Who is Kuta Takai? The defensive feeling J-Legue is set to sign Tottenham

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Tottenham Hotspur seems to have been appointed to create an unconventional step while closing her second signature on the summer transfer window. According to several reports, North London club is scheduled to complete the signing of the Kawasaki Frontale Kota Takai. The 20-year-old defender is expected to transfer to the Premier League in the coming days for a fee of about 5.8 million euros-which will make Tacai the sixth most expensive sale in J-Legue in the history of the Japanese trip. So who is the young defender and how much is the quality of Tottenham’s signature?

How good is Kuta Takai?

After arriving through the Kawasaki Verontal Youth Academy as an exciting talent, Takai appeared for the first time in the club in a Champions League match with Guangzhou on April 18, 2022, at the age of 17 and only seven months. This made the central defender ever for the club ever. However, he will have to wait almost one year before it extended for the first time in the league at the age of eighteen and seven months, which made him the sixth youngest league in the club ever. Since then, he has really moved from strength to power for “azzurro nero”.

“Although he is only in his second year of his high school at the time, he signed a professional contract with Kawasaki Frontale, to become the youngest player in the club’s history to do this,” indicated the Transfermarkt data in Japan, Yuta Izawa, when asked about Takai’s journey. “The expectations for him were high from the beginning, especially given that Kawasaki Frontal produced talents such as Caro Metoma (Brighton), Ao Tanaka (Leeds), Co Etakura (Borussia Monchengladbash), and Rio Hattat (Celtic). In the summer of 2022, it is still part of the U18 team.

After holding a total of 28 club matches in all competitions last season, Takai created himself as a central defender for his club’s first option, and after his impressive offers in the Japanese Olympic Olympic Games, he then made the Japanese national team to win 7-0 against China in qualifying AFC World Cup rounds last September. “His name has become widely known in Japan after its offers in international matches,” Izawa. “On the club level, it became a regular season last season and was chosen the title of the best young player in Gilge.”

By this stage, Takai was considered one of the promising defensive talents in the country, and this was clear to everyone to see it in the marketing value over the past 12 months. With the current market value of 2.5 million euros, the 20 -year -old talent is not only the most valuable player in his team, and the third level throughout the entire Japanese trip, but the increase in the 456 % market value over the past year was more than the second largest league increase.

Recently, Takai was a decisive part of his team’s batch to the Champions League final, where he played every minute of the club. Instead, Takai was decisive in his team to beat the Saudi Al-Nasr team, with the prominent attackers Jeon Duran and Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score one goal over the course of the match as Takai and Partners did enough to reach the final match with a 3-2 victory. Although J-Legue lost the final match against Alia in a 2-0 defeat, the competition clearly raised the position of the young defender in the global game and offered what he could against the supreme opposition.

So what are the main features of Takai? According to Isaawa, he has all the right skills to succeed in the league that makes huge material demands like the Premier League. “It is tall and dominant in the air, with the excellent address capacity,” pointed out J-Legue. “He is physically and fast, so it is not easily affected. It is also very good in building playing from behind. But his biggest strength is his composure in big games – he always stays calm under pressure.”

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Tuttenham stands out of 6 feet and 4 inches and an excellent tilt to roam and pass with the ball with a relatively easily, as if Tacai is ready to make the important step from J-Legue to the Premier League. However, it remains to see whether he will stand directly in the plans of the first team of Thomas Frank or may find himself lended next season. A quick look at the Tottenham team for the next season only confirms the dangerous competition that Takai will face at a starting point in the team in the coming years.

For example, along with pairing the first option Christian Romero and Mickey Van Din, Frank will also get Radu DrăGușin and Ben Davies in backup. Besides, the club will also welcome Ashley Phillips, who was on loan in Stoke City this season. As if this was not enough competition for Takai to confront it, it will also need to find a way to outperform the new signature Luka Vuskovic, which will join the club from Hajduk Split for 11 million euros, after making waves in Belgian football in Westerlo last season. Even if Tottenham is selling one or two of the above names this summer, this means that Takai has three or four major players to compete with them.

However, when he was asked about his horizons in England, Izawa believes that Tacai is ready to make a step in Tottenham. “Yes, I think he is ready,” said Japanese football expert. “His greatest strength is that he remains an author even on the international stage. In the semi -finals of the Champions League, he played a major role in winning against publishing by keeping Ronaldo and two calm rounds. To be honest, it is difficult to say exactly the extent of Silvie in the Premier League, but he definitely has the ability to compete at this level.”