{"id":242502,"date":"2026-01-13T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/242502\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:28:08","slug":"spurs-plans-for-mason-melia-become-clearer-after-recent-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/242502\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs&#8217; Plans For Mason Melia Become Clearer After Recent Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mason Melia finally completed his long awaited move to Tottenham Hotspur this month, with the 18-year old joining the Premier League club in a League of Ireland record deal worth \u20ac1.9million.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs beat out quite a bit of competition for Melia&#8217;s signature. The St Pat&#8217;s youngster attracted interest from the biggest clubs in England and Europe, although he felt that a move to North London was the best fit for his development.<\/p>\n<p>A route into the first team would have been a part of that decision, although it remains to be seen how soon such an opportunity could develop.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/arne-slot-conor-hourihane-liverpool-error-647615\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arne Slot Caught Off Guard By Conor Hourihane Claim On &#8216;Disrespectful&#8217; Liverpool Error<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/ireland-players-january-moves-2026-647596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Every Ireland Player That Has Switched Clubs During January Transfer Window<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spurs&#8217; Plans For Mason Melia Become Clearer After Recent Absence<\/p>\n<p>Mason Melia&#8217;s move to Spurs went through on January 1st, although the striker has yet to feature for the club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/transfer-news\/tottenham-wonderkid-absence-explained-thomas-33213314\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Football London<\/a> are reporting that Spurs are allowing Melia to recover from a minor back injury before throwing him into the mix at the club. He is likely to train with the first team over the coming weeks, before a decision is taken whether to keep him in London or send him out on loan for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager has no shortage of experience at senior level, having made almost 100 first team appearances during his time in Inchicore. As a result, you would imagine that he would be keen to continue at that level in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking back in December, Spurs boss Thomas Frank said all the parties would take some time before making a decision on the next steps for the player.<\/p>\n<p>We meet him in the club first here on 1 January.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of moving parts and then when we know all of the moving parts then we will take the final decision on what we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this situation plays out over the coming weeks, with Mason Melia clearly very highly rated by Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/roma-moves-evan-ferguson-647627\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Ferguson&#8217;s Roma Future Uncertain Amid Double Swoop From Club<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Melia finally completed his long awaited move to Tottenham Hotspur this month, with the 18-year old joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112,10361],"class_list":{"0":"post-242502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-spurs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}