Tottenham fans are slowly underappreciating Pedro Porro again

Recently, Tottenham Hotspur supporters were asked which key player they would be most willing to sacrifice in a transfer sale, and a surprising number of them chose Pedro Porro despite the fact that he is the only true right back in the squad. Plus, Porro was the best right back at the 2026 World Cup, shutting down the flank and constantly progressing the ball forward as an unsung hero of Spain's tournament triumph.

Although Porro had a difficult 2025/26 Premier League season, he was not the only key player to suffer badly under Thomas Frank as the club lost motivation for football and descended pretty deep into the relegation battle. But Roberto De Zerbi saved both Spurs and the likes of Porro, who was already rebounding into a top class right back before the 2025/26 season ended and before he showed his quality on the world stage for Spain.

Porro is clearly suffering from a World Cup hangover, and while he was dreadful in his return from a hamstring injury as a starter against Leeds United in Spurs final game before the November international break, the fact that Real Madrid and Manchester City wanted him before De Zerbi got Spurs to wisely extend his contract prior to the World Cup even starting is yet another indication of the perception of his quality.

Everyone else seems to acknowledge that Pedro Porro is a world class right back, but just a few poisoned games into a difficult 2026/27 Premier League season for fitness after a grueling World Cup and Porro is back to receiving a lot of doubts.

Selling Porro over the injury prone James Maddison and a player like Dejan Kulusevski whose short and long term health is in question makes little sense, and in terms of positional value, since Mohammed Kudus isn't even the best right winger in the team and the ambipedal Luca Williams-Barnett is emerging, Porro has to be seen as much more valuable than the Ghanaian winger, too.

The truth is, Tottenham Hotspur do not have to sell any of their key players, really, but it is egregious to have Porro as the first name on the chopping block when all he has done wrong is ball out at the World Cup and not get a chance to recover because of FIFA's ridiculus scheduling.

Porro is still a top, top player, and there isn't a single right back Tottenham could sign who would even be 70 percent as good as him.