I was really impressed… Burnley’s Jack Cork hails loaned-out Tottenham Hotspur talent Joshua Onomah

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Joshua Onomah is thriving for Aston Villa.

Burnley midfielder Jack Cork has told Sky Sports that he feels Aston Villa loanee Joshua Onomah made a smart decision in choosing to leave Spurs on loan this season.

Onomah, 20, has come up through the ranks with Tottenham, and has long been tipped for stardom having featured for club and country across youth levels.

The midfielder has played 32 times for Spurs in all competitions, but with the youngster fearing for his first-team chances this season – and Tottenham’s desire to get him playing regularly – Onomah moved out on loan to Aston Villa for the season.

Onomah has impressed so far under Steve Bruce, notching two goals and one assist in 14 Championship games, and he particularly impressed against Preston North End on Wednesday.

Onomah not only showed his quality as a box-to-box midfielder with pressing, energy and determination, but also his quality on the ball, waiting for the perfect moment to pick out Robert Snodgrass for the second goal in a 2-0 win.

Spurs will be hoping for more of the same from Onomah over the course of the season, whilst it would also be hugely beneficial to English football if a player like Onomah can go some way to fulfilling his potential off the back of a loan move.

England’s youth sides have excelled in 2017, but players at top clubs may need to move out on loan – and one man who knows that is Jack Cork, who couldn’t make the grade at Chelsea, but moved out on loan to Bournemouth, Scunthorpe United, Southampton, Watford and Burnley during his time with the Blues.

The current Burnley ace has now told Sky Sports that he watched Onomah against Preston and was ‘really impressed’ with his display, praising him for being physical in the Championship, and also for going out and playing games regularly in a tough division, when he could have stayed at Tottenham and hoped for the best this term.

“I watched the first half of the Villa game (against Preston) the other night and I saw Onomah,” said Cork. “I didn’t know much about him before but I saw himself put himself about, get physical and I think that’s all you need. To put yourself out there, to be in a competitive environment where people depend on you to get results.”

“I was really impressed with him. He could probably have sat at Tottenham playing a couple of times, but you need games coming from that sort of environment,” he added.