Tottenham eyeing French youngster Vincent Marcel from Nice… after stumbling across the winger purely by accident last season

TOTTENHAM are eyeing French youngster Vincent Marcel from Nice.

The 20-year-old winger caught the eye of Spurs scouts as they looked at right-back Ricardo Pereira.

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Ricardo, 23, has been lined up to replace Kyle Walker, who is wanted by Manchester City – but Marcel is seen as a star of the future.

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The youngster has been compared to Ousmane Dembele with his pace on the flanks and may compete for a first-team place immediately.

Marcel has played for France Under-20s but would not command a huge fee despite having four years left on his Nice deal.

He turned out just nine times for the Ligue 1 outfit last term – including just six in the French top flight.

Vincent Marcel factfile

• Born in Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
• Kicked-off his youth career at La Gauloise de Basse-Terre
• Moved to France in 2009 to play for Le Havre's youth team
• Spent six seasons at Le Havre before a move to Nice in 2015
• Played for the second team for a season before promotion to first XI in 2016-17
• Has been capped five times at international level for France (3 U19, 2 U20)
• Was discovered by Tottenham by accident
• Spurs scouts had been deployed to get a closer look at Ricardo Pereira

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Ricardo was at Nice on loan from Porto last season so Spurs must deal with the Portuguese giants to get a deal done.

He played 29 times for the French giants last term, scoring twice and has two full international caps.

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Mauricio Pochettino is also weighing up which youngsters could play a part in his first-team plans next season.

Poch rates Cameron Carter-Vickers, 19, highly and could give the USA youngster a chance in matches.