Tottenham have signed teenage striker James Wilson on loan from Hearts in a deal that includes an option to buy at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Arsenal were in talks with the Scottish Premiership leaders over a move for the 18-year-old – in a deal that was effectively a six-month trial.<\/p>\n
Wilson, who became the youngest man to represent Scotland when he came on in their Nations League play-off tie against Greece in March, has joined Spurs’ Under-21s side.<\/p>\n
The young forward has scored eight goals in 45 appearances for the Edinburgh club and has earned a spot in Scotland’s senior side.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, Hearts manager Derek McInnes admitted the Premier League clubs’ interest in Wilson had taken him by surprise.<\/p>\n
“He’s been restricted with minutes this season. It’s tough to get into the first team at this age,” McInnes told Sky Sports Scotland.<\/p>\n
“Would we see the benefit of a loan? Yes, to get some minutes. But this one was a wee bit left-field.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham have signed teenage striker James Wilson on loan from Hearts in a deal that includes an option…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-404505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}