Marcus Edwards is unlikely to make the breakthrough at Tottenham after failing to convince Mauricio Pochettino, according to the Evening Standard.
The newspaper claim the 20-year-old attacking midfielder “was once considered the equal of Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho” but the Spurs coaching staff do not believe he has what it takes to fire for their first team in the future.
The Standard report Pochettino has not been convinced by the dedication of Edwards, who is on a season-long loan at Dutch Eredivisie club Excelsior.
OPINION
Edwards may be the equal of Sancho in terms of raw ability and skill, but they appear to be poles apart in terms of willingness to do everything on and off the pitch into making it as an elite footballer. Mauricio Pochettino panned Edwards’ attitude and mentality in his autobiography after previously, and foolishly, comparing him to Lionel Messi, and it is a measure of how the 20-year-old has stalled that he barely figured while on loan at Norwich City last season and has hardly ripped it up in Holland in the current campaign. The right-sided attacker has scored just a single goal in 14 matches for Excelsior. By contrast, fellow Englishman Sancho has been a massive hit after swapping the Manchester City reserves for the Bundesliga. The 18-year-old is a mainstay of the Borussia Dortmund starting XI and has been a key man in their surge to the top of the league, scoring seven goals and supplying 10 assists from 24 matches this season.