Wolves youth boss: Jordan Allan was exceptional

Gill's team were thrashed 7-3 on Saturday, but fielded their youngest team of the season with many of the under-18s having recently progressed to the under-21s due to a number of older players being released.

Allan, who made national headlines when he was became the youngster player ever to play in Scottish football, making his Airdrie debut aged 14, scored twice against Spurs, with Nicu Carnat notching the other.

And Gill said of the Scot, now aged 17: "One player I would have to mention was Jordan Allan who was exceptional.

"He made the most tackles in the game as our number nine, he was a constant threat and a pest to their back four and worked in between the centre halves as we asked him to do.

"He made clever movements in behind and linked the play really well – he fully deserved his two goals and he also hit the post and saw the keeper pull off a fine save from a ball heading into the top corner.

"Special credit to Jordan – he went out there and led the line for the team sometimes without too much support in behind him and it all clicked with him."

Gill was keen to point out there were 'no panic stations' after the defeat, particularly bearing in mind the especially youthful nature of the side with a lot of under-16 players featuring.

He believes Spurs' academy is the best in the country, and sets a benchmark for Wolves to aspire to.

"John McDermott who runs the Academy has got really good philosophies and ideas on how he thinks the game should be played and what he expects of the players," Gill said.

"The club is run well as a whole and that is shown by their position in the Premier League this season.

"They are looking ahead and thinking about the academy and what it feeds into and they have done as well as anyone in the country with that in recent years, with players like Townsend, Pritchard and Harry Kane who have all come through.

"So I think it is really good for us to go down there and pit our wits against them.

"Ideally we would like to have a team that would match up theirs and we don't want to lose the game and concede a lot of goals.

"But as I sit here now we have Christian Herc, Ryan Leak and Daniel Armstrong starting for the under-21s at Blackburn on Monday night and Connor Ronan, who has played a lot for the 21s, not here because he has won the under-17 player of the year for the Republic of Ireland.

"All those lads are up there on merit and what we have to do as a staff now is see who are the next lads coming through.

"We kept doing what we do – our beliefs and philosophies were the same and we tried to play out and tried to play through.

"There is no panic stations – we had a great run earlier in the season but we knew at some stage the team would change and it has.

"Now it is about laying down some guidelines and building for next season, getting some game understanding into the players that are just coming into the team."