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After being thrown into the first team at the last minute, new signing Jack Roles certainly managed to impress Cambridge United fans on Tuesday night.

Having arrived on Tuesday afternoon, the young Spurs midfielder, on loan with the U's until January, slotted straight into Colin Calderwood's side for the game against the Iron and looked bright throughout, going close to opening the scoring.

To get more of an insight into exactly what fans can except from the youngster, we spoke to Alasdair Gold, Spurs correspondent for Football.London.

Alasdair has followed Roles' fledgling career closely and tells us why he has become "a cult hero" among Spurs fans.

People are very excited by Jack Roles. From what you've seen, is it justified?

I've been fortunate enough to see a lot of Jack in recent seasons playing for the U23s and he's always been a consistent performer for them, scoring goals from midfield and coming good just when the team needs him.

That was exemplified by his perfect hat-trick against Derby in the final game of last season, which saved Spurs' U23s from relegation in the Premier League 2.

He's got great technique, works hard off the ball and has that natural ability to arrive in the box at the right time.

He's become something of a cult hero among the Spurs fans for his goals in the development squad and they're excited to see whether he can translate that to first team football.

Goals were a massive problem for Cambridge United last season, that seems to be a big part of Jack's game?

Very much so. In his final year for the U18s, Roles was the top scorer in the entire academy with 20 that season, all from midfield.

It took him a little while to transfer that hit rate to the U23s but last season he did finish as top scorer with 13 goals, again from midfield.

He's got a great ability to pick his moments to arrive in the penalty area and scores goals with both feet and his head. If Cambridge can provide him with the service, the saying is that Roles means goals.

He was played quite deep against Scunthorpe, but did manage to get forward at times. What is his usual position?

He's a very versatile player. He can play behind the striker, out wide or in a midfield three.

Spurs suffered last season with injuries to their forwards and for a spell Roles also filled in up front and didn't look out of place.

He's probably best employed in an advanced central attacking midfield role but he'll get minutes for Cambridge purely because he can fit in effectively in most positions in the opposition half.

There was a bit of a delay in him signing a new deal at Spurs - where does he feature in Mauricio Pochettino's plans and how important is this loan spell for him?

The fans were certainly worried that he might leave the club this summer because Spurs left it late before final securing his services with a new two-year-contract.

He's been a player who for some reason just hasn't appeared on Pochettino's radar until this summer when he finally got called up to a pre-season tour squad.

He did well whenever called upon in Asia and Germany against top European opposition and scored an incredibly calm penalty in a shoot-out in the Audi Cup.

He's still probably a little way off the first team at the moment purely because of the sheer number of players Spurs have in those attacking midfield slots, with more signing this summer, but if he stars for Cambridge it will do his cause no harm at all.