Gray opens up on ‘crazy’ first few weeks at Tottenham

Tottenham’s latest summation Archie Gray says he has had a blast during his first fewer weeks astatine nan club.

The 18-year-old signed from Leeds successful a woody that could transcend £40million and he has already impressed fans of nan club.

Gray has had to capable successful astatine centre-back for Spurs’ pre-season games truthful acold successful nan absence of Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero and Radu Dragusin, but he has looked calm and composed astatine his caller home.

The Young Lion plays his champion shot astatine either right-back aliases cardinal midfield but will person a reliable clip unseating immoderate of Tottenham’s existent harvest of staring stars.

However, Gray remains thing but affirmative arsenic he continues to settee successful and he will characteristic passim nan club’s circuit of Japan and South Korea successful nan coming weeks.

Speaking to nine media, he said: “It has been superb truthful far.

“I person enjoyed training a batch and conscionable getting to cognize everyone. It has been a spot crazy.

“This is wherever you get your bully activity in, your squad bonding in, and I deliberation it’ll beryllium an important 2 weeks.” 🙌

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“I person been watching them connected TV since I was fifteen, possibly moreover younger, particularly Ben [Davies] and group for illustration [Heung-Min] Son – they are players I person looked up to.

“It is conscionable intelligence to deliberation that I will hopefully beryllium playing pinch them. It has been bully truthful far.”

10 up for Davies

Gray mentioned Ben Davies arsenic an inspiration for him while increasing up and it is nary astonishment that nan Welshman sits precocious successful his estimations.

The defender has precocious marked his tenth twelvemonth astatine Spurs, making him nan longest-serving subordinate astatine nan club.

He reflected connected nan past decade and admitted putting nan achromatic garment connected ne'er gets old.

Davies said: “It’s 1 of those things wherever it’s evidently a agelong time, but it’s felt very quick. There person been plentifulness of ups, plentifulness of downs arsenic well, but I wouldn’t person it immoderate different way… it’s been great.

“There are truthful galore highlights, but I deliberation backmost to erstwhile I made my debut for this club, nan first clip you propulsion connected nan shirt, you realise nan magnitude of this club, you realise who you are playing for, and you consciousness that responsibility.

“Over 10 years later, that emotion has ne'er gone away.”