Why James Maddison has deleted controversial tweets and snubbed Newcastle for Tottenham

James Maddison is currently undergoing his Tottenham medical but has had to delete some of his tweets from 2013 when he was talking about players at Tottenham.

The midfielder has a year left on his current Leicester deal but is close to agreeing on a deal with the Lilywhites with broad reports claiming Spurs have agreed a fee in the region of £40million.

Newcastle United looked favourite to land him but the signing of Sandro Tonali from AC Milan opened the door for Spurs who have worked well and secured his signature.

Credit must be given to Maddison who also showed enough desire to want to move to north London, making negotiations quite straightforward in the end.

But fans on Twitter have been fast to notice that the England international has had to delete tweets from 2012 and again in 2013, criticising Spurs and claiming he ‘dislikes’ Tottenham. The tweets have all since been deleted.

In the first tweet in 2012 he wrote: ‘I hate Gareth Bale with a passion, calm down you monkey, [Jack] Wilshere is 10x better than you chimpanzee.’

A year later he tweeted: “‘Hope Luis Suarez destroys Tottenham today, don’t like Spurs! Especially that monkey everyone’s on about!’.

Maddison has been in brilliant form in the last two years and was a member of the England team that played at the World Cup in Qatar. He also was a member of the Leicester team that was relegated to the Championship last season.

Only last week there had been tweets on his account from 2012 and 2013 but as of today, he’s deleted them all leaving only those he sent out in 2019 till date.