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Troy Parrott

Further to this, Harry Kane (an actual 100m player) was going out on loan to championship clubs when he was 19-20.

That is what we can expect Parrott to do, rather than see him waltz into the first team with zero senior experience.
 
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Modric THFC said:
How many other 17 year olds have senior international caps?

How many other 17 year olds have a rabid national sports media speculating over everything he does?

How many other 17 years will be a priority of their agent and have the top clubs in Europe sniffing around.

If it comes to the 4th February (when he can sign a long term contract at 18) and he has a newly signed journeyman striker ahead of him, he is out of the Champions League squad and he has a manager who didn't trust young Salad and de Bruyne talking about pathways then there will be no signing of a contract.

Mourinho will be forcing a future 100m player to walk away.

The Kane injury had pulled back the veil and shown where he really is at the club. He was supposed to be convinced by the debut and the theatre of the match ball.

The only hope for Spurs is Parrott is a simple honest hard-working lad without the roosteriness that say Keane had at that age.

But his agent would be not advising properly if he signing him to a long term deal at club with record seeking Kane permanently in front of him, Mourinho as a manager and a chairman that can't move on players even when they want to go.
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He'll not be out of the CL squad. He can be registered in the B-list.
 
nayenezgani said:
One cap for Ireland? In a meaningless friendly. You can't use that as a benchmark.

The hype around Parrott is stupid, I mean really dumb. He's a great prospect, but he should be treated like every other academy player and given no special treatment. The end.
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The hype is because we (Ireland) are incredibly desperate for top quality players to break through
 
Dragon_Khan said:
The hype is because we (Ireland) are incredibly desperate for top quality players to break through
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Exactly this. We haven't had a player anywhere near the top level since Robbie Keane and Damien Duff and the last 5-8 years have been particularly dreadful. So this talented kid comes along and everyone wants him to be the next Keane/Duff. And it doesn't help that his club just has one proper striker because people then assume he should be next in line when Kane gets injured. It's not fair on the lad.
 
Modric THFC said:
He cant sign a long term contract until the 4th of February when he's 18.
So that's all flimflam
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We shouldn't have been waiting until 4th Feb to offer him a decent contract. There was nothing stopping us offering Parrot a very good short term contract prior to now and then improving on that again post 4th Feb.
 
Modric THFC said:
How many other 17 year olds have senior international caps?

How many other 17 year olds have a rabid national sports media speculating over everything he does?

How many other 17 years will be a priority of their agent and have the top clubs in Europe sniffing around.

If it comes to the 4th February (when he can sign a long term contract at 18) and he has a newly signed journeyman striker ahead of him, he is out of the Champions League squad and he has a manager who didn't trust young Salad and de Bruyne talking about pathways then there will be no signing of a contract.

Mourinho will be forcing a future 100m player to walk away.

The Kane injury had pulled back the veil and shown where he really is at the club. He was supposed to be convinced by the debut and the theatre of the match ball.

The only hope for Spurs is Parrott is a simple honest hard-working lad without the roosteriness that say Keane had at that age.

But his agent would be not advising properly if he signing him to a long term deal at club with record seeking Kane permanently in front of him, Mourinho as a manager and a chairman that can't move on players even when they want to go.
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Hopefully he has more patience than you do.

He's 17, soon to be 18. That's still very young. If the things you list are too much for him to stay around then fair enough. To not be judged as ready for a reasonable first team role for us at that age is hardly rare, even for supremely talenfed players.

Plenty of positives going around too. He has gotten minutes and been on the bench. Kane is here, but he must also be a massive player to learn from. We don't currently have a lot of good backup options to Kane, the potential of an older backup coming in would mean that a place would open up again soon. Mourinho is giving time to Tanganga (including a very big game) and Sessegnon.
Finney Is Back said:
We shouldn't have been waiting until 4th Feb to offer him a decent contract. There was nothing stopping us offering Parrot a very good short term contract prior to now and then improving on that again post 4th Feb.
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I'm sure the club is doing what they think is best to secure him to a new contract. He's clearly highly rated, we know it, everyone at the club knows it.
 
braineclipse said:
I'm sure the club is doing what they think is best to secure him to a new contract. He's clearly highly rated, we know it, everyone at the club knows it.
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If we had a Director of Football then I wouldn't be worried at all. However instead of that we have Daniel Levy. Unfortunately I wouldn't put it past Levy to have been thinking last summer: "why would I give him a million quid contract now only to have to improve it in February anyway. I can save the club £250k by just waiting until February".
 
milo said:
Nope. Youth team players train in blue socks. He was wearing white pre-Christmas. Let's hope that he signs a new contract and gets some game time.
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So why are 3 of the other players in the 'youth' team photo wearing white socks if all the youth train in blue?
 
Finney Is Back said:
If we had a Director of Football then I wouldn't be worried at all. However instead of that we have Daniel Levy. Unfortunately I wouldn't put it past Levy to have been thinking last summer: "why would I give him a million quid contract now only to have to improve it in February anyway. I can save the club £250k by just waiting until February".
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I don't think we have a history of losing young highly rated prospects? We all know City lost Sancho, Chelsea came close to losing Hudson Odoi, United lost Pogba. I can't remember the name right now, but I think Liverpool are struggling with one of their youngsters now.

With the success of Sancho and some others along with the competition for places at top clubs I think these situations will increase in frequency. The presence of an issue like this doesn't necessarily mean that it's being mismanaged. It might not be possible (within reason) to succeed in all cases. And the kind of speculation we're seeing now doesn't even necessarily indicate that there is any real underlying issue.

For now I'll trust that the club is doing the right thing. They have all of the information we have and orders of magnitude more. I see no possible way of even knowing from the outside what should be done at this point.
 
Modric THFC said:
How many other 17 year olds have senior international caps?

How many other 17 year olds have a rabid national sports media speculating over everything he does?

How many other 17 years will be a priority of their agent and have the top clubs in Europe sniffing around.

If it comes to the 4th February (when he can sign a long term contract at 18) and he has a newly signed journeyman striker ahead of him, he is out of the Champions League squad and he has a manager who didn't trust young Salad and de Bruyne talking about pathways then there will be no signing of a contract.

Mourinho will be forcing a future 100m player to walk away.

The Kane injury had pulled back the veil and shown where he really is at the club. He was supposed to be convinced by the debut and the theatre of the match ball.

The only hope for Spurs is Parrott is a simple honest hard-working lad without the roosteriness that say Keane had at that age.

But his agent would be not advising properly if he signing him to a long term deal at club with record seeking Kane permanently in front of him, Mourinho as a manager and a chairman that can't move on players even when they want to go.
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Didnt Edwards have half the top clubs in Europe sniffing around? How did that go?

You are having a go at Jose, yet Rshford played most games under him at United - he clearly plays players that think that are ready.

A future 100 million player away? based on what?

The hype over a kid we have seen play once at Colcheser is unreal.
 
Some on here thought Bentaleb, Edwards and Onomah were highly rated prospects along with CCV and probably the greatest lose the sensational Reece Oxford who the media wet themselves over and our lost of such an outstanding talent.
 
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