Rafael van der Vaart believes Tottenham will end up regretting their decision to sell Troy Parrott - insisting the Republic of Ireland is a "gem".
Parrott signed for Eredivisie side AZ Alkmaar for £6.7m in July after a string of difficult loan spells in the English Football League with sides such as Milwall, Ipswich Town, MK Dons and Preston North End before joining Excelsior in 2023.
But since moving to AZ Alkmaar, Parrott has scored five goals in seven Eredivisie games and has proved to be quite the scoop for Pascal Jansen's side, who are third in the Dutch top flight after eight games.
And Van der Vaart, who spent two years at White Hart Lane after signing from Real Madrid in 2010, thinks Spurs may have let a real talent slip through the net.
“He’s going to be a really big player, Van der Vaart is credited as saying by the Mirror. “I saw him at Excelsior, but then he was more on the counter. Now he is a good, footballing striker who actually has everything.
“He just needs to develop his killer instinct a bit. He is a gem.”