Tottenham Hotspur transfer target Max Aarons explains failed trial at club

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This week has seen renewed stories regarding Tottenham Hotspur’s interest in Norwich City defender Max Aarons. 

The Daily Mail reported earlier this week that the Norwich full-back was the club’s choice to strengthen their weakest area of the team. Meanwhile, this weekend, The Telegraph suggested talks ‘have already begun’ regarding Tottenham’s interest in Aarons as Canaries boss Daniel Farke admitted he would not stand in a player’s way if a ‘bigger club’ came calling. 

It just so happens that Aarons himself has been talking to the press this weekend, and mentioned Tottenham Hotspur. 

Speaking to The Observer, the talented defender actually revealed that he had a trial at Tottenham when he was 14 but did not earn a contract at the club. 

He explained how he rejected a contract offer at Luton Town in order to pursue his Tottenham dream, but it ended up in shatters. 

“I got offered a new deal at Luton but I wanted to come to a club with category-one status, which is where academy footballers get more training hours.

“I was on trial at Tottenham and it didn’t work out.”

Aarons went on to train by himself with former Chelsea coach Saul Isaakson-Hurst for one year before successfully earning a contract at Norwich City in 2016. 

The rest, as they say, is history and now Tottenham appear ready to pay big money for the player. 

It is just a big shame that Spurs obviously did not see something in Aarons worth taking on back in 2014. If they had, perhaps the teenager would already be on the books at Tottenham. 

That said, this experience has clearly shaped the youngster into becoming the player he is right now and if he had joined Tottenham who knows how differently his career might have panned out. 

Hopefully, as far as Tottenham fans are concerned, Aarons will finally become a Spurs player in the months to come.