The north London club have handed a new deal to one of their versatile young defenders after a tough season in his career
Tottenham have handed a new contract to long-serving defender Maeson King after a season which saw him come back from a long-term injury.
The 20-year-old, who can play as a left-back or centre-back, has been around the first team set-up in recent seasons, training with them at times during this campaign and last season was named on the bench for both the Premier League victory at Southampton and the Europa League draw with Roma.
King joined Spurs a decade ago as a 10-year-old and after going full-time as a scholar in 2022, he was part of the north London club’s squad that won both the Under-17 and Under-18 Premier League Cup double in the 2022/23 season under Stuart Lewis.
The defender then penned his first professional contract midway through the 2023/24 campaign and later in that season he ended up playing a key role in the defence to help Wayne Burnett’s Under-21s side lift the Premier League 2 title.
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A long term injury kept King out of action for much of this season until January this year, but he returned to play eight of the remaining matches on the left side of the U21s’ back line.
King has played more than 78 games for Tottenham’s U21s and U18s over recent years and will now get the chance to continue as one of the older heads in the development squad.
The young defender will be hoping to get more opportunities to train and work with Roberto De Zerbi’s first team if he can put his injury woes behind him and impress for Burnett’s side this campaign.
