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Player The 2024/25 Unavailable (Injury & Suspension) Player Thread

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2 Players Summary as of previously injured players s of Friday before ManU game :

1 Players no longer injured and available v Man U :
Vicario
Udogie
Masdison

2 Players who might be a week or two away :
Johnson,
Werner
Odobert (probably 2 weeks away if recovery being taken slowly)

3 Players who might be 2-3 weeks away (EL games ?)
Van de Ven
Romero
Solanke
Richarlison (sounds more like 3 weeks ?)
 
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Have Van de Ven and Romero suffered setbacks or are you just being cautious with them?

It is not either. With Micky we made a decision, and I was certainly the catalyst of that, to just have a look at exactly beyond the injury how we can get him back in a good spot. He is doing some different things and working with some different people it’s not as much about the injury as about the mechanics of him because we want him back and we want him back in a real good space. He is training and feels really good. We are still confident his return is imminent but we want to make sure we get it right.

With Romero it has been a healing issue. The injury hadn’t healed up as quickly as we thought it would which, again, we could have pushed him and risked it but we have waited to give him a bit more time. We will get some clear indication as to his healing and depending on that his return could be imminent as well.

Can you be more specific with Romero and Van de Ven?

No, mate because I am not a doctor and also as I keep saying, there is a barrier you can’t cross when you are talking about people whether that is injuries or medically. Unless you want to call me a liar, what I am saying is both of them are training. There is evidence of that if you want that. Both of them are in a good place in terms of their recovery. Different reasons we’ve held both back and again once they are right, they’ll be in

I'm not calling you a liar, but from the outside, it looks like all or nothing for Europa League, are you saving them for that?

No and we’re not all or nothing on anything. We still want to progress in the league. We’re not happy with the position we’re in. There are still significant games. It’s not like there is a few games to go. There is still a lot of football to be played in the league and we want to address our league position and finish the season strong. Alongside that obviously the Europa League now is a great focus for us with us being out of the other cups, but we’re not saving anyone for anything because ultimately what I want is both Micky and Romero have had disrupted seasons in that they’ve got injured, come back and got injured again and I don’t want the same scenario.

You know whilst it may look with Micky like we had a false start with the Elfsborg thing, I think it gave us an indication of where he is at. We could have pushed on absolutely and we could have pushed on with Romero, but my view is let’s get them back and get them back right until the end of the season so we give them a chance as well to make a contribution to hopefully a strong finish for us
 
sudoku said:
I read what Ange has said about Micky and Cuti and I still ain't got a clue what he means.
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Can you be more specific with Romero and Van de Ven?

No, mate because I am not a doctor and also as I keep saying, there is a barrier you can’t cross when you are talking about people whether that is injuries or medically. Unless you want to call me a liar, what I am saying is both of them are training. There is evidence of that if you want that. Both of them are in a good place in terms of their recovery. Different reasons we’ve held both back and again once they are right, they’ll be in


Translation - Watch this space as precise fate for a return is a moving target, but they are coming along nicely elsewhere suggestion might be 2-3 weeks (ish)
 
sudoku said:
I read what Ange has said about Micky and Cuti and I still ain't got a clue what he means.
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So could both centre-backs be back in action ahead of the Europa League round of 16 first leg on March 6?

"Yeah, with a bit of, for want of a better word, momentum, in terms of them getting some good training work," said Postecoglou. "If it’s not then, it won’t be much after. We’ve got an international break so it won’t be much after that. I would include Dom [Solanke] in that as well. He’s in a similar sort of boat.


"Once the boys get the green light, they’re going to push pretty hard. It’s like Madders, he should have been out for another two weeks. Vicario we had scheduled for the middle of March. It just depends on the players, but I would certainly expect Micky and Cuti to be around the mark of that time."
 
McCOYS said:
Seems like we've got quite a few players returning from injury on 9th March.

www.premierinjuries.com

Tottenham Hotspur - Premier Injuries

www.premierinjuries.com www.premierinjuries.com
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I think that site is simply digesting Spurs press releases and Ange's pre-match guidance, all of which have been fairly consistent that our 3 'big' players not yet back, Van de Ven, Romero and Solanke will be back for our next EL match in early March - at one time Solanke was due back about a week after the guys who have just returned and its not clear if the revised guidance .is merely being more cautious or not.
 
Spursidol said:
So could both centre-backs be back in action ahead of the Europa League round of 16 first leg on March 6?

"Yeah, with a bit of, for want of a better word, momentum, in terms of them getting some good training work," said Postecoglou. "If it’s not then, it won’t be much after. We’ve got an international break so it won’t be much after that. I would include Dom [Solanke] in that as well. He’s in a similar sort of boat.


"Once the boys get the green light, they’re going to push pretty hard. It’s like Madders, he should have been out for another two weeks. Vicario we had scheduled for the middle of March. It just depends on the players, but I would certainly expect Micky and Cuti to be around the mark of that time."
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So we might not see Cuti, VDV and Solanke until April?

week GIF
 
Phomesy said:
It's Solanke that has me shitting it. Think we can just about cover the defence but we are struggling so much in the final third at the moment.
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Agree,

That's why in next 2 games v Ipswich and Mancity we need to give run outs to all of Tel, Scarlett, Johnson, Son, plus Moore and Odobert - the first 4 can all contribute a reasonable number of goals with both Scarlett and Tel playing the CF role in different ways, but neither as good as Solanke.

Moore and Odobert can contribute much needed width and assists

If we do the above we have viable alternatives, albeit mot as good.

But our forward options even without Solanke are still better than say ManU ! So not as negative a position as it might be !
 
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