Ashley Phillips does not walk towards new challenges, he sprints at them. It is a mindset that saw him make his senior debut for in 2022 at the age of 17, sign for a year later and head out on loan to Plymouth Argyle in January. His rise has been impressive, with the 18-year-old central defender already making 20 Championship career appearances. He is ready to take on the biggest challenge yet as Argyle fight to retain their Championship status.
You take the different environments and integrate them into your game. You’ve got different centre-backs like Dom Hyam, Dan Ayala and that I could learn from at Blackburn. At Spurs, I had and , and I’ve taken pieces from them and tried to integrate it into my game.” With former England Under-20s manager Ian Foster in the dugout at Home Park, Phillips was one of a batch of young loanees to arrive in January after a mid-season rebuild.