Tottenham announced on Tuesday that young midfielder star Lucas Bergvall had signed a new deal with the club that will keep the 19-year-old talent at the club until the summer of 2031. The new contract, which will reflect the player’s growing stature in Ange Postecoglou’s side, is a two-year extension on the deal Bergvall signed last summer, when he made the move to Spurs from Djurgården for €10 million.
Although the central midfielder was initially signed as a prospect who could potentially earn some game time off the bench in his first season at the club, an unprecedented number of injuries thrust Bergvall into the team’s first-team plans. Since mid-December, the Swedish star has been a regular for Postecoglou’s side in the Premier League. To date, he has one goal and four assists in 45 games across all competitions and has now started no fewer than 32 percent of Tottenham’s league games this season. As such, a new deal for the young star to better reflect his role in the team makes perfect sense.
Bergvall’s adaptability has made him a vitally important player to Tottenham this season. Played out left, as a defensive midfielder or even as an attacking playmaker, the young Swede seems to be perfectly content doing a job in just about any position in Postecoglou’s team. When asked about the player’s talent in January, the Spurs boss said: “Usually, midfielders will tend to be one or the other, but he seems to cover the defensive side of the game, have the technical ability to dictate tempos but also have the running capacity to break lines.”
As a rare source of hope in a deeply troubled season, Spurs fans have enjoyed watching Bergvall go from strength to strength for the club this season. So much so that Bergvall has already overtaken Yves Bissouma in Postecoglou’s midfield pecking order and will likely supplant Pape Matar Sarr too as a first-choice starter for the club’s midfield next season. Along the way, the midfielder’s market value has more than doubled from €12m to €25m during his first season in North London, making Bergvall the third most valuable midfielder aged 19 or younger in world football.