Spurs signed Souleymane Coulibaly when he was just sixteen years old, after the young striker had starred for the Ivory Coast in the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup, where he scored nine goals in four matches. Described as the next big thing in African football and the next Didier Drogba, it was an exciting signing and, sooner rather than later, Coulibaly was expected to make it in to the Spurs first team squad. Perhaps rather foolishly, the club didn't give him a single first team opportunity and, after a loan spell in Italy with Grosseto, sold him to their fellow Italian side Bari in 2014 at the age of 19. Coulibably is a powerful striker with a definite eye for goal and, at a time when the club are struggling to find the net - particularly the club's strikers - he should have been afforded a first team opportunity at Spurs, which would have enabled him to develop into the incredible player he could be, rather than discarded.
