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Tottenham to stick with youth recruitment model

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Teenage sensation Ryan Sessegnon has set his heart on a summer transfer to Tottenham, according to Football London.

The sports site claim Spurs will stick with their youthful transfer model this summer as they continue to focus on emerging stars with their best years ahead of them.

Football London report that one player who is increasingly likely to end up at White Hart Lane is dazzling Fulham wide man Sessegnon, who has emerged as one of the outstanding young players in English football.

It is said that Liverpool have already given up on signing the teenager as they believe he is fixed upon making the move from west to north London in the summer window.

Spurs could now be ready to spend big on Sessegnon as he fits the bill of a young player with vast potential and who can be developed by Mauricio Pochettino and his coaching staff on the training ground.

Sessegnon, who turned 17 last month, is regarded as the next Gareth Bale given the impact he has made since entering the professional game as a flying left-back, the position where the Real Madrid star began his career.

The teenager is so highly rated among his peers that he was last week named in the PFA Championship team of the season despite his tender age.

Sessegnon, who can play at both left-back and on the left wing, has made elite clubs sit up and take notice with his precocious Championship displays in the recently completed season.

He has scored seven goals from 30 first-team matches in the campaign and also weighed in with four assists, remarkable tallies for a player who is not only foremost a defender but also one who is so young.

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