Tottenham Hotspur appear to have given Kyle Walker-Peters a huge promotion this summer.
With Kyle Walker-Peters seemingly being offered a big promotion at Tottenham Hotspur, it is rather baffling why he wasn’t played more by Mauricio Pochettino last term.
Tottenham have sold Kieran Trippier to Atletico Madrid, and it was hardly a move which came out of the blue.
Trippier’s departure from Spurs was predicted towards the end of last season, yet he retained the starting place in Tottenham’s team until the end of the campaign.
Walker-Peters was only afforded four Premier League starts and never featured in back-to-back games.
However, the 22-year-old now could find himself as Spurs’s first choice right-back next season.
With Juan Foyth’s credentials for the position still relatively unknown and Serge Aurier still up for sale (London Evening Standard), Walker-Peters could well be Tottenham’s starting right-back.
The Standard claims that Tottenham have no plans to bring in a new right-back as things stand.
It gives Walker-Peters the chance he has been waiting for, but he has not exactly been given a great pathway before this campaign, and that is baffling.
If Pochettino was planning this move, then surely he should have been played more often.
It is also strange to note that Walker-Peters was offered in a swap deal with Crystal Palace for Aaron Wan-Bissaka earlier this summer, as reported by The Times.
Wan-Bissaka would almost certainly have been an upgrade on Walker-Peters, but if Spurs were not certain on bringing the 21-year-old in, then surely that move was a risk.
It is hardly a glowing vote of confidence in Walker-Peters to have been offered out for transfer, just months before he potentially starts Tottenham’s first game of the season.
And Pochettino’s strategy with Walker-Peters does look slightly questionable, even though the youngster will surely be delighted to be getting his chance, whatever the circumstances.
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