Perth Glory have signed Tottenham Hotspur academy product and former Queens Park Rangers midfielder Luke Amos for the remainder of the 2024-25 Isuzu UTE A-League season.
The Glory have an option to extend Amos’ contract for another year should the 27-year-old impress throughout the remainder of the current campaign.
Amos spent more than a decade at Spurs and made his senior debut for the club in a 2016 friendly against Juventus at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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Two years later, Amos made his first Premier League appearance for Tottenham in a 2-1 win over Newcastle United at St James’ Park but just one month later, suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury while captaining the club’s Premier League 2 side.
The following season, Amos joined QPR on loan before a permanent move to the London outfit.
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Amos suffered a second ACL injury whilst at QPR but managed to rack up more than 80 appearances for the club in the English Championship before a move to Scottish Premiership outfit Hibernian in January, 2024.
The midfielder’s initial months at Hibs were spent under former Central Coast Mariners captain and head coach Nick Montgomery, who played an important role in identifying Amos as a player for Glory to pursue following his release from the Scottish club earlier this month.
Montgomery wasn’t the only A-Leagues alumni who helped to facilitate the move; at Hibs, Amos played alongside former Sydney FC striker Adam Le Fondre and four Australians – Martin Boyle, Jack Iredale, Nectar Triantis and Lewis Miller – who helped convince the English midfielder of a move Down Under.
“I’m just looking to play football, to get out there and show what I can do,” Amos said.
“This group of players is growing and coming together and I’m delighted to be a part of that. I’m so hungry to do well.
“There were four Aussies at my last club (Hibernian), plus Adam Le Fondre and they all spoke really highly of the A-League.
“I’ve seen what the A-League can do for players’ careers and as soon as the opportunity to come to the A-League came about, it was something that I was very keen to do.
“I cannot wait to get going.”
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Amos is the seventh player to have arrived at Glory since January, joining Tomislav Mrcela, Lachie Wales, Yuto Misao, Takuya Okamoto, Patrick Wood (on loan from Sydney FC) and Tass Mourdoukoutas in bolstering head coach David Zdrilic’s squad for the back half of the 2024-25 Isuzu UTE A-League season.
Glory Football Director Stan Lazaridis said Perth have been in pursuit of Amos’ signature for three months following a recommendation from Montgomery, the midfielder’s former Hibernian coach and current assistant under Ange Postecoglou at Tottenham.
“Luke has a great pedigree having developed through the Academy system at Spurs and then established himself at Queens Park Rangers,” he said.
“He was highly recommended to us by Nick Montgomery as a player whose profile really fits David Zdrilic’s style and we’ve been pursuing him for three months.
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“He’s played at a very high level throughout his career to date and we’re very confident that he will be a big asset for us as we look to continue to improve between now and the end of the year.
“Luke can operate as a number six, or a box-to-box number eight, he’s technically very good, retains possession really well, has a great passing range and will provide that forward thrust which we’ve been missing at times this season.
“Should he impress for us, as we expect him to do, the club has an option to extend his contract for another year.”
