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Patient: Kyle Walker-Peters was named man of the match on his Premier League debut 12 months ago ( AFP/Getty Images )




A year is a long time in a footballer’s career but not much seems to have changed for Tottenham’s Kyle Walker-Peters.


The defender, 21, is still waiting patiently for first-team opportunities, having bookended last season with standout displays against Newcastle and Leicester.




Like last summer, Walker-Peters has impressed in pre-season here in the US but, crucially, he now feels different to the player who admitted he was too timid to yell at Christian Eriksen during a friendly in Orlando in July 2017.


“When you get to the first team, you’re looking at these players thinking ‘that’s Eriksen, that’s [Harry] Kane’,” Walker-Peters said in Los Angeles this week.

“But I’ve got to a stage now where I’m comfortable enough that if I feel I need to shout at someone, then I will. They’re not going to take it personally.”


Last season, injuries to other players presented Walker-Peters with a Premier League debut at Newcastle on the opening day and after the game he gave a dressing-room speech, as he clutched the man-of-the-match award, in front of team-mates and manager Mauricio Pochettino.




He did not start again in the league until the final day of the season against Leicester but, with England full-backs Kieran Trippier and Danny Rose not due back in training until Monday, he is hoping for a return to St James’ Park on August 11.


“From the first game of last season I was hungry for more but I always had in my head ‘stay patient’,” he said. “There’s a lot of room for improvement for me, even from those [Newcastle and Leicester] games.”



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Given he barely played last season, Walker-Peters is the perfect example of Pochettino’s policy of keeping his best young players at the club, rather than sending them on loan. But Walker-Peters knows he cannot have another season like the last.


“Before the last game of the season, I hadn’t played for a few months and there must be a reason why I did quite well in that game. The training helps,” said the Under-20 World Cup winner.



“That [confidence] has come in the last year, just from training with the first team, being with them every day.


“Spurs are a top team, so it’s harder to break in, but the manager will play young players if he feels they’re ready. It’s good for the academy boys to see there is a pathway to the first team — if you take your opportunities.”


Walker-Peters has taken his chance so far, but the question is when his next one will come.
 
I like him, I'm sure he will be first choice in a couple of years time.

Considering we have Trippier and Aurier I'd sent him on loan to a Premier League team with the option to call him back if either of the above get a serious(ish) injury.
 
Been meaning to ask why you always call him KPW Ex?

In our pre CL era I think he'd have been our first choice or at least regular rotation option by now. When Walker left he'd have competed with Tripps, we'd have been happy enough with it and his path to the first team wouldn't be blocked by a CL proven RB. Now we're spoiled and the level our youngsters need to be at is higher before they're given a chance. The path to the first team is far harder than it's ever been, even though our academy is supposedly in rude health.

I think more loans will probably help but the likes of N'Koudou and Marcus Edwards didn't exactly push on on theirs.
 
KWP needs to look at the other 2 and figure out where they are stronger than him. Aurier can be very impressive in the air and way more physical in his approach. Trippier's crossing is definitely stronger and he finds high levels of consistency. There's not a great defender in any of them, with KWP making stupid positional sense errors in the US this last week. All he can do is work at every aspect of his game and with of his chance.

Personally, I would like to see him out on loan in a struggling side where he has to dig in more.
 
Can see him becoming a decent wing back.

He has a lot to learn but he is still very young. He needs games so maybe a loan is a good idea?
 
freundorfoe said:
Been meaning to ask why you always call him KPW Ex?

In our pre CL era I think he'd have been our first choice or at least regular rotation option by now. When Walker left he'd have competed with Tripps, we'd have been happy enough with it and his path to the first team wouldn't be blocked by a CL proven RB. Now we're spoiled and the level our youngsters need to be at is higher before they're given a chance. The path to the first team is far harder than it's ever been, even though our academy is supposedly in rude health.

I think more loans will probably help but the likes of N'Koudou and Marcus Edwards didn't exactly push on on theirs.
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Dyslexia! That or poor tying skills..
 
Nick Real Deal said:
If he needs a loan Poch made an error stagnating him for a year.
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I'd say we knew his mentality and outlook wasn't what we needed it to be and and as he said himself, being with the first team put that right....

So far from stagnating, he's come on and is all the stronger mentally for it as well as for the last year where he was being worked physically to improve his upper body strength....

So it goes without saying, I think you're wrong on this one.
 
weren't we going to loan him before injuries last season and then kept him as cover for LB/RB?

Did he make any mistakes at RB or only when he was out of position?
 
If he was close to being considered for a loan there must be a reason why not. He could have physically developed on loan, got tougher on loan, been re- called from loan for whatever reason. We either needed him for cover or Poch wanted to develop him in house. It's a bit crystal ballish but I'm leaning towards the loan being better for him last season. This season is a different matter.
 
Nick Real Deal said:
If he was close to being considered for a loan there must be a reason why not. He could have physically developed on loan, got tougher on loan, been re- called from loan for whatever reason. We either needed him for cover or Poch wanted to develop him in house. It's a bit crystal ballish but I'm leaning towards the loan being better for him last season. This season is a different matter.
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But you've heard from the 'horse mouth' i.e. the lad himself about how it's transformed his character.....how can you argue with what he himself believes the difference it's made ?!

You're being counter intuitive now, sorry, just can't see what you're driving at on this one.
 
He said he was perhaps a little timid in respect of his dealings with our star players. I don't see that as mentally weak. It's expected.
I am driving at.... we don't really know what the outcome of a loan would have been . What I suspect is he would have got more game time on loan which he needs either to make or break him.
Im not the only one who was surprised or disappointed he didn't get any more game time after a MOM performance.

The horses mouth will say what he thinks people want to hear.
 
Nick Real Deal said:
He said he was perhaps a little timid in respect of his dealings with our star players. I don't see that as mentally weak. It's expected.
I am driving at.... we don't really know what the outcome of a loan would have been . What I suspect is he would have got more game time on loan which he needs either to make or break him.
Im not the only one who was surprised or disappointed he didn't get any more game time after a MOM performance.

The horses mouth will say what he thinks people want to hear.
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If a loan had been a disaster as he wasn't mentally ready, what would you have said then...?

I just can't see the point of second guessing all the experts we have at the club who would have been part of making that assessment, most especially when the ONLY facts we have to go on is what he himself has chosen to say!
 
It's no good wrapping him in cotton wool. A loan may have broken him but plenty others go through it. Seriously at 20 if he is that fragile mentally , it's a concern. It's a sport, at 20 I was leading a team of 50 plus adults twice my age.
 
Spursex said:
If a loan had been a disaster as he wasn't mentally ready, what would you have said then...?

I just can't see the point of second guessing all the experts we have at the club who would have been part of making that assessment, most especially when the ONLY facts we have to go on is what he himself has chosen to say!
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The experts who wanted Kane sold ?
 
Nick Real Deal said:
It's no good wrapping him in cotton wool. A loan may have broken him but plenty others go through it. Seriously at 20 if he is that fragile mentally , it's a concern. It's a sport, at 20 I was leading a team of 50 plus adults twice my age.
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These kids are molly coddled in elite academies now from the age of 9 - not all of them develop the way you think they should or could and when they don't at some point they have to be 'fixed' or let go..

Everyone is different, there is no one size fits all and one example makes no difference to that individuals development.
 
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