the optionally manned part.

The Army wants a vehicle that can be driven by soldiers or by a command vehicle at a distance that will also include on-board sensors and communications platforms to work in a network of ground combat vehicles.

Army Times sister publication Defense News reported in 2021 that the service had chosen five teams to compete for the OMFV design. Point Blank Enterprises, Oshkosh Defense, BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems and American Rheinmetall Vehicles all put together concepts for the OMFV.

Thats after a kind of false start when in 2019 only General Dynamics was able to deliver a physical example of the prototype vehicle.

The Army plans to spend up to $4.6 billion on developing the vehicle between 2022 and 2026. The Army is giving companies until 2025 to deliver prototypes, with vehicle testing scheduled the following year.

Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation. Todd is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War.

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We all hoped that 2021 would signal a return to normalcy, but that never quite happened. Microsofts hardware teams enjoyed strong success this year. But for Windows, software, and services? Not so much.

Microsofts year in review has become a holiday tradition of sorts here at PCWorldrecapping Microsofts strengths, failures, and moments that made us scratch our heads and mutter, Seriously, what. So if you enjoyed our recap of 2020, grab a glass of holiday cheer and settle down.

2021. What a year, huh?

A generally pathetic sports team like the University of California Golden Bears can salvage an entire seasons worth of futility with a win over a key opponent, such as Stanford. And Microsoft made what wasnt the happiest of years into a success with an ongoing, enormous win: Microsoft continued to facilitate working from home, and arguably led the way in doing so.

Some may prefer Googles Workspace, Zoom, or Slack, but Microsoft Teams has clearly evolved into an effective meeting and videoconferencing tool as well as a collaboration solution. Microsoft has invested heavily into partnerships for Teams hardware as well as some very thoughtful ways of integrating in-office work with remote workers. Microsofts online conferences continued to set the bar. Microsoft 365 is now almost a must-have for businesses and consumers alike, because of the value all of these add. Its been an enormous success for Microsoft as a whole.

Its clear, though, that the victory party got a little out of hand. Some inebriated Microsoft M365 exec probably shouted Lets make everyone use Teams!! and Microsoft Teams for Consumers was born. Then some madman mocked up a Windows 11 taskbar with Teams Chat integrated right into it. That was pushed to production, too! Only after the hangovers had worn off did someone realize that no, no one actually wants to use Teams in their personal lives. Unfortunately, by then the damage had been done.

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In April, Microsoft tried out a bizarre social experiment, letting users vote on which new font would be used in 2022 within Office, Windows, and more. Microsoft encouraged users to lobby for Seaford (organic and asymmetric forms!), Skeena (a humanist sans serif), Bierstadt, and more, probably hoping a heated debate would polarize the Internet. Instead, there was well, nothing. How do we go on without proper closure?

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Months before Facebook rebranded itself as Meta and made metaverse the most overused term of 2021, there was Microsoft Mesh, Microsofts virtual-reality platform and the surprise reveal at its Microsoft Ignite conference. Looking back, its interesting to see how Mesh evolved over just this year: in March, when Microsoft launched Mesh, Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman characterized Mesh as a virtual-meeting platform, implying that the future of meetings was virtual reality.

Meta then adopted the same approach, to general disgust. By November, Microsofts vision of the metaverse had been recast as virtual Teams avatars in preparation for a preview to be released in 2022.

To be fair, were biased: PCWorlds review of Windows 11 concluded that Windows 11 was unnecessary, in part because Windows 10 is still an excellent operating system, and in part because Windows 11 launched with many, many rough edges. Statcounter, however, doesnt even show Windows 11 in its desktop OS market-share list. AdDuplex says Windows 11s share is 8.6 percent. LanSweeper says that its 0.2 percent. For whatever reason, Windows 11 hasnt taken off.

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While Windows 11 may not be succeeding yet, Windows itself is. Microsoft probably cares as much as more about Microsoft 365 subscription revenue and monthly users of Edge and Bing than anything else. To Microsofts bean-counters, Windows is just a gateway to those services.

Its fair to say that we have some TPM PTSD were still working through. For a few weeks, Microsoft swung back and forth on exactly which PCs could upgrade to Windows 11, and users tried to figure out what the hardware requirements of Windows 11 were, and what they needed to do if their PC didnt meet them. Microsoft may have had the best of intentions in excluding millions of PCs for security reasons, but all Microsoft had to do was to simply sit down with reporters and clearly communicate what was going on, what consumers could expect, and the thinking behind it. They didnt.

This was clearly Microsofts worst communications debacle in years, and we can only hope that some senior executive was called on the carpet for it.

Microsoft Edge is a solid browser, adding new features all the time which is why Microsoft screwed this up so badly. Windows 11 makes it a royal pain to set up a third-party browser as the default, robbing users of the choice between any of the excellent browsers that are available to Windows users, from Brave to Vivaldi. If that decision wasnt legally anti-competitive, it sure felt like it. Even a way to redirect Edge-specific links was blocked. Taking steps to reverse the decision via a Windows 11 preview is a small step, but its one that should have never been made in the first place.

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As we now know, Windows 10X was rolled into Windows 11. What we didnt know when Windows 10X leaked in January was that it was going to replace Windows 10 it would have made a drab but functional replacement for Windows 10 Home in S Mode (Windows 10 S) in Chromebooks. But nope, Windows 10X evolved into Windows 11, and the true replacement for Windows 10 S will be

Windows 11 SE and the complementary Surface Laptop SE honestly felt like Microsoft saying well, what the hell lets just throw this at the wall and see if it sticks. Remember, there is still a Windows 11 Home in S Mode, and Windows 10 S was originally designed to compete with Chrome OS. Now its Windows 11 SE, and the Surface Laptop SE is now the new Chromebook killer. Good luck with that, folks.

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It was a little surprising to see Microsoft announce two new tablets during 2021, even if the Surface Pro 7+ was technically for businesses only. But even though both debuted among a crop of the best Windows tablets weve seen in years, our review of the Surface Pro 7+ as well as our Surface Pro 8 review simply demonstrated that Microsoft continues to be at the top of its game where full-sized Windows tablets are concerned.

While we may have expected a new Surface Book, Microsofts Surface Laptop Book Pro fusion includes an impressive pull-forward design with relatively high-performance CPU and GPU options, as our Surface Laptop Studio review shows. Can we continue the push forward and plan out an Xbox gaming laptop for 2022?

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For the most part, Microsofts generally strong Surface showing continued to offset Microsofts struggles in software and services. Our review of the Surface Laptop 4 was a success both for AMDs Ryzen processor as well as Microsoft itself. Note to Microsofts design team: deepen the key travel. Microsofts keyboards were once the best in the industry, and now theyre merely good.

I kept my personal SIM in the Surface Duo 2 folding phone well after we published PCWorlds Surface Duo 2 review, but today I simply find myself instinctively grabbing other phones instead. Surprisingly, it was the Duo 2s UI that pushed me over the edge. Not the bugs, but simply how the phone keeps separate columns of apps on either screen, and theres too much pain wading through them to find what I want. In all, the Surface Duo 2 was a decent effort that fell short.

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While you still cant find Microsofts Xbox Series X game console in any reasonable quantities, two things soothed the blow: the availability of the affordable Xbox Series S, and the success of Microsofts Xbox Game Pass. Microsofts game subscription is basically a must-have by this point, allowing gamers day-one access to both Microsofts AAA titles (for the PC and the Xbox!) as well as a number of indie games. Heres how to get Game Pass for cheap.

This is absolutely a gut call, but I suspect that the groundwork behind Windows 365 (Windows in the cloud) will eventually pay off. We already have streaming sticks, and some way of tucking a PC in your pocket and plugging it into an available HDMI port seems like a viable future. The question will be how users type, touch, and interact with Windows, all problems that the modalities maestros at Microsoft will eventually solve.

I never expected that tuning in on a Saturday morning to watch financial modelers work through Microsoft Excel challenges would be the most wholesome Microsoft experience of 2021, but it absolutely was. Theres a certain intersection of meme culture, pessimism, sportsmanship, and good-natured trolling that defines modern college football fandom, and the FMWC felt like a bunch of fans who had collectively tuned into the best game of the day. Click on the YouTube links in our FMWC story and youll see what we mean.

The FMWC had everything: nerd culture; insightful, live commentary (Tim Heng!), and even a knowledgeable fanbase who clearly enjoyed themselves. This was Excel as esports, and it was stunningly compelling.

So that was 2021, from Microsofts perspective a lot of head-scratching decisions, some rage, but then joy where none was expected. Heres to a better 2022 for all of us!

As PCWorld's senior editor, Mark focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, among other beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.

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Tottenham Hotspur are interested in a deal to bring Milan Skriniar to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the January transfer window.

Thats according to a report by The Express, who claim that Antonio Conte is keen to bolster his Spurs defence in the winter market, and has placed the Inter Milan centre-back at the top of his January wishlist.

A further report by Football Italia also suggested that the 26-year-old defender whose contract at the San Siro is set to expire in the summer of 2023 would be open to a move away from Serie A, while the arrival of Fabio Paratici in north London is also reported to have given Spurs the advantage in the race to sign the Slovakia international this winter.

It is perhaps one of the worst kept secrets in world football that Tottenham are interested in a deal to sign Skriniar, however, there is a very good reason for the Premier League sides long-term pursuit of the centre-back particularly now Conte is at the helm.

Indeed, over his 32 Serie A appearances last season, the 54m-rated defender was in imperious form, helping his side keep 12 clean sheets and scoring three goals, as well as making an average of 0.9 interceptions, 1.5 tackles, 62.6 passes, 2.7 clearances and winning 3.5 duels per game.

These returns saw the player who journalist David Amoyal dubbed a beast earn a seasonal SofaScore match rating of 7.07, ranking him as Contes seventh-best performer in Inters scudetto-winning campaign.

And, with Toby Alderweireld having left Tottenham last summer, there is very much room for another centre-back at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, particularly if one of either Joe Rodon or Davinson Sanchez, who have both been linked with a January departure, do indeed go on to leave the club next month.

As such, considering just how impressive the 90k-per-week defender who Tibor Goljan claimed has always been the leader was for Contes Inter last season, in addition to Spurs need for an upgrade in the position, it would seem a very wise move indeed for Paratici to do all he can to get a deal over the line for the 26-year-old this January.

In other news: Lost 100% duels: 25m-rated THFC dud who made just 8 passes failed Contes test v CPFC

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