Tottenham youngster Marcus Edwards seems to have found his feet at Dutch club Excelsior.
He scored the equaliser on Sunday against FC Emmen and then set-up a teammate for the winner.
Following the game, and on the back of a man-of-the-match performance against Feyenoord in January, teammate Jeffrey Fortes heaped praise on the young attacker in an interview with Dutch outlet Football Primeur.
“He is of a bizarre level, what he can do is really not normal,” Fortes said.
“I have not experienced a better player in my career, and Mauricio Pochettino did not make that comparison with Messi for nothing.”
Fortes is a full international with Cape verde and has been at Exclesior for the past three years.
OPINION
Marcus Edwards seems to be suddenly re-capturing the form that he promised early on in his Tottenham career. It seems that the Tottenham ship has sailed, but never say never. If Edwards has grown up, ditched the attitude, and is becoming the player Poch thought he could be, then who knows? Edwards is still a Tottenham player and is under contract until 2020. Things will become a lot clearer in the summer when you have to imagine Spurs will make a decision on him. If they want to make any money from him they’ll have to sell him. Come next January he’ll be able to agree a pre-contract deal with an overseas club and then leave on a free the following summer. That could be the path he thinks is best for him, which could mean Tottenham sending him out on loan again. It’s a shame that he didn’t blossom at Tottenham – we think he could have been a frightening player if he’d developed under Pochettino.