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An arrival from Middlesbrough in July, 2022, the defender made a total of 85 appearances in our colours, scoring twice.

The 26-year-old spent time on loan with Ligue 1 side Stade Resnais, Leeds United and Italian outfit Genoa before returning to N17 in the summer of 2024 and helping the team to European glory in Bilbao in May, 2025.

Making his England debut in September, 2025, Djed now has 14 caps to his name and featured for his country at this summer’s World Cup as the Three Lions reached the semi-final of the competition.

We wish him well for the future.

A January arrival from BK Hacken earlier this year, the Sweden youth international was straight into the action as a Spurs player, making her debut for the Club just two weeks in – a 3-0 win over Leicester City in the Women’s FA Cup.

She certainly made her mark in that contest though as being introduced for the final quarter of the game at Brisbane Road, Matilda showcased tremendous speed and strength to beat a number of Foxes’ players before her shot was palmed away into the path of Lenna Gunning-Williams to tap home for our third goal of the afternoon.

Although she would only make four further appearances for 2025/26, three of those in the WSL, the 21-year-old has already turned her attention on the new campaign and how a full pre-season can be a ‘new start’ for her as a Spurs player.

“For me, really important,” when asked about her undergoing her first pre-season with the Club. “It's like a new start, like to play training games, I didn't even play one training game when I first came in and I was directly into it.”

There has been no better way to take part in your first pre-season than a performance camp in Southern Spain, providing a much-needed challenge on the pitch in warm weather conditions with temperatures consistently in the mid-30s during the sessions.

But it has also provided a unique opportunity to get to know her team-mates away from the pitch, notably using their downtime to take part in a number of board games with experienced players and Academy stars all getting involved together.

“It has been good,” Matilda told us, reflecting on the performance camp so far. “We played two games, so it was nice to get some minutes in the tank and I will also take with me all the good vibes from here.”

“It's nice to just get with the team for a long while [during pre-season] and now to be here [in Spain], to be around everyone and get to know people more, it has been really nice.”

So, who has Matilda been getting on the most during the performance camp so far?

“Oh, it's a hard one,” Matilda side. “I feel like I really like the new girls [that have arrived]. I think they're really funny and they just bring in good vibes, so I think I would say them.”

Having played friendlies in Auckland, Sydney and at Hotspur Way this pre-season, it was back to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for the first time since May, as Moore’s second-half brace added to Richarlison’s opener 10 minutes before half-time.

The game saw the first appearance in Lilywhite for Marcos Senesi following his summer arrivals, while he was joined by Andy Robertson, Jan Paul van Hecke and Sandro Tonali in making their first appearances in N17 as Spurs players.

An excellent crowd of almost 55,000 turned up in the steamy north London heat and were almost treated to an early goal only for dangerous crosses from Moore and Robertson to be well defended by the visitors. Hoffenheim created a couple of early chances after a quarter-of-an-hour, Nathan De Cat slipping in a pass to Adam Hlozek who lashed over the bar with his angled drive. And just a minute later, Hlozek was allowed to advance a long way unchecked before unleashing a right-footed effort that clipped off the top of the crossbar.

We forced Oliver Baumann into his first real save of note in the 25th minute and a good stop it was too, diving to his left to tip Lucas Bergvall’s 25-yard shot around the post after the Sweden international made a superb break from deep with the ball.

Just moments later, we so nearly took the lead following more excellent play from Moore, who worked the space before delivering a teasing low cross which both Richarlison and the impressive Mathys Tel just couldn’t reach on the stretch at the back post.

The pressure was building and it eventually told 10 minutes before the break as we went ahead with a well-worked goal. Tonali started it with a burst through midfield, he laid out wide left to Robertson who sent over the perfect cross for Richarlison and he slammed home with a first-time shot 15 yards out. There was still time for a couple of Hoffenheim chances before the break, Adam Daghim testing Antonin Kinsky with a fierce drive while Wouter Burger sent a header just past the post from a Vladimir Coufal cross but we held our lead going into the interval.

The Bundesliga side changed all 10 outfield players for the second half and started brightly with two good chances in the 51st minute. First, Patrick Wimmer had a shot which Kinsky saved low down to his right before Mats Rots curled just wide from the edge of the area. We almost doubled our lead in the 58th minute when Tel threaded a lovely ball in between the Hoffenheim defence for Richarlison who fired over, but it was 2-0 a minute later. Tel did well again down the left, skipping past a couple of challenges and drilling low and hard into the box, with Moore getting ahead of his defender to poke home from close range.

Kinsky was called into action again in the 72nd minute, blocking Max Moerstedt’s shot from the angle at his near post while, at the other end, Tel continued to produce moments of magic, the second of which ended in another goal for Moore. Firstly, the French forward went on a run which ended with his shot saved by Baumann before weaving his way into the area again and picking out Moore, who beat the Hoffenheim keeper with a lovely finish into the bottom corner for 3-0 with 10 minutes left.

With the two sides meeting again on Sunday at Hotspur Way, most of our players lasted the full 90 minutes although Tyrese Hall, Malachi Hardy, Reiss Elliott-Parris, Miracle Adewole and Jamie Donley did get a few minutes at the end as we saw the game out to maintain our unbeaten record in pre-season this summer.

Line-ups

Spurs (4-3-3): Kinsky, Gray (c), van Hecke, Senesi (Hardy 81), Robertson, Bergvall (Donley 87), Tonali, Gallagher (Tyrese Hall 81), Moore (Adewole 81), Richarlison (Elliott-Parris 81), Tel. Substitutes (not used): Substitutes (not used): Austin, Takai, Byrne.

Hoffenheim (4-4-2): Baumann (c), Coufal (Gendrey 46), Kabak (Hranac 46), Hajdari ((Spranger 46), Bernardo (Machida 46 (Chaves 65)), De Cat (Abraha 46), Burger (Conte 46), Avdullahu (Lenz 46), Daghim (Wimmer 46), Hlozek (Rots 46), Lemperle (Moerstedt 46). Substitutes (not used): Philipp, Biedermann, Vogt, Honajzer.

Match data

Goals: Spurs – Richarlison 35, Moore 59, 80.

Referee: Stuart Attwell.

Venue: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Weather: Sunny spells, light winds, 25 degrees.

Attendance: 54,345.

Leading inside six minutes through Oliver Boast’s first of two goals on the day, we took control when Joel Vidal-Philbert opened his account for the club, only to let the visitors back into the game with Dnayo Hunte scoring from close range on the stroke of half-time following a corner.

A fine curler from Ollie Salter shortly after the restart restored us our two-goal cushion before we pulled away to win comfortably, Boast adding his second before a quick-fire double from substitute Phoenix Offiah completed a good day’s work for Jamie Carr’s side.

More to follow.

The England Under-21 defender joined us from Blackburn Rovers in August, 2023.

On the bench eight times for the first team in 2023/24 without making his debut, Ashley spent the second half of that season on loan at Championship side Plymouth Argyle, where he made 20 appearances.

He then joined Stoke City on loan for 2024/25, making 39 appearances including 35 in the Championship. He returned to the Potters on loan in 2025/26, this time racking up 44 appearances, 40 in the Championship - his performances earning a nomination for the Championship's Young Player of the Season.

We wish Ashley all the best for the future.

Signed from Atalanta in 2021, 'Cuti' was a key player in our UEFA Europa League triumph of 2024/25 and was named captain for the 2025/26 campaign. His 32 appearances in all competitions last season took his tally to 156 in our colours.

A Copa America winner just before his arrival, Cuti became only the second Spurs player to win the World Cup when Argentina beat France in Qatar in 2022. He won the Copa America again in 2024 and reached a second World Cup Final this summer.

Born in Cordoba, Cristian began his career at Belgrano and had spells at Genoa and Juventus before signing for Atalanta.

We wish Cuti all the best for the future.

Following her impressive first six months as a Spurs player, Siggy returned with a flourish in pre-season as she scored the winning goal in our 1-0 win over Granada and she has now put some of her time aside from our performance camp in Spain to answer your questions.

To send your question to our Norway international, just type your question in the comment section below and submit it.

We'll then show your questions to Signe for him to answer, and we'll try to get through as many as we possibly can!

After receiving a guard of honour on his return to Hotspur Way with staff from across our training centre plus our Men's First Team and Academy players lining the path and applauding him, Pedro was then presented with a memento by the Club to honour his success.

The award was presented to the full-back by Chief Executive Officer Vinai Venkatesham and fellow Spanish World Cup winner and Spurs icon Fernando Llorente in a ceremony at our Enfield base.

Fernando, who played for us between 2017 and 2019 and was part of the squad which reached the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final, was back at Hotspur Way as part of the Alumni Lunch, which brought a number of iconic Spurs players from years gone by together with our current first team for a special lunch.

German side Hoffenheim visit N17 tomorrow for our first friendly at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium of this pre-season and, as usual, our ever-popular matchday programme will be available to buy around the ground.

There’s a strong, bold look and feel to this season’s publication with striking designs and imagery, while we’ve introduced a raft of new features to sit alongside all our regular articles.

Here’s what you can look forward to this season:

It’s a London Thing – exploring our deep-rooted connections across the capital, starting this weekend with, naturally, a look at our history in Haringey.

Stalwart Spurs – celebrating the Spurs careers of our players who have featured over 200 times for us and including a look at ephemera connected with them. In this issue, it’s the formidable strike partnership of Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son!

Generation Game – where we interview two Spurs-supporting family members from different generations.

Wildlife Diaries - charting the different species of wildlife spotted at Hotspur Way and finds out about the wildlife that inhabits our players’ home cities.

Record Breakers – highlighting the legendary Spurs names and games that set the standards for others to follow.

The Knowledge – test your football trivia with our brand-new regular quiz.

Catching Up With… - where we speak to a former Spurs star or celebrity supporter to get their thoughts on all things Tottenham. We start this week with ex-Brazilian international and former Hoffenheim goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes.

This week’s issue also includes a big interview with Micky van de Ven, fresh from signing his new contract; Roberto De Zerbi’s first programme column of the season; a look at our players at the summer’s World Cup; a piece on some of most memorable friendly matches we’ve been involved in; a chat with youngster Callum Olusesi, who made his Spurs debut in a Europa League clash with Hoffenheim; and a look at our six new signings so far this summer.

There’s so much to read and it’s all still priced just £4 for 84 pages. So make sure you pick up your copy at the game, or if you’re not attending, you can buy copies online from the link below: