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So the club have this morning announced the signing of Phillips.
In their words…..
We are delighted to announce the signing of Ashley Phillips from Blackburn Rovers.
The centre-back has signed a deal with the Club that will run until 2028.
Ashley, 18, started his youth career at National League North side Curzon Ashton before joining Blackburn as a 12-year-old in 2017. The defender quickly progressed through the Rovers academy, featuring regularly for the Under-18s aged just 15 and making his Under-23s debut the following season.
In 2021/22, he went on to make 11 appearances in Premier League 2 and spent most of the campaign training with the first team squad, making the bench for their FA Cup Third Round tie at Wigan Athletic in January, 2022.
Ashley’s first team debut came in a Carabao Cup Fourth Round win over Hartlepool United in August, 2022 – becoming the fourth youngest player in Blackburn’s history at 17 years and 45 days – and made his Championship debut against West Bromwich Albion a few days later.
Must admit, for me this is another great move for Spurs. My philosophy on squad management is buy for the first team now and at the same buy for the future. In Phillips case this is the latter, especially with our current defensive ranks so bloated. We just have to get them shifted.
Interestingly, Phillips is eligible to play for either England or Wales. He is labelled as having “unlimited potential” and was thrown into a tough level of football as a 17-year-old.
Anyway, this is yet another progressive signing for the club who clearly need to make space for these young guys to find a path for the first team. We have also seen Dorrington looking good at the same age and same position in our U21 side.
Welcome Ashley
In their words…..
We are delighted to announce the signing of Ashley Phillips from Blackburn Rovers.
The centre-back has signed a deal with the Club that will run until 2028.
Ashley, 18, started his youth career at National League North side Curzon Ashton before joining Blackburn as a 12-year-old in 2017. The defender quickly progressed through the Rovers academy, featuring regularly for the Under-18s aged just 15 and making his Under-23s debut the following season.
In 2021/22, he went on to make 11 appearances in Premier League 2 and spent most of the campaign training with the first team squad, making the bench for their FA Cup Third Round tie at Wigan Athletic in January, 2022.
Ashley’s first team debut came in a Carabao Cup Fourth Round win over Hartlepool United in August, 2022 – becoming the fourth youngest player in Blackburn’s history at 17 years and 45 days – and made his Championship debut against West Bromwich Albion a few days later.
Must admit, for me this is another great move for Spurs. My philosophy on squad management is buy for the first team now and at the same buy for the future. In Phillips case this is the latter, especially with our current defensive ranks so bloated. We just have to get them shifted.
Interestingly, Phillips is eligible to play for either England or Wales. He is labelled as having “unlimited potential” and was thrown into a tough level of football as a 17-year-old.
Anyway, this is yet another progressive signing for the club who clearly need to make space for these young guys to find a path for the first team. We have also seen Dorrington looking good at the same age and same position in our U21 side.
Welcome Ashley