Aramide Oteh joined Spurs’ Academy full-time in the summer of 2015, although he had been at Spurs as a youth player for a lot longer than 2015. A versatile forward, Aramide played in a number of different positions during his time with Spurs. However, during his second year of scholarship, Aramide often played as a centre-forward, and he started the 2016/17 season well for the Spurs Under 18 side, scoring a good number of goals, even scoring four goals in just three games at one point during the early stages of that season. The player who was part of the same Spurs Academy age group as Brandon Austin, Marcus Edwards and Samuel Shashoua, would also feature for a Spurs Under 19 side in the UEFA Youth League during the early stages of the 2016/17 season, and also for the then Spurs Under 23 side (as a late substitute). I remember watching the former Spurs Academy player impressing for the Spurs Under 18 side, in one of his last games for them (against Fulham, in the October of 2016), after he had replaced Kazaiah Sterling in the centre-forward position. He worked really hard during his time on the pitch, made some good runs off the ball and also won the all important penalty, from which Samuel Shashoua scored the winning goal of the game from. Aramide would only play one more game for the Spurs Under 18 side, before leaving the club to join QPR’s Academy set-up.

It was at QPR that Aramide Oteh continued to improve as a footballer, and he made good strides there, during his time with their Academy. He would score an impressive amount of goals for the QPR Development side, and it didn’t take the Londoner long before he was featuring for their first team on occasions. In total for QPR, the forward would make 21 first team competitive appearances, scoring two goals. He did go out on several loan moves away from QPR, during his time with them. These clubs were Walsall, Bradford City, Stevenage and Colchester United, as he got great experience of playing EFL football. In 2021 Aramide Oteh would leave QPR permanently to join Salford City. He would later move to Crawley Town during the same season. Getting a lot of minutes with Crawley Town during his first full season with Crawley in 2022/23, Aramide would often play on the left flank, and he scored seven goals from 35 competitive appearances for Crawley Town last season. He scored an excellent and memorable goal for the club against Tranmere Rovers, last season. It was a goal which saw him go forward at pace with the ball, before showing great skill inside the penalty area, from where he showed his clinical ability in front of goal to score a goal.

Aramide is a very skilful player with good pace, and he is also a good finisher from inside the penalty area. As a centre-forward he impressed me with his link-up play for Spurs’ Academy set-up, and also his ability in front of goal, and movement off the ball. He recently signed for League Two side Walsall, where the 24 year old will be looking to continue to make good strides during the 2023/24 season. Aramide has done really well so far in his footballing career, and I wish him all the very best for this season with Walsall.