Josh Onomah speaks about his Tottenham Hotspur exit and pre-season

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Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino didn’t even take Josh Onomah on pre-season tour with his side.

Josh Onomah has admitted to the London Evening Standard that spending pre-season with Tottenham Hotspur was difficult and he was ‘happy’ to move on in the end.

Onomah was not named in Tottenham’s pre-season squad, which was the first sign that Mauricio Pochettino had decided that he had no future at Hotspur Way.

Onomah was told to stay back at Spurs, as Tottenham looked to find him a new club.

It was only in the last minutes of the transfer window that Onomah finally got his move though, as he ended up joining Fulham.

And the youngster admits that he feels he is making a good step for his career.

“I had a difficult pre-season at Tottenham, but I always had faith the deal would get done. I was happy to move on deadline day and I’m happy to get started,” Onomah said.

“Every boy’s dream is to play in the Premier League and, yeah, that’s my dream too, but sometimes you have to take a step back and build to get to the top.”

Onomah made his Fulham debut on Tuesday, after leaving Tottenham.

The England youth international’s first appearance did not go according to plan, as Fulham were beaten by Southampton.

But the Spurs academy graduate will be hoping that his performance did enough to convince Scott Parker to keep him in Fulham’s starting line-up for their next match, which comes against Cardiff City tomorrow.