Harry Redknapp compares Tottenham ace to Wayne Rooney, this season could be key

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Harry Redknapp believes that a Tottenham Hotspur player has similar potential to that of Wayne Rooney when he broke through as a teenager.

Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur have had a very promising pre-season with the club’s new signing Archie Gray impressing Spurs fans.

Spurs also completed the signing of Bournemouth’s Dominic Solanke over the weekend with the English striker tasked with replacing Harry Kane as the club’s leading striker.

As well as key new signings to bolster Postecoglou’s squad, the emergence of several academy players has meant this pre-season has been an exciting one. The emergency of Mikey Moore, who has been compared to Lamine Yamal, has been the standout.

Harry Redknapp compares Mikey Moore to Wayne Rooney

Sources have told HITC that Moore is closing in on a new Spurs contract with the teenager set to play a key role in the first team next season.

One manager who knows all about handing promising young players chances in the first team is Harry Redknapp, who was the man who took Gareth Bale’s game to a new level.

Speaking to Football.London, the former Spurs, Portsmouth and Queens Park Rangers manager was full of praise for Moore.

“If he’s good enough, stick him in,” Redknapp said. “The kid who played for Spain in the European Championship final (Lamine Yamal) was only 16.”

”We’ve had Wayne Rooney and Joe Cole, they all came in the team around that age. If he’s as good as everyone thinks he is, hopefully we will see him in the first team this year.”

Moore could be key for Spurs this season

A lot has been made about Archie Gray, who could be Tottenham’s most important signing of the summer.

As for Moore, however, the English teenager had attracted attention from Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain and he has excelled in pre-season.

Postecoglou previously hailed Moore as ‘incredible’ and the Australian could be set to hand the teenager multiple first-team chances for the Lilywhites this season.

Whilst it is unlikely that Moore will replicate the impact that 16-year-old Wayne Rooney made during his debut campaign for Everton, the Englishman has a chance to make a key breakthrough in his career.