Jack Clarke briefly entered the realms of the wonderkid last season, but as he ends Tottenham Hotspur’s self-imposed transfer embargo many at his new club will just be wondering who he is. He is still only 18 and, as Danny Mills has helpfully pointed out, he is not Phil Foden. In truth he was not even Jack Harrison last season, the Manchester City loanee being favoured on the wing for Leeds United. Yet for a month at the start of the year Elland Road was buzzing with the thought that they had unearthed an academy gem. There was also the belief that with Marcelo Bielsa, that maverick existentialist, at the helm, the club might even forego decades of tradition and not drop their guard at…

Source: The Times June 27, 2019 11:03 UTC