Villa loan for Onomah
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Reports in the Birmingham press suggest that Aston Villa believe they have secured a loan deal for 20-year-old (21 next April) midfielder Josh Onomah.
Previously Mauricio Pochettino has said he would play more this season, yet now it looks as if he is being loaned out when in the past Pochettino has always said that he prefers to keep youngsters under his wing and not pick up bad habits elsewhere.
The players loaned out are the players we don't feel have a long term future at the club and last season, to me, Josh Onomah didn't look interested, lading me to wonder about his future. He helped England win the FIFA Under-20 World Cup and everyone went potty over him, it will be interesting to see how he gets on in the Championship, a move which suggests he is not ready for the Premier League.
One size doesn't fit all and game time might give him the development push he needs. Spurs gave him a new contract in February which keeps him at the club until 2020, but he'll only have 2 years left on it when he arrives back. Do we give him another before he leaves or negotiate hoping he'll sign another when he gets back?
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Another factor that may be included in the decision is who may be on the cards for coming late in the window. We're unlikely to get much info about that just yet, but you can be sure MP and his team have a fair idea by now. It may presage some interesting moves.
COYS!!
Waste of a place for a premier standard player on our bench.
Good riddance.
Now sign some quality and stop scrimping!
Exactly! Nevertheless, many like you suggested the same rubbish when Kane was coming through. So, in hindsight, we can all see what would happen if we were to think and work simply from our lack of gonads. Grow a pair! Life is generally a little more complicated than what appears easy. Choices have ramifications. Replacing Onomah with a 'finished article' player would be one of many similar steps which could lead to our being quite unable to perform at the level we're doing at the moment.
He'll go when the experts closest to him determine that's best for Spurs. I'm happy to leave that to their discretion. Maybe that won't be till he's too old to play. I can't say. I'm not one of those experts. It certainly doesn't seem to me that he's a lost cause yet. I've seen too many players struggle for the first couple of seasons before coming on strong, to jump so easily to unwarranted conclusions. Bale…