Tottenham Hotspur have secured the future of highly-rated winger Mikey Moore.
Moore, 16, has agreed his first professional contract at Spurs, which will be finalised this Sunday when he turns 17, with an announcement to follow.
Tottenham have offered Moore a bigger salary than they ever have done before for a player turning 17, a recognition of Moore’s talent and performances and the interest in him.
Moore has agreed a three-year deal, the longest allowed by FIFA regulations for players under the age of 18.
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Moore first broke into the Spurs first team at the end of last season, making two late substitute appearances in Premier League games, becoming Spurs’ youngest player to make a Premier League appearance when they faced Manchester City on 14 May.
Since then he has been a key part of Ange Postecoglou’s team in pre-season, scoring against Hearts, Vissel Kobe and a Japanese youth international side.
“Mikey has been fantastic since we brought him in,” Postecoglou said after the Vissel Kobe game. “He’s earned his spot on the roster at the moment, he did at the end of last year. He got a run with the first team because we could see in training that he was handling himself really well and that’s followed through into pre-season training.
“All we can do is keep allowing him to develop. We have to remember that last year he had some injuries and he is only 16, but yeah, super exciting.”
Moore has also shone for England Under-17s this summer during their European Championship campaign in Greece, scoring four goals before England were knocked out by eventual winners Italy on penalties in the quarter-final.
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