Tottenham have already confirmed some changes to their first-team squad as they get their plans in place for the 2025/26 season. In a club statement released on Saturday morning, the north London club revealed that Fraser Forster, Alfie Whiteman and Sergio Reguilon will be departing at the end of their contracts.
Timo Werner's loan deal will also not be extended, meaning he will return to RB Leipzig come July 1. The statement also mentioned that Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's Marseille loan move will become permanent and the same goes for Kevin Danso after initially joining Spurs on loan from RC Lens at the end of the January transfer window.
Danso was one of the changes to Ange Postecoglou's Tottenham squad for the remainder of the 2024/25 campaign as he made the move along with Mathys Tel and Antonin Kinsky in the winter market. Danso is classed as homegrown in the Premier League due to his time in England as a youngster and that meant Spurs avoided adding him to their non-homegrown numbers in the league.
Due to the different rules between the Premier League and UEFA club competitions when it comes to homegrown and non-homegrown players, it has been a balancing act for the club in recent years to ensure they comply with the regulations. It will once again be the case next season when it comes to submitting their 25-man squad to the Premier League in September.
Back in February, Tottenham had 24 players (ten homegrown, 14 non-homegrown) in their 25-man squad and then they had 62 to choose from on their Under-21 list. The Under-21 list has proved extremely useful to Tottenham in recent seasons due to the amount of options in their main squad.
For the 2024/25 season, Archie Gray, Lucas Bergvall, Wilson Odobert, Mathys Tel and Kinsky were just some of the options on there as they were born on or after January 1, 2003 to be classed as an Under-21 player.
From next campaign, four players will step up from the Under-21 list to the 25-man squad as the rules will change slightly. Players will have had to be born on or after January 1, 2004 to be eligible for the Under-21 list.
Tottenham will have four new names to add to their Premier League squad next season due to the change of date for Under-21 players. Kinsky is one of them as he was born in March 2003, with Josh Keeley and Alejo Veliz also born the same year.
The trio will have to be included as non-homegrown players, with Keeley, who joined from St Patrick's Athletic in 2022, missing out on homegrown status as he has not been registered with a club affiliated to the Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons, before his 21st birthday.
Matthew Craig will also make the step up from the Under-21 list to the main squad as he was born in April 2003. However, players such as Craig, Keeley and Veliz may not even end up making the 25-man Premier League squad for the 2025/26 campaign as loan or permanent moves could be in the offing.
The upcoming departures of Forster, Whiteman, Reguilon and Werner generates space on Tottenham's main squad list as they took up two homegrown and two non-homegrown spots.