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British media: Tottenham agrees in principle to sell 22-year-old goalkeeper Josh Keelly to Luton

12:35am, 18 July 2025【Football】

July 17th According to British media football.london, Tottenham has agreed in principle to sell it to Luton at a certain fee after failing to reach a new contract with 22-year-old goalkeeper Josh Kiley.

Kelly spent an excellent season in the League One at Leiden East, completing 16 clean sheets and scoring a header against Oldham in the FA Cup, and also received praise from Manchester City manager Guardiola. At the end of the season, he was selected for the Irish national team's senior team for the first time.

reported that Tottenham has been in continuous negotiations on Keelli's new contract. However, due to the inability to reach an agreement, a permanent transfer is a foregone conclusion. Kielli is expected to win a long-term contract, a stable starting position at League One team Luton and have the opportunity to improve his national team prospects.

Killy is expected to meet with Luton to discuss the team's plans, and the deal is expected to be completed within the next 24 hours.

Tottenham will add a second transfer share clause in the deal to sell the goalkeeper, as they believe Kielly will become a Premier League goalkeeper in the future. The problem is that Tottenham currently has three first-team goalkeepers: Vicario, Kinsky, who joined in January this year, and Brandon Austin, who came from youth training. All three have signed long-term contracts. This makes it difficult for Keelli to get a breakthrough opportunity at the new coach Tottenham.

Kiley has been training with new goalkeeper Fabian Ott this month, but he cannot be identified as a local training player, although he has been playing for Tottenham since joining St. Patrick Athletic three years ago. This made it difficult for him to register in European events and also hindered him from leading the youth-born Brandon Austin in the competition, although he had more first-team experience than Austin and was awarded an adult national team call.

While Keelly guarded the goal, Leiden East reached the League One upgrade play-off final, but failed against Charlton.