Tottenham complete record-breaking transfer for wonderkid after deadline day

Tottenham had a engaged extremity to the wintertime transportation model and person present secured a woody to motion St Patrick's Althetic striker Mason Melia, who'll articulation Spurs successful January 2026

Tottenham person announced the signing of wonderkid striker Mason Melia successful a £1.5million woody from St Patrick's Athletic.

Melia, 17, volition stay with the Dublin nine for the 2025 League of Ireland play and articulation Spurs connected January 1 adjacent year. Aged 15, helium became the youngest subordinate ever to people successful the Irish apical formation and is the League of Ireland's archetypal ever £1m-plus sale.

A 20 per cent sell-on clause has besides been included, with Melia signing a declaration until 2031. It wraps up a engaged winter transportation window for Tottenham, who signed a full of six players.

Czech goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky arrived from Slavia Prague for £13m portion Austria planetary centre-back Kevin Danso was signed successful a indebtedness woody from Lens with an work to bargain for £21m. On deadline day, Spurs welcomed Mathys Tel from Bayern Munich connected indebtedness with an option to bargain acceptable astatine £45m.

Three much youngsters were besides brought in; Daniel Batty from Manchester City, Luca Furnell-Gill from Liverpool and Reiss-Alexander Russell-Denny from Chelsea. Tottenham method manager Johan Lange says that the nine are 'very satisfied' with their business, giving under-fire manager Ange Postecoglou further enactment amid Spurs' ongoing wounded crisis.

"Tony [Kinsky] is simply a goalkeeper that we person followed for rather immoderate time," Lange began. "He was a people that we were considering for the summer, but owed to Vicario's wounded we decided to spot if we could determination it guardant to January. It's a goalkeeper that, contempt his young age, is rather proven. He has been successful extremity successful the Czech divisions for the past fewer years.

"He is simply a precise modern goalkeeper and he's a goalkeeper that suits our benignant of play. We watched him 10 times since the summertime and had each item and cognition of him arsenic a character. We are precise excited that he's present astatine the nine and of people helium volition travel successful and compete. He had a speech with Ange astir the benignant of play and I deliberation that decidedly helped that helium was comfortable.

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"The mode we play we request players who acceptable that benignant and with Kevin [Danso], he's a precise bully stylistic fit," Lange continued. "He comes successful with precise bully acquisition some successful the Bundesliga and successful France arsenic good arsenic from the Austrian nationalist team. He comes successful astatine a bully property and with acquisition truthful helium tin instrumentality a relation from the archetypal day. I'm definite that his property volition play a immense portion successful the dressing country going forward.

"Mathys is simply a fantastic talent. He's successful a precise unsocial radical of players who astatine a young property has already played a batch of shot astatine a precise precocious level. I deliberation he's played astir 70 games successful the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich and played 15 times successful the Champions League already astatine the property of 19.

"He's a versatile attacking subordinate who has the X-Factor. He volition hopefully bring excitement to the stadium arsenic good and we can't hold to spot him acceptable escaped astatine our club, and hopefully we volition stock galore large experiences together."

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