Tottenham have misplaced three extra gamers to damage whereas Cristian Romero will not be prone to function in opposition to Manchester United on Sunday, with new signing Radu Dragusin probably getting a direct debut.
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The north Londoners have a number of gamers unavailable, both by way of damage or participation at this month’s Africa Cup of Nations in addition to the Asian Cup, with Ben Davies, Giovani Lo Celso and Dane Scarlett the newest to select up knocks.
Romero has been out of motion since selecting up a hamstring pressure in opposition to Everton simply earlier than Christmas, however he was noticed again in coaching and there have been solutions he may play at Previous Trafford.
However the recreation could come barely too quickly for the Argentine, which may current Dragusin – who arrived in a £25million deal from Genoa this week – with the chance to begin right away, with Postecoglou assured all the required paperwork has been accomplished.
‘From the final recreation, Ben Davies got here off with a hamstring difficulty. In all probability on the lookout for a month or so for him out,’ stated Postecoglou at his pre-match press convention on Friday.
‘Gio Lo Celso equally – although tougher to diagnose the place he’s at in the intervening time. We’ll ship him for additional checks on Monday to see precisely what the problem is. He’ll miss this weekend.
‘Dane Scarlett has picked up an damage as properly in coaching so he’ll miss out. And that’s it actually.
‘Coming again… the one one which’s joined the primary group right now is Romero. And that’s it I feel. Everybody else who’s injured continues to be coaching away from the primary group.’
Requested if Romero is near coming again into the group, Postecoglou added: ‘He’s simply began coaching so truthful to say it may be a bit fast this weekend.’
On whether or not Dragusin’s work allow can be sorted in time for him to play on Sunday, he replied: ‘Yeah, from what I’ve been advised and it’s not my space, however from what I’ve been advised we’re fairly assured he’ll be obtainable for Sunday.’
Talking in regards to the qualities that satisfied Spurs to signal the Romanian defender, Postecoglou continued: ‘Clearly we all know that place was a precedence place for us going into the January switch window. We let Davinson Sanchez go after the window closed so we knew if the suitable alternative got here in January we would have liked to convey any person in.
‘We did a good quantity of labor on that and once we acquired nearer to the time once we needed to decide about it, Johan and his group did quite a lot of background work on it. I feel he’s a great match for us from a soccer perspective.
‘He definitely has some nice attributes as a younger participant and from my chats with him as an individual he’s are available in with the suitable motivations about why he desires to take the following step and why Tottenham is the suitable membership for him.
‘I feel he’ll slot in very well with the group in the intervening time. Fairly just a few of them are in the identical kind of age bracket. And a part of that’s hopefully we are able to construct a group that grows collectively and I’m certain he’ll be a great match for that.’
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