{"id":464014,"date":"2011-07-19T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/19\/new-signing-souleymane-coulibaly-is-a-great-talent-tottenham-chief-darren-eales\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:15:00","slug":"new-signing-souleymane-coulibaly-is-a-great-talent-tottenham-chief-darren-eales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/new-signing-souleymane-coulibaly-is-a-great-talent-tottenham-chief-darren-eales\/","title":{"rendered":"New signing Souleymane Coulibaly is a great talent &#8211; Tottenham chief Darren Eales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h4>19 Jul 2011 12:15:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"131.538627936\">\n<div readability=\"14.7027027027\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Souleymane Coulibaly - Costa de Marfil Sub 17\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/135000\/135009_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Souleymane Coulibaly &#8211; Costa de Marfil Sub 17<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong><br \/>By Miles Chambers &#038; Clyde Tlou<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham<\/a>\u2019s director of football administration, Darren Eales, has hailed new signing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/55181\/souleymane-coulibaly\">Souleymane Coulibaly<\/a> as a \u201cgreat talent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span>The 16-year-old Ivorian scored nine goals for his country at the Under-17 World Cup this summer, claiming the tournament\u2019s golden boot in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But the Spurs chief says the striker \u2013 who had been compared to Didier Drogba before his arrival from Italian club Siena \u2013 is not expected to make an impact in the first team immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor us that\u2019s a great signing, that\u2019s someone for the future,\u201d Eales told <strong>Goal.com<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cObviously we\u2019re not expecting him to go in the first team and start scoring but we\u2019re hoping that in the future he can be a great talent for Tottenham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe\u2019s a young player, he\u2019ll come in and play with our development squad. When the time\u2019s right we\u2019re hoping he\u2019ll be able to burst into the first team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe is only a young kid so we don\u2019t want to put too much pressure on him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Spurs are currently on their pre-season tour of South Africa, and have two players from the nation in their first team squad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Eales added: \u201cIf you look at the players we\u2019ve got, at the moment we\u2019ve got Steven Pienaar who\u2019s a first team player.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBongani Khumalo went out on loan at the end of last season to Preston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think for all our players \u2013 if you take Gareth Bale, for example \u2013 at some stage when they\u2019re coming through their progression they\u2019ll go out on loan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cA good example for us is Kyle Walker. He went last year to QPR, then he went to Aston Villa, and he\u2019s in the England squad now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe\u2019s come back into the Tottenham team and he\u2019s going to be fighting for a first team spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLoans are all part of a player\u2019s national progression. What we always do at Tottenham is even when they\u2019re loaned out they come back and train with the first team so they\u2019re part of the club.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Eales also commented on the reception the players and the club have received from fans since their arrival in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So far on their tour they have lost 1-0 to the Kaizer Chiefs and have a game against Orlando Pirates on Tuesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s been absolutely unbelievable,\u201d Eales said. \u201cRight from the moment we touched down in the airport we were met by so many fans \u2013 Kaizer Chiefs fans, Orlando Pirates fans, Tottenham fans \u2013 and so every airport we\u2019ve landed at we\u2019ve been blown away by the great reception.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tottenham finished outside the top four in the Premier League last season, but Eales says that their ultimate aim this campaign is to qualify for the Champions League again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWell our big aim is to get into the top four, so that we can get back into the Champions League,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a great squad of players already so I think there\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t get back into the top four. It\u2019s going to be difficult.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/19\/2581428\/new-signing-souleymane-coulibaly-is-a-great-talent-tottenham\" title=\"New signing Souleymane Coulibaly is a great talent - Tottenham chief Darren Eales\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New signing Souleymane Coulibaly is a great talent &#8211; Tottenham chief Darren Eales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 19 Jul 2011 12:15:00 Souleymane Coulibaly &#8211; Costa de Marfil Sub 17 Related Links Teams Players EXCLUSIVE By Miles Chambers &#038; Clyde Tlou Tottenham \u2019s director of football administration, Darren Eales, has hailed new signing Souleymane Coulibaly as a \u201cgreat talent\u201d. The 16-year-old Ivorian scored nine goals for his country at the Under-17 World Cup this summer, claiming the tournament\u2019s golden boot in the process. But the Spurs chief says the striker \u2013 who had been compared to Didier Drogba before his arrival from Italian club Siena \u2013 is not expected to make an impact in the first team immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New signing Souleymane Coulibaly is a great talent - Tottenham chief Darren Eales - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/19\/new-signing-souleymane-coulibaly-is-a-great-talent-tottenham-chief-darren-eales\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"New signing Souleymane Coulibaly is a great talent - Tottenham chief Darren Eales - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"19 Jul 2011 12:15:00 Souleymane Coulibaly - Costa de Marfil Sub 17 Related Links Teams Players EXCLUSIVE By Miles Chambers &amp; Clyde Tlou Tottenham \u2019s director of football administration, Darren Eales, has hailed new signing Souleymane Coulibaly as a \u201cgreat talent\u201d. 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