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Troy Parrott could be promoted to Tottenham Hotspur’s first-team next season, per Football.London.

On the chalkboard

Parrott has enjoyed an exceptional spell with the club’s youth teams and the report claims that he has made an impression on manager Mauricio Pochettino after training with the first-team during the final weeks of the 2018/19 campaign.

Indeed, the report states that he could be involved in the club’s tour of Asia next month, but is he ready for the step up?

Aged just 17, he is clearly a natural goalscorer and has scored goals at every level at which he has played.

He has 15 goals in 13 appearances for the Under-18s and two in 12 for the Under-23s, along with one assist.

A Republic of Ireland youth international, he has been capped at Under-17 and Under-19 level and has scored at both.

Football.London claim that he has been hailed as the “next Robbie Keane” after the former Spurs striker who scored 120 goals in 298 appearances for the club.

With Fernando Llorente having been released and Vincent Janssen also likely to leave this summer after long being a back-up, it makes sense that Parrott could be called up to provide depth behind Harry Kane.

A sensible move

If you’re good enough, you’re old enough.

It’s an ancient adage but it remains as true today as it was the first time it was said.

Parrott is a goalscorer, that much is evident, and we won’t know how good he is at first-team level until he is given a shot.

With Kane the undisputed first-choice, handing Parrott the chance to be his deputy can only aid his development, as he learns from perhaps the best out-and-out striker in world football.

He travelled with the first-team squad in December for the Premier League clash with Leicester City and Pochettino said afterwards that he is nearing his debut.

He said: "All the players that we have in the squad, the younger ones like Oliver Skipp or Troy Parrott, who was involved today for the first time, it's because they're involved in the first team during days, during weeks, during months, and it's only to give the possibility to play.”

His debut may not be too far off…