A new youth player just dropped. According to multiple sources including Football.London’s Alasdair Gold, Spurs are set to announce the signing of 16-year old Northern Ireland striker phenom George Feeney for Tottenham Hotspur’s academy.
Feeney reportedly became Glentoran’s youngest ever goal scorer last year at age 15 in one of the NIL cup’s early rounds, and he’s on the fast track to crack SOME national team or other; he’s already capped for Northern Ireland and Wales’ youth sides; Feeney was born in Wales but is the son of Northern Ireland international Warren Feeney.
I really can’t tell you much more about this kid — just that he’s talented, extremely young, and looks to be a promising player. This is, I’ll say again, the kind of signing Spurs should be making all the time — it costs very little to bring in talented youth players, and as one of my colleagues pointed out in Carty Free’s Slack channel today, even if he never makes it for Spurs it’s worth keeping this kind of young player pipeline going. Selling one of these kids — Troy Parrott, say — for like £9m or so essentially funds any number of promising future prospect purchases, so you keep doing it and hope that one day a Harry Kane develops and becomes your all-time leading scorer. Or not, and you keep selling these kids elsewhere for decent money.
So this is cool, and maybe we’ll all start obsessing about Feeney the way we do the players in this current generation of Spurs youth. I’m all for snaffling up all the talented national and international youth we possibly can.