Tottenham Hotspur have announced that they have agreed a surprise deal to sign 19-year-old Burnley attacker Wilson Odobert.
The 2004-born attacker has left Turf Moor to join the Lilywhites for an undisclosed fee, believed to be an initial £25m potentially reaching £30m with add-ons, and he has signed a five-year deal with Ange Postecoglou's side until the summer of 2029.
Odobert becomes Tottenham's fourth signing of the summer window after Dominic Solanke, Archie Gray and Yang Min-hyeok, and the fifth new face to arrive after Lucas Bergvall, whose signing was agreed in January.
The 19-year-old will take the number 28 shirt in North London, a jersey vacated by the exit of Tanguy Ndombele and previously worn by Jermaine Jenas, Kevin Prince-Boateng and Kyle Walker.
Odobert is expected to be available for Spurs' Premier League opener against Leicester City on Monday evening, and he departs Burnley after just one season at Turf Moor, in which he wrote his name into Clarets history.
A product of the Paris Saint-Germain academy, Odobert spent one season with Troyes in 2022-23 before joining Burnley in a £10.2m deal last summer, and he played 33 times under Vincent Kompany last term, scoring four goals and providing three assists.
We are delighted to announce that we have reached agreement for the permanent transfer of Wilson Odobert from Burnley, subject to formalities ✍️
— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 16, 2024
Odobert became the youngest Burnley goalscorer in Premier League history when he netted against Chelsea in a 4-1 loss in October 2023, and he started 25 top-flight games for the Clarets last season but could not save them from the drop.
The attacker - who can play on either wing and through the middle - joins Tottenham just four days after starting and scoring in Burnley's 4-1 Championship win over Luton Town, bagging the Clarets' second of the evening.
Odobert has represented France from Under-16 to Under-23 level, but he was not called up to Thierry Henry's silver medal-winning squad for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Surprise Odobert arrival to trigger 25-year-old's exit?
While Tottenham's pursuits of Solanke and Gray were well-documented, the Lilywhites' capture of Odobert was a total bolt from the blue, as reports of his move only emerged mere moments before a deal was confirmed.
The 19-year-old's arrival could spell bad news for the injury-riddled Manor Solomon, who will struggle for game time even more this season, and Postecoglou is supposedly happy to lose the Israel international either on loan or permanently this summer.
However, Odobert's fellow teenager - 17-year-old Mikey Moore - will not be loaned out for the 2024-25 campaign, as Postecoglou has already confirmed that the English phenom will be a part of his first-team squad.
