One of the weirdly sourced transfer rumors that I hadn’t gotten around to actually writing up yet involved another Tottenham Hotspur academy graduate — central defender Alfie Dorrington. Alfie got a little bit of hype a couple of years ago as an up and coming defender but has sort of plateaued — he spent last season at Salford City in League Two after spending the previous year and a half in the Scottish Premier League with Aberdeen. That seems to be his level, and he’s probably going to be sold
for a small profit sometime this summer.
So a couple of days ago news emerged from a few online sources such as eucup.com that Spurs had reached an agreement with Polish club Pogon Szczecin, who finished ninth in the Ekstraklasa in 2025-26, for Dorrington’s sale. The idea of an English Spurs academy player heading out to Poland to play professional football was a bit weird, but hey — chase your dreams, I guess, right? The deal was agreed between clubs and last we heard they were trying to nail down personal terms with Dorrington’s agents.
It now sounds like that’s not happening at all. According to Ben Jacobs, Dorrington has rejected a move to Poland and would like to stay in England.
I’m not surprised. You don’t see English youngsters like Dorrington head out that far abroad very often, especially when they’re as young as Alfie (he’s 21). That’s a huge change, and while he might have been more open to a season long European adventure loan, a permanent move to Poland does feel a touch out of pocket. My guess is that Alfie’s quite willing to head to a League Two club or thereabouts, and the club will probably find somewhere for him to land.
I don’t expect we’ll see more than a couple million at most for Dorrington considering where he’s at in his development right now, but it’s pretty clear he doesn’t have a future at Spurs so finding him a place to land will be pretty important. That doesn’t mean he won’t have a solid professional career, but from what we know now it’s likely going to be in the third or fourth divisions of the English football pyramid. That’s okay.
