Oliver Skipp has said it is a ‘pleasure’ play alongside Pape Matar Sarr in the Tottenham midfield and claims the pair have a good understanding of one another’s game.
Sarr was signed in the summer of 2021 but remained with French side Metz for the subsequent season to continue to play first-team football with the Ligue 1 outfit.
He returned to London last year and stayed with Spurs for the 2022/23 campaign, but found opportunities hard to come by under Antonio Conte but did get a rare run out alongside Skipp when the pair lined up in the Spurs midfield for the Champions League tie against AC Milan at the San Siro.
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The 20-year-old managed only 14 first-team appearances for Tottenham last term across all competitions, totalling just 466 minutes on the field (Transfermarkt). Despite a lack of game time, Sarr impressed every time he played and did his reputation no harm.
With Conte now gone and Ange Postecoglou keen to run the rule over every player in the squad he has inherited at Tottenham, there is a chance for players like Sarr to establish themselves as key figures for the upcoming campaign, especially after a promising start to pre-season.
Postecoglounhas already confirmed the youngster is part of his plans for the season ahead, when he told Football.London: “Absolutely. What a player.
“He never stops smiling, what else do you want from a footballer? He’s outstanding and he’s always happy. I’ve seen plenty of outstanding players who are fairly miserable.
“He’s a great talent. That part really excited me at the moment that we have a clutch with Destiny, Pappy, Skippy.
“We’ve got a talented and very exciting group there. There’s some real growth there for us apart from establishing a team that can make an impact straight away.”
Skipp is impressed by Pape Matar Sarr at Spurs
Sarr has put in two strong performances already in pre-season, and teammate Oliver Skipp has been very impressed by his midfield partner.
Skipp told the press (via Football.London): “I really enjoyed that game with Pape, because we played a lot in training together, perhaps we weren’t in the team a lot in the first part of the season so we developed a real understanding of how we played together.
“Perhaps he’d go forward and I’d cover, things like that. He’s so talented, sometimes you forget he’s only 20. He has loads of attributes that stand him in good stead and it is always a pleasure to play with people like that.”
Spurs Web Opinion
To have two young midfielders with the kind of talent Skipp and Sarr possess is a real blessing for Spurs. We know we can rely on them in big games and the pair should only continue to get better and better the more they play together.
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