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Mystery surrounds Anton Walkes' future at Tottenham Hotspur after a document listed on the Football Association website suggested his contract with Spurs had been cancelled.

The latest FA monthly player registrations bulletin from February recorded the latest transfers from the January transfer window, with players separated into various categories.

'Player under written contract' and 'player under written contract whose registrations have been cancelled by mutual consent' are the two sections listed in the FA's bulletin, with Walkes falling into the latter.

But sources have confirmed to football.london that Walkes definitely remains a Tottenham Hotspur player and that the reason behind the use of the term 'contract cancellation' was in order to ratify a loan deal to an overseas club.

Walkes joined Atlanta United at the back end of January until the end of the season but Spurs fans feared the young midfielder had left the club permanently due to the phrasing used to describe the current state of his contract at the club.

Deals which took Clinton N'Jie from Spurs to Marseille on a season-long loan deal back in August and Nabil Bentaleb's initial loan moves were described as being 'similar circumstances' to Walkes' own overseas move, in order to facilitate a deal with the foreign club.

Walkes' contract runs until the summer of 2018 so will return to the club once his loan deal at Atlanta reaches its conclusion this summer.

He even took to Twitter last week to pay tribute to Spurs U23s coach Ugo Ehiogu, who tragically died last week at the age of 44, after his key role in Walkes' development.

"I'll never be able to thank you enough for all the time you invested in me to become a better footballer and man... Rest in peace Ugo Ehiogu," he wrote on Twitter.

The 20-year-old, who can play in defence and in midfield, initially struggled for game time at his temporary club as he played just nine minutes from their opening five matches and put through his own net on his debut, but did come on for the second half of a recent 2-1 loss at Montreal.

Walkes has already made his Spurs first-team debut having come on for the final 10 minutes of their 5-0 demolition of Gillingham in the EFL Cup back in September.