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Walker-Peters loan delayed

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Tottenham have delayed plans to loan out rising star Kyle Walker-Peters following the sale of Kyle Walker to Manchester City, according to Sky Sports.

The broadcaster claim on their website that Spurs’ early summer plan was to send out right-back Walker-Peters to a new club for the upcoming season in order to gain crucial first-team experience.

Sky Sports report that the decision to let the 20-year-old go has been put on hold until Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino’s right-back dilemma has been solved.

It is said that Pochettino is a big fan of the talents of academy product Walker-Peters even though he has yet to play for the London giants’ first team.

The England Under-20 international regularly trained with the senior Tottenham squad last season and was named on the substitute’s bench for a few matches.

He is now the deputy to Kieran Trippier following a change of the right-back pecking order after Walker joined City on Friday for a world-record defender’s fee of £54million.

Tottenham are reportedly in the market for a new right-back but it has been said that efforts to prise Ricardo Pereira from Porto are now dead in the water.

Sky claim that Spurs have been keeping tabs on a number of right-sided defenders including Monaco’s Djibril Sidibe and Mitchell Weiser, Jeremy Toljan and Benjamin Henrichs in Germany.

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