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 was delighted with his new contract and pointed to experienced defender Ben Davies' help in settling him into the first team environment. Davies has also had a season blighted by an ankle injury and is set to have his own contract extended by the north London club.
"It's an amazing feeling, you always want to be here and keep pushing and when you look around it's one of the best places to be so, yeah it's a really good feeling," King said in his club interview after putting pen to paper. "I signed here when I was nine from Sunday league and I've just progressed through the ranks, every age group and it's actually been a smooth ride so far.
"It's good being adaptable because it helps you to be able to cover many positions. Especially being left-footed it helps as well because there's not many left-footed defenders about."
He added: "Ben Davies especially being a left-back and him being a senior player, he brought me in quite well. He just brings you into the environment and tells you to just be yourself and train as if you're over with the under-21s so you don't have any stress or worries about who you're training with. It's a great experience and you learn so much from it just being in and around it even if it's just training."
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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.
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.
"Obviously I had a long term injury and just being in and around it every day keeps your mind focused on what you want to get back to instead of being completely disconnected from it," he said. "But when you're in and around it you want to get back to it as quick as possible so it definitely helps."
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.