Ryan Mason is a transfer target for Bournemouth after struggling for playing time at Tottenham this season.

Standard Sport understands the midfielder is high on the list of the Cherries as they seek to strengthen their squad for next season, with a £6million offer being prepared. Tottenham are likely to ask for more, having successfully persuaded Newcastle to part with £12m for another of their youth products, Andros Townsend, in January.

Mason has been at Tottenham his entire career, but did not break into the first team until last season after four loan spells in the Football League and one with Lorient in France.

Mason was given his Premier League debut by Mauricio Pochettino in the 1-1 draw at Arsenal in September 2014. He rarely looked back after that, making 29 league starts and earning a new five-and-a-half-year contract in January 2015, worth about £25,000 a week. Mason also made his senior England debut last March, in a drawn friendly against Italy in Turin.

Yet ill luck with injuries, coupled with the emergence of Dele Alli and the improved form of Mousa Dembele, has left Mason on the fringes this term.

He suffered a knee injury as he scored the only goal in the 1-0 win at Sunderland last September and then damaged his ankle in the 0-0 draw with Chelsea at White Hart Lane in November. As a result, Mason has made just six league starts this term and 12 in total.

Mason is a boyhood Tottenham supporter and it would be difficult to leave the club just a year after he seemed finally to have cracked it, especially with Champions League football awaiting next season.

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(George Freston/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 5/13 1971 Spurs manager Bill Nicholson celebrates League Cup with skipper Alan Mullery and Martin Chivers, with the latter bagging both goals in the 2-0 win over Aston Villa. (Jackson/Central Press/Getty Images) 6/13 1981 What a pair! Ricardo Villa gives team mate and fellow Argentinian Osvaldo Ardiles a lift after a 3-2 FA Cup final replay win over Manchester City. Villa scored twice, including the winner. (Duncan Raban/Allsport/Getty Images) 7/13 1982 More success for Spurs as they lifted the 1982 FA Cup after beating QPR 1-0 in a Wembley final replay, with Glenn Hoddle scoring the vital early penalty. 8/13 1991 Paul Gascoigne celebrates after scoring one of the best-remembered FA Cup free-kicks to help Tottenham past rivals Arsenal in the semi-final. A Gary Lineker double clinched the 3-1 win as Spurs marched towards the trophy. Getty Images 9/13 1991 Spurs beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 to lift the 1991 FA Cup, but the final is often remembered for Paul Gascoigne's wild tackle on Gary Charles. Gazza's lunge left him with cruciate ligament damage. 10/13 1999 Happier times for Spurs fans and Sol Campbell as the defender led the club to League Cup victory against Leicester. The England international would depart for fierce rivals Arsenal two summers later. 11/13 2008 More League Cup joy at Wembley as Tottenham came from behind to beat Chelsea 2-1, with goals from Dimitar Berbatov and Jonathan Woodgate capping a perfect day for the club. 12/13 2015 Chelsea got their Wembley revenge against Spurs in 2015 as John Terry and Diego Costa scored to hand the Blues a League Cup triumph, and deny Mauricio Pochettino silverware during his first season at White Hart Lane. GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images) 13/13 2016-17 Spurs would play their Champions League and Europa League matches at the national stadium, albeit with mixed results; winning just one of the four matches played there. BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images 1/13 Off to Wembley With a rich history of dramatic Wembley appearances, Standard Sport relives some of Tottenham's most memorable moments at the famous stadium... Getty Images 2/13 1961 Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson struck to hand Spurs a 2-0 win over Leicester in their first ever FA Cup final visit to Wembley - a victory which also secured a league and cup double. (Evening Standard/Getty Images) 3/13 1962 Ron Henry, Cliff Jones, Dave Mackay, Jimmy Greaves, Maurice Norman, goalkeeper Bill Brown celebrate a 3-1 win over Burnley to retain the FA Cup, with Wembley fast becoming a successful ground for Spurs. (Keystone/Getty Images) 4/13 1967 Spurs captain Dave Mackay holds the FA Cup on his head after beating London rivals Chelsea 2-1 in the 1967 FA Cup final. (George Freston/Fox Photos/Getty Images) 5/13 1971 Spurs manager Bill Nicholson celebrates League Cup with skipper Alan Mullery and Martin Chivers, with the latter bagging both goals in the 2-0 win over Aston Villa. (Jackson/Central Press/Getty Images) 6/13 1981 What a pair! Ricardo Villa gives team mate and fellow Argentinian Osvaldo Ardiles a lift after a 3-2 FA Cup final replay win over Manchester City. Villa scored twice, including the winner. (Duncan Raban/Allsport/Getty Images) 7/13 1982 More success for Spurs as they lifted the 1982 FA Cup after beating QPR 1-0 in a Wembley final replay, with Glenn Hoddle scoring the vital early penalty. 8/13 1991 Paul Gascoigne celebrates after scoring one of the best-remembered FA Cup free-kicks to help Tottenham past rivals Arsenal in the semi-final. A Gary Lineker double clinched the 3-1 win as Spurs marched towards the trophy. Getty Images 9/13 1991 Spurs beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 to lift the 1991 FA Cup, but the final is often remembered for Paul Gascoigne's wild tackle on Gary Charles. Gazza's lunge left him with cruciate ligament damage. 10/13 1999 Happier times for Spurs fans and Sol Campbell as the defender led the club to League Cup victory against Leicester. The England international would depart for fierce rivals Arsenal two summers later. 11/13 2008 More League Cup joy at Wembley as Tottenham came from behind to beat Chelsea 2-1, with goals from Dimitar Berbatov and Jonathan Woodgate capping a perfect day for the club. 12/13 2015 Chelsea got their Wembley revenge against Spurs in 2015 as John Terry and Diego Costa scored to hand the Blues a League Cup triumph, and deny Mauricio Pochettino silverware during his first season at White Hart Lane. GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images) 13/13 2016-17 Spurs would play their Champions League and Europa League matches at the national stadium, albeit with mixed results; winning just one of the four matches played there. BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

Yet Spurs are known to be looking at central midfielders, as well as centre-forwards and wide attackers, to strengthen their squad. Mason turns 25 next month and needs to play regularly, especially if he is to regain his international place.

If Spurs and Bournemouth enter discussions about Mason, it raises interesting possibilities about the future of Callum Wilson.

The Bournemouth forward is believed to have admirers at Tottenham and started the season in outstanding fashion, scoring five goals in six matches before suffering knee ligament damage. He returned to the starting XI only last weekend, when Eddie Howe’s team lost 2-1 at Everton.

At 24, Wilson fits the profile of players Pochettino and his chairman Daniel Levy are targeting: young, talented, hungry and with potential for improvement.

However, it is understood that Bournemouth are determined to hang on to England Under-21 international Wilson, who they signed from Coventry two years ago.

