Preston North End have signed Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Alfie Devine for a club-record fee on a five-year contract.<\/p>\n
The fee is undisclosed but the Championship club have said it is “almost three times” the fee they paid for Portsmouth forward Callum Lang in February, which was reported to be around \u00a32m.<\/p>\n
Devine, 21, scored eight goals in 45 league appearances on loan with the Lilywhites last season.<\/p>\n
He came through Wigan’s academy before joining Spurs in August 2020 and is their youngest-ever goalscorer after getting on the scoresheet in the FA Cup win at non-league Marine aged 16 years and 163 days in January 2021.<\/p>\n
“From the end of last season going into the summer, it was always a priority in terms of where I wanted to be. It took its time, but I’m delighted it’s gone through,” Devine, whose father Sean played rugby league for St Helens, told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n “From the first minute I came here until my last minute of last season, I absolutely loved it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preston North End have signed Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Alfie Devine for a club-record fee on a five-year contract.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-749088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}