Tottenham's young stars have stepped up this season, proving to be the club's brightest sparks at the highest level.
With over ten key first team players sidelined due to an unlucky spell of injury, emerging talents as young as eighteen years old have seized their chance, giving fans hope for the future.
With over ten key first team players sidelined due to an unlucky spell of injury, emerging talents as young as eighteen years old have seized their chance, giving fans hope for the future.
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00:00How impressive has Archie Gray been coming into this side, playing out of position, still
00:27delivering top performances in the top flight? What does it say for his future and the mark
00:32he's already made on the club?
00:35He's been absolutely imperious. I'd go as far to say he's a generational talent. I was
00:42at the stadium last week against Ellsbourgh and he just never put a foot wrong. He really
00:47does look a class act. He reads the game so well and, as you rightly say, he's played
00:51in every position on the pitch practically by his own, which is the holding midfield
00:55We've only seen him there for 30-40 minutes the whole season. He's played right-back,
01:00he's played left-back, he's filled in at centre-back. Against Brentford, he was absolutely
01:06magnificent. You see flashes of his ability to read the game, but also to carry the ball
01:13out as well. He's got such skill, he's very, very composed. He's had a couple of tough
01:17moments where he's not quite pushed out quick enough with the high line and he's been playing
01:22players onside, but he's not a natural centre-back. That's not to say he might become one because
01:28he's been very, very good there. I think we're seeing not only a future England international,
01:33I'd go as far to say we're seeing a future Tottenham captain. If we can hang on to him,
01:38he could be the bedrock of Tottenham for the next 10 years and beyond because he's really,
01:42really magnificent. I think there's a lot of talk that he's becoming a natural leader
01:46in the dressing room. You saw how humble he is with the fans there at Tamworth a few weeks
01:51ago in the FA Cup with the young lad and his boots and exchanging the scarf. He just looks
01:57like he's come from a very good footballing family. He's had a great grounding at Leeds and
02:02he's already establishing himself as a really, really important player for Spurs at 18 years
02:07old. I think the benefit of bringing Kevin Danso in and possibly another means that now
02:14we can hopefully move him into midfield and we can really build that team around him because,
02:18as I say, he's such an exciting talent. Thank goodness we got that deal done in the summer.
02:23That was a real plus for us in terms of the transfer window then.
02:28Obviously, after all the negative surrounding Spurs this season, has the young players just
02:33been that shining light? That's something that you can hold on and if you are to look back on
02:38this season, if he needs to go trophalless, for example, you can say it was a big building block
02:43in terms of the future of these younger players. It's a huge experience, isn't it? You probably
02:49learn more in the face of adversity than you do if you're winning every week, don't you? That's
02:52certainly been the case for Spurs in the last two or three months. Like you say, Archie Gray,
02:56Luke Spurgvall, you'd even throw the likes of Jed Spence into there. Jed Spence, lots and lots of
03:03fans have been wondering why three managers have been in charge when Jed Spence has been at the
03:07club and he's never seen the light of day. You see him again against Brentford, absolutely
03:14superb performance, playing at left-back, he was getting forward, he pretty much marked
03:18him out in the game. He's done the same to Salah when we played Liverpool, really, really strong
03:23performances. He's an exciting talent to get him back on the right-hand side and challenge Poro
03:28for that right full-back position when Adobe comes back. The future's definitely bright there for Jed
03:33Spence. You've got the young goalkeeper, Kinski's coming, first clean sheet in the Premier League.
03:38He's had a decent start, obviously a couple of wobbles here and there. And then you've got Mikey
03:43Moore, who scored his first goal for Spurs in the Europa League. His experience has been invaluable
03:49to him. He's shown flashes of just what a talent he's going to be this season. I think, to be fair
03:54to Ang, he's got to manage these players very, very carefully. We've thrown Graeme Burgvall in,
03:59he's been a little bit more cautious with Mikey Moore and I think that's right. You've got to
04:03manage him, he's 17 years old. But the future is certainly bright and you'd add one or two
04:09others to that. I mean, the likes of Jamie Donnelly out on loan at Leighton Orient,
04:12he's having a terrific run there. So, yes, certainly a shining light in the season has
04:18been the young players. In a lot of ways, they've perhaps shown some of the more senior
04:24members of the Spurs squad how it's done, really. So, read into that what you will,
04:27in terms of the senior players at Tottenham.