Tottenham Hotspur striker Will Lankshear has completed a move to Championship side Middlesbrough.
Lankshear has signed a five-year deal with his new club.
The Athletic reported in June that there was significant interest from Championship teams in the 21-year-old, who spent last season on loan at Oxford United in the second tier.
Lankshear recorded 11 goals and four assists in 44 appearances for Oxford, who suffered relegation back to League One. Among his notable contributions was the winning goal against relegation rivals West Bromwich Albion in a 2-1 win in February and a double against Sheffield Wednesday in the penultimate match of the season.
The England under-20 international was named Oxford’s young player of the year following his first full season in senior football, having spent the second half of the 2024-25 campaign on loan at West Brom, where he failed to score in 11 appearances.
“Middlesbrough is such a massive club over the years; I deem it to be a Premier League club,” Lankshear said, via Middlesbrough’s website.
“The project here really excites me. I can’t wait to get started and be part of the journey, and get this club back where it belongs.”
Lankshear played six times for Tottenham’s first team — three of which in the Premier League — scoring once, in the Europa League against Galatasaray in November 2024. He was later sent off in the match.
Middlesbrough missed out on promotion to the Premier League last season after a 1-0 defeat by Hull City in the Championship play-off final. Oli McBurnie scored the winner in the fifth minute of stoppage time to consign Boro to a 10th successive season in the second tier.
Boro were defeated by Southampton in the two-legged semi-finals, but were reinstated in the Wembley final after Southampton admitted to spying on other clubs’ training sessions, including Boro.
Middlesbrough had money to spend this summer following the departure of star midfielder Hayden Hackney to Everton in a deal which could rise to just under £25m ($33.3m) if all clauses, which are based on appearances, England selection and Everton’s qualification for European competition, are met.
Lankshear is the second striker to join Boro this month, after they completed a deal for Hull City forward Kyle Joseph. They have also signed attacking midfielders Myles Peart-Harris and Jeremy Sarmiento.