Vinicius has faced the unenviable task of competing with and providing foil for Harry Kane and has scored just once in nine Premier League appearances.
The club are therefore not expected to take up the £36m option-to-buy inserted into Vinicius’s loan deal, and are looking elsewhere for other options ready for when the next transfer window opens.
Kane is ready to consider his own future at Tottenham after the European Championships this summer, with another season set to end trophyless and Champions League qualification very uncertain.
But chairman Daniel Levy has no interest in selling the club’s prized asset and instead intends to be more focused on finding a successful deputy; a problem Spurs have toiled with since Kane’s emergence in 2014-15.
After Roberto Soldado was sold, they tried both youngster Vincent Janssen from AZ Alkmaar and veteran Fernando Llorente – but both also found life hard in N17 and have since moved on.
