The Clarets have a strong ex-Spurs contingent. For starters, there’s manager Scott Parker, who straddled the Harry Redknapp and Andre Villas-Boas eras and summer signing Kyle Walker, who developed into the best right-back in the country under Mauricio Pochettino.
It’s difficult to remember a Spurs youth teamer generating as much excitement before or since Marcus Edwards’ brief breakthrough early on in the Pochettino era.
“Sometimes I wonder whether it was wise to liken him to Messi. He’s only 17. At that age, Messi was making his debut for a Barcelona side featuring Ronaldinho,” Pochettino later said in journalist Guillem Balague’s book Brave New World.
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Dan Micciche has worked with academy players at Tottenham, England, MK Dons, Arsenal and Everton, and is now academy director at Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
“I probably would have said Marcus Edwards,” Temisan Williams, another experienced youth coach, told The i Paper last week when asked which young player had most caught his eye.
Edwards was a bona fide superstar in academy football; it has taken him far longer to reach the top-flight than many coaches would have anticipated.
Like many of his generation, he started over in Europe, impressing on loan at Rotterdam-based Excelsior before signing for Vitoria de Guimaraes in Portugal on a free.
He also terrorised Spurs in the Champions League three years ago, almost scoring a magnificent solo goal at the Jose Alvalade Stadium before going one better at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with a crisp strike from range.
A mercurial talent like Edwards may seem like an unnatural fit in a Parker-coached team, though the pair crossed paths at Hotspur Way while the former England midfielder was doing his coaching badges.
Nevertheless, Edwards made a solid contribution, scoring and assisting a goal apiece in 14 league matches, 12 of which came as a starter. His introduction into the team coincided with Burnley becoming more prolific: they averaged 2.1 goals per game in their final 15 games, compared to 1.1 in their first 31.
“It’s the best dressing room I’ve ever been in; everyone is really close and actually friends away from football, it’s class,” he said.
“Every player wants to play in the Premier League and now we’re there, I’m excited. I can’t wait for it now.”
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Maybe that line-up was instructive ahead of Burnley’s opener away to a “Big Six” opponent who delivered a promising display in defeat to PSG in Thomas Frank’s first competitive fixture.
Such was the fanfare surrounding the boy wonder from Enfield, there will always be a tinge of sadness that he didn’t make it at Spurs, mixed with pride at what he has gone on to achieve elsewhere.
Edwards, who once scored against Arsenal at the Emirates while at Vitoria, will be welcomed back by supporters always eager to see one of their own do well. Just as long as he doesn’t score the winner on Saturday.
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