The Spurs have made some important trades on the transfer market in recent months, and in the latest episode of this saga, Brooklyn Lyons-Foster will leave for Veikkausliiga on a free transfer.
The main story at Tottenham this season has been development. The team is one of the youngest in the Premier League and they have done a lot of work to make sure that these youngsters come not only from around the world but also from within.
Jamie Donley and Alfie Dorrington, two promising players from the youth academy, are two such players who have made several appearances for Spurs this season.
For other promising players, loans have been a club strategy to secure playing time in order to increase their experience for possible first-team call-ups or, conversely, to increase their market value in order to achieve higher transfer amounts.
Thirteen players are currently on loan, including U-21 talents Alejo Veliz (Sevilla), Ashley Phillips (Plymouth Argyle) and Troy Parrott (Excelsior Rotterdam), who has scored seven goals for the Eredivisie side this season.
It is a sad reality of youth development programmes that sometimes the interests of the club and the player do not align, or one side outgrows the other. In this case, it seems that there is simply no more room for Lyons-Foster in north London, especially with the recent purchase of Radu Dragusin and the investment in Ashley Phillips for the coming years.