Young Tottenham Hotspur defender Kyle Walker-Peters is hoping that advice from Kieran Trippier and Manchester City's new recruit Kyle Walker will help him in his quest for a first team spot.

The 20-year-old has a big fan in manager Mauricio Pochettino and despite Walker-Peters having not made his debut yet for the club, the Spurs boss is seriously contemplating using the academy product as back-up to new first choice right-back Trippier.

In the wake of Walker's £54m move to Manchester City, Walker-Peters could get his chance now at Tottenham.

Despite fears over his complete lack of senior experience - he has appeared on the bench once in the Premier League and FA Cup and never came on - Walker-Peters is highly rated by team-mates and coaching staff.

Pochettino is confident enough in his abilities that football.london understands the Tottenham boss vetoed a deal for Porto right-back Ricardo Pereira as he felt the price being asked for was too much.

Walker-Peters put in a mixed display in his first ever start for the first team, in Saturday's 4-2 International Champions Cup friendly victory against PSG. He impressed going forward and looked dangerous, but was out of position as Javier Pastore scored the Ligue 1 side's second goal.

The player, who shone as England won the U20 World Cup this summer, knows this is his chance to impress and stop Pochettino signing another right-back during the transfer window.

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"There's a big opportunity now that Kyle Walker has gone. I'm trying to show that I can be second in line -- these are the games to do that out here, and back at the training ground," he said after the match.

"I want to show the manager I'm ready, I want to show him he can trust me in big games if he needs to. These games are the time to do it, and obviously on the training pitch too."

The young right-back revealed that he'd had plenty of advice from Trippier and Walker in recent seasons.

"They've given me advice. A lot of it is they're telling me to talk a lot more on the pitch, be a lot more vocal, get your winger to help you out," he explained.

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"Seeing them in training, watching their crossing. Obviously Kieran Trippier is very good at crossing, Kyle is very strong. So seeing them on the training pitch, I've learnt like that.

"There are a lot of things I want to improve on. I want to get stronger, I want to keep getting faster, I want to work on my crossing.

"Josh [Onomah - his fellow World Cup winner] has told me that the intensity is a lot higher [in the first team. People are a lot more physical etc. I'll only get used to that by playing in these games and hopefully I'll get more opportunities and get better."