Everyone remembers what Vincent Janssen did in the second half of last season, not least Mauricio Pochettino. It was what persuaded the Tottenham Hotspur manager to take the centre-forward from AZ Alkmaar to White Hart Lane in a £17m deal. Janssen caught fire after the winter break in the Netherlands, scoring 21 goals in 17 league matches to help AZ to a fourth-place finish and qualification for the Europa League. It was form that catapulted him into the national team and on his first start, he scored a penalty in the 2-1 win over England at Wembley in March.
The 22-year-old finished the season with 27 league goals and the competition’s golden boot, plus three more in the Europa League and one in the Dutch Cup. Perhaps the most satisfying moment was the hat-trick he scored in the 4-2 home win over Feyenoord, the club that had released him from their youth system in 2013.
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