Report: At least five clubs are chasing Tottenham’s Alfie Devine on deadline day

Birmingham City are believed to have seen a loan move for Alfie Devine collapse with a new update suggesting there remains plenty of interest in the midfielder who could still make a late move.

Devine’s move for Birmingham has fallen through

Last summer, Tottenham sent Alfie Devine on his first loan move since joining the club as a 15-year-old from Wigan Athletic. The promising midfielder performed so impressively at Port Vale that Spurs subsequently handed Devine a January loan move to Plymouth Argyle.

Devine made brief cameos in pre-season for Spurs, displaying flashes of the talent that was expected to earn him a loan to Birmingham City.

However, Football Insider reported on the morning of deadline day that Alfie Devine’s proposed loan deal to Birmingham City, managed by former Tottenham assistant coach, Chris Davies, had fallen through.

A loan move for Devine could still happen

Despite Devine’s loan deal to Birmingham collapsing on the final day of the window, Alasdair Gold on X has revealed that the highly-rated 20-year-old could still depart on loan with various sides interested.

Gold explained that Tottenham initially told clubs that the plan was to keep Devine at the club this season, but that stance was changed earlier this month with a number of sides in Germany and across Europe believed to hold an interest in Tottenham’s young star.

Swansea City, Blackburn Rovers and Parma were just a handful of the sides revealed by Alasdair Gold to be chasing a loan deal for Devine, although time is ticking with the transfer window shutting in less than twenty-four hours.

Understand Alfie Devine has a number of clubs interested in a loan today. Clubs were originally told Spurs planned to keep him this season but that changed this month. Blackburn, Swansea, Parma and sides from Germany and others in Europe among those believed to be interested.

— Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) August 30, 2024

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A loan deal for Devine should ideally be sorted after the midfielder proved last season that he is more than capable of performing in senior football after many years of impressing in Tottenham’s youth sides.

The key thing to any loan deal should be whether or not Devine will be given at least a chance with no Spurs fan wanting to see a mirror of Alejo Veliz’s disastrous loan to Sevilla last season where the Argentinian was hardly given a chance, even off the bench.

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