It feels a little bit like 2014 all over again.
At the 2014 AT&T MLS All-Star Game, media were asking Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola about the future of youngster Julian Green. And both of them said all the things you would expect.
Now it's the turn of US international DeAndre Yedlin and Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino, who was asked on Monday about what he envisions for the 22-year-old former Seattle Sounders player.
"I think that DeAndre is very young," Pochettino said at the 2015 AT&T MLS All-Star Game pregame press conference. "He has a very good potential for the future. I think joining us in the middle of the season last season, he has an opportunity now to show his value and try to convince me to stay next season.
"And it’s like any other player. He has the same opportunity to show his quality and maybe — why not — stay on the squad for the next season to compete in the Premier League."
Yedlin was not among the three players that Tottenham Hotspur showcased at the press conference, but incumbent right back Kyle Walker was.
Pochettino's comments come weeks after reports emerged that second-division English clubs
Derby County and Bolton Wanderers were interested
in a Yedlin loan. Another report claimed
newly promoted Norwich City
were in the running.
Here's what Guardiola said about Green's status at this point last year during Bayern's preseason: "I think [Green] is going to stay [with Bayern Munich], but we have to see how the market, what players is back and what players come in," Guardiola said during a teleconference Tuesday. "I think today, he's going to stay, but we're going to see in the preseason."
Four weeks later, Green was loaned to Bundesliga side Hamburg. What will Yedlin's fate be?
