The rise of Archie Gray and other top youngsters for Spurs this season

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00:00Looking at Archie Gray and the rise of him this season, across the Spurs fanbase he's

00:07been really a fan favourite coming in and they went with that theme around the transfer

00:14situation in the summer that they're going to invest in the future a bit with Bergwald

00:19as well. How impressive has Archie Gray been coming into this side, playing out of position

00:25as well, still delivering top performances in the top flights. What does it say for his

00:30future and the mark he's already made on the club?

00:33He's been absolutely imperious. I'd go as far to say he's a generational talent. I was

00:40at the stadium last week against Ellsbourg and he just never put a foot wrong. He really

00:46does look a class act. He reads the game so well and as you rightly say, he's played in

00:50every position on the pitch practically by his own, which is the holding midfielder.

00:54I think we've only seen him there for pretty much 30-40 minutes the whole season. He's

00:58played right back, he's played left back, he's filled in at centre-back. Against Brentford

01:04he was absolutely magnificent. You see flashes of his ability to read the game, but also

01:11to carry the ball out as well. He's got such skill, he's very, very composed. He's had

01:16a couple of tough moments where he's not quite pushed out quick enough with the high line

01:20and he's been playing players onside. But he's not a natural centre-back, so that's

01:25not to say he might become one because he's been very, very good there. But I think we're

01:29seeing not only a future England international, I'd go as far to say we're seeing a future

01:34Tottenham captain. If we can hang on to him, he could be the bedrock of Tottenham for the

01:39next 10 years and beyond because he's really, really magnificent. I think there's a lot

01:43of talk that he's becoming a natural leader in the dressing room. You saw how humble he

01:47is with the fans there at Tamworth a few weeks ago in the FA Cup with the young lad and his

01:52boots and exchanging the scarf. He just looks like he's come from a very good footballing

01:58family. He's had a great grounding at Leeds. He's already establishing himself as a really,

02:04really important player for Spurs at 18 years old. I think the benefit of bringing Kevin

02:08Danso in and possibly another means that now we can hopefully move him into midfield and

02:15we can really build that team around him because, as I say, he's such an exciting talent.

02:20Thank goodness we got that deal done in the summer. That was a real plus for us in terms

02:24of the transfer window then. Obviously, after all the negative surrounding Spurs this season,

02:30has the young players just been that shining light? That's something that you can hold

02:34on and if you are to look back on this season, if he needs to go trophalless, for example,

02:39you can say it was a big building block in terms of the future of these younger players.

02:45It's a huge experience, isn't it? You probably learn more in the face of adversity than you do

02:49if you're winning every week. That's certainly been the case for Spurs in the last two or three

02:53months. Like I say, Archie Gray, Luke Spurgvall, you'd even throw the likes of Jed Spence into

02:58there. Jed Spence, lots and lots of fans have been wondering why three managers have been in

03:05charge when Jed Spence has been at the club and he's never seen the light of day. You're seeing,

03:10yes, again against Brentford, absolutely superb performance. Playing at left-back,

03:15he was getting forward, he pretty much marked Mbwema out of the game. He's done the same to

03:19Salah when we played Liverpool. Really, really strong performances and he's an exciting talent

03:24to get him back on the right-hand side and challenge Poro for that right full-back position

03:28when Adobe comes back. The future is definitely bright there for Jed Spence. You've got the young

03:34goalkeeper, Kinski's coming, first clean sheet in the Premier League. He's had a decent start.

03:39Obviously, a couple of wobbles here and there. Then you've got Mikey Moore, who scored his first

03:43goal for Spurs in the Europa League. His experience has been invaluable to him. He's shown flashes of

03:49just what a talent he's going to be this season. I think, to be fair to Ang, he's got to manage

03:55these players very, very carefully. We've thrown Graeme Burgvall in. He's been a little bit more

03:59cautious with Mikey Moore and I think that's right. You've got to manage him. He's 17 years old,

04:04but the future is certainly bright. You'd add one or two others to that. The likes of Jamie Donnelly

04:10out on loan at Leighton Orion. He's having a terrific run there. Certainly, a shining light

04:16in the season has been the young players. In a lot of ways, they've perhaps shown some of the

04:22more senior members of the Spurs squad how it's done, really. Read into that what you will in

04:27terms of the senior players at Tottenham.

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