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Tottenham invite offers for Llorente and Janssen

Tottenham are seeking offers for Fernando Llorente and Vincent Janssen.

The London Evening Standard says Tottenham are reluctant to recruit another specialist striker to compete with Harry Kane after the unsuccessful signings of Janssen and Llorente in the past two summers.

Spurs want to sell Janssen and Llorente — who, between them, have cost the club more than £10million per League goal — but Mauricio Pochettino, the club's manager, is wary of signing another out-and-out centre-forward to replace them.

Pochettino has found it difficult to convince transfer targets to accept the challenge of being Kane's understudy and Alvaro Morata, Chelsea's record signing, and Bournemouth's Joshua King are among the forwards to have previously turned down the opportunity to compete with the England striker, who missed just 337 minutes of Premier League football last season.

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