{"id":217665,"date":"2025-06-27T04:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217665\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T04:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T04:17:17","slug":"tottenham-to-sign-16-year-old-leeds-striker-oliver-boast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/217665\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham to sign 16-year old Leeds striker Oliver Boast"},"content":{"rendered":"

One year ago, Tottenham Hotspur managed to pry Archie Gray out of Leeds United, snaffling up a player who was considered basically Leeds royalty. According to the Athletic, they\u2019re about to snap up another talented Leeds academy player.<\/p>\n

Spurs are reportedly set to sign 16-year old Leeds United striker Oliver Boast<\/a> to add to their development squad. Boast is considered one of the jewels of Leeds\u2019 academy, much like Gray and his little brother Harry, also a Tottenham target. Boast apparently has not yet signed a professional contract with Leeds, so compensation is an issue \u2014 according to The Athletic, Spurs can either work directly with Leeds to find an equitable transfer fee, or a football tribunal will intervene and set the fee. But either way, it sounds certain that Boast will be joining Spurs this summer.<\/p>\n

What kind of a player is Oliver Boast? Here\u2019s one paragraph from The Athletic\u2019s article that describes his style of play.<\/p>\n

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Those who have coached Boast at Thorp Arch describe him as a modern No 9, who can lead the line and can play as a lone striker. Boast\u2019s speed has been described as one of his best attributes, as he runs off the shoulder of the last man and gets in behind opposition defences.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s important not to put the cart in front of the horse when it comes to young players. Football is littered with talented 16 year old footballers who don\u2019t develop in the way they hope, or plateau at a level below that of the Premier League. That shouldn\u2019t be considered a failure per se; developing a player and selling him to a League Two club is still a definite win for Tottenham\u2019s academy, and players can have perfectly solid professional football careers even if they don\u2019t crack Spurs\u2019 first team. Look at someone like Troy Parrott, once one of the more exciting 16 year olds in Tottenham\u2019s academy \u2014 he\u2019s doing fantastic in the Eredivisie even if he never quite got to the point where he was an option for Spurs.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is a continuation of Tottenham\u2019s focus on finding, signing, and developing young talent. Spurs should be making a couple of these signings every window, as far as I\u2019m concerned. And if we\u2019re lucky, in a few years we\u2019ll all be able to brag about Boast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year ago, Tottenham Hotspur managed to pry Archie Gray out of Leeds United, snaffling up a player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[86222,748,6702,6701,393,5899,163,4884,1860,51340,11756,17747,52760,6093,1368,16,15,3118],"class_list":{"0":"post-217665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-boast","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-captain","11":"tag-cartilage","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-free","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-leeds","17":"tag-old","18":"tag-oliver","19":"tag-sign","20":"tag-striker","21":"tag-to","22":"tag-tottenham","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114753401434867898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}