Vicarage Road side chase White Hart Lane duo.
Newly promoted Watford have set their sights on Tottenham midfield duo Paulinho and Etienne Capoue according to the Daily Mirror.
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Tottenham paid £17 million to bring Paulinho in from Corinthians two years ago, and although his debut campaign was a fairly promising one, he found himself out of Mauricio Pochettino’s first-team plans last term during which he made just three Premier League starts..
French international Capoue featured more prominently under Pochettino but was still behind Nabil Bentaleb and Ryan Mason in the Tottenham pecking order and of the two players targeted by Watford it is the capture of the former Toulouse man who is apparently closest to joining the Vicarage Road side.