Spurs have an abundance of young talent waiting for minutes either out on-loan or in the first team, and unfortunately many of them may soon be seeking football elsewhere as they enter their early twenties if they can’t make the breakthrough into the first team here.
The likes of Josh Onomah, Marcus Edwards, Luis Binks and Noni Madueke have all left the club in recent years with first team football on the table and have all enjoyed success since that they perhaps may not have enjoyed whilst at Spurs.
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In the goalkeeping department, Spurs currently have academy graduates Alfie Whiteman and Brandon Austin in the first-team, although Whiteman is currently injured and Austin is out on-loan at MLS side Orlando City.
Joshua Oluwayemi has been drafted into the first team after featuring in the Under 23’s side this season plenty and having been on loan at Maidstone United earlier in the season.
Been very impressed with him in the streamed games i’ve seen this season and last, seems a commanding presence in net and is the captain of the 18’s. Hope club get him tied down on a long term deal and then out on loan next season. Looks like we may have a keeper on our hands 🙌🏼
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Below them is French 18-year-old Timothee Lo-Tutala, who is captain of the under 18’s side, and he is viewed by the youth team staff as a future first-teamer if he continues developing at the same trajectory as he is right now.
The goalkeeper was also due to appear for France Under-18’s, but restrictions because of the Coronavirus prevented him from doing so as his national team only selected players playing in their country for that level of youth international football.
Lo-Tutala’s progress has caught the eye of teams in Holland and France, but not just any old teams, the clubs that are competing at the top of the Eredivisie and the Ligue 1, according to Foot Mercato.
PSG know all about the goalkeeper, as manager Mauricio Pochettino and goalkeeping coach Toni Jimenez worked with him during their time at Spurs, even inviting Lo-Tutala to train with the first team on occasion, however it is unclear at this point whether or not the French giants are one of the clubs interested.
What is clear though is that this young goalkeeper has a big future ahead of him after impressing this season in the Spurs youth team, and it would be very fitting if the successor to Hugo Lloris is also a French goalkeeper who happens to be a very mature and commanding leader of the team, which Lo-Tutala has demonstrated this season.