Speaking on the Gold and Guest Talk Tottenham Podcast, Alasdair Gold has been discussing Oliver Skipp and how he is viewed within the footballing world.
Skipp’s career to date has been rather strange. He came through as a teenager failing to impress in a few cameos for Tottenham, but a loan spell to Norwich City saw the hype around his talents grow immensely.
Sadly though, since returning to Tottenham last summer he hasn’t really been able to build on the good work he did in East Anglia, and he’s been a bit-part player of the past 12 months.
Desite this, Gold says that Skipp is still rated very highly within the game, stating that people at Spurs and people within the England setup think he’s going to be a big player within the Premier League.
Skipp rated highly
Gold shared what he’s heard about the young midfielder.
“With Skippy, I hope he gets his chance because people underestimate just how good Oliver Skipp can be. He gets lumped into the category of Harry Winks and Tom Carroll and people think he’s just another one of them. He is not. People within the game, within the England setup and at Tottenham, they think he’s going to be a big, big Premier League player,” Gold said.
Time on his side
Skipp may not be at that sort of level yet, but he does have time on his side.
At the age of just 22, the Englishman has more than a decade of top-level football ahead of him, and given what we saw from him at Norwich, there’s every reason to believe he will go on to be a Premier League star.
Whether or not that is at Tottenham remains to be seen, he’s struggling to get into this team at the moment and with the north London club linked with a number of midfielders in January, he could slip down the pecking order further.
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