Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed Troy Parrott is in their Champions League squad for the 2019/20 season.
The 17-year-old striker impressed during pre-season, particularly, in the Champions Cup, joining Oliver Skipp in Spurs’ squad.
Mauricio Pochettino will take his side to Greece to begin their Champions League campaign against Olympiakos at the end of the month, hoping to build on last season’s disappointment.
The north London side were beaten 2-0 by Liverpool at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid and Poch will have plotted over the summer just how to go one better.
Parrott’s pre-season performances have obviously gone some way to convincing the Argentine, but who does the squad system work?
Every club entered into the group stages has a ‘List A’ and a ‘List B’.
Each team is only allowed to name 25 players into their total squad, with a minimum of eight places reserved exclusively for ‘locally trained players’.
NOTE – Juan Foyth makes the B-List as he has been at Spurs for two years and is under the age limit.
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Two players must be goalkeepers and if a club have fewer than eight locally trained players in their squad, then the maximum number of players on List A is reduced accordingly.
To qualify as a ‘locally-trained player’, a player must be club-trained and on the books between the ages of 15 and 21, or association-trained players who were on another club’s books in the same association for three years between the ages of 15 and 21.
No club can have more than four association-trained players among their eight ‘local’ nominees on List A.
A player may be registered on List B if he is born on, or after, January 1, 1998 and has been eligible to play for the club for any uninterrupted period of two years since his 15th birthday.