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Mauricio Pochettino has confirmed that wonderkid Marcus Edwards will begin training regularly with the Spurs first team in the coming weeks.
Edwards is the name on a lot of
Tottenham Hotspur fans' lips at the moment as his reputation continues to grow in the club's development side where he has been hitting the goals in the Premier League 2.
The 17-year-old attacker is receiving similar attention from the
Lilywhites' fans and some sections of the media as Wayne Rooney did when he was coming through the ranks in the Everton youth set-up, although he broke through earlier into the first team at 16.
Edwards is expected to made his debut against Gillingham at White Hart Lane in the EFL Cup later this month. He made a big impression for the
Spurs' first team during their pre-season tour in Melbourne, Australia this summer with appearances from the bench against European giants Juventus and Atletico Madrid and then appeared again against Inter Milan in Oslo in the club's final friendly.
He returned to the development side at the beginning of the season after earning praise from Pochettino, who added that the youngster needed looking after to help him fulfil his potential.
The Argentine has always been a believer in giving youth its chance as a manager at Espanyol, Southampton and now Spurs. Tottenham had the youngest average age of any team in the Premier League last season and have continued that trend this season.
Now Pochettino has confirmed that Edwards could be set to begin training with the first team regularly at Hotspur Way after brief stints with them in recent months as well, with young full-back Kyle Walker-Peters having already being training with the side.
When asked what the likes of Josh Onomah and Harry Winks have to do to break into his starting XI at
Tottenham, he replied: "For me it is all about performance. If they show me in the training that that they are better than another player, then it is not a problem.
"You know that I don't have a problem to play them. I am sure that they will have possibilities to play this season.
"We've added another young player to train with us in Kyle Walker-Peters and we'll see about maybe Marcus Edwards coming to start to train regularly with us."